This is the Quickest Way Down is a bumper collection of 13 sci-fi, urban and dark fantasy short stories set in the present day or very near future that give everyday existence a nudge into the realms of the fantastic, the weird, the supernatural, the horrific and the surreal.

These are stories where a casual sexual encounter can embroil a person in dangerous liaisons with ghosts, aliens or even vengeful gods. Yet also where the bizarre can be found lurking just around the corner, across a cup of cooling mocha in a coffee shop, over a glass of chilled rose wine in a beach side cafe in the Cote d’Azur or in the next message on your mobile phone.

In a review, best-selling horror author Wayne Simmons said... "The devil is in the detail, they also say, and this is true of Christian's writing. He's a man who likes to theme, certain little quirks and tropes presenting themselves time after time. There's a lot of Mocha in this book, for one thing. There's a lot of sex, too: alien sex, demon sex, and, least believable of all, sex with sci-fi fans.

"But what I found most was heart.

"You'll smile as you read these stories, not least the first and last entries, a two-parter end of the world tale which sets the tone perfectly for what's to come, as well as what's been, leaving the reader surprisingly uplifted at the book's conclusion."

Some of these stories were previously published in print only by Salt Publishing in 2011. This new collection has been completely re-edited and also includes two new stories.

Available in Kindle ebook format for £0.99/$1.99
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More Lovecraftian and Cthulhu fiction – Atomic Age Cthulhu: Tales of Mythos Horror in the 1950s (first published 2015) is a collection of 19 short stories from Chaosium and includes a previously unpublished short story – The Day the Music Died – by Charles Christian, that tells what really happened to Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper when their plane crashed after that gig at The Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Idaho.   


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ISBN: 978-1568823980

If you like weird fiction - if you like mythos fiction - if you like Lovecraftian and Cthulhu fiction - check out this new collection of 22 stories (plus artwork) World War Cthulhu: A Collection of Lovecraftian War Stories (first published 2014) from Dark Regions Press - It includes a previously unpublished short story - Long Island Weird - by Charles Christian about weird happenings and lost Nazi U-boats along the banks of the Long Island Sound during World War Two. My story is illustrated (see below) by the excellent M.Wayne Miller.
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ISBN: 978-1626410749

This is the Quickest Way Down is my current collection of short stories and flash fiction. The collection covers urban fantasy, science fiction and horror, with several of the stories having a strong apocalyptical theme. Available only in paperback, an ebook version was published in 2014 as The Hot Chick. Quickest Way Down was published by Salt/Proxima Books in 2011 ISBN: 978-1844719235.

For further details check out the Latest Book page on this site.

The January 2011 edition of Inkspill Magazine contains my short story Granny Smith's Homemade Damson Jam, a tale of not so much urban fantasy as rural horror. The story hasn't been anthologised anywhere yet but if you follow the link, you can read the story in full in Inkspill Magazine. And you can find it HERE

ISSN: 2047-1572

A Dream of Stone & other ghost stories is a collection of short stories originally collected and published in 2011 by Díre McCain and D M Mitchell as part of their Paraphilia publishing venture. The collection contains another of my semi-autobiographical stories Confessions of a Teenage Ghost-Hunter.

This collection has now been reissued (2013) by a new publisher Apophenia! It can be purchased as a paperback directly from the publisher or via Amazon (UK price £9.00). A Kindle edition is also in production.

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Doppelgånger is a collection of dark fantasy short stories collected and published in 2010 by Jim Lopez as part of his Antique Children mischievous literary arts journal project. The collection contains a semi-autobiographical story of mine called Don't Take Me to the Bridge which, for reasons best known to me at the time but now completely forgotten, I had credited to the pen-name of Alexis Byter, who also happens to be the name of a recurring character in my short stories. Confused? I'm hoping to reprint this story in one of my upcoming ebooks. AQC Books ISBN: 978-1453892305.