Christopher Fahy (1937 - )

Genre: Non-Fiction

Chris Fahy, now living in Thomaston with his wife, children's book author Davene Fahy, was born in Philadelphia and moved to Maine to write in 1972. His writing runs the gamut from horror/thriller to sci-fi/fantasy, poetry, short stories, and a do-it-yourself book.

Fiction includes: The Compost Heap (1970), Greengroundtown (1978/2000; stories), Nightflyer (1982/2000), One Day in the Short Happy Life of Anna Banana and other Maine stories (1988; stories; won Maine Arts Commission Fiction Competition 1987), Dream House (1987), Eternal Bliss (1988/2000), The Lyssa Syndrome (1990/2000); The Fly Must Die (1993); Limerock: Maine Stories (1999), Fever 42 (2002), Breaking Point (2004), exploring possible consequences of a flawed health care system, and Chasing the Sun (2005), a novel about an aging poet, set in Maine.

His book of poetry is called The End Beginning: Poems (1978), and his home repair manual is Home Remedies: fixing up houses and apartments, mostly old, but also otherwise (1975). Fahy has had stories published in "The Twilight Zone Magazine" and in Frankenstein: The Monster Walks (1993) and Nightscreams: 22 Stories of Terror (1996; along with Rick Hautala), among others.


Last Update: 05/30/2007

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