Dark Screams, Volume One

by Richard Chizmar (Editor), Brian James Freeman (Editor)

Dark Screams presents 25 stories written by the biggest names writing horror today including Stephen King, Robert McCammon, Clive Barker, Peter Straub, Jack Ketchum, Kelley Armstrong, Bentley Little, Bill Pronzini, Simon Clark, Ramsey Campbell, Darynda Jones, Jacquelyn Frank, Brian Hodge, Norman Prentiss, Lisa Morton, Shawntelle Madison, Graham Masterton, Heather Graham, Ray Garton, Ed Gorman, Mick Garris, J. Kenner, Kealan Patrick Burke, Del James, and Richard Christian Matheson.

These stories add up to more than 160,000 words of terror, which were originally published as eBook mini-anthologies by Random House, and this omnibus edition will see them in print together for the first time as one big oversized signed (by the editors and artists) Limited Edition hardcover.

Featuring full-color cover artwork by Vincent Chong and full-color endpapers by Alan M. Clark, this special edition is being designed with both general readers and serious book collectors in mind.

Table of Contents:
"Weeds" by Stephen King
"The Price You Pay" by Kelley Armstrong
"Magic Eyes" by Bill Pronzini
"Murder In Chains" by Simon Clark
"The Watched" by Ramsey Campbell
"The Deep End" by Robert Mccammon
"Interval" by Norman Prentiss
"If These Walls Could Talk" by Shawntelle Madison
"The Night Hider" by Graham Masterton
"Whatever" by Richard Christian Matheson
"The Collected Short Stories Of Freddie Prothero" by Peter Straub
"Group of Thirty" by Jack Ketchum
"Nancy" by Darynda Jones
"I Love You Charlie Pearson" by Jacquelyn Frank
"The Lone and Level Sands Stretch Far Away" by Brian Hodge
"The Departed" by Clive Barker
"The New War" by Lisa Morton
"Sammy Comes Home" by Ray Garton
"The Brasher Girl" by Ed Gorman
"Creature Feature" by Heather Graham
"Everything You've Always Wanted" by Mick Garris
"The Land of Sunshine" by Kealan Patrick Burke
"Mechanical Gratitude" by Del James
"The One and Only" by J. Kenner
"The Playhouse" by Bentley Little

These stories were previously included in following collections: Dark Screams Vol. 1, Dark Screams Vol. 2, Dark Screams Vol. 3, Dark Screams Vol. 4 & Dark Screams Vol. 5.

405 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2022

About the author

Richard Chizmar is a New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Amazon, and Publishers Weekly bestselling author.

He is the co-author (with Stephen King) of the bestselling novella, Gwendy’s Button Box and the founder/publisher of Cemetery Dance magazine and the Cemetery Dance Publications book imprint. He has edited more than 35 anthologies and his short fiction has appeared in dozens of publications, including multiple editions of 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 Trustee’s award.

Chizmar (in collaboration with Johnathon Schaech) has also written screenplays and teleplays for United Artists, Sony Screen Gems, Lions Gate, Showtime, NBC, and many other companies. He has adapted the works of many bestselling authors including Stephen King, Peter Straub, and Bentley Little.

Chizmar is also the creator/writer of the online website, Stephen King Revisited. His fourth short story collection, The Long Way Home, was published in 2019. With Brian Freeman, Chizmar is co-editor of the acclaimed Dark Screams horror anthology series published by Random House imprint, Hydra.

His latest book, The Girl on the Porch, was released in hardcover by Subterranean Press, and Widow’s Point, a chilling novella about a haunted lighthouse written with his son, Billy Chizmar, was recently adapted into a feature film.

Chizmar’s work has been translated into more than fifteen languages throughout the world, and he has appeared at numerous conferences as a writing instructor, guest speaker, panelist, and guest of honor.