Richard Chizmar

Gwendy's Magic Feather, a follow-up to Gwendy's Button Box, authored solely by Chizmar, was released in November 2019 by Cemetery Dance Publications. It marks Chizmar's second, published, full-length novel.

Stephen King and Richard Chizmar co-wrote Gwendy's Button Box, released in May 2017 by Cemetery Dance Publications (in trade hardcover format) and in audiobook by Simon & Schuster Audio (the audiobook has a bonus short story, "The Music Room," written by just Stephen King, which was originally published in Playboy).

Richard Chizmar co-founded Chesapeake Films with Johnathon Schaech. He also co-writes screenplays with Schaech. Some of their produced screenplays include 2006's Road House 2 (based on the story by Miles Chapman) and Showtime's Masters of Horror presentation of The Washingtonians (based on Bentley Little's story) from 2007. They also wrote the screenplay for an unproduced adaptation of From a Buick 8 based on Stephen King's novel.

Chizmar's Cemetery Dance Publications started in 1992, and still publishes books. It has produced more than 300 different autographed limited edition, lettered edition hardcover novels, novellas, and anthologies. It also publishes chapbooks, trade hardcovers, and a few paperbacks.

Chizmar started Cemetery Dance magazine in 1988, which is still published today. It features dark fantasy, horror fiction, and articles related to those subjects. Metro Silicon Valley called it "America's longest-running independent horror-themed magazine."

Richard Thomas Chizmar (born 1965) is an American writer, the publisher and editor of Cemetery Dance magazine, and the owner of Cemetery Dance Publications. He also edits anthologies, writes fiction, produces films, writes screenplays, and teaches writing.