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Dennis Etchison

(Dennis William Etchison)
USA  (1943 - )
aka
Jack Martin
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About Dennis Etchison
Dennis Etchison's short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies since 1961, and in his collections The Dark Country, Red Dreams, The Blood Kiss and The Death Artist. He is also an editor (Cutting Edge, MetaHorror, Masters of Darkness, The Museum of Horrors), novelist (Darkside, California Gothic, Double Edge), screenwriter and the winner of five British Fantasy and World Fantasy Awards. Publishers Weekly has called his writing "the state of the art in modern horror."
 
Series
Halloween (writing as Jack Martin)
2. Halloween II (1981)
3. Halloween III (1982)
Halloween IIHalloween III
 
Anthology series
Masters of Darkness 2Masters of Darkness 3The Complete Masters of Darkness
 
Anthologies edited
Cutting EdgeMetahorrorThe Museum of HorrorsGathering the Bones: Original Stories from the World's Masters of Horror
 
Anthologies containing stories by Dennis Etchison
New Writings in SF 2 (1964)
New Writings in SF 4 (1965)
The Pseudo-People (1965)
New Writings in SF 11 (1968)
Frights: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Terror (1976)
Whispers (1977)
Shadows (1978)
Frights 2 (1979)
The Year's Best Horror Stories VII (1979)
Dark Forces (1980)
New Terrors 1 (1980)
Fears (1983)
Masques: All New Works of Horror and the Supernatural (1984)
Shadows 7 (1984)
The Year's Best Horror Stories XIII (1985)
Horrors (1986)
The Year's Best Horror Stories XIV (1986)
A Century of Horror 1970-1979: The Greatest Stories of the Decade (1987)
Lord John Ten (1987)
Whispers VI (1987)
Prime Evil (1988)
Hot Blood: Tales of Provocative Horror (1989)
The Year's Best Fantasy Second Annual Collection (1989)
     aka Demons and Dreams
The Mammoth Book of Terror (1990)
Urban Horrors (1990)
Best New Horror 3 (1992)
Horrorstory Volume Three (1992)
The Mammoth Book of Vampires (1992)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fifth Annual Collection (1992)
The Year's Best Horror Stories XX (1992)
Dark Voices 5: The Pan Book of Horror (1993)
The Best New Horror 5 (1994)
The Best of Whispers (1994)
Borderlands 4 (1994)
The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein (1994)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Seventh Annual Collection (1994)
100 Tiny Tales of Terror (1996)
Dark Terrors 2 (1996)
Dark Terrors 3 (1997)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Nine (1997)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Tenth Annual Collection (1997)
100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment (1998)
Dark Terrors 4 (1998)
Scaremongers (1998)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Ten (1999)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Twelfth Annual Collection (1999)
Dark Terrors 5 (2000)
My Favorite Horror Story (2000)
New Writings in SF 2New Writings in SF 4The Pseudo-PeopleFrights: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Terror
WhispersShadowsThe Year's Best Horror Stories VIIDark Forces
New Terrors 1FearsMasques: All New Works of Horror and the SupernaturalShadows 7
The Year's Best Horror Stories XIIIHorrorsThe Year's Best Horror Stories XIVA Century of Horror 1970-1979: The Greatest Stories of the Decade
Whispers VIPrime EvilHot Blood: Tales of Provocative HorrorThe Year's Best Fantasy Second Annual Collection
The Mammoth Book of TerrorUrban HorrorsBest New Horror 3Horrorstory Volume Three
The Mammoth Book of VampiresThe Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fifth Annual CollectionThe Year's Best Horror Stories XXDark Voices 5: The Pan Book of Horror
The Best of WhispersBorderlands 4The Mammoth Book of FrankensteinThe Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Seventh Annual Collection
Dark Terrors 2Dark Terrors 3The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume NineThe Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Tenth Annual Collection
100 Twisted Little Tales of TormentDark Terrors 4ScaremongersThe Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Ten
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Twelfth Annual CollectionDark Terrors 5My Favorite Horror Story
 
Short stories
The Country of the Strong (1962)
Odd Boy Out (1964)
The Fires of Night (1965)
Wet Season (1965)
Bright Are the Stars That Shine, Dark Is the Sky (1968)
The Smell of Death (1971)
The Machine Demands a Sacrifice (1972)
Today's Special (1972)
Calling All Monsters (1973)
Daughter of the Golden West (1973)
     aka A Feast for Cathy
The Graveyard Blues (1973)
Keeper of the Light (1973)
Black Sun (1974)
Drop City (1974)
The Dead Line (1975)
It Only Comes Out at Night (1976)World Fantasy (nominee)
Sitting in the Corner, Whimpering Quietly (1976)
The Walking Man (1976)
We Have All Been Here Before (1976)
On the Pike (1977)
White Moon Rising (1977)
I Can Hear the Dark (1978)
The Nighthawk (1978)
The Pitch (1978)
It Will Be Here Soon (1979)
The Late Shift (1980)
On Call (1980)
The Spot (1980) (with Mark Johnson)
You Can Go Now (1980)
The Chill (1981)
The Dark Country (1981)World Fantasy
Deathtracks (1981)World Fantasy (nominee)
The Chair (1983)
Not from Around Here (1984)
Somebody Like You (1984)
Talking in the Dark (1984)
The Woman in Black (1984)
The Scar (1987)
The Blood Kiss (1988)
Call Home (1991)
When They Gave Us Memory (1991)
The Dog Park (1993)Bram Stoker (nominee)
A Wind from the South (1994)
The Dead Cop (1996)World Fantasy (nominee)
The Last Reel (1997)
No One You Know (1997)
Inside the Cackle Factory (1998)
My Present Wife (2000)


Awards
World Fantasy Best Short story nominee (1977) : It Only Comes Out at Night
World Fantasy Best Short story winner (1982) : The Dark Country
World Fantasy Best Short story nominee (1983) : Deathtracks
World Fantasy Best Collection nominee (1983) : The Dark Country
World Fantasy Best Collection nominee (1989) : The Blood Kiss
Bram Stoker Best Collection nominee (1989) : The Blood Kiss
Bram Stoker Best Short story nominee (1994) : The Dog Park
British Fantasy Society Best Novel nominee (1995) : California Gothic
World Fantasy Best Short story nominee (1997) : The Dead Cop
World Fantasy Best Collection nominee (2002) : Talking in the Dark


Dennis Etchison recommends
Scars and Other Distinguishing Marks
Scars and Other Distinguishing Marks (1986)
Richard Matheson and Richard Christian Matheson
"The central images of these stories are so powerful and resonant that they linger after structure and specific language have been forgotten. Red seems to me to be a masterwork. Vampire is a tour de force of breathtaking virtuosity."
The Model
The Model (1987)
Robert Aickman
"Robert Aickman is incomparable - a genuinely authentic original and an absolute master of psychological fiction."



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