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Kevin Christopher McFadden, who is best know as Christopher Pike is an American author. He was born on November 12, 1955 in New York but grew up in California and now living in Santa Barbara. In his early years, before he become a successful author, he dropped college and had jobs like house painter and computer programming. He then begun writing science fictions and adult mystery but wasn’t that successful until one editor suggest that he write about teen thrillers which gave him a big break.
He now have more than fifty teen and adult thrillers that are published and become popular including his favorite titles, The Thirst series, The Secret of Ka, Remember Me and Alosha trilogies. One of his works were turn into movies and that is the Fall into Darkness, who have the same title in the movie, was produced by Christopher Pike Productions and directed by Mark Sobel. Main characters are portrayed by Tatyana Ali and Jonathan Brandis. The plot of the story was about a boy, Jerry, who fall in love with the girl, Sharon. Sharon rejected Jerry and was depressed and later died. Ann, who was Jerry’s sister believed that Sharon had something to do with the death of his brother and want to have revenge by framing Sharon of her death. She then succeeded but she never showed up. There are a lot of differences between the book and the movie with the names and how the movie goes but it was all good. The Movie was released last November 25, 1996. It was said that they released CDs and VHS Tapes of this movie but has only limited numbers of copies alot of things are metiomned.
Spookville, which is a series he written f rom 1995- 1999, is a book for children and was also turned into TV Show, which they adopt the same title. It was directed by Ken Friss, James Head and Michael Robison. Keean Johnson, Katie Douglas, Nick Purcha and Morgan Taylor Campbell starred the TV Series. In this series, the story is about a kid who lived in a small town, holds a key to from battling between good and evil which causes unexplained and supernatural events. It was produced by Harvey Khan, Allen Lewis, Christopher Pike himself, Jillian Share, Gary Shaw, Jane Startz and was released from October 26, 2013 to May 17, 2014. Other books such as The Thirst (The Last Vampire) Series and Alosha series are soon be a feature film too.
He was a total of 8 series books written. His early works include Cheerleader, Chain Letter and Final Friends. In the 47 book series of Cheerleader, Pike only wrote one book and it was the book 2. The other writers are Caroline B. Cooney and Diane Hoh. Here are the sneak peak for the books mentioned above.
The story of the 3 book series Chain Letter is about a group of friends who are receiving letters with the sign “Your Caretaker” which reminds them of their horrible crime that happened in California desert. They runned over a drunken man and just buried him on the side of the road whose body was never discovered or reported. They thought it was just a terrible joke knowing no one saw them doing the crime until hideous things are happening to them one by one.
The story of the Final Friend begun with a “get to know each other” party for a friend to have the best day ever but ended up shockingly. Not all of the teenagers came went home alive. As the investigation, it was told to be suicide but it was not what it is look like. Driven to prove the case was wrong but did not know how. The main characters are Jessica Hart and Michael Olsen.
Christopher is said to be a private person and does not go out of his house much. But in one of his interviews and some forewords of his books, he mention some of his interest. He likes astronomy, reading, running meditation, surfing and checking out if his books are in the local market. He got his influences and inspiration to some of the authors including Carl, Sagan, Robert A. Heinlein, Arthur Clarke, Agatha Christie, Isaac Asimov and Stephen King. His books mainly about thrillers and mysteries but often focuses on spirituality, whodunit and science fiction. He also gets some references from the Greek, Hindu and Egyptian mythology. He was awarded by the New York Times the Best Selling Author.
The name Ann is one of the significant character in almost of all books Christopher Pike has written. Many of his worked has reference to SISTER ANN. Some of the list of books the named Ann is used and dedicates to her:
Master Of Murder 1992: Marvin Summer, an author, insert Ann as his reference into his works. Fans said that Marvin has a direct linked to him but made a clear answer that he was not Marvin at all.
Remember Me (Book Series) 1989-2010: The protagonist was named Shari Ann Cooper.
Fall into Darkness (1990): a character was named Ann, sister of Jerry who died in the story.
Spooksville 1995-1999: A woman who thought to be a witch was named Ann Templeton. The name appear in the series several times.
The Last Vampire: Evil Thirst 1996: A vampire was named Ann and dedicated to book to her.
Omnibus Chained Together 2009-2010: He dedicated the book to her.
Last Act: Rindy Carpenter had a middle name Ann
Final Friends 1998-2011: He used Ann couple of times. The middle name of Alice McCoy, it is in the first book). And the Ann was the name of the sister of the lead protagonist Michael Olsen.
The Season of Passage: He also dedicated this book to her.
There is this one book that fans wants him to finish. It is the sequel of The Cold One and has a tentatively titled The Seedling. Petition for the completion of the said book is now in the internet.
These are just some of his amazing works and he has such an amazing mind.
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