Richard Chizmar. Subterranean, $40 (520p) ISBN 978-1-59606-793-6
They say you can’t go home again, and many of the 35 quietly creepy stories in this career-spanning collection make it clear why one might not want to. Cemetery Dance publisher Chizmar uses the sparkling lights of Christmas to illuminate the...
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Stephen King and Richard Chizmar. Cemetery Dance, $25 (168p) ISBN 978-1-58767-610-9
This absorbing novella by horror giants King (End of Watch) and Chizmar (A Long December) revisits one of King’s most popular locales. It’s 1974 when 12-year-old Gwendy Peterson is offered a magic box by a man named Richard Farris, whom she meets at
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Stephen King and Richard Chizmar, read by Maggie Siff. S&S Audio, unabridged, 3 CDs, 2.5 hrs., $14.99 ISBN 978-1-5082-4204-8
Actor Siff adds dramatic flair to her reading of this supernatural coming-of-age novella set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine. It’s summer of 1974 when 12-year-old Gwendy Peterson is approached by the mysterious man named Richard Farris....
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Richard Chizmar. Gallery, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-1-9821-7516-0
This impressive metafictional thriller from bestseller Chizmar (Widow’s Point) mixes autobiography with crime. In the summer of 1988, with a freshly minted journalism degree, a version of Chizmar’s younger self returns to his small, idyllic hometown
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Richard Chizmar. Gallery, $28.99 (432p) ISBN 978-1-6680-0916-1
In this clever but overstuffed sequel to Chizmar’s 2021 bestseller Chasing the Boogeyman, the author again brings a metafictional approach to the serial killer thriller. Decades after the first book’s Boogeyman killings in Edgewood, Md., journalist...
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Richard Chizmar. Gallery, $29.99 (480p) ISBN 978-1-66800-919-2
Bestseller Chizmar (Gwendy’s Button Box, with Stephen King) wows in an immersive and über-creepy novel that pays subtle homage to horror classics ranging from the works of H.P. Lovecraft to The Blair Witch Project. In 1983, three students in an...
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Richard Chizmar. Cemetery Dance, $25 (336p) ISBN 978-1-58767-731-1
Chizmar returns to Castle Rock, Maine, after the 2017 novella Gwendy’s Button Box, co-written with Stephen King, in this appealing chiller. Now 37 years old, Gwendy Peterson is shocked when the button box, a mysterious mahogany device that dispensed
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