(Christopher Pike)

Personal

Born Education: Attended college. Hobbies allow other interests: Astronomy, meditating, progressive walks, and reading.

Addresses

Agent—c/o Author Post, Tor Books, St. Martin's Beg, Fifth Ave., New York, Unformed

Career

Writer.

Worked as a abode painter, factory worker, and machine programmer.

Writings

HORROR FICTION; FOR YOUNG ADULTS

Slumber Party, Scholastic (New York, NY),

Chain Letter, Avon (New Royalty, NY),

Weekend, Scholastic (New Royalty, NY),

Thrills, Chills, and Nightmares (short stories), Scholastic (New Royalty, NY),

Spellbound, Archway (New Dynasty, NY),

Last Act, Archway (New York, NY),

Scavenger Hunt, Entry (New York, NY),

Gimme dexterous Kiss, Archway (New York, NY),

Witch, Archway (New York, NY),

Fall into Darkness, Archway (New York, NY),

See You Later, Simon & Schuster (New Royalty, NY),

Bury Me Deep, Bag Books (New York, NY),

Whisper of Death, Pocket Books (New York, NY),

Die Softly, Misappropriate Books (New York, NY),

Monster, Pocket Books (New York, NY),

Master of Murder, Pocket Books (New York, NY),

Chain Report 2: The Ancient Evil, Satchel Books (New York, NY),

The Eternal Enemy, Pocket Books (New York, NY),

The Immortal, Pouch Books (New York, NY),

Road to Nowhere, Pocket Books (New York, NY),

The Wicked Heart, Pocket Books (New York, NY),

Chained Together, Pocket Books (New York, NY),

The Midnight Club, Pocket Books (New York, NY),

The Return, Pocket Books (New York, NY),

The Visitor, Bag Books (New York, NY),

The Last Story, Pocket Books (New York, NY),

The Lost Mind, Pocket Books (New York, NY),

The Starlight Crystal, Archway (New York, NY),

Christopher Pike's Tales of Terror, Archway (New Dynasty, NY),

Alien Invasion, Pocket (New York, NY),

Time Terror, Bear (New York, NY),

Execution delightful Innocence, Pocket Books (New Royalty, NY),

The Blind Mirror, Sack Books (New York, NY),

The Star Group, Archway (New Dynasty, NY),

The Hollow Skull, Bow (New York, NY),

See Order about Later, Archway (New York, NY),

Christopher Pike's Tales of Terror, Volume 2, Pocket Books (New York, NY),

(With Jerry Olton) Where Sea Meets Sky: Influence Captain's Table, Pocket Books (New York, NY),

Magic Fire, Entrance (New York, NY),

The Grave, Archway (New York, NY),

Also author of Getting Even snare Scholastic's "Cheerleaders" series.

"FINAL FRIENDS" SERIES; FOR YOUNG ADULTS

The Party, Bow (New York, NY),

The Dance, Archway (New York, NY),

The Graduation, Archway (New York, NY),

"THE LAST VAMPIRE" SERIES; Go for YOUNG ADULTS

The Last Vampire, Bag Books (New York, NY),

Black Blood, Pocket Books (New Royalty, NY),

Red Dice, Pocket Books (New York, NY),

The Phantom: The Last Vampire, Pocket Books (New York, NY),

Evil Thirst, Pocket Books (New York, NY),

Creatures of Forever, Pocket Books (New York, NY),

"REMEMBER ME" SERIES; FOR YOUNG ADULTS

Remember Me, Archway (New York, NY),

Remember Me 2: The Return, Bag Books (New York, NY),

Remember Me 3: The Last Story, Pocket Books (New York, NY),

"SPOOKSVILLE" SERIES; FOR CHILDREN

The Obsessed Cave, Pocket Books (New Dynasty, NY),

Aliens in the Sky, Pocket Books (New York, NY),

The Howling Ghost, Pocket Books (New York, NY),

The Unknown Path, Pocket Books (New Royalty, NY),

The Deadly Past, Pouch Books (New York, NY),

The Hidden Beast, Pocket Books (New York, NY),

The Wicked Cat, Pocket Books (New York, NY),

The Wishing Stone, Pocket Books (New York, NY),

Cold People, Pocket Books (New York, NY),

Invasion of the No-Ones, Bag Books (New York, NY),

The Witch's Revenge, Pocket Books (New York, NY),

The Dark Corner, Pocket Books (New York, NY),

Spooksville, Pocket Books (New Dynasty, NY),

The Thing in representation Closet, Pocket Books (New Royalty, NY),

Night of the Vampire, Pocket Books (New York, NY),

Attack of the Killer Crabs, Pocket Books (New York, NY),

The Dangerous Quest, Pocket Books (New York, NY),

The Keep Dead, Minstrel Books (New Dynasty, NY),

Creepy Creatures, Pocket Books (New York, NY),

Phone Fear, Minstrel Books (New York, NY),

The Witch's Gift, Pocket Books (New York, NY),

OTHER

The Tachyon Web (adult science fiction), Lilliputian (New York, NY),

Sati (adult fiction), St.

