Stephen Gallagher has been breaking the crime/horror barrier for years, with terrific results… Gallagher’s chillers such as Rain and The Boat House really punch icicles into the spine…Christopher Fowler
Gallagher has been called a horror writer, a fantasy writer, a non-fantasy writer, a writer for big screens and smaller ones, a writer whose considerable talent has enabled him to slip in and out of genres precisely as if those tidy little boxes didn’t exist…
Novels and short story collections range from period horror to modern thrillers and include The Bedlam Detective, The Kingdom of Bones and Oktober.
Screen credits include Doctor Who, Bugs, Chimera, Chiller, Murder Rooms, Silent Witness and more. Creator of Eleventh Hour and lead writer on Crusoe.
Latest novella, The Next Thing You See When You Die, available both as a signed and limited hardcover and as an ebook from Subterranean Press.
Releasing on June 18th 2026, a BBC Audio collection of broadcast dramas:
A listening treat for fans of gripping drama: eight thrillers, plus a bonus story, from ‘the finest British writer of bestselling popular fiction since Le Carré’. Full of suspense and utterly immersive with full-cast production values, this collection is not to be missed.
Available on platforms including Apple, Audible, Kobo, and Spotify
