Charlie Huston

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Charlie Huston
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Huston at WonderCon 2015
Born Oakland, California, U.S.
OccupationNovelist and TV writer
Period2004–present
Genre Crime fiction, horror, pulp
Notable works
Website
www.charliehustonwrites.com
Charlie Huston at home in Los Angeles, July 2025 CHARLIE HUSTON photo credit Brian Calloway.jpg
Charlie Huston at home in Los Angeles, July 2025

Charlie Huston is an American novelist, screenwriter and comic book writer, whose twelve novels span several genres from crime to horror to science fiction. Huston's books have been published in English by Ballentine, Del Rey, Mulholland and Orion, and translated into nine other languages. The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death was adapted for HBO, while another novel Already Dead was adapted by Huston for HBO Max. Huston have 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. Huston is known for storytelling that focuses on character and relationships in richly detailed worlds that blend genres.

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Career

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 Caught Stealing for a movie to be directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Austin Butler. As of August 2025, the movie has completed postproduction and will be released exclusively in theaters on August 29.

Huston 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. Their five stand-alone novels are The Shotgun Rule, The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death, Sleepless, Skinner and Catchpenny.

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. This project is currently being packaged for further development.[ citation needed ]

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 the run in December 2007. Huston 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

Henry Thompson

Joe Pitt Casebooks

Other work

Novels

Comics

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

References

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