David J. Schow

David J. Schow
Schow during the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike
Born	David James Schow July 13, 1955 Marburg, West Germany
Pen name	Stephen Grave, Oliver Lowenbruck, Chan McConnell
Occupation	Author, Screenwriter, Editor
Nationality	American
Period	1977–
Genre	Horror fiction, Splatterpunk
Website
www.davidjschow.com

David J. Schow (born July 13, 1955) is an American author of horror novels, short stories, and screenplays.^{[1] [2]} His credits include films such as The Crow and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. Most of Schow's work falls into the subgenre splatterpunk, a term he is sometimes credited with coining.^[3] In the 1990s, Schow wrote Raving & Drooling, a regular column for Fangoria magazine. