Richard Chizmar

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  • Bibliography:
    35 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1991
  • Latest Book:
    October 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Boogeyman

1 - Chasing the Boogeyman (Aug-2021)
2 - Becoming the Boogeyman (Oct-2023)

Book List in Order: 35 titles

  • Cold Blood

  • A Crime Of Passion

    in Women on the Edge

    Women become the protagonists in an anthology of fourteen mystery stories by Sara Paretsky, Barbara Michaels, Nancy Pickard, Loren D. Estleman, John D. MacDonald, and Bill Pronzini, among others. Reprint....

  • Like Father, Like Son

    in Cat Crimes for the Holidays

    CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAYS WITH FAMILY AND FELINES

    In these nineteen original tail-twitching tales of mystery, cats from Maine coon to Scottish fold, tabby to Siamese, white Persian to calico crack all manner of holiday capers. Arbor Day reminds a...

  • Earth Strikes Back

    Mother Earth has been suffering--acid rain, toxic waste, polluted air, poisoned water, and a depleted ozone layer are the most obvious signs of mankind's ingratitude to the planet. In this book, 20 writers of fantastic fiction have contributed dark t...

  • Midnight Promises

  • The Good Old Days

    in The Conspiracy Files

    Fresh from the fertile minds of some of today's most imaginative writers comes a collection of short fiction that takes readers behind the scenes to unmask conspirators and their plots, some of which may even be true. Original....

  • Subterranean Gallery

  • October Dreams

    Classic novellas, never-before-published stories, essays on the history, literature, and films of Halloween, and real-life memories of October 31st-from today's best practitioners of fear:

    Dean Koontz * Peter Straub * Poppy Z. Brite * Rick Hautala ...

  • Trick or Treat



  • Shivers

  • Shivers III

  • Shivers IV

    Shivers IV contains over twenty short stories from today's hottest writers, including William F. Nolan, Ed Gorman, Brian Hodge, Tim Lebbon, Al Sarrantonio, Ray Garton, T.M. Wright, Brian Keene, Kealan Patrick Burke, and many others! Featuring origina...

  • Shivers V

  • Screamplays

    SCENE BY SCENE . . . SCREAM BY SCREAM * Bedtime becomes a dread time for a little girl whose brave cat is her only protection against a grotesque elf . . . * Four psychic investigators risk their sanity--and their lives--to match wits with the m...

  • Smoke and Mirrors

  • Shivers VI

    Shivers VI weighs in at 410 pages and contains more than 110,000 words from today's most popular authors of horror and suspense including Stephen King, Peter Straub, Al Sarrantonio, Jay Bonansinga, Lisa Tuttle, David B. Silva, Melanie Tem, Brian Hodg...

  • Devil's Night

    It all started on a wind-blown Friday night in October. It was the night before Halloween, the night we always called Wreck Night or Devil’s Night back when we were kids and Halloween was second in our hearts only to Christmas. At least the newspa...

  • Turn Down the Lights

    To celebrate the 25th anniversary of that premiere issue of Cemetery Dance, we're proud to announce Turn Down the Lights, an anthology of authors who helped make the magazine what it is today. These original horror stories by Stephen King, Norman ...

  • Shivers VII

    Cemetery Dance Publications is proud to announce the seventh entry in this award-nominated and best-selling anthology series! In addition to the affordable trade paperback edition for general readers, this volume will also be published as a signed Li...



  • Better Weird

    Better weird than plastic…For a generation of horror fans, those four words signaled a momentous occasion: the arrival of a new issue of David B. Silva's seminal publication, The Horror Show. For nine years in the 1980s, Dave and his magazine publi...

  • Dark Hallows

    Halloween just got a whole lot darker... DARK HALLOWS: 10 Halloween Haunts is a wonderfully chilling collection of creepy tales that will have readers up late into the night--but only if they leave a light on! This new offering from Scarlet Galleon P...

  • Unearthed

    From Richard ChizmarManuscripts found in a dark corner of his office, from a time long forgottenâ€"the Eighties. Revived at the hand of two horror masters, these stories are a slice of the past brought into the present.The SculptorWith Ray GartonAn a...

  • Tales from the Witching Hour

    With Dark Hallows: 10 Halloween Haunts, Scarlet Galleon Publications' Editor, Mark Parker, took readers to the heart of Halloween. With Dark Hallows II: Tales from the Witching Hour, he takes them a step further, to that early morning realm known as ...

  • A Long December

    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 master...

  • Widow's Point

    “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, ...

  • The Long Way Home

    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 fro...

  • Shivers VIII

    Cemetery Dance Publications is proud to announce the eighth entry in this award-nominated and best-selling anthology series! In addition to the affordable trade paperback edition for general readers, this volume will also be published as a signed Lim...

  • The Girl on the Porch

    “Chizmar’s great gift is that he knows the people on your block -- and he knows their darkest secrets. This guy is gold.” -- Stephen King“For some, the impulse lives closer to the surface and instead of fighting it, they embrace it. The worst...

  • Cemetery Dance A Fifteen Year Celebration



  • Seasons of Terror

    Spine-tingling stories that can be enjoyed all year round -- this deliciously creepy and gorgeously wrought graphic anthology introduces a new generation to four literary giants -- Ray Bradbury, Shirley Jackson, Stephen King, and Robert McCammon.In t...

  • Chasing the Boogeyman

    Boogeyman - 1

    The acclaimed New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling novel of small-town evil that “is genuinely chilling and something brand-new and exciting” (Stephen King) and “unforgettable” (Harlan Coben). In the summer of 1988, the mutilated bodies o...

  • October Screams

    October Screams is a Halloween horror anthology featuring the hottest authors in horror including Jeremy Bates, CM Chapman, Philip Fracassi, Brian Keene & Richard Chizmar, Gwendolyn Kiste, Ronald Malfi, Steve Rasnic Tem & more....

  • Becoming the Boogeyman

    Boogeyman - 2

    The “worthy and frightening sequel” (Stephen King) to the acclaimed and “unforgettable” (Harlan Coben) New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling novel Chasing the Boogeyman.Back in the summer of 1988, a young Richard Chizmar was catapulted int...

  • Memorials

    A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF 2024 “Scary and hard to put down. You might be advised not to read it at night.” -- STEPHEN KINGA group of students encounter a supernatural terror while on a road trip through Appalachia in this chilling new nov...

  • Night Visions 10

    • / Horror
    • Buy Buy

    Nearly twenty years ago, the legendary Night Visions series was conceived by Dark Harvest Press as a showcase for the outstanding short fiction being produced today by the best of the established authors and the most talented of the new writers in th...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Richard Chizmar has published 35 books.

Richard Chizmar does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Memorials, was published in October 2024.

The first book by Richard Chizmar, Cold Blood, was published in April 1991.

Yes. Richard Chizmar has 1 series.
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