Rune - Christopher Fowler

Is there such a thing as coincidence? Or can any strange thing occur given enough time. Would an infinite number of monkeys given an infinite number of typewriters eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare? The probability barrier may prevent such unlikely events occurring but when statistically impossible things start to happen in London it begins to seem that someone is playing the Probability God. THE STORY For Harry Buckingham a string of such coincidences seem to be directly affecting him. However, these coincidences are the things that nightmares are made of and herald the start of a spiral into hell for him until he can get to the ...

The afterword to this novel provides an interesting insight into Christopher Fowler. He admits to becoming excited when Hollywood bought the film rights, less so when they started to make changes, and angry when they removed his favourite parts. He closes by saying that “I’ll be the first to wince when the cheerleader kills the talking snake.” Needless to say, neither appear in the novel, and he is clearly looking forward to seeing what a mess Hollywood can make of this book as much as I am. Not at all. What makes this interesting is that he works in the film industry. Fowler writes that this novel was inspired by a short story called ...