Chris "C. J." Henderson (26 December 1951 - 4 July 2014) was an American author of both fiction and nonfiction who wrote a number of stories connected to the Cthulhu Mythos.
Overview[]
Chris Henderson was an American writer of horror, science fiction, pulp crime, nonfiction and comic books. His contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos includes the escapades of private detectives Teddy London and Frank Nardi, characters who mix Lovecraftian horror with the hardboiled detective genre. He also wrote several stories which cross Jeff Rice's Carl Kolchak, a reporter in 1970s America whose cases involve supernatural beings, with elements of the Cthulhu Mythos.
Henderson cited H. P. Lovecraft as one of his favourite authors.
Selected Bibliography[]
Collections[]
- The Tales of Inspector Legrasse (2005)
- Kolchak: Necronomicon (2012)
Short Fiction[]
- "Free the Old Ones" (1995)
- "The Door" (1998)
- "Fleas of the Dragon" (1999)
- "To Cast Out Fear" (1999)
- "Juggernaut" (2000)
- "The Questioning of the Azathothian Priest" (2006)
- "What Every Coin Has" (2012)
- "Mysterious Ways" (2014)
- "The Idea of Fear" (2017)
- "Cruelty" (2017)
- "The Nest of Pain" (2017)
- "A Pleasure in Madness" (2017)
Children's Books[]
- Baby's First Mythos (2005)
External Links[]
- C. J. Henderson at Wikipedia
- C. J. Henderson at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- C. J. Henderson at Goodreads