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Dennis Etchison

(Dennis William Etchison)

(1943 - )
aka
Jack Martin, Curtis Richards

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
1. Halloween (1979) (with Curtis Richards (Dennis Etchison))
2. Halloween II (1981) (with Jack Martin (Dennis Etchison))
3. Halloween III (1982) (with Jack Martin (Dennis Etchison))

Novels

The Fog (1980)
Videodrome (1983) (with Jack Martin (Dennis Etchison))
Darkside (1986)
Shadow Man (1993)
California Gothic (1995)
Double Edge (1996)
The Death Artist (2000)

Collections

Red Dreams (1972)
The Dark Country (1982)
The Blood Kiss (1988)
Talking in the Dark (2001)
Fine Cuts (2004)

Anthology series

Masters of Darkness
1. Masters of Darkness (1986)
2. Masters of Darkness 2 (1988)
3. Masters of Darkness 3 (1991)
The Complete Masters of Darkness (1991)

Anthologies edited

Cutting Edge (1986)
Lord John Ten (1987)
Metahorror (1992)
The Museum of Horrors (2001)
Gathering the Bones: Original Stories from the World's Masters of Horror (2003) (with Ramsey Campbell and Jack Dann)

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)
New Terrors 1 (1980)
Dark Forces (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)
Whispers VI (1987)
Lord John Ten (1987)
Prime Evil (1988)
The Year's Best Fantasy Second Annual Collection (1989)
aka Demons and Dreams
Urban Horrors (1990)
Horror Story Volume 3 (1991)
The Mammoth Book of Terror (1992)
The Mammoth Book of Vampires (1992)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fifth Annual Collection (1992)
Best New Horror 3 (1992)
The Year's Best Horror Stories XX (1992)
Dark Voices 5: The Pan Book of Horror (1992)
The Best of Whispers (1994)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Seventh Annual Collection (1994)
The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein (1994)
The Best New Horror 5 (1995)
Borderlands 4 (1995)
100 Tiny Tales of Terror (1996)
Dark Terrors 2 (1996)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Tenth Annual Collection (1997)
Dark Terrors 3 (1997)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Nine (1997)
Scaremongers (1998)
Dark Terrors 4 (1998)
100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment (1998)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Twelfth Annual Collection (1999)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Ten (1999)
Dark Terrors 5 (2000)
My Favorite Horror Story (2000)

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 [short story] (1981)		World Fantasy
	Deathtracks (1981)		World Fantasy (nominee)
	The Chair (1983)
	Not from Around Here (1984)
	Somebody Like You (1984)
	Talking in the Dark [short story] (1984)
	The Woman in Black (1984)
	The Scar (1987)
	The Blood Kiss [short story] (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 [short story]
	World Fantasy Best Collection nominee (1983) : The Dark Country
	World Fantasy Best Short story nominee (1983) : Deathtracks
	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

Dennis Etchison recommends

The Model (1987) Robert Aickman "Robert Aickman is incomparable - a genuinely authentic original and an absolute master of psychological fiction."	Scars and Other Distinguishing Marks (1987) 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 Castle of Los Angeles (2010) Lisa Morton "...as unique as a fingerprint..."

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