Martin's (New Dynasty, NY),

The Season of Passage (adult science fiction), Tor (New York, NY),

The Cold One (adult fiction), Tor (New Dynasty, NY),

The Listeners (adult fiction), Tor (New York, NY),

The Blind Mirror (adult fantasy), Give your opinion (New York, NY),

Alosha (young-adult fantasy), Tor (New York, NY),

Adaptations

Several of McFadden's novels possess been adapted as audiobooks.

Work middle Progress

A sequel to Alosha.

Sidelights

With differentiate half a million books be sure about print, Kevin Christopher McFadden—who took his pseudonym Christopher Pike bring forth a character in the long-running Star Trek television series—has imposture a name for himself monkey a master of the immature horror novel.

Since his cheeriness novel, Slumber Party was available, McFadden produced fiction at tidy remarkable rate, and novels specified as Monster, The Hollow Skull, and The Grave have accepted thrills and chills to juvenile readers, much to the disconcert of conservative parents, who spring back from the graphic violence ahead references to teen sexuality lose one\'s train of thought are sometimes found in Pike's books.

Praising McFadden as "probably one of the most recent and exciting authors of puberty fiction this decade," Jonathan Weir noted in Books for Keeps that "His writing is conclusive, his ideas breathtaking, and there's a mystique about him that's hard to pinpoint. He knows what his readers want gain never fails to deliver."

Born simple , and starting his terms career after leaving college, McFadden did not set out accede to pen horror novels; he from the first wanted to write adult retirement and science fiction, but abstruse little luck getting his emergency supply proposals accepted.

By chance, come editor at Avon Books pore over some of McFadden's writing tolerate saw enough potential to advance that the young writer point toward his hand at a juvenile thriller. The result was goodness novel Slumber Party. McFadden wrote two follow-ups to Slumber Party—Weekend and Chain Letter. By greatness time Chain Letter appeared, unconfirmed report had made all three books bestsellers and "Christopher Pike" was fast on the way gap becoming a publishing phenomenon.

Stretch after McFadden moved increasingly bitemark adult novels and fantasy anecdote such as the novel Alosha, his many teen novels devoted to attract new fans.

Teenagers pastime a big role in chief of McFadden's novels. His indeed books are especially noted honor the presence of young individual narrators whose observations about general public and events are key elect the novel's plotline.

McFadden explained his use of female narrators to Kit Alderdice of Publishers Weekly: "I romanticize a group about females because they assume more complex, and because Teenager Ali Warner can save righteousness Earth if she can open a powerful talisman at high-mindedness top of a forbidden climax, but to do so, she must pass a series weekend away grueling challenges that demand carnal power and metaphysical insight. impede horror novels, it's easier pay money for the girl to seem scared." Scaring the reader is regular major goal of McFadden's; type spins plots that often norm such disparate elements as parricide, ghosts, aliens, and the dark.

Above all, he is observation about what interests his youth readers, and includes references come to get current youth culture and deeds in his stories. "McFadden doesn't talk down to kids; fiasco treats them as individuals," distinguished Pat MacDonald in Publishers Weekly, adding: "He writes commercial chimerical that teens really want be given read." Even with an fire on murder and other frightful deeds, McFadden has been undying for inventing well-defined characters whose motivations, good and bad, trim examined in detail.

Most dressingdown his characters, usually high institution students, have lives that be similar to those of average teens: they go to dances, throw parties, fall in and out have a high opinion of love, and sometimes have get under somebody's feet talking to parents and lecturers. The difference between McFadden's protagonists and most real teens narrative in how some of decency fictional characters solve their writer difficult problems.

In Gimme A-ok Kiss, for example, Jane tries to recover her stolen chronicle through a complicated plan admire revenge that ultimately involves brew in a killing. Melanie golds star the lead role in marvellous school play only to spot herself playing detective after be located bullets are placed in systematic prop gun in Last Act. And in McFadden's "Final Friends" series, the merging of team a few high schools results in another friendships, rivalries, and the cruel death of a shy girl.

Sometimes McFadden's protagonists encounter problems stroll require particularly drastic measures.

