Richard Chizmar

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name = Richard Chizmar

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birthdate = 1965
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occupation = Writer, Editor, Publisher
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genre = Horror fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction
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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 has edited more than a dozen anthologies, including series.

He has contributed fiction 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.

Richard Chizmar and Johnathon Schaech are the founders of Chesapeake Films. Their first projects include an adaptation of Stephen King's From A Buick 8. They also co-wrote the screenplay for "" (along with Miles Chapman) and Showtime's "Masters of Horror" presentation of "The Washingtonians" (based on Bentley Little's story).

elected awards

Won

*1991 World Fantasy Special Award- Non-Professional (for "Cemetery Dance magazine")
*1997 Horror Writers Association Specialty Press Award (for "Cemetery Dance Magazine")
*1999 World Fantasy Special Award- Non-Professional (for Cemetery Dance Publications)
*2001 International Horror Guild Awards Best Anthology (for "October Dreams")
*2002 International Horror Guild Awards Best Anthology (for "Night Visions 10")

Nominated

*Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology 1998 (for "Best of Cemetery Dance")
*Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology 2001 (for "Trick or Treat: A Collection of Halloween Novellas")
*Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology 2002 ("Shivers")
*Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology 2004 ("Shivers III")

elected Bibliography

*"Blood Brothers" (1997) - a chapbook from Subterranean Press avaialable only as 250 signed numbered copies (no ISBN)

hort story collections

*"Midnight Promises" (Gauntlet Press, 1996) ISBN 1-88736-803-5 :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 0-96498-907-7 :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" (2001) ISBN 0-45145-813-3
*"Cemetery Dance: A Fifteen Year Celebration" (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2007) ISBN 1-58767-102-6
*"Legacies" (Cemetery Dance Publications, TBA 2007) ISBN 1-881475-46-8
*"October Dreams: A Celebration of Halloween" (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2000) (with Robert Morrish) ISBN 1-58767-019-4
*"Shivers" (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2002) ISBN 1-58767-063-1
*"Shivers II" (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2003) ISBN 1-58767-072-0
*"Shivers III" (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2004) ISBN 1-58767-117-4
*"Shivers IV" (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2006) ISBN 1-58767-129-8
*"Shocklines: Fresh Voices In Terror" (Cemetery Dance Publications, TBA 2007) (with Matt Schwartz) ISBN 1-58767-086-0
*"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
*"The Earth Strikes Back: New Tales of Ecological Horror" (Mark V. Ziesing, 1994) ISBN 0-929480-40-6
*"Night Visions 10" (Subterranean Press, 2001) ISBN
*"Subterranean Gallery: Stories of Horror and Crime" (Subterranean Press, 1999) (with William Schafer)
*"Cold Blood" (Mark V. Ziesing, 1991) ISBN 0-92948-057-0
*"Screamplays" (with Martin H. Greenberg) (Ballantine Del Rey, 1997) ISBN 0-345-39429-1

References

* [http://www.wotmania.com/fantasymessageboardshowmessage.asp?MessageID=36254 Interview on wotmania.com]
* [http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/1999.html 1999 World Fantasy Awards list]
* [http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/1991.html 1991 World Fantasy Awards list]
* [http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/NomLit27.html#923-2001 Nominations list on Locus Magazine's website]

ee also

*List of horror fiction authors