Christopher Golden

Christopher Golden is an American award-winning, bestselling author. He is the author of many comics, including the original 17 issues of Angel, co-written with Thomas E. Sniegoski. He also wrote many original novels based on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Buffyverse Media
Novels
 * Halloween Rain [w/Nancy Holder] (Pocket, 1997)
 * Blooded [w/Nancy Holder] (Pocket 1998)
 * Child of the Hunt [w/Nancy Holder] (Pocket 1998)
 * The Gatekeeper trilogy
 * The Gatekeeper, Book One--Out of the Madhouse [w/Nancy Holder] (Pocket 1999)
 * The Gatekeeper, Book Two--Ghost Roads [w/Nancy Holder] (Pocket 1999)
 * The Gatekeeper, Book Three--Sons of Entropy [w/Nancy Holder] (Pocket 1999)
 * Immortal [w/Nancy Holder] (hardcover, Pocket, 1999)
 * Sins of the Father (Pocket, 1999)
 * Spike and Dru: Pretty Maids All in a Row (hardcover, Pocket, 2000 - also available in paperback and audio, the latter read by Charisma Carpenter)
 * The Lost Slayer series (Parts 1 through 4 released separately, Pocket, 2001 - later released altogether in one paperback omnibus)
 * Oz: Into the Wild (Pocket, 2002)
 * Wisdom of War (Pocket, 2002)
 * Monster Island [w/Tom Sniegoski] (hardcover, Pocket, 2003)

Comics He has written many Buffy comics and Angel comics, including some of the most popular and bestselling editions.


 * Earthly Possessions
 * Strange Bedfellows (Angel comic)
 * Hunting Ground (Angel comic)
 * Strange Bedfellows (Angel comic)
 * Past Lives (Buffy/Angel comic)
 * Willow & Tara (Buffy comic) [w/Amber Benson]
 * Wanna Blessed Be
 * Wilderness, Part 1
 * Wilderness, Part 2
 * Giles (Buffy comic)
 * Spike & Dru (Buffy comic)
 * The Origin (Buffy comic)
 * Blood of Carthage (Buffy comic)
 * Food Chain (Buffy comic)
 * Angel: The Hollower (Buffy comic)

Other Characters

He has used characters within Buffyverse chronology that recur outside the established Buffyverse 'canon' a number of times:


 * Lucy Hanover
 * Abner

Role-playing Games
Golden has also contributed his talents to role-playing games by Eden Studios. Fiction for the Buffy the Vampire Slayer RPG and co-creator of the Ghosts of Albion world for the Ghosts of Albion RPG


 * Buffy the Vampire Slayer Roleplaying Game (intro fiction) [w/ C.J. Carella] (Eden Studios, 2002)
 * The Ghosts of Albion Roleplaying Game [w/Timothy S. Brannan and Amber Benson] (Eden Studios, 2006)