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Richard Chizmar Richard Chizmar is the founder and publisher/editor of Cemetery Dance magazine and the Cemetery Dance Publications book imprint. He has edited more than a dozen anthologies, including The Best of Cemetery Dance, The Earth Strikes Back, Night Visions 10, October Dreams (with Robert Morrish), and the Shivers series.
Chizmar's fiction has appeared in dozens of publications, including Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories. He has won two World Fantasy Awards, four International Horror Guild Awards, and the HWA's Board of Trustees Award.

One of the longest running magazines in the genre, Cemetery Dance has published dozens of the bestselling authors in the horror business over the last twenty years. The company has been featured in The New York Times, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, Variety, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Locus, and many other publications.

Together Chizmar and Johnathon Schaech founded production company Chesapeake Films, and they've written screenplays and teleplays for United Artists, Showtime, Sony Screen Gems, Lions Gate, NBC, and many other companies. Their first projects include adaptations of Stephen King's From A Buick 8, Douglas Clegg's The Hour Before Dark, Stephen King's and Peter Straub's Black House, Ed Gorman's The Poker Club, as well as episodes of Showtime's Masters of Horror and NBC's Fear Itself.

Chizmar has appeared at numerous conferences as a writing instructor, guest speaker, panelist, and guest of honor.

Richard Chizmar Book List and Awards
Author's website: richardchizmar.com
Similar authors: Justin Cronin, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub
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Chasing the Boogeyman
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Chasing the Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar

Gwendy's Magic Feather
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Gwendy's Magic Feather by Richard Chizmar
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Chizmar, Richard | Becoming the Boogeyman | Signed First Edition Book Chizmar, Richard | Becoming the Boogeyman | Signed First Edition Book

Author Signed Hardcover Book. October 2023 NY: Gallery Books First edition, first printing, mint, new/unread in a flawless dust jacket, signed by author.

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Author Signed Bookplate.  Self-adhesive label issue for "CHASING THE BOOGEYMAN," approximately 4" x 6" (though sizes may vary slightly), signed by Richard Chizmar.

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King, Stephen & Chizmar, Richard | Gwendy's Magic Feather | Signed First Edition Copy King, Stephen & Chizmar, Richard | Gwendy's Magic Feather | Signed First Edition Copy

Author Signed Hardcover Book. November 2019 NY: Cemetery Dance Publications First edition, first printing, fine in a fine dust jacket, signed by the author.  This is a collectible book free from material defects.  Jacket covering services are available for a small fee.

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Chizmar, Richard | Becoming the Boogeyman | Signed First Edition Book Chizmar, Richard | Becoming the Boogeyman | Signed First Edition Copy

Author Signed Hardcover Book October 2023 NY: Gallery Books  First edition, first printing, near-fine (title page and dedication page torn along edge) in a fine dust jacket, signed by the author.  This is a collectible book free from material defects.  Jacket covering services are available for a small fee..

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Richard Chizmar Bibliography


Novels

  • Blood Brothers - 1997
  • Unearthed - 2016 (with Brian Keene)
  • Chasing the Boogeyman - August 2021

Novellas

  • Dirty Coppers - 1997 (with Ed Gorman)
  • Brothers - 2015 (with Ed Gorman)
  • Darkness Whispers - 2017 (with Brian James Freeman)
  • Gwendy's Button Box - 2017 (with Stephen King)
  • Widow's Point - 2018 (with Billy Chizmar)
  • The Girl on the Porch - 2019
  • Gwendy's Magic Feather - 2019
  • Gwendy's Final Task - February 2022


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