Peter Crowther

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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]

Bibliography[edit]

Series[edit]

Forever Twilight[edit]

• 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[edit]

• Escardy Gap (1996) (with James Lovegrove) – ISBN 978-0671016050
• After Happily Ever (2000) (with Gillian Roberts) (Cassette) – ISBN 978-1552046432
• By Wizard Oak (2011) – ISBN 978-0979505485

Chapbook form[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 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[edit]

• Narrow Houses (1992) – ISBN 978-0316903950
• Narrow Houses Vol 2: Touch Wood (1993) – ISBN 978-0316907323
• Narrow Houses Vol 3: Blue Motel (1994) – ISBN 978-1565049222
• Heaven Sent: 18 Glorious Tales of the Angels (1995) – ISBN 978-0886776565
• Tombs (1996) – ISBN 978-1565049055
• Dante's Disciples (1997) – ISBN 978-1565049079
• Destination Unknown (1997) – ISBN 978-1565049413
• Tales in Time (1997) – ISBN 978-1565049895
• Tales in Space (1998) – ISBN 978-1565048676
• Moon Shots (1999) – ISBN 978-0886778484
• Foursight (1999) – ISBN 978-0575068704
• Taps and Sighs (1999) – ISBN 978-1892284372
• Foursight Vol 2: Futures (2000) – ISBN 978-0575070233
• Mars Probes (2002) – ISBN 978-0756400880
• Foursight Vol 3: Infinities (2002) – ISBN 978-0575073555
• Foursight Vol. 4: Cities (2003) – ISBN 978-0575075047
• Foursight Vol. 5: Fourbodings (2005) – ISBN 978-1587670909
• Constellations (2005) – ISBN 978-0756402341
• Forbidden Planets (2006) – ISBN 978-0756403300
• We Think, Therefore We Are (2009) – ISBN 978-0756405335

Literary awards[edit]

Major awards[edit]

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]

Other media[edit]

• 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[edit]

• Crowther has been mentioned in Alan Hollinghurst's 2005 novel The Line of Beauty, in the very first lines.

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Peter Crowther at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Biography from the World Horror Convention
• Peter Crowther at Scifipedia
• PS Publishing