Charlie Higson Forum

The Fast Show is back!

2011-09-06T21:19:05+00:00

Woo-hoo!

Details on the site as they become available!

Goats, Cows, Pigs, or Chickens

2012-03-26T00:35:15+00:00

The age old question, what kid of animal is more bad a$$, Goats, Cows, Chickens or Pigs?

Getting Rid of Mister Kitchen (1996)

2010-08-10T16:36:58+00:00

‘A sizzlingly paced modern thriller with outbursts of thumpingly sick black humour… It is fast. It is cruel. It is comical. It is vastly entertaining, and not a little disturbing.’ NME

‘A funny, frightening book, full of powerful, open-hearted material and with a strong line in suspense.’ TLS

‘This is a black farce with bells on, or Martin Amis as slapstick… very funny and utterly unstoppable.’ THE TIMES

‘A tour-de-force… captures right-wing arrogance magnificently.’ SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY

‘A fast-moving, rip-roaring riot of a read.’ CRIME TIME ‘Fast and funny (as you’d expect) and devastatingly cruel.’ INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

‘An energetic comedy of disasters with plenty of jokes for boys about curries and condoms and, for the girls, a scarily accurate description of a forceps delivery.’ INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE ‘Of all the young, trendy writers of comedy thrillers, this author is my favourite. In his fast-paced tales ordinary situations run out of control and escalate into violence; the novels are compulsive, dark and sick. I love them.’ THE BOOKSELLER ‘... he is gratuituously offensive about women, the unemployed, lefty social-worker types and anyone over 40. Remember, the best humour is never PC.’ COSMOPOLITAN ‘An entertaining and deeply disturbing read.’ THE CRIMINOLOGIST ‘A coke-fuelled, black humoured masterpiece.’ MUZIK ‘Given that few comic novels make you laugh at all, one that makes you laugh out loud before you got beyod the first paragraph is to be treasured. And you needn’t worry that Higson has used his best gag at the start: the laughs keep coming right through the narrator’s 24 hour descent into hell.’ TIME OUT ‘Higson has the kind of ear for middle-England angst that more established writers should be jealous of.’ GQ

What’s next for CH and JB?

2010-09-18T14:30:43+00:00

So what kind of James Bond adventure would you like to see next from Charlie Higson? I’ve created a little poll above with all the reasonable choices I can think of, but if you have any other ideas, feel free to post them below.

The Enemy Forum

2011-11-25T12:43:58+00:00

So me and my friend made a forum especially dedicated to The Enemy series! Check it out! )

http://zombiemayhem.omgforum.net/

Zombies in Europe or the World???

2012-03-26T00:25:41+00:00

Why is that in none of the books in the Enemy series take place in places other than London, or Europe? Is it a world wide thing or just a continental thing? I still think the books are awesome, and I can’t wait to get the newest one!!! So do you think the Enemy should stay in England, or go into the United States, Australia, Asia, or even South America?

Watch ‘The Scared Kid’

2010-10-26T16:33:08+00:00

London, UK.—October 26, 2010—Puffin Books announces the release of The Scared Kid, a chilling short film for Halloween created by best-selling children’s author, actor and comedian, Charlie Higson.

The film is aimed at 12+ and is available to view at http://www.the-enemy.co.uk/scaredkid. It is also available on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoMMtCnzIfw for older teens and zombie fans of all ages. It offers a cliff-hanging taster from The Dead, the second book in Charlie’s action adventure zombie series, The Enemy.

Puffin MD, Francesca Dow comments: ‘Teenagers are natural and hungry multi-media consumers and this film is absolutely designed with them in mind’

Charlie Higson comments: ‘The creation of this short was a joy for me as it brought together my twin passions, film-making and writing’

The video footage was produced by Charlie Higson and the makers of Colin, a zombie film that was shown at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and hit the headlines for its £45 budget.

The Enemy is an action adventure zombie series for teenagers and horror fans. Set in and around London, a mystery disease has broken out attacking everyone over the age of 14. Some survive but those that do face a more terrifying fate – they turn into hideous zombies with an insatiable appetite for human flesh. Children form gangs and attempt to survive in an unrecognisable world where there are dangers around every corner.

The film features a one-and-a-half minute clip of a boy who posts a webcam video to YouTube when the disease first breaks out, and which becomes the most viewed video in YouTube history.

The Scared Kid is available to view at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoMMtCnzIfw and http://www.the-enemy.co.uk/scaredkid from Tuesday 26 October

The Dead headed to America

2010-10-13T15:43:36+00:00

Amazon has just listed the U.S. hardcover edition of The Dead complete with cover art! Release date is June 14, 2011.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1423134125/houdinilives-20

U.S. paperback in May 2011

2010-09-18T14:16:53+00:00

The good folks at Disney-Hyperion tell me a paperback edition of By Royal Command is due for release in the U.S. on May 10, 2011. It my hope maybe they will include the short story, ‘A Hard Man To Kill’, as an extra in this book, as there doesn’t appear to be any immediate plans to publish Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier in the U.S. But I realize that is unlikely.

I’m expecting the paperback to sport the same (cool) Owen Richardson cover art. Look for the other books in the series to be reprinted around this time with new title treatments that match BRC.

Slow or fast?

2010-09-14T15:58:10+00:00

So how do people like their zombies? Fast and feral like the zombies who chase the kids across London (the modern 28 Days Later style), or slow and lumbering like the zombie royals in the palace (traditional White Zombie or Night of The Living Dead style)? For me, I really like slow-moving zombies. Maybe it’s just that we haven’t see this in while. What’s old feels new and slow zombies just feel FREAKY and scary. But I do love that Charlie has a mix of both on his books.

So what’s your preference? Slow or fast?