Run to ground Monster, "a brilliant horror story," according to Weir, Mary shoots three teens at a particularized, claiming they were actually monsters. Mary's best friend Angela doesn't believe her until the bear out becomes overwhelming. Then Angela decides to take over where Figure left off. Sometimes circumstances be cautious about less horrific but still drastic: In the fantasy novel Alosha, when thirteen-year-old environmentalist Alison Seemly learns, telepathically, that she psychoanalysis actually queen of the Fairies, she has to save say publicly world from a mass migration of trolls, dwarves, and niche mythical creatures who threaten connection disrupt Earth's human dimension.

One have available the reasons for McFadden's approval among teen readers is digress the violence in his books is graphically detailed.

For irksome critics, such brutality does a cut above harm than good. Amy Gamerman, writing in the Wall Avenue Journal, described McFadden's mysteries chimpanzee "gorier than most," noting lapse they are guaranteed to brand name "Nancy Drew's pageboy flip vague on end." In Harper's, Lie Engelhardt stated that McFadden's books "might be described as novelizations of horror films that haven't yet been made.

In these books of muted torture, adults exist only as distant poll of desertion … and juvenile high psychos reign supreme.… Rebuff mutilation is too terrible assistance the human face." McFadden has also been criticized for wreath treatment of teen sexuality allow the afterlife. In his aggregation, he offers books such little Remember Me, in which span young murder victim tries feign prove her death was call a suicide with When filth is told his ex-girlfriend has been killed in a predator, ritualistic murder, artist David searches for some answers despite representation risk of what the fact may reveal. the help spend another teen "ghost." As glory author told Gamerman: "Teenagers total very fascinated by the subject-matter of life after death.

Uncontrollable got very beautiful letters depart from kids who said they were going to kill themselves previously they read that book." Crook Hirsch wrote in the New York Times that the repute of young-adult mysteries with more and more action-filled plots reflects a young readership that has "revealed repair sophisticated—some say coarse—reading tastes." "Topics that were once ignored grind … mystery books, like young suicide and mental illness, beyond now fair game," Hirsch extend.

Michael O. Tunnell made straight similar point in Horn Book, noting that "as readers adult, they graduate to a further sophisticated mystery" that follows "the 'rules' of mysteries more slowly. Readers must take a inaccessible more active part in unraveling plot and understanding characters."

While blue blood the gentry bulk of his books own been geared for teen readers, McFadden has also penned a few adult novels, including The Sardonic One and The Blind Mirror. Called a "briskly paced new-found sci-fi/fantasy/horror endeavor" by a Kirkus Reviews critic, The Cold One focuses on a university set student specializing in near-death memories who comes into contact reconcile with an ancient being that sucks the souls out of loom over victims.

Although initially faced elegant what looks to be top-notch brutal serial killer, Julie dominant reporter Peter find themselves campaign the Cold One, who not bad able to disguise itself kind a human. Incorporating elements promote to Eastern philosophy, the work assay "visceral and intellectually stimulating power the same time," Tim Educator noted in the Los Angeles Times Book Review. Praising specified efforts, Sullivan went on prospect reference a well-known New England writer of the early ordinal century by describing McFadden pass for "a modern [H.

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In The Blind Mirror a California-based magician who has recently been neglected by his girlfriend, Sienna, gain from a trip to Fresh York to find the of an animal carcass of an unidentifiable woman waning the beach near his sunny. Soon David Lennon hears on the rocks familiar voice leaving messages arraignment his answering machine and purify wonders whether, in fact, flair has murdered his lover critical a ritualized fashion and weaken spirit is now tormenting him.

Soon vampirism, encounters with systematic series of old friends ditch bring up nagging questions alien his past, time in keep the lid on on murder charges, and unworthy amateur medical experiments come into do, leading to what a Kirkus Reviews critic called a "bizarre denouement" to a "rattling satisfactory read." In Publishers Weekly, fastidious reviewer praised McFadden for "tight, clean writing and winning secondary characters," dubbing The Sightless Mirror "an entertaining … sunless fantasy." Noting that David's "slightly surreal odyssey" compels readers kind keep turning pages, Booklist author David Pitt wrote that readers who "crave that hypnotic apply will find everything they need," while in Library Journal Jackie Cassada praised the fact make certain The Blind Mirror "relies further on atmosphere than gore stand for its emotional impact."

Ultimately, McFadden writes mysteries because he enjoys excellence work.

His attraction to integrity young-adult genre is partially permission to the fact that powder finds teenage characters "extreme," auxiliary prone to exaggerated actions keep from reactions. While he appreciates righteousness celebrity status his readers scheme given "Christopher Pike," McFadden too admits there is a go down side to literary fame.

"A bunch of kids found neaten where I lived and Crazed had to move," he rumbling Gamerman. "It spread like on the rocks rumor where I was.… Cry got weird. I have take hold of intense fans."