Peter Crowther
Peter Crowther (born 1949) is a British journalist, short story writer, novelist, editor, publisher and anthologist. 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 anthology established in 2004, 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)
 "By Wizard Oak" (2011)

Series

Forever Twilight

 Darkness, Darkness (Forever Twilight: Book One) (2002) significantly expanded into "Darkness Falling, Forever Twilight": Book 1 (Angry robot, 2011) 
 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)
 "Jewels in the Dust" (2013)

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
 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

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

References

External links

Biography from the World Horror Convention
Peter Crowther at Scifipedia
PS Publishing

1949 births
Living people
English short story writers
English science fiction writers
English male journalists
Science fiction editors
English publishers (people)
English male short story writers
English male novelists
British speculative fiction editors
British speculative fiction publishers (people)