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Stephen Gallagher is a novelist, screenwriter, and director. He is the
author of fourteen novels, including Nightmare, with Angel; Red, Red
Robin; and The Spirit Box.
Described by London newspaper The Independent as "the finest British
writer of bestselling popular fiction since le Carré ... Gallagher,
like le Carré, is a novelist whose themes seem to reflect something of
the essence of our times, and a novelist whose skill lies in embedding
those themes in accessible plots." According to Arena magazine,
"Gallagher has quietly become Britain's finest popular novelist,
working a dark seam between horror and the psychological thriller."
The Daily Telegraph wrote, "Since Valley of Lights, he has been refining
his own brand of psycho-thriller, with a discomforting knack of charting
mental disintegration and a razor-sharp sense of place." Charles de Lint
wrote in Mystery Scene magazine, "Gallagher is a master of abnormal
psychology and he just gets better and better." Also in Mystery Scene
David Mathew added, "never a writer to rest on his laurels, he has written
good hard thrillers, some horror genre work (such as Valley of Lights),
and a novel (Oktober) that might even qualify as a vague distortion of
contemporary world fantasy… in places. You might go as far as to employ
that overused phrase sui generis. He is, at any rate, one of the best
writers of his generation."
Winner of British Fantasy and International Horror Guild awards, Stephen Gallagher's screen work began with Doctor Who and includes miniseries adaptations of his novels Chimera and Oktober, which he also directed. He created and wrote for both the British and American versions of Eleventh Hour, which starred Patrick Stewart in the UK and Rufus Sewell in Jerry Bruckheimer's CBS remake. His most recent novel is The Bedlam Detective from Crown, continuing the exploits of ex-Pinkerton man Sebastian Becker after his introduction in The Kingdom of Bones.
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