Richard Chizmar: 28 books

In 1996, Richard Chizmar’s debut short story collection, Midnight Promises, was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award. Publishers Weekly called it “a sterling collection” while singling out “The Silence of Sorrow” as “an understated masterpiece.” Two years later,...

Gathered here for the first time ever are seventeen short stories, two essays, and a short script by award-winning and New York Times bestselling author, Richard Chizmar. Eerie, suspenseful, poignant, the stories in The Long Way Home run the gamut from horror to suspense, crime to dark fantasy,...

In the forest of Silverwood you won't just lose your way, you'll lose your mind. Deep within the forest of Silverwood, California, a crack between dimensions has appeared. A dark force that lurks among the trees is growing stronger, determined to return home if it can only gather the strength to open...

Richard Chizmar, Lisa Tuttle, Norman Prentiss, Kevin Quigley, and Peter Straub unmask monsters hiding in plain sight in an anthology of heart-pounding short fiction assembled by horror author and editor Brian James Freeman.   DEVIL’S NIGHT by Richard Chizmar You’ve read about what happened that...

“This is a bad place. I don't think people are meant to live here.” Longtime residents of Harper's Cove believe that something is wrong with the Widow's Point Lighthouse. Some say it's cursed. Others claim it's haunted. Originally built in 1838, three workers were killed during the...

Fiction: "The Glass Floor" by Stephen King "Shadow Pond" by Glenn Chadbourne & Holly Newstein "Aisle Seat" by Rick Hautala "The Bleeding Child" by Bruce McAllister "Electric Mist Confidential" by Weston Ochse "The Ghosts of Famous Men" by Rick Koster "Hawkin Rhone" by Elizabeth Voss ...

Fiction: "The Stain" by Douglas Clegg "Unconditional" by Blake Crouch "Leverage" by Will Ludwigsen "Ribbons and Tin" by Peter Ullian "Jellyfish Moon" by Daniel Braum "Fade" by Joel Sutherland Features: "An Interview with Al Sarrantonio" by Lisa Morton "An Interview with Matt Costello" by...

Fiction: "Sacrifice" by Gary Raisor "Dead Image" by David Morrell "The Curious Odyssey of James Deacon (AKA James Dean) & Where Darkness is the Only Light" by David Morrell "Wasted on the Young" by Cody Goodfellow "The Message" by Nate Southard Special Features: "Epilogue: The Exorcist"...

Fiction: "Lines" by Bill Pronzini "Scree" by Steve Rasnic Tem "Nightside Eye" by Terry Dowling "Inside" by Jeremy C. Shipp "The Vrykolakas and the Cobbler's Wife" by David Lee Summers "Jimmy's Legacy" by Sophie Littlefield Features: "Feature Review: The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen...

Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine Stephen King teams up with long-time friend and award-winning author Richard Chizmar for the first time in this original, chilling novella that revisits the mysterious town of Castle Rock. There are three ways up to Castle View from the...

Cover Artist: Alan M. Clark (painting his vision of a critical scene in Peter Straub's next novel, A Dark Matter) Interior Artists: Glenn Chadbourne Russell Dickerson Keith Minnion Erin S. Wells Hugh Voght Fiction: "Monsters" a novelette by Stewart O'Nan "Variations on a Theme From...

Fiction: "March of the Marionettes" by Al Sarrantonio "Vines" by Al Sarrantonio (poetry) "Torching the Escalade" by Thomas Tessier "Goblin Boy" by Rick Hautala "Peligrad’s Pit" by Ronald Kelly "The Devil’s Yo-Yo" by Elizabeth Massie "A Vampyrrhic Samhain" by Simon Clark "Memories" by Peter Crowther...

This is only our third "All Fiction" Special Issue in more than 25 years of publishing the magazine, and the previous two were extremely popular with our readers and collectors. Fiction "In the Room" by Bentley Little "Sacred Duty" by Simon Clark "Odd Man Out" by Darrell Schweitzer "A Million...

Fiction: "The Wheel" by Bentley Little "We" by Bentley Little "Out of Touch" by Simon Strantzas "The Long Black Coat" by Benjamin Percy "An Excerpt from The Painted Darkness" by Brian James Freeman "In Darkness" by Shaun Jeffrey "Deathbed" by Brian Knight Special Features: "A Conversation...