David J. Schow
{{short description|American novelist}}
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| name = David J. Schow
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1955|7|13|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Marburg, West Germany
| pseudonym = Stephen Grave, Oliver Lowenbruck, Chan McConnell
| birth_name = David James Schow
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| nationality = American
| period = 1977–present
| genre = Horror fiction, splatterpunk
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David J. Schow (born July 13, 1955) is an American author of horror novels, short stories, and screenplays."Schow, David J." by Gary Westfahl in David Pringle,
St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers. London : St. James Press, 1998, {{ISBN|978-1-55862-206-7}} (pp. 516–517. )."David J. Schow" by S. T. Joshi, in Joshi, The Evolution of the Weird Tale (2004).
His credits include films such as Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, The Crow and The Hills Run Red. Most of Schow's work falls into the subgenre splatterpunk, a term he is sometimes credited with coining.Bloch, R. 1998, "Look Out, He's Got a Knife!" in Crypt Orchids, David J. Schow, Subterranean Press, Burton, MI In the 1990s, Schow wrote Raving & Drooling, a regular column for Fangoria magazine. All 41 installments were collected in the book Wild Hairs (2000), winning the International Horror Guild Award for best non-fiction in 2001.
In 1987, Schow's novella Pamela's Get was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction. His short story Red Light won the 1987 World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction.{{cite web|author=World Fantasy Convention |title=Award Winners and Nominees |url=http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/awardslist.html/ |access-date=February 4, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101201074405/http://worldfantasy.org/awards/awardslist.html |archive-date=December 1, 2010 |df=mdy }} And in 2015, The Outer Limits at 50 won the Rondo Award for Book of the Year in a tie with The Creature Chronicles by Tom Weaver, of which Schow was a contributor.{{cite web|author=Colton, David|title=The 13th Annual Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards|url=http://rondoaward.com/rondoaward.com/blog/?p=168|access-date=June 29, 2015}}
As an editor, Schow's work includes three volumes of writings by Robert Bloch and a book of short stories by John Farris.
Schow has also been a past contributor to liner notes for cult film distributors Grindhouse Releasing/Box Office Spectaculars, notably on the North American DVD release of Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci's horror film, Cat in the Brain.[http://iconsoffright.com/news/2008/12/lucio_fulcis_cat_in_the_brain.html Icons of Fright News and Updates: Lucio Fulci's Cat in the Brain Coming to DVD March 31st][http://dvdtrash.blogspot.com/2009/01/dvd-release-cat-in-brain.html DVD Trash: DVD Release: Cat in the Brain][http://www.fearnet.com/news/b14163_final_cat_in_brain_dvd_specs.html Fear.net "Final Cat in the Brain DVD Specs", Dec. 29, 2008, by Gabrielle DiPietro] He has also written text supplements for the DVDs of Reservoir Dogs and From Hell, and has done DVD commentaries for The Dirty Dozen, The Green Mile, Incubus, Thriller and Creature from the Black Lagoon.{{cite web|author=Anonymous|title=David J. Schow, Biography|website=IMDb |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0775017/bio?|access-date=June 29, 2015}} The 2018 Kino Lorber Blu-ray and DVD editions of both seasons of The Outer Limits feature commentary by Schow on several episodes as well as booklet essays written by him.{{cite web|author=Anonymous|title=The Outer Limits (1963-64) Season 1 (32 Episodes) (DVD)|url=https://www.kinolorber.com/product/view/id/5059|access-date=February 1, 2018}}
Bibliography
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=Novels=
