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Christopher Fowler (b. 1953) was born in Greenwich, south London. He is a director of the Soho movie marketing company The Creative Partnership, producing television and radio scripts, documentaries, trailers and promotional shorts. He spends the remainder of his time writing short stories and novels of dark urban horror, usually filled with anxiety and satire and a blackly humorous twist. After publishing two non-fiction guides in the mid-1980s, How To Impersonate Famous People and The Ultimate Party Book, he turned to novels with Roofworld, Rune, Red Bride, Darkest Day, Spanky, Psychoville, Disturbia, Soho Black, Calabash, Breathe and Plastic. He is currently writing the "Bryant & May" novels, six volumes of dark crime. The first, Full Dark House, was published 2004 and won the British Fantasy Society’s August Derleth Award for Best Novel. It has so far been followed by The Water Room and Seventy Seven Clocks. A contributor to the tail-end of The Pan Book of Horror Stories series, his tales “Wageslaves” and “American Waitress” also both won British Fantasy Awards, and his short fiction is collected in City Jitters, City Jitters 2, The Bureau of Lost Souls, Sharper Knives, Flesh Wounds, Personal Demons, Uncut, The Devil in Me and Demonized (which includes his 100th published story). He also scripted the 1997 graphic novel Menz Insana, illustrated by John Bolton; reviews for The Independent on Sunday newspaper, and contributes a regular column about the cinema to The 3rd Alternative. Most of Fowler’s novels are in various stages of development as movies, while his story “The Master Builder” was filmed by CBS-TV as Through the Eyes of a Killer (1992) starring Tippi Hedren. Left Hand Drive, based on his first short story, won Best Film in the 1993 British Short Film Festival.