Peter Crowther
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Description
Pete worked for a time in computers, had a dalliance in music/arts journalism and ended his corporate working life (1995) as head of internal communication's for Leeds Permanent Building Society... just before it was gobbled up by the Halifax (though the two things were not linked). From 1995 he worked as a communications consultant with a specialist communications and design company in Leeds before becoming a full-time writer/editor/publisher in 2000. Born on the fourth of July, Pete developed an early love of all things American. That love affair has stayed with him through five full decades (plus a considerable slice of a sixth!) and it tends to feature heavily in his writing, particularly the short stories. He's the author of the Forever Twilight series, co-author (with James Lovegrove) of Escardy Gap, and author of the 'Luddersedge', 'Land at the End of the Working Day' and 'Koko Tate' short story series. Several of his 100-plus stories have been optioned or adapted for both big and small screen. Pete shares his life with Nicky and an unfeasibly large collection of books, comics, magazines, records and CDs.
Books
Destination Unknown
Hilary Craven has lost the will to live, Mrs Betterton is already dead. Then Hilary is asked to impersonate the dead woman and to trace her husband - a missing nuclear scientist - and her will to live returns. A faked air disaster, a string of radio-active pearls, a leper colony floundering in the dry heat of the Moroccan desert. Hilary is lead towards a terrifying discovery and her new found enthusiasm for life turns into ice-cold fear...Christie based this book partly on the activities of two famous physicists of the early 1950s: Bruno Ponecorvo, who defected to Russia, and Emil Fuchs, who spied for the Russians. It is another of Christie's light-hearted thriller novels featuring a daring and fearless heroine.
Constellations
Describes the history, types, use, names, and stories of some of the constellations formed by stars in the sky.
Tombs
1994 Borealis mass market paperback.Canadian import. Edward E. Kramer & Peter Crowther (Editor),. Twenty-three original tales of horror explore the dark worlds of tombs, catacombs, ancient temples, a crashing submarine, and a derelict space station.
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror--Ninth Annual Collection
A collection forty-six horror and fantasy fiction stories from the year 1995 from a wide selection of well-known genre authors Acknowledgement -- Summation 1995: fantasy / Terry Windling -- Summation 1995: horror / Ellen Datlow -- Horror and fantasy in the media: 1995 / Edward Bryant -- Obituaries / James Frankel -- Home for Christmas / Nina Kiriki Hoffman -- Heartfires / Charles de Lint -- Screens / Terry Lamsley -- King of crows / Midori Snyder -- Professor Gottesman and the Indian rhinoceros / Peter S. Beagle -- The hunt of the unicorn / Ellen Kushner -- More tomorrow / Michael Marshall Smith -- Penguins for lunch / Scott Bradfield -- Ether OR / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Paper lantern / Stuart Dybek -- [Lunch at the Gotham café]( / Stephen King -- Queen of knives (poem) / Neil Gaiman -- Dragon-rain / Eileen Kernaghan -- Llantos de la Llorona: warnings from the wailer (poem) / Pat Mora -- Too short a death / Peter Crowther -- The James Dean garage band / Rick Moody -- Because of dust / Christopher Kenworthy -- Loop / Douglas E. Winter -- La loma, la luna / Sue Kepros Hartman -- Women's stories (poem) / Jane Yolen -- Swan/princess (poem) / Jane Yolen -- Switch / Lucy Taylor -- Scaring the train / Terry Dowling -- Blood knot / Steve Rasnic Tem -- The girl who married the reindeer (poem) / Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin -- The otter woman (poem) / Mary O'Malley -- Resolve and resistance / S.N. Dyer -- La dame / Tanith Lee -- Circe's power (poem) / Louise Glück -- Dragon's fin soup / S.P. Somtow -- The granddaughter / Vivian Vande Velde -- Daphne and Laura and so forth (poem) / Margaret Atwood -- A lamia in the Cévennes / A.S. Byatt -- The guilty party / Susan Moody -- She's not there / Pat Cadigan -- The white road (poem) / Neil Gaiman -- Refrigerator heaven / David J. Schow -- After the elephant ballet / Gary A. Braunbeck -- Henry V, part 2 / Marcia Guthridge -- Mrs. Greasy / Robert Reed -- / Joyce Carol Oates -- The printer's daughter / Delia Sherman -- Prayer (poem) / Nancy Willard -- Jacob and the angel (poem) / Jane Yolen -- The lion and the lark / Patricia A. McKillip -- Honorable mentions.
Excalibur
Spaces Between the Lines
A very special jukebox in the abandoned saloon of a dusty deserted town plays much more than mere tunes for two weary wanderers ... A travelling carnival in a post-apocalyptic world comes across the Earth's very last vampire ... A chair fashioned out of the wood from the original cross provides a comfort of sorts down the ages ... A lonely girl dreams of freedom, whatever the cost ... A one-time orphan embarks on a bizarre bus-journey with his newfound parents ... Two old men tamper with the dark arts and open a gateway that threatens the destruction of the world ... A grieving widower goes to great lengths to bring his wife back from the dead--only to find that she's brought someone else with her ... And a man uses a roll of magical tape to halt time and save his wife's life, unaware that there are things in this stopped-clock dimension that take a dim view of visitors ...
The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures
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Postscripts #10 - World Horror Convention Special Edition [hc] (Issue 10)
Is there anybody out there? / Stephen Jones -- The handover ; Night falls, again ; One one three ; And a place for everything ; Old flame ; A London story ; REMtemps ; The intruders (novel excerpt) / Michael Marshall Smith -- Dinner at Baldassaro's / Lucius Shepard The age of sorrow / Nancy Kilpatrick -- Eels / Stephen Gallagher -- Hearing aid / Who dies best / Stephen Volk -- Rainy day people / T.M. Wright -- If you see me, say hello / Thomas Tessier -- The luxury of harm / Christopher Fowler -- D-Leb / Allen Ashley -- Call waiting / P.D. Cacek. Between the cold moon and the earth / Peter Atkins -- Summer's lease / Chaz Brenchley -- Distress call / Connie Willis -- Thumbprint / Joe Hill -- Mud skin / Paul Jessup -- Discovering ghosts / Tim Lebbon -- In fetu / James Cooper -- The last testament of Seamus Todd, soldier of the queen / Graham Joyce -- Peep / Ramsey Campbell -- This rich evil sound / Steven Erikson -- Graduation afternoon / Stephen King -- Nothing prepares you / Mark Morris -- Closet dreams / Lisa Tuttle.