Christopher Golden

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Christopher Golden is an American award-winning, bestselling author of such novels as Wildwood Road, The Boys Are Back in Town, The Ferryman, Strangewood, Of Saints and Shadows, and the Body of Evidence series of teen thrillers. Working with actress/writer/director Amber Benson, he co-created and co-wrote Ghosts of Albion, an animated supernatural drama for BBC online which then became a book series from Del Rey. He is also the author of many comics, including the original 17 issues of Angel, co-written with Thomas E. Sniegoski. Golden and Sniegoski have collaborated on the dark fantasy series The Menagerie as well as the young readers fantasy series OutCast. Golden and Sniegoski also wrote the graphic novel BPRD: Hollow Earth, a spinoff from the fan favorite comic book series Hellboy. Golden authored the original Hellboy novels, The Lost Army and The Bones of Giants, and edited two Hellboy short story anthologies. He also wrote many original novels based on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Golden was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his family. He graduated from Tufts University. There are more than eight million copies of his books in print.

Contents

1 Novels
2 Buffyverse Media
3 Other works
4 Role-playing Games
5 See also

5.1 External links

Novels

Ghosts of Albion: Accursed by Amber Benson and Christopher Golden''

Strangewood (Signet, 1999)
Straight On 'Til Morning (Signet, 2001)
The Ferryman (Signet, 2002)
The Boys Are Back in Town (Bantam, 2004)
Wildwood Road (Bantam, 2005)

GHOSTS OF ALBION

Accursed [w/Amber Benson] (Del Rey, 2005)
Witchery [w/Amber Benson] (Del Rey, 2006)

THE VEIL

The Myth Hunters (Bantam, 2006)
The Borderkind (Bantam, 2007)
Book Three (Bantam, 2007)

THE SHADOW SAGA

Of Saints and Shadows (Berkley, 1994)
Angel Souls and Devil Hearts (Berkley, 1995)
Of Masques and Martyrs (Ace, 1998)
The Gathering Dark (Berkley, 2003)

The Menagerie: The Nimble Man by Christopher Golden and Thomas E. Sniegoski''

THE MENAGERIE [w/Thomas E. Sniegoski]

The Nimble Man (Ace, 2004)
The Tears of Furies (Ace, 2005)
Stones Unturned (Ace, 2006)
Crashing Paradise (Ace, 2006)

THE HOLLOW

Horseman [w/Ford Lytle Gilmore] (Razorbill, 2005)
Drowned [w/Ford Lytle Gilmore] (Razorbill, 2005)
Mischief [w/Ford Lytle Gilmore] (Razorbill, 2006)
Enemies [w/Ford Lytle Gilmore] (Razorbill, 2006)

HELLBOY

Hellboy: The Lost Army (Dark Horse, 1997)
Hellboy: The Bones of Giants (Dark Horse, 2001)
Hellboy: The Dragon Pool (Pocket Books, 2007)

BODY OF EVIDENCE

Body Bags (Pocket, 1999)
Thief of Hearts (Pocket, 1999)
Soul Survivor (Pocket, 1999)
Meets the Eye (Pocket, 2000)
Head Games (Pocket, 2000)
Skin Deep [w/Rick Hautala] (Pocket, 2000)
Burning Bones [w/Rick Hautala] (Pocket, 2001)
Brain Trust [w/Rick Hautala] (Pocket, 2001)
Last Breath [w/Rick Hautala] (Pocket, 2004)
Throat Culture [w/Rick Hautala] (Pocket, 2005)

OUTCAST

OutCast: The Un-Magician [w/Tom Sniegoski] (Pocket, 2004)
OutCast: Dragon Secrets [w/Tom Sniegoski] (Pocket, 2004)
OutCast: Ghostfire [w/Tom Sniegoski] (Pocket, 2005)
OutCast: Wurm War [w/Tom Sniegoski] (Pocket, 2005)

PROWLERS

Prowlers (Pocket, 2001)
Laws of Nature (Pocket, 2001)
Predator and Prey (Pocket, 2001)
Wild Things (Pocket, 2002)

Other Novels

Beach Blanket Psycho (Bantam YA, 1995)
Bikini (Bantam YA, 1995)
Force Majeure [w/Tom Sniegoski] (Pocket, 2002)

Buffyverse Media

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER - Novels

Halloween Rain [w/Nancy Holder] (Pocket, 1997)
Blooded [w/Nancy Holder] (Pocket 1998)
Child of the Hunt [w/Nancy Holder] (Pocket 1998)
The Gatekeeper trilogy
* The Gatekeeper, Book One--Out of the Madhouse [w/Nancy Holder] (Pocket 1999)
* The Gatekeeper, Book Two--Ghost Roads [w/Nancy Holder] (Pocket 1999)
* The Gatekeeper, Book Three--Sons of Entropy [w/Nancy Holder] (Pocket 1999)
Immortal [w/Nancy Holder] (hardcover, Pocket, 1999)
Sins of the Father (Pocket, 1999)
(hardcover, Pocket, 2000 - also available in paperback and audio, the latter read by Charisma Carpenter)
The Lost Slayer series (Parts 1 through 4 released separately, Pocket, 2001 - later released altogether in one paperback omnibus)
(Pocket, 2002)
Wisdom of War (Pocket, 2002)
Monster Island [w/Tom Sniegoski] (hardcover, Pocket, 2003)

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER - Comics

Willow & Tara Wanna Blessed Be by Christopher Golden and Amber Benson''

He has written many Buffy comics and Angel comics, including some of the most popular and bestselling editions.

Earthly Possessions
Strange Bedfellows (Angel comic)
Hunting Ground (Angel comic)
Strange Bedfellows (Angel comic)
Past Lives (Buffy/Angel comic)
Willow & Tara (Buffy comic) [w/Amber Benson]
* Wanna Blessed Be
* Wilderness, Part 1
* Wilderness, Part 2
Giles (Buffy comic)
Spike & Dru (Buffy comic)
The Origin (Buffy comic)
Blood of Carthage (Buffy comic)
Food Chain (Buffy comic)

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER - Other Characters

He has used characters within Buffyverse chronology that recur outside the established Buffyverse 'canon' a number of times:

Other works

Golden has written dozens of books. Mostly of original series. He has also written numerous comics, including Hellboy, Batman, and the X-Men. See a more complete bibliography at http://home.comcast.net/~crdg/bio2.html

Other Media Tie-ins

X-Men: Mutant Empire-Siege
X-Men: Mutant Empire-Sanctuary
X-Men: Mutant Empire-Salvation
X-Men: Codename Wolverine
Daredevil: Predator's Smile
Battlestar Galactica: Armageddon
Battlestar Galactica: Warhawk
Gen13: Netherwar [w/Jeff Mariotte]
Justice League: Exterminators

Role-playing Games

Golden has also contributed his talents to role-playing games by Eden Studios. Fiction for the Buffy the Vampire Slayer RPG and co-creator of the Ghosts of Albion world for the Ghosts of Albion RPG

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Roleplaying Game (intro fiction) [w/ C.J. Carella] (Eden Studios, 2002)
The Ghosts of Albion Roleplaying Game [w/Timothy S. Brannan and Amber Benson] (Eden Studios, 2006)

Christopher Golden

Novels

Buffyverse Media

Other works

Role-playing Games

See also

External links