Fahy, Christopher
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1937- ) US author whose first works – like The Compost Heap (1970) – convey in mundane contexts a quiet enragedness that can seem scattershot. After his first story with genre content, "Carnival" for Gallery in August 1980 – assembled with much of his short fiction of fantastic interest in Matinee at the Flame (coll 2006) – most of his later work of interest is Horror, though The Lyssa Syndrome (1990) introduces a focusing sf element in its description of a closed venue – the isolated town typical of horror novels of recent decades – decimated by a mutant strain of rabies. Red Tape (2009) is a Satirical fantasy. [JC]
Christopher Fahy
born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 15 November 1937
works (selected)
- Nightflyer (New York: Jove, 1982) [pb/]
- Dream House (New York: Zebra Books, 1987) [pb/David Mann]
- Eternal Bliss (New York: Zebra Books, 1988) [pb/Gerber]
- The Lyssa Syndrome (New York: Zebra Books, 1990) [pb/]
- The Fly Must Die (Washington, District of Columbia: WICA Contemporary Fiction, 1993) [pb/Deborah Klein]
- Matinee at the Flame (Hiram, Georgia: Overlook Connection Press, 2006) [coll: hb/Glenn Chadbourne]
- Red Tape (Thomaston, Maine: Liverock Books, 2009) [pb/]
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