Richard Chizmar

Richard Chizmar
Born 12/21/1965
United States
Occupation Writer, editor, publisher
Nationality American
Genre Horror fiction, fantasy, science fiction

Richard Thomas Chizmar (born 1965) is best known as the publisher and editor of Cemetery Dance magazine and the owner of Cemetery Dance Publications. He also edits anthologies, writes fiction, produces films, writes screenplays, and teaches writing.

Writing

Richard Chizmar has contributed stories to many publications, including Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories. He has won the Horror Writers Association Board of Trustees Award, two World Fantasy Awards, and four International Horror Guild Awards.

Stephen King and Richard Chizmar co-wrote Gwendy's Button Box which is set for a May 2017 release from Cemetery Dance Publications (in trade hardcover format) and in audiobook from Simon & Schuster Audio (the audiobook has a bonus short story "The Music Room," written by just Stephen King, which was originally published in Playboy).

Publishing

Cemetery Dance magazine

Richard Chizmar started Cemetery Dance magazine in 1988, and it is still being published today. It features dark fantasy, horror fiction, and articles related to those subjects. Metro Silicon Valley called it "America's longest-running independent horror-themed magazine."[1]

Cemetery Dance Publications

Richard Chizmar's Cemetery Dance Publications started in 1992, and it is currently still publishing books. It has produced more than 300 different autographed limited edition, lettered edition hardcover novels, novellas, and anthologies. It also publishes chapbooks, trade hardcovers, and a few paperbacks.

Screenplays and Chesapeake Films

Richard Chizmar co-founded Chesapeake Films with Johnathon Schaech. He also co-writes screenplays with Johnathon Schaech. Some of their produced screenplays include 2006's Road House 2 (based on the story by Miles Chapman) and Showtime's Masters of Horror presentation of The Washingtonians (based on Bentley Little's story) from 2007. They also wrote the screenplay for 2009's film From a Buick 8 based on Stephen King's novel.

Selected awards

Won

Nominated

Selected bibliography

Chapbooks

  • Blood Brothers (1997) - a chapbook from Subterranean Press available only as 250 signed numbered copies (no ISBN)
  • Unearthed co-written with Brian Keene (2016) - a chapbook from Apokrupha. ( ISBN 978-1534941090)

Screenplays

Short stories

Uncollected short stories

  • "After the Bombs" from Twice Upon A Time: Fairytale, Folklore, & Myth. Reimagined & Remastered edited by Joshua Allen Mercier (The Bearded Scribe Press,[6] February 13, 2015)
  • "The Interview" from Bad News edited by Richard Laymon (Cemetery Dance Publications, 1999) ISBN 1-881475-95-6
  • "Blue" from Imagination Fully Dilated edited by Alan M. Clark and Elizabeth Engstrom (Cemetery Dance Publications, 1998)
  • "Billy's Day" from the magazine Witness to the Bizarre #2 edited by Melinda Jaeb (1988)

Short story collections

  • Midnight Promises (Gauntlet Press, 1996) ISBN 1-887368-03-5
Introduction by Ed Gorman
"A Season of Change"
"Heroes"
"A Crime of Passion"
"Homesick"
"Cemetery Dance"
"The Sinner King"
"A Capital Cat Crime"
"The Season of Giving"
"Grand Finale"
"Bride of Frankenstein: A Modern Love Story"
"The Silence of Sorrow"
"Beachcomber"
"Devil's Night"
"Only the Strong Survive"
"Dark Whispers"
"Midnight Promises"
"Masters of Darkness"
Afterword by Ray Garton
  • Monsters and Other Stories (Subterranean Press, 1998) ISBN 0-9649890-7-7
Introduction by Ed Bryant
"Night Call"
"Like Father, Like Son"
"Monsters"
"Heroes"
"The Man With X-Ray Eyes"
""The Silence of Sorrow"
Special Afterword (only in Lettered edition) by Hugh B. Cave

Anthologies as editor

  • The Best of Cemetery Dance (Cemetery Dance Publications, 1998) ISBN 1-881475-24-7
  • The Best of Cemetery Dance, Volume 2 (Roc Books, 2001) ISBN 0-451-45813-3
  • Cemetery Dance: A Fifteen Year Celebration (Cemetery Dance Publications, forthcoming 2010) ISBN 1-58767-102-6
  • Cold Blood (Mark V. Ziesing, 1991) ISBN 0-929480-57-0
  • The Earth Strikes Back: New Tales of Ecological Horror (Mark V. Ziesing, 1994) ISBN 0-929480-40-6
  • In Laymon's Terms (co-edited with Kelly Laymon, Steve Gerlach) (Cemetery Dance Publications, forthcoming 2010) ISBN 978-1-58767-096-1
  • Legacies (Cemetery Dance Publications, forthcoming 2010) ISBN 1-881475-46-8
  • Night Visions 10 (Subterranean Press, 2001) ISBN
  • October Dreams: A Celebration of Halloween (co-edited with Robert Morrish) (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2000) ISBN 1-58767-019-4
  • Screamplays (with Martin H. Greenberg) (Ballantine Del Rey, 1997) ISBN 0-345-39429-1
Limited Edition forthcoming from Cemetery Dance Publications in 2010 ISBN 978-1-58767-209-5
  • Smoke and Mirrors (Cemetery Dance Publications, forthcoming 2010) ISBN 978-1-58767-210-1
  • Shocklines: Fresh Voices In Terror (Cemetery Dance Publications, forthcoming 2010) (with Matt Schwartz) ISBN 1-58767-086-0
  • Subterranean Gallery: Stories of Horror and Crime (Subterranean Press, 1999) (with William Schafer)
  • Thrillers (Cemetery Dance Publications, 1993) ISBN 1-881475-05-0
  • Trick or Treat: A Collection of Halloween Novellas (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2001) ISBN 1-58767-048-8

Shivers series

All released as trade paperbacks from Cemetery Dance Publications:

  • Shivers (2002) ISBN 1-58767-063-1
  • Shivers II (2003) ISBN 1-58767-072-0
  • Shivers III (2004) ISBN 1-58767-117-4
  • Shivers IV (2006) ISBN 1-58767-129-8
  • Shivers V (2009) ISBN 978-1-58767-201-9

See also

References

  1. ↑ Kleffel, Rick (2005-10-26). "Grave New World". Metro Silicon Valley. Retrieved 2013-11-29.
  2. ↑ Bowers, Carol R. (1991-12-01). "Stuff Of Nightmares Is A Dream For 25-year-old Publisher". Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 2013-11-29.
  3. 1 2 3 "Horror Guild Nominees List". Locus. Archived from the original on 2012-10-08. Retrieved 2013-11-29.
  4. ↑ "1999 World Fantasy Awards list". World Fantasy Award. Archived from the original on 2013-10-15. Retrieved 2013-11-29.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Nominations list on Locus magazine's website". Locus. Archived from the original on 2015-06-18. Retrieved 2013-11-29.
  6. ↑ Twice Upon A Time. The Bearded Scribe Press. ISBN 978-1942670018. Retrieved 2015-12-13.
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