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Dennis Etchison


(Dennis William Etchison)
USA flag (1943 - 2019)

aka Jack Martin, Curtis Richards

Dennis Etchison's short stories appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, and in his collections The Dark Country, Red Dreams, The Blood Kiss and The Death Artist. He was 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 called his writing "the state of the art in modern horror."
 

Awards: Stoker (2017), BFA (1994), WFA (1982)  see all

Genres: Horror
 
Novels
   The Fog (1980)
   Videodrome (1983) (as by Jack Martin)
   Darkside (1986)
   Shadow Man (1993)
   California Gothic (1995)
   Double Edge (1996)
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Collections
   Red Dreams (1972)
   The Dark Country (1982)
   The Blood Kiss (1988)
   The Death Artist (2000)
   Talking in the Dark (2001)
   Fine Cuts (2004)
   Got to Kill Them All & Other Stories (2008)
   It Only Comes Out At Night (2016)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   The Late Shift (1980)
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Anthologies edited
   Cutting Edge (1986)
   Lord John Ten (1988)
   Metahorror (1992)
   The Museum of Horrors (2001)
   Gathering the Bones (2003) (with Ramsey Campbell and Jack Dann)
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Anthology series
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Series contributed to
Halloween
   1. Halloween (1979) (as by Curtis Richards)
   2. Halloween II (1981) (as by Jack Martin)
   3. Halloween III (1982) (as by Jack Martin)
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Books containing stories by Dennis Etchison
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Speaking of Horror (2022)
(Speaking of Horror, book 1)
edited by
Darrell Schweitzer
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The Best of Dark Terrors (2021)
(Dark Terrors)
edited by
Stephen Jones and David A Sutton
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The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror (2021)
Evil Lives on in the Land!
(The Mammoth Book of ...)
edited by
Stephen Jones

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Awards
2017 Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement
1994 British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story : The Dog Park
1987 British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story : The Olympic Runner
1982 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story : The Dark Country [short story]
1982 British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story : The Dark Country

Award nominations
2009 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection (nominee) : Got to Kill Them All & Other Stories
2001 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : The Death Artist
1997 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : The Dead Cop
1993 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction (nominee) : The Dog Park
1989 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : The Blood Kiss
1988 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection (nominee) : The Blood Kiss
1985 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Red Dreams
1983 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Deathtracks
1983 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection (nominee) : The Dark Country
1981 British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : The Late Shift
1977 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : It Only Comes Out at Night


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

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