- The Kill Riff (1988)
- The Shaft (1990)
- Rock Breaks Scissors Cut (2003)
- Bullets of Rain (2003)
- Gun Work (2008)
- Hunt Among the Killers of Men (2010) (under the pseudonym "Gabriel Hunt")
- Internecine (2010)
- Upgunned (2012)
- The Big Crush (2019)
=Short story collections=
- Seeing Red (1990)
- Lost Angels (1990)
- Black Leather Required (1994)
- Crypt Orchids (1998)
- Eye (2001)
- Zombie Jam (2005)
- Havoc Swims Jaded (2006)
- A Little Aqua Book of Creature Tails (2014){{cite web|title=A Little Aqua Book of Creature Tales by David J. Schow--Signed, Ltd. Edition|url=http://borderlandspress.com/shop/available-now/little-aqua-book/|access-date=May 5, 2016}}
- DJSturbia (2016){{cite web|title=DJSturbia by David J. Schow|url=https://subterraneanpress.com/store/product_detail/djsturbia|access-date=May 5, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160428170721/http://subterraneanpress.com/store/product_detail/djsturbia|archive-date=April 28, 2016|url-status=dead}}
- DJStories: The Best of David J. Schow (2018){{cite web|title=DJStories: The Best of David J. Schow|url=https://subterraneanpress.com/djstories-the-best-of-david-j-schow-preorder|access-date=February 1, 2018}}
- Monster Movies (2020){{cite web|title=Monster Movies|url=https://www.cimarronstreetbooks.com/2020/09/now-shipping-monster-movies-by-david-j.html|access-date=October 8, 2020}}
- Weird Doom (2021){{cite web|title=Weird Doom|url=https://www.cimarronstreetbooks.com/2021/02/now-shipping-weird-doom-by-david-j-schow.html|access-date=August 23, 2021}}
- Suite 13 (2024)
=Non-fiction=
- The Outer Limits: The Official Companion (1986) (with Jeffrey Frentzen)
- The Outer Limits Companion (1998)
- Wild Hairs (2001)
- The Art of Drew Struzan (2010) (with Drew Struzan)
- The Outer Limits at 50 (2015){{cite web|title=The Outer Limits at 50|url=http://creaturefeatures.com/shop/books/the-outer-limits-at-50/|access-date=May 5, 2016}}
- The Ultimate Outer Limits Companion (forthcoming)
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=As editor=
- Silver Scream (1988)
- The Lost Bloch Volume 1: The Devil with You (1999)
- The Lost Bloch Volume 2: Hell on Earth (2000)
- The Lost Bloch Volume 3: Crimes and Punishments (2002)
- Elvisland (2003) (by John Farris)
=Screenplays=
- Freddy's Nightmares — "Safe Sex" (1989)
- A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989) (uncredited)
- Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990)
- Critters 3 (1991)
- Critters 4 (1992)
- The Crow (1994)
- The Outer Limits — "Corner of the Eye" (1995)
- The Outer Limits — "The Voice of Reason" (1995) (excerpts)
- Perversions of Science'' — "The Exile" (1997)
- The Hunger — "Red Light" (1997)
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)
- Masters of Horror — "Pick Me Up" (2006)
- Masters of Horror — "We All Scream for Ice Cream" (2007)
- The Hills Run Red (2009)
- Mob City — "His Banana Majesty" (2013)
- Creepshow — "The Finger" (2019)
- Creepshow — "Bunny Didn't Tell Us" (2021) (unaired)"Seeing More Better Redder (1990–2021)" in David J. Schow,
Seeing Red. Santa Clara, CA : Cimarron Street Books, 2021, {{ISBN|979-8-71387-491-9}}.
- Creepshow — "Mums" (2021) (with Greg Nicotero) (based on a story by Joe Hill)
- The Crow (2024) (additional literary material){{cite web|url=https://directories.wga.org/project/1229979/the-crow/|title=The Crow Writing Credits|date=April 17, 2024|website=WGA Directory|access-date=August 12, 2024}}
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=Literary Awards=
See also
References
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Further reading
- S. T. Joshi. "David J. Schow and Splatterpunk" in Joshi, The Evolution of the Weird Tale. NY: Hippocampus Press, 2004, 190–202.
External links
- {{IMDb name|0775017}}
- {{isfdb name|id=1425|name=David J. Schow}}
- [https://twitter.com/DavidJSchow David J. Schow] on Twitter
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