Golden, Christopher

Entry updated 6 April 2023. Tagged: Author.

(1967- ) US author, prolific and successful for his many fantasy and horror novels, who is given an entry here mainly for some sf Ties published early in his career. Some of his horror evokes Horror in SF tonalities, like Snowblind (2014), in which a "Great Storm" feels almost planetary in its violence and implications, though the story itself is a classic Answered Prayer tale [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below]; and the Old Gods topoi activated in Ararat (2017) are evocative of H P Lovecraft. No attempt has been made to list his numerous non-sf singletons and series, tied or untied. Of some sf interest are his links to Marvel Comics Superheroes, beginning with Daredevil: Predator's Smile (1996) and continuing with an X-Men sequence beginning with X-Men: Mutant Empire #1: Siege (1996) (see X-Men). The Hidden Cities sequence with Tim Lebbon [whom see for details] offers Equipoisal explanations of the true history of some great Cities. Some singletons – like Tin Men (2015), which intriguingly features a crew of humans trapped virtually into their Mecha as the world collapses – are sf. The competence of this work is readily apparent. [JC]

Christopher Golden

born Massachusetts: 15 July 1967

works (highly selected)

series

X-Men

X-Men: Mutant Empire #1: Siege (New York: Boulevard, 1996) [tie to the Marvel Comics universe: X-Men: Mutant Empire: pb/Ray Lago]
X-Men: Mutant Empire #2: Sanctuary (New York: Boulevard, 1996) [tie to the Marvel Comics universe: X-Men: Mutant Empire: pb/Ray Lago]
X-Men: Mutant Empire #3: Salvation (New York: Boulevard, 1997) [tie to the Marvel Comics universe: X-Men: Mutant Empire: pb/Ray Lago]
- X-Men: Mutant Empire (New York: Science Fiction Book Club, 1998) [omni of the above three: tie to the Marvel Comics universe: X-Men: Mutant Empire: pb/Ray Lago]
X-Men: Codename Wolverine (New York: Putnam/Boulevard, 1998) [tie to the Marvel Comics universe: X-Men: hb/Bruce Jensen]

Hellboy

see also below under works as editor: series: Hellboy

The Lost Army (Milwaukie, Oregon: Dark Horse Books, 1997) [Hellboy: illus/pb/Mike Mignola]
The Bones of Giants (New York: Pocket Star Books, 2004) [Hellboy: illus/pb/Mike Mignola]
The Dragon Pool (New York: Pocket Star Books, 2007) [Hellboy: illus/pb/Mike Mignola]

Hidden Cities

Mind the Gap (New York: Bantam Spectra, 2008) with Tim Lebbon [Hidden Cities: pb/Stephan Martinière]
The Map of Moments: A Novel of the Hidden Cities (New York: Bantam Spectra, 2009) with Tim Lebbon [Hidden Cities: pb/Stephen Martinez]
The Chamber of Ten (New York: Ballantine Books/Spectra, 2010) with Tim Lebbon [Hidden Cities: pb/]
The Shadow Men (New York: Spectra, 2011) with Tim Lebbon [Hidden Cities: pb/Jae Song]

The Secret Journeys of Jack London

The Wild (New York: HarperCollins, 2011) with Tim Lebbon [Secret Journeys of Jack London: hb/]
The Sea Wolves (New York: HarperCollins, 2012) with Tim Lebbon [Secret Journeys of Jack London: hb/]

Ben Walker

Ararat (New York: St Martin's Press, 2017) [Ben Walker: hb/]
The Pandora Room (New York: St Martin's Press, 2019) [Ben Walker: hb/]
Red Hands (New York: St Martin's Press, 2020) [Ben Walker: hb/]

individual titles

Daredevil: Predator's Smile (New York: Boulevard, 1996) [tie to the Marvel Comics universe: Daredevil: pb/Matt Wagner]
Baltimore; Or, the Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire (New York: Bantam Books, 2007) with Mike Mignola [illus/hb/Mike Mignola]
The Secret Back of Things (Baltimore, Maryland: Cemetery Dance, 2010) [coll: hb/Alan M Clark]
Snowblind (London: Headline, 2014) [pb/Ed Freeman]
River of Pain (New York: Titan Books, 2014) [pb/]
Tin Men (New York: Ballantine Books, 2015) [hb/Mike Bryan]
Dead Ringers (New York: St Martin's, 2015) [hb/]
Blood of the Four (New York: HarperCollins, 2018) with Tim Lebbon [hb/Tyler Edlin]
The Predator (New York: Titan Books, 2018) with Mark Morris [film tie: pb/]

collections

Tell My Sorrows to the Stones (Toronto, Ontario: ChiZine Publications, 2013) [coll: introduction by Cherie Priest: pb/Erik Mohr]

works as editor

series

Hellboy

Hellboy: Odd Jobs (Milwaukie, Oregon: Dark Horse Comics, 2000) [Hellboy: illus/pb/Mike Mignola]
Hellboy: Odder Jobs (Milwaukie, Oregon: Dark Horse Books, 2004) [Hellboy: illus/pb/Mike Mignola]
Hellboy: Oddest Jobs (Milwaukie, Oregon: Dark Horse Books, 2008) [Hellboy: illus/pb/Mike Mignola]
Hellboy: An Assortment of Horrors (Milwaukie, Oregon: Dark Horse Books, 2017) [Hellboy: illus/pb/Mike Mignola]

individual titles as editor

Cuts! Horror Writers on Horror Film (Baltimore, Maryland: Borderlands Press, 1992) [nonfiction: anth: essays: hb/photograph by Linda J Monteleone]
British Invasion (Baltimore, Maryland: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2009) with Tim Lebbon and James A Moore [anth: hb/Les Edwards]
The New Dead: A Zombie Anthology (New York: St Martin's Press/Griffin, 2010) [anth: Zombies: pb/Per Haagensen]
- Zombie: An Anthology of the Undead (London: Piatkus, 2010) [anth: vt of the above: Zombies: pb/Per Haagensen]
The Monster's Corner: Stories Through Inhuman Eyes (New York: St Martin's Press/Griffin, 2010) [anth: pb/Per Haagensen]
21st Century Dead (New York: St Martin's Press/Griffin, 2012) [anth: pb/Per Haagensen]
Dark Duets (New York: HarperVoyager, 2014) [anth: pb/]
Seize the Night: New Tales of Vampiric Terror (New York: Simon and Schuster Gallery, 2015) [anth: pb/Cevdet Gokhan Palas]
Dark Cities (New York: Titan Books, 2017) [anth: hb/]
Hark! The Herald Angels Scream (New York: Anchor Books/Blumhouse Books, 2018) [anth: pb/Vicente Segrelles]
Ten-Word Tragedies (Hornsea, East Yorkshire: PS Publishing, 2019) with Tim Lebbon [anth: hb/Jose Nieto]
Hex-Life: Wicked Tales of Witchery (New York: Titan Books, 2019) with Rachel Autumn Deering [anth: hb/]
The Twisted Book of Shadows (Haverhill, Massachusetts: Haverhill House/Twisted Publishing, 2019) with James A Moore [anth: pb/]
Studio of Screams (Hornsea, East Yorkshire: PS Publishing, 2020) with Tim Lebbon, Stephen Volk, Stephen R Bissette and Mark Morris [anth: of interconnecting stories: hb/Graham Humphreys]

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