Charlie Huston is an American novelist and TV writer. His twelve novels span several genres from crime to horror to science fiction. His books have been published in English by Ballentine, Del Rey, Mulholland and Orion, and translated into nine other languages. He adapted his novel The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death for HBO, and his novel Already Dead for HBO Max. He has also written pilots for FX, FOX, Sony and Tomorrow Studios, served as a consulting producer for FOX's Gotham, and worked in several development rooms. He is known for storytelling that focuses on character and relationships in richly detailed worlds that blend genres.

Charlie Huston
Huston at WonderCon 2015
Huston at WonderCon 2015
BornOakland, California, U.S.
OccupationNovelist and TV writer
Period2004–present
GenreCrime fiction, horror, pulp
Notable works
Website
www.charliehustonwrites.com

Career

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Caught Stealing, along with Six Bad Things and Huston's fourth novel, A Dangerous Man, follow the lovable anti-hero, baseball-mad Henry Thompson, as he struggles to escape a deadly case of mistaken identity, his past, and build a new life for himself.

In March 2024 it was announced that Huston was adapting his novel Caught Stealing for a movie to be directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Austin Butler.

He wrote the five volume contemporary vampire noir Joe Pitt Casebooks primarily while living in Manhattan, finishing the final book in the series after moving to California.

His four stand alone novels are The Shotgun Rule, The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death, Sleepless, and Skinner.

In January 2013, it was announced that Huston was working on the pilot for FX's adaption of the Powers comic series.[1] Between 2017 and 2019, Huston was a writer and producer on the Fox TV series Gotham.

As of September 2022, Huston was developing and writing an original TV pilot titled Arcadia for Tomorrow Studios.

In 2006, Huston joined the list of print authors who have written American comic books. In April 2006, Marvel Comics launched Huston's reboot of the Marvel character Moon Knight. Huston wrote the first 12 issues of the series, concluding his run in December 2007. He also wrote the second Ultimates Annual issue in August 2006. Another long-form comics work was a Wolverine series, Wolverine: The Best There Is, with artist Juan José Ryp.[2]

Bibliography

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Henry Thompson

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  • Caught Stealing (hc, 256 pages, Ballantine Books, 2004, ISBN 0-345-46477-X; sc, 288 pages, 2005, ISBN 0-345-46478-8)
  • Six Bad Things (sc, 305 pages, Ballantine Books, 2005, ISBN 0-345-46479-6)
  • A Dangerous Man (sc, 286 pages, Ballantine Books, 2006, ISBN 0-345-48133-X)

Joe Pitt Casebooks

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Other work

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Novels

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Comics

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To date, the entirety of Huston's work in comics has been published by Marvel and its various imprints:

References

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Preceded by Moon Knight writer
2006–2008
Succeeded by
Preceded by Deathlok writer
2010
Succeeded by