CHRISTOPHER FOWLER
Christopher Fowler, who died at the beginning of March from a rare cancer, was a prolific writer of horror, fantasy, science fiction and detective thrillers, often with fortean themes. His early novels and short stories such as Rune (1990), Spanky (1994), Disturbia (1997) and Personal Demons (1998), ranged from supernatural tales of curses and Faustian pacts to black comedies and nightmares of urban alienation.
From 2004 he wrote a series of 27 books featuring the London-based detectives Arthur Bryant and John May of the Peculiar Crimes Unit, a shadowy department of the Metropolitan Police who investigate unusual and esoteric crimes that lead them into (2022), a non-fiction book in the form of a city tour by his characters which drew together his lifetime of research into London folklore, mythology and secret histories.
