In the US he was lead writer on NBC's Crusoe, creator of CBS Television's Eleventh Hour, and Co-Executive Producer on ABC's The Forgotten. In his native England he's adapted and created hour-long and feature-length thrillers and crime dramas. He's the creator of Sebastian Becker, Special Investigator to the Lord Chancellor's Visitor in Lunacy, in a series of novels that includes The Kingdom of Bones, The Bedlam Detective, and The Authentic William James.

His fifteen novels include Chimera, Oktober, Valley of Lights and Nightmare, with Angel. Winner of British Fantasy and International Horror Guild awards.Stoker and World Fantasy Award nominee, winner of British Fantasy and International Horror Guild Awards for his short fiction, Stephen Gallagher has a career both as a novelist and as a creator of primetime miniseries and episodic television. He is, at any rate, one of the best writers of his generation.' You might go as far as to employ that overused phrase sui generis. The Daily Telegraph wrote, 'Since Valley of Lights, he has been refining his own brand of psycho-thriller, with a discomforting knack of charting mental disintegration and a razor-sharp sense of place.' Charles de Lint wrote in Mystery Scene magazine, 'Gallagher is a master of abnormal psychology and he just gets better and better.' Also in Mystery Scene David Mathew added, 'never a writer to rest on his laurels, he has written good hard thrillers, some horror genre work (such as Valley of Lights), and a novel (Oktober) that might even qualify as a vague distortion of contemporary world fantasy. Gallagher, like le Carré, is a novelist whose themes seem to reflect something of the essence of our times, and a novelist whose skill lies in embedding those themes in accessible plots.' According to Arena magazine, 'Gallagher has quietly become Britain's finest popular novelist, working a dark seam between horror and the psychological thriller. He's the creator of Sebastian Becker, Special Investigator to the Lord Chancellor's Visitor in Lunacy, in a series of novels beginning with THE KINGDOM OF BONES and THE BEDLAM DETECTIVE, continuing in THE AUTHENTIC WILLIAM JAMES.ĭescribed by The Independent as 'the finest British writer of bestselling popular fiction since le Carré.

His fourteen novels include DOWN RIVER, RAIN, VALLEY OF LIGHTS, and NIGHTMARE, WITH ANGEL. In the US he was lead writer on NBC's CRUSOE, creator of CBS Television's ELEVENTH HOUR, and Co-Executive Producer on ABC's THE FORGOTTEN.

Beginning his TV career with the BBC's DOCTOR WHO, Stephen Gallagher went on to establish himself as a writer and director of high-end miniseries and primetime episodic television.

Valley of Lights by Stephen Gallagher