克里斯托弗·派克

克里斯托弗·派克（1955年11月12日-） 是一位美国儿童文学小说、青年文学小说以及惊悚小说作家。他曾短暂上过大学，之后辍学并从事诸如房屋粉刷和计算机编程等工作。后来开始转行写青少年惊悚小说。他主要与西蒙与舒斯特出版公司合作。 1996年11月25日，派克的小说被改编成电视影片。

Kevin Christopher McFadden (born November 12, 1955), known by his pseudonym Christopher Pike, is an American author of children's fiction and for mystery-thrillers and supernatural horror fiction, mainly for young adults though he has also published adult fiction.

Biography

McFadden was born in New York City in 1955, but grew up in California. He attended college briefly before quitting and working various jobs such as house painting and computer programming. He initially tried writing science fiction and adult mystery, but later began writing teen thrillers due to an editor's suggestion.

His first novel, Slumber Party, was written initially as a supernatural thriller containing a character with pyrokinesis (psychic ability to start and control fire), which he later eliminated upon the request of his editor. The book was then re-written as a mystery thriller about a group of teenagers who encounter bizarre and violent events during a skiing weekend. His editor sold the book to Scholastic Press, which released it in 1985. Pike's next novel, Weekend, was also published through Scholastic. He would later publish one more novel through Scholastic, the 1986 Chain Letter, after which he engaged mainly with Simon and Schuster.

Pike continued to write several young adult novels, and also juvenile novels comprising the series Spooksville, as well as several adult novels such as his 1990 book, Sati. Spooksville was adapted into a television series in 2013 for the Hub network (now known as Discovery Family).

Adaptations

On November 25, 1996, Pike's novel Fall Into Darkness was adapted into a television movie of the same name, produced by his company Christopher Pike Productions. His novels The Midnight Club and The Season of Passage have both been optioned, for a television series and movie, by movie-maker Mike Flanagan for Netflix. The Midnight Club was released on Netflix on October 7, 2022. Two days after the series' release, on October 9, Flanagan confirmed that Netflix had in fact optioned "28 books" of Pike's, and that he had advocated The Midnight Club television series as "'The Midnight Club' — but the stories the kids tell [each other] will be other Christopher Pike books", with a plan for the series to last multiple seasons. However, in December 2022 it was announced the series had been cancelled after only one season.

Works

Young adult fiction

Slumber Party (1985)

Weekend (1986)

The Tachyon Web (1986)

Last Act (1988)

Spellbound (1988)

Gimme a Kiss (1988)

Remember Me (1989)

Scavenger Hunt (1989)

Fall into Darkness (1990)

See You Later (1990)

Witch (1990)

Whisper of Death (1991)

Die Softly (1991)

Bury Me Deep (1991)

Master of Murder (1992)

Monster (1992)

Road to Nowhere (1993)

The Eternal Enemy (1993)

The Immortal (1993)

The Wicked Heart (1993)

The Midnight Club (1994)

The Lost Mind (1995)

The Visitor (1995)

The Starlight Crystal (1996)

The Star Group (1997)

Execution of Innocence (1997)

Hollow Skull (1998)

Magic Fire (1999)

The Grave (1999)

The Secret of Ka (2010)

To Die For – Omnibus collects Slumber Party and Weekend (2010)

Bound to You – Omnibus collects Spellbound and See You Later (2012)

Witch World (2012)

Black Knight - Witch World 2 (2014)

Strange Girl (2015)

Series

Cheerleaders

Cheerleaders #2: Getting Even (1985)

(Christopher Pike only wrote one book of this forty-seven-book series. Other writers of this series include Caroline B. Cooney and Diane Hoh.)

Chain Letter

Chain Letter (1986)

Chain Letter 2: The Ancient Evil (1992)

Chained Together – Omnibus, collects Chain Letter 1 and 2. (1994)

Final Friends

Final Friends 1: The Party (1988)

Final Friends 2: The Dance (1988)

Final Friends 3: The Graduation (1989)

Final Friends Trilogy – Omnibus, collects Final Friends 1, 2 and 3 (1999)

Until the End – Omnibus, collects Final Friends 1, 2 and 3 (2011)

Remember Me

Remember Me (1989)

Remember Me 2: The Return (1994)

Remember Me 3: The Last Story (1995)

Remember Me – Omnibus, collects Remember Me 1, 2 and 3 (2010)

The Last Vampire/Thirst

The Last Vampire (1994)

The Last Vampire 2: Black Blood (1994)

The Last Vampire 3: Red Dice (1995)