Peter Crowther
Peter Crowther | |
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Born | sci-fi, fantasy | 4 July 1949
Years active | 1992–present |
Notable works | Founder and editor of PS Publishing, Postscripts |
Notable awards | World Fantasy Special Award—Professional (2004) World Fantasy Special Award—Professional (2008) |
Peter Crowther (born 4 July 1949) is a British journalist, short story writer, novelist, editor, publisher and anthologist. He is a founder (with
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
Series
Forever Twilight
- Book One: Darkness, Darkness (2002)*
- Book Two: Windows of the Soul (2009)*
* significantly expanded into Darkness Falling, The Forever Twilight (2011, Angry Robot)ISBN 978-0857661685
Standalone novels
- Escardy Gap (1996) (with ISBN 978-0671016050
- After Happily Ever (2000) (with Gillian Roberts) (Cassette) – ISBN 978-1552046432
- By Wizard Oak (2011) – ISBN 978-0979505485
Chapbook form
- 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
- 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
- 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
- ISBN 978-0316903950
- ISBN 978-0316907323
- ISBN 978-1565049222
- ISBN 978-0886776565
- ISBN 978-1565049055
- ISBN 978-1565049079
- ISBN 978-1565049413
- ISBN 978-1565049895
- ISBN 978-1565048676
- ISBN 978-0886778484
- ISBN 978-0575068704
- ISBN 978-1892284372
- ISBN 978-0575070233
- ISBN 978-0756400880
- ISBN 978-0575073555
- ISBN 978-0575075047
- ISBN 978-1587670909
- ISBN 978-0756402341
- ISBN 978-0756403300
- ISBN 978-0756405335
Literary awards
Major awards
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]
Year Presented | Society | Award | Category | Nominee | Result | Ref |
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1993 | World Fantasy Convention | World Fantasy Awards (1993) | Anthology | Narrow Houses | Nominated | [10][6][11] |
1998 | British Fantasy Society | BFA (1998) | Short Story | "Even Beggars Would Ride" (with James Lovegrove) | Nominated | [6][12] |
2000 | British Fantasy Society | BFA (2000) | Best Collection | Lonesome Roads | Won | [6][13] |
2000 | British Fantasy Society | BFA (2000) | Short Fiction | "The Hand that Feeds" | Nominated | [6][13] |
2001 | World Fantasy Convention | World Fantasy Awards (2001) | Special – Non-Pro | PS Publishing | Nominated | [14][6][15] |
2001 | British Fantasy Society | BFA (2001) | Small Press | PS Publishing | Won | [6][16] |
2002 | World Fantasy Convention | World Fantasy Awards (2002) | Special – Non-Pro | PS Publishing | Nominated | [17][6][18] |
2002 | British Fantasy Society | BFA (2002) | Small Press | PS Publishing | Won | [6][19] |
2002 | British Fantasy Society | BFA (2002) | Anthology | Futures | Nominated | [6][19] |
2003 | World Fantasy Convention | World Fantasy Awards (2003) | Special – Non-Pro | PS Publishing | Nominated | [20][6][21] |
2003 | British Fantasy Society | BFA (2003) | Small Press | PS Publishing | Won | [6][22] |
2004 | World Fantasy Convention | World Fantasy Awards (2004) | Special – Pro | PS Publishing | Won | [7][6][23] |
2004 | British Fantasy Society | BFA (2004) | Small Press | PS Publishing | Won | [6][24] |
2005 | World Fantasy Convention | World Fantasy Awards (2005) | Collection | Songs of Leaving | Nominated | [25][6][26] |
2005 | British Fantasy Society | BFA (2005) | Small Press | PS Publishing | Nominated | [6][27] |
2005 | British Fantasy Society | BFA (2005) | Small Press | Postscripts (with Nick Gevers) | Nominated | [6][27] |
2006 | British Fantasy Society | BFA (2006) | Small Press | PS Publishing | Won | [6][28] |
2006 | British Fantasy Society | BFA (2006) | Anthology | Fourbodings: A Quartet of Uneasy Tales from Four Members of the Macabre | Nominated | [6][28] |
2007 | British Fantasy Society | BFA (2007) | Small Press | PS Publishing | Won | [6][29] |
2008 | World Fantasy Convention | World Fantasy Awards (2008) | Special – Pro | PS Publishing | Won | [8][6][30] |
2008 | British Fantasy Society | BFA (2008) | Small Press | PS Publishing | Won | [6][31] |
2008 | British Fantasy Society | BFA (2008) | Small Press | Postscripts | Nominated | [6][31] |
2009 | British Fantasy Society | BFA (2009) | Best Magazine/Periodical | Postscripts (with Nick Gevers) | Won | [6][32] |
2010 | World Fantasy Convention | World Fantasy Award (2010) | Special – Pro | PS Publishing (with Nicky Crowther) | Nominated | [33][6][34] |
2012 | British Fantasy Society | BFA (2012) | Special Award | (with Nicky Crowther) | Won | [5] |
2012 | British Fantasy Society | BFA (2012) | Novella | "Ghosts with Teeth" | Nominated | [6][35] |
2013 | World Fantasy Convention | World Fantasy Awards (2013) | Special – Pro | PS Publishing (with Nicky Crowther) | Nominated | [36][6][37] |
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
- ^ "Peter Crowther". Worlds Without End.
- ^ "POSTSCRIPTS". PS Publishing. Archived from the original on 14 February 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
- ^ Detailed review by Opionator — retrieved 2013-08-04
- ^ Detailed review by Opionator — retrieved 2013-08-04
- ^ a b "Winners | The British Fantasy Society". www.britishfantasysociety.org. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
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- ^ a b "2004: World Fantasy Convention 2004 | World Fantasy Convention". Retrieved 10 June 2022.
- ^ a b "2008: World Fantasy Convention 2008 | World Fantasy Convention". Retrieved 10 June 2022.
- ^ "Peter Crowther". Angry Robot. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
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- ^ "sfadb: British Fantasy Awards 1998". www.sfadb.com. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
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