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Peter Crowther

Peter Crowther

British writer, editor and publisher (born 1949)


Peter Crowther (born 4 July 1949) is a British journalist, short story writer, novelist, editor, publisher and anthologist. He is a founder (with Simon Conway) of PS Publishing. He edits a series of themed anthologies of science fiction short stories published by DAW books. He is also the editor of Postscripts, an anthology established in 2004, which has since 2012 released the Exotic Gothic series, including Vol. 4 and 5.[2]

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Bibliography

Series

Forever Twilight

  • Book One: Darkness, Darkness (2002)*
  • Book Two: Windows of the Soul (2009)*

* significantly expanded into Darkness Falling, The Forever Twilight (2011, Angry Robot)[3]ISBN 978-0857661685

Standalone novels

Chapbook form

  • Forest Plains (1996)
  • Fugue on a G-String (1998)
  • The Hand That Feeds (1999) (with James Lovegrove)
  • Gandalph Cohen and the Land at the End of the Working Day (2000)
  • All We Know of Heaven (2001) – ISBN 978-1842990322

Collections of short stories

  • The Longest Single Note and Other Strange Compositions (1999) – ISBN 978-1881475569
  • Lonesome Roads (1999) – ISBN 978-0953146819
  • Cold Comforts (2001) (CDRom)
  • Songs of Leaving (2004)
  • The Spaces Between the Lines (2007)
  • The Land at the End of the Working Day (2008)
  • Jewels in the Dust (2013)[4]
  • Things I Didn't Know My Father Knew (2021)

Short stories

  • Blue Christmas (1991)
  • Constant Companion (1992)
  • The Visitor (1992)
  • Fallen Angel (1993)
  • Rustle (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)
  • "Boxing Day" (1997)
  • 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)
  • "The Musician of Bremen, GA" (1998)
  • Some Burial Place, Vast and Dry (1998)
  • Cat On an Old School Roof (1999)
  • The Hand that Feeds (1999) (with James Lovegrove)
  • Late Night Pick-up (1999)
  • Old Delicious Burdens (1999)
  • Setting Free the Daughters of Earth (1999)
  • Shatsi (1999)
  • "Circling the Drain" (2000)
  • Dream a Little Dream for Me... (2000)
  • Songs of Leaving (2000)
  • Bernard Boyce Bennington And the American Dream (2001)
  • "Things I Didn't Know My Father Knew" (2001)
  • "Breathing in Faces" (2002)
  • "Jewels in the Dust" (2004"
  • "The Doorway in Stephenson's Store" (2005)
  • "Thoughtful Breaths" (2006)

Anthologies edited by Crowther

Literary awards

Major awards

Crowther has won a variety of BFAs, primarily as editor.[5][6] He's also a two-time winner of the World Fantasy Awards.[7][8][6][9]

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Other media

  • In the television series Fear Itself, an episode of Season 1 ("Eater") is based on the short story of the same name. The same story had previously been adapted as an episode of the British horror anthology series Urban Gothic.

Cultural references


References

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  2. "POSTSCRIPTS". PS Publishing. Archived from the original on 14 February 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
  3. "Winners | The British Fantasy Society". www.britishfantasysociety.org. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
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  5. "Peter Crowther". Angry Robot. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
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