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Peter Crowther

UK  (1949 - )
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About Peter Crowther
Although Peter Crowther enjoyed some modest short story successes in the early 1970s, he concentrated the following 16 years on freelance music and arts journalism (interviews including Frank Zappa, Brian Wilson, Cliff Richard and David Puttnam) and as head of corporate communications for one of the UK's biggest financial institutions. He returned to the literary field via freelance review columns, interviews and articles. Assignments included interviews with Ramsey Campbell, Patrick McGrath and Jonathan Carroll (at Carroll's own invitation) in the horror / fantasy field; noted science fiction writers Ray Bradbury, Ian Watson and Harlan Ellison, and, in the crime genre, Ed Gorman, Andrew H Vachss and Robert B Parker. His first fiction for almost 20 years appeared in 1990 in the British magazine Fear, while his second and third new stories sold to Dark Voices 4 and Darklands 2, the latter tale being described by Interzone as 'an object lesson' in how to write a ghost story. Since then, he has sold a further 70 stories to a variety of anthologies and magazines.
 
New and Forthcoming Hardbacks

Windows of the Soul
Windows of the Soul
(Forever Twilight, book 2)

New and Forthcoming Paperbacks

We Think, Therefore We Are
We Think, Therefore We Are

Series
Darkness, DarknessWindows of the Soul
 
Anthologies edited
Taps and SighsNarrow HousesTouch Wood: Narrow Houses Vol 2Blue Motel: Narrow Houses Vol 3
Tales in SpaceHeaven Sent: 18 Glorious Tales of the AngelsTombsDante's Disciples
Destination UnknownMoon ShotsFoursightFutures
InfinitiesMars ProbesConstellationsUrban Fantastic
Forbidden Planets
 
Anthologies containing stories by Peter Crowther
First ContactDark Voices 4: The Pan Book of HorrorDeathportFrankenstein: The Monster Wakes
Borderlands 4Celebrity VampiresExcaliburFantastic Alice
The Ultimate AlienVampire DetectivesWerewolvesFantasy Stories
Monster Brigade 3000Pawn of ChaosWhite House HorrorsThe Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Ninth Annual Collection
Dancing with the DarkElf MagicThe Fortune TellerFree Space
The Mammoth Book of Dracula: Vampire Tales for the New MillenniumTerminal FrightsThe UFO FilesAlien Pets
Black Cats and Broken MirrorsCat Crimes Through TimeScaremongersScaremongers 2: Redbrick Eden
Alien AbductionsA Dangerous MagicFuture CrimesMardi Gras Madness: Tales of Terror And Mayhem in New Orleans
Perchance to DreamThe Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Thirteenth Annual CollectionSingle White Vampire Seeks Same
 
Short stories
Blue Christmas (1991)
Constant Companion (1992)
The Visitor (1992)
Fallen Angel (1993)
Morning Terrors (1994)
All We Know of Heaven (1995)
Bindlestiff (1995)
A Breeze from a Distant Shore (1995)
Conundrums to Guess (1995)
Home Comforts (1995)
The Invasion (1995)
Too Short a Death (1995)
The Bachelor (1996)
The Fairy Trap (1996)
Halfway House (1996)
Surface Tension (1996)
A Worse Place than Hell (1996)
The Killing of Davis-Davis (1997)
The Last Vampire (1997)
Palindromic (1997)
Safe Arrival (1997)
Three Plays a Quarter (1997)
Tomorrow Eyes (1997)
The Unbetrayable Reply (1997)
Elmer (1998)
Front-Page McGuffin and the Greatest Story Never Told (1998)
Some Burial Place, Vast and Dry (1998)
Cat On an Old School Roof (1999)
The Hand that Feeds (1999) (with James Lovegrove)British Fantasy Society (nominee)
Late Night Pick-up (1999)
Old Delicious Burdens (1999)
Setting Free the Daughters of Earth (1999)
Shatsi (1999)
Dream a Little Dream for Me... (2000)
Songs of Leaving (2000)
Bernard Boyce Bennington And the American Dream (2001)
In Country


Awards
British Fantasy Society Best Short story nominee (1999) : The Hand that Feeds
British Fantasy Society Best Collection nominee (1999) : The Longest Single Note: And Other Strange Compositions
British Fantasy Society Best Collection nominee (1999) : Lonesome Roads
British Fantasy Society Best Collection winner (2000) : Lonesome Roads
World Fantasy Best Collection nominee (2005) : Songs of Leaving


Peter Crowther recommends
AfterAge
AfterAge (1993)
Yvonne Navarro
"An epic tale ..manipulating and motivating her characters believably through a world that is almost too horrific to imagine..."
Head Injuries
Head Injuries (1998)
Conrad Williams
"...beautiful prose in this brooding and mysterious tale... A first class novel."
Escaping Purgatory: Fables in Words and Pictures (2001)
Gary A Braunbeck and Alan M Clark
"Escaping Purgatory is a real Fourth of July firecracker of a book. I hope you treat it with all the reverence it deserves. Stuff of this quality is far too thin on the ground for any of us to be complacent."



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