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Christopher Fowler has written 44 work(s)





















A geologist trapped in a town without water is lured into a desperate escape plan. A boy plans a murder in an eerle funfair. A cop witnesses an inexplicable plague of madness. A teenager learns a deadly trick with his mobile phone. A woman unlocks a childhood secret with the aid of old comic books. This work is a collection of short stories.
Paperback:
9781852429256 | Serpents Tail, January 30, 2008, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A geologist trapped in a town without water is lured into a desperate escape plan.
The unthinkable has happened at London's Peculiar Crimes Unit. In the bitter depths of winter, a key member of staff has been found murdered, and everyone who works there is suddenly a suspect. But Arthur Bryant and John May, the eccentric elderly detectives who run London's strangest crime division, aren't on hand to solve the crime.
Hardcover:
9780385610674 | Transworld Pub, July 2, 2007, cover price $26.70 | About this edition: The unthinkable has happened at London's Peculiar Crimes Unit.
9780553804508 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, May 29, 2007, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Heading for the International Spiritualists' Convention, John May and Arthur Bryant find themselves stranded along with dozens of other motorists by a massive blizzard and soon discover that a notorious killer is also stuck along the same remote stretch of highway.
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9780553588323 | Reprint edition (Bantam Dell Pub Group, September 30, 2008), cover price $16.00
Hardcover:
9780769632995 | Brighter Child, September 30, 2005, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: When her family receives an invitation to a fancy wedding, Eliie has trouble deciding just what to wear.
Product Description: An original and horrific slice of urban terror from one of the masters of the genre. All is not well at SymaxCorp. The work is piled high, people are toiling overnight to meet deadlines, and the supervisors are keeping their beady eyes on everyone...read more
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9781903889671 | Telos Pub Ltd, October 31, 2004, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: An original and horrific slice of urban terror from one of the masters of the genre.
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9781852428488 | Serpents Tail, May 1, 2004, cover price $15.00
School and Library:
9781577684121 | Gingham Dog Pr, August 15, 2003, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The various members of Eleanor's family give her different nicknames, but she finally tells them that she has decided on one of her own.
Product Description: Black comedy, high farce, dark revelations...they all go to make up Christopher Fowler's brand new collection of immoral tales. A catwalk model reveals the grisly secret of looking good. Slacker friends are forced into action over an accidental murder...read more
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9781852426866 | Serpents Tail, April 1, 2002, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Black comedy, high farce, dark revelations.
A collection of horror stories by a British writer. In Spanky's Back in Town, a fallen angel attempts to return to heaven, in Dracula's Library, literature turns to pornography at the touch of a hand, and in Wage Slaves, a computerized building takes over the lives of its inhabitants.A collection of seventeen horror tales includes stories about a 'technologically smart' building which takes over its occupants, and a man who wins a very unpleasant prize while playing a scratch card
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9781852427276 | Serpents Tail, April 1, 2002, cover price $13.99
9781852425975 | Serpents Tail, November 1, 1998, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: A collection of horror stories by a British writer.
Product Description: 23-year-old Martyn has a dead-end job, a miserable family, few friends, and no love life. Then he meets a Spancialosaphus Lacrimosae, his own personal demon. Spanky's friendship brings confidence, the good life, a better job, a girlfriend...read more
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9780751506990 | Little Brown Uk, May 1, 2000, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: 23-year-old Martyn has a dead-end job, a miserable family, few friends, and no love life.
Hardcover:
9780632036790 | 2 sub edition (Blackwell Science Inc, January 1, 1996), cover price $245.00
Hardcover:
9780451452139 | Penguin USA, January 1, 1993, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Soon after his whirlwind romance with and engagement to Ixora, the beautiful woman he met on the set, theatrical and film publicist John Chapel begins to notice a darker side to his bride-to-be
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9780451452931 | Reprint edition (New Amer Library, January 1, 1994), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: After a whirlwind romance with Ixora, a woman with whom he fell in love at first sight, John Chapel begins to suspect that the woman he intends to marry is hiding a dark, evil side.
Product Description: 14 illustrated, worst-scenario anxiety tales, laced with black humour. Everyday humdrum situations escalate into cataclysmic horror, in stories with titles such as "The Vintage Tablemat Collection of the Living Dead", "Norman Wisdom and the Angel of Death", and "Dale and Wayne go Shopping"...read more
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9780751507669 | Little Brown Uk, January 1, 1994, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: 14 illustrated, worst-scenario anxiety tales, laced with black humour.
Hardcover:
9780345364739 | Ballantine Books, January 1, 1991, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A London advertising executive, wrongly implicated in a series of macabre killings, uncovers a sadistic marketing ploy, used by a powerful corporation, that combines modern technology with ancient black magic
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9780345377685 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, July 1, 1992), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: When his father, his secretary, and even the thief who stole his car die under grisly circumstances, advertising executive Harry Buckingham comes under investigation and must go undercover to clear his name.
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9780345373717 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, November 1, 1991), cover price $4.99 | also contains Dinosaurs Sticker Activity Book
9780712635493, titled "The Bureau of Lost Souls" | Century, June 1, 1989, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: These are 12 linked tales of city and fear and paranoia which are full of characters trapped in versions of hell.
Rose, an amateur photographer, and Robert, a cynical scriptwriter, witness a rooftop kidnapping that eventually leads them to a strange cult that lives above the London streets
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9780345367310 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, March 1, 1990), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Rose, an amateur photographer, and Robert, a cynical scriptwriter, witness a rooftop kidnapping that eventually leads them to a strange cult that lives above the London streets
9780345357014 | Ballantine Books, September 1, 1988, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Rose, an amateur photographer, and Robert, a cynical scriptwriter witness a rooftop kidnapping that eventually leads them to a strange cult that lives above the London streets
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9780440201465 | Dell Pub Co, September 1, 1988, cover price $3.50
Everyday experiences of contemporary city life are the inspiration for a collection of ten horror tales that find new sources of terror in taxicabs, nightclubs, slums, hotels, and suburbia
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9780440201151 | Reprint edition (Dell Pub Co, August 1, 1988), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: Everyday experiences of contemporary city life are the inspiration for a collection of ten horror tales that find new sources of terror in taxicabs, nightclubs, slums, hotels, and suburbia
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9780517558386 | Crown Pub, November 1, 1985, cover price $1.00 | About this edition: Offers tongue-in-cheek instructions for impersonating the dress, mannerisms, and appearance of Groucho Marx, Bette Davis, Clint Eastwood, Fred Astaire, Mae West, Joan Rivers, and Peter Sellers
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9780887240300 | Carson Dellosa Pub Co Inc, June 1, 1984, cover price $1.98
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