Richard T Chizmar Books in Order

Chizmar’s debut short-story collection gathers psychological horror and dark human dramas. Across its tales, illness, loss, family wounds, and buried secrets become openings for fear, with the supernatural appearing when it is least welcome.

In a brutal near-future America, corrupt cops Mullican and Neely enforce their own violent version of justice. When men are murdered at cybersex bars, the cynical partners must investigate crimes nastier than anything they expected.

The first volume of this anthology series collects standout horror and dark-suspense stories associated with Cemetery Dance. It offers a strong sampler of the magazine and imprint’s taste for unsettling, imaginative, and sharply paced fiction.

A second selection of memorable horror and dark-fiction stories from the Cemetery Dance orbit. The anthology brings together varied voices and moods, from quiet psychological unease to supernatural shocks and grimly inventive nightmares.

The first Shivers anthology collects horror stories chosen by Richard Chizmar. Its writers explore supernatural threats, human cruelty, and the sudden terror hiding inside ordinary places, making it an easy entry point for short-fiction fans.

A second gathering of horror short stories, Shivers II offers fresh scares from a range of voices. The collection moves between eerie suspense, creatures, dark humor, and grim tales where everyday life goes badly wrong.

Shivers III continues Richard Chizmar’s anthology series with a varied set of dark stories. Readers can expect ghosts, dangerous secrets, twisted human behavior, and quick jolts of horror from established and emerging writers.

This volume brings together more than twenty horror stories by a broad group of writers. Shivers IV balances original fiction and selected reprints, offering monsters, dread, violence, and strange turns in compact form.

Shivers V delivers another selection of modern horror short fiction. Its stories shift from quiet unease to outright shocks, with characters facing supernatural intrusions, frightening discoveries, and the darker sides of ordinary life.

The sixth Shivers anthology gathers dark stories from a strong lineup of horror writers. It offers a wide range of scares, from cosmic dread and monsters to intimate tales of fear, grief, and human weakness.

On Devil’s Night, a high-school teacher sees something horrifying while out driving alone. Instead of walking away, he follows the clues, drawing himself into a tense Halloween crime story with consequences he cannot control.

Shivers VII continues the series’ mix of original horror and unsettling dark fiction. Each story brings a different kind of threat, making the collection a good pick for readers who like variety without leaving the genre.

Brothers Chet and Michael are both police officers, but years of resentment have made them enemies. When Michael’s affair pushes Chet to intervene, old family wounds and violent instincts drive their conflict toward disaster.

This career-spanning collection contains thirty-five stories and a novella, ranging from horror and crime to dark fantasy. Chizmar finds menace in family life, old friendships, suburban routines, and the secrets people work hardest to hide.

In the peaceful Pennsylvania town of Windbrook, an unnerving old stranger arrives with death close behind. As fear spreads, the town’s residents must face a supernatural evil that feeds on the choices people make when no one is watching.

In 1974, twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson meets a stranger in Castle Rock who entrusts her with a powerful button box. Its gifts are tempting, but its buttons can bring disaster, leaving Gwendy with an impossible responsibility.

Seventeen stories, essays, and a short script showcase Chizmar’s range across horror, suspense, crime, and dark fantasy. The collection includes masked threats, haunted places, troubled families, and characters taking roads they should have avoided.

This edition gathers Bentley Little's original story, the script adaptation, and behind-the-scenes material from the screen version. At the center is a darkly funny nightmare about a secret history of George Washington and the murderous people guarding it.

A writer who investigates haunted places agrees to spend three nights locked inside Nova Scotia’s infamous Widow’s Point Lighthouse. Recorded logs and found footage capture his growing terror as the cursed building refuses to let him stay alone.

Years after leaving Castle Rock, Gwendy Peterson is drawn back when the button box mysteriously returns. As two girls vanish during a winter storm, she must confront old fears and a new danger in her hometown.

The eighth Shivers volume returns to the pleasures of a well-stocked horror anthology. Its stories move through supernatural dread, dangerous memories, and sudden violence, with enough variety for readers to dip in or binge.

A home-security camera captures a terrified young woman frantically ringing the Tuckers’ doorbell, a shackle hanging from her wrist. When no one can identify her, the quiet neighborhood fills with secrets, suspicion, and escalating danger.

In 1988, a fictional young Richard Chizmar returns to his Maryland hometown as murdered girls spark panic and a hunt for a serial killer. This metafictional thriller blurs memoir, true crime, and supernatural horror.

Now a U.S. senator, Gwendy Peterson must protect the dangerous button box from forces determined to claim it. Her final mission carries her far beyond Castle Rock, where the fate of more than one world may rest with her.

Years after the Edgewood killings, Richard Chizmar is the only person imprisoned killer Joshua Gallagher will speak to. When old horrors begin to echo through his life again, the line between true crime and nightmare grows thinner.

In 1983, three college students drive through Appalachia to film roadside memorials for a class project. Strange symbols, hostile locals, and a growing sense of pursuit turn their easygoing trip into a supernatural nightmare.

A compact horror story centered on masked menace and the uneasy truth hidden behind a familiar face. Chizmar builds tension quickly, leaving readers to wonder what someone is capable of once the mask comes off.

Joshua Gallagher, the killer called the Boogeyman, vanishes from a maximum-security prison without explanation. As new murders strike near Richard Chizmar’s home, he is pulled back into the nightmare he thought had finally ended.