Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Even Beggars Would Ride | 1997 | Peter Crowther | Buy |
| 2 | Front-Page McGuffin & The Greatest Story Never Told | 1998 | Peter Crowther | Buy |
| 3 | All We Know Of Heaven | 2001 | Peter Crowther | Buy |
| 4 | Cliff Rhodes & The Most Important Journey | 2008 | Peter Crowther | Buy |
| 5 | Bernard Boyce Bennington & The American Dream | 2008 | Peter Crowther | Buy |
| 6 | Ghosts with Teeth | 2011 | Peter Crowther | Buy |
| 7 | The Adventure of the Touch of God | 2012 | Peter Crowther | Buy |
| 8 | Thoughtful Breaths | 2016 | Peter Crowther | Buy |
Peter Crowther’s individual short stories and novellas represent some of his finest work. Titles like Even Beggars Would Ride (1997) and All We Know Of Heaven (2001) are characteristic of his approach: quiet, carefully observed stories that begin in the everyday world and gradually reveal something unsettling or strange. His prose is unhurried and precise, more interested in mood than in gore.
Several of the later entries, including Cliff Rhodes & The Most Important Journey (2008) and Thoughtful Breaths (2016), show Crowther at his most personal. These stories often deal with aging, regret, and the way memory reshapes the past. The Adventure of the Touch of God (2012) is one of his more overtly supernatural tales, but even here the focus stays on character rather than spectacle. Readers who enjoy writers like Robert Aickman or Ramsey Campbell will find a similar sensibility in Crowther’s standalone short fiction.