Peter Crowther

Peter Crowther (born 1949) is a British journalist, short story writer, novelist, editor, publisher and anthologist. He also wrote a poem on cyber friends (Cyber friend). He is the 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 award-winning anthology established in 2004 that now appears in trade hardback and signed slipcased hardback, releasing since 2012 the Exotic Gothic series.

Bibliography

Standalone novels

• Escardy Gap (1996) (with James Lovegrove)
• Fugue on a G-String (1998)
• Gandalph Cohen and the Land at the End of the Working Day (1999)
• The Hand That Feeds (1999)
• After Happily Ever (2000)

Series

Forever Twilight

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

Collections of Crowther's short stories

• The Longest Single Note and Other Strange Compositions (1999)
• Lonesome Roads (1999)
• Cold Comforts (2001) (CDRom)
• Songs of Leaving (2004)
• The Spaces Between the Lines (2007)
• The Land at the End of the Working Day (2008)

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)
• 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)
• 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)

Anthologies edited by Crowther

• Narrow Houses (1992)
• Touch Wood (1993)
• Blue Motel (1994)
• Heaven Sent (1995)
• Tombs (1996)
• Dante's Disciples (1997)
• Destination Unknown (1997)
• Tales in Time (1997)
• Tales in Space (1998)
• Moon Shots (1999)
• Foursight (1999)
• Taps and Sighs (1999)
• Futures (2000)
• Mars Probes (2002)
• Infinities (2002)
• Cities (2003)
• Constellations (2005)
• Forbidden Planets (2006)
• We Think, Therefore We Are (2009)

Literary awards

• British Fantasy Society : Best Collection winner (2000) : Lonesome Roads

Cultural references

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

External links

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