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Chizmar is the founder and publisher/editor of Cemetery Dance magazine
and the Cemetery Dance Publications book imprint. He has edited more than a
dozen anthologies, including The Best of Cemetery Dance, The Earth Strikes
Back, Night Visions 10, October Dreams (with Robert Morrish), and the Shivers
series.
Chizmar's fiction has appeared in dozens of publications, including Ellery
Queen's Mystery Magazine and The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery
Stories. He has won two World Fantasy Awards, four International Horror
Guild Awards, and the HWA's Board of Trustees Award.
One of the longest running magazines in the genre, Cemetery Dance
has published dozens of the bestselling authors in the horror business over
the last twenty years. The company has been featured in The New York Times,
USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, Variety, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal,
Locus, and many other publications.
Together Chizmar and Johnathon Schaech founded production company Chesapeake
Films, and they've written screenplays and teleplays for United Artists, Showtime,
Sony Screen Gems, Lions Gate, NBC, and many other companies. Their first projects
include adaptations of Stephen King's From A Buick 8, Douglas Clegg's
The Hour Before Dark, Stephen King's and Peter Straub's Black House,
Ed Gorman's The Poker Club, as well as episodes of Showtime's Masters
of Horror and NBC's Fear Itself.
Chizmar has appeared at numerous conferences as a writing instructor, guest
speaker, panelist, and guest of honor.
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