City Jitters [Mass Market Paperback]

Christopher Fowler (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Dell (July 1, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0440201152
• ISBN-13: 978-0440201151
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,628,517 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Christopher Fowler was born in Greenwich, London. He is the multi award-winning author of thirty novels and ten short story collections, and the author of the Bryant & May mystery novels. His first bestseller was 'Roofworld'. Subsequent novels include 'Spanky', 'Disturbia', 'Psychoville' and 'Calabash'. His books have been optioned by Guillermo Del Toro ('Spanky') and Jude Law ('Psychoville'). He co-founded Creative Partnership, a company that changed the face of film marketing, and spent many years working in film. His memoir of growing up without books, entitled 'Paperboy', was highly acclaimed.

He has written comedy and drama for BBC radio, including Radio One's first broadcast drama in 2005. He writes for the FT and the Independent on Sunday, Black Static magazine and many others. His graphic novel for DC Comics was the critically acclaimed 'Menz Insana'. His short story 'The Master Builder' became a feature film entitled 'Through The Eyes Of A Killer', starring Tippi Hedren and Marg Helgenberger. In the past year he has been nominated for 8 national book awards. He is the winner of the Edge Hill prize 2008 for 'Old Devil Moon', and the Last Laugh prize 2009 for 'The Victoria Vanishes'.

Christopher has achieved several pathetic schoolboy fantasies, releasing a terrible Christmas pop single, becoming a male model, writing a stage show, posing as the villain in a Batman graphic novel, running a night club, appearing in the Pan Books of Horror, and standing in for James Bond.

His short stories have appeared in Best British Mysteries, The Time Out Book Of London Short Stories, Dark Terrors, London Noir, Inferno, Neon Lit, Cinema Macabre, the Mammoth Book of Horror and many others. After living in the USA and France he is now married and lives in King's Cross, London.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A thrilling, horror, suspense filled book!, January 7, 2004

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This review is from: City Jitters (Mass Market Paperback)

Within these pages you'll find a terror far worse than any you've experienced before, because it lies exactly where you'd least expect it: in an underground parking garage...a hot new nightclub...a downtown video arcade...a huanted strip joint...a luxury hotel with an unlisted 13th floor.

Here are ten chilling tells of modern malevolence, each rooted in the everyday experiences of contemporary city life. Behind the most ordeinary urban landscape lis a place where reality stops and nightmare begins.

Welcome to the City...the scariest place on earth!

I picked this book and the sequel 'More City Jitters' up at a garage sale. I took one of the books to read at the Dr's office, couldn't put it down until I read both books. Great thrillers.