Christopher Fowler is the multi award-winning author of 45 novels and short stories and the author of the Bryant & May mysteries. He has written comedy and drama for BBC radio, script, features and columns for national press, graphic novels, the play Celebrity and the War of the Worlds videogame for Paramount, starring Sir Patrick Stewart. His short story 'The Master Builder' became a feature film entitled Through the Eyes of a Killer, starring Tippi Hedren. Among his awards are the Edge Hill prize 2008 for Old Devil Moon, the Last Laugh prize 2009 for The Victoria Vanishes and again in 2015 for The Burning Man. He lives in London.