Richard T. Chizmar

Richard Chizmar is an American USA Today, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, and Amazon bestselling author of science fiction, horror, and fantasy books. He co-authored Gwendy’s Button Box, a bestselling novella with Stephen King. Richard has edited more than 35 anthologies, his short fiction stories appeared in dozens of publications.

The best place to start is the Dark Screams Anthology series, the earliest of Richard T. Chizmar's multi-book series: it opens with Dark Screams: Volume One (2014) and runs to 9 books across 2014–2018, ending with Dark Screams: Volume Nine (2018). Richard T. Chizmar's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Richard T. Chizmar has 97 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1984 and 2026. 28 of them belong to 5 named series — the largest being the Dark Screams Anthology series with 9 books — and 69 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Richard T. Chizmar's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are The Best of Cemetery Dance (2000–2001, 2 books), Dark Screams Anthology (2014–2018, 9 books) and The Button Box (2017–2022, 3 books), plus 1 more.

This guide splits Richard T. Chizmar's 97 books into 5 named series and 69 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Dark Screams Anthology (9 books, 2014–2018); Boogeyman (3 books, 2021–2026); The Button Box (3 books, 2017–2022); The Best of Cemetery Dance (2 books, 2000–2001); Night Visions (11 books, 1984–2006).