Christopher Fowler is one of the most versatile and prolific of twenty-first-century British novelists. He also writes advertising campaigns for motion pictures, television and movie scripts, graphic novels, music, stage shows, reviews, and magazine articles and columns. In addition to his creative work, Fowler is the director of a motion-picture production company, The Creative Partnership. Although Fowler has yet to achieve a wide audience in the United States, he is well known, commercially successful, and critically respected not only in his native country but around the world. His fiction has been translated into Dutch, Japanese, Romanian, Russian, and Spanish.

Fowler's work has changed over the years into fiction that defies easy genre categorization, though publishers tend most often to classify it as "horror." However, Fowler himself prefers the term "urban unease." In terms of writing style and thematic content, various critics have favorably compared Fowler to the distinguished...