Chris Priestley is a British children’s book author and illustrator. He lives in Cambridge, England.
In 2000 he published his first children’s book, Dog Magic. In 2004, Death and the Arrow was shortlisted for an Edgar Award in the US, and in 2006, Redwulf’s Curse won the Lancashire Fantastic Book Award. Tales of Terror from the Black Ship won a CPNB Vlag and Wimpel in 2010 for the Dutch translation. The German translation of Uncle Montague’s Tales of Terror was shortlisted for a Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 2011. Tales of Terror from the Tunnel’s Mouth won the Dracula Society Children of the Night Award in 2009. Mister Creecher won the BASH (Book Award St Helens) in 2012.
Priestley has also written for radio, contributing two stories to the BBC Radio 2 It’s Grimm Up North collection of Brothers Grimm updates, transmitted on Christmas Eve 2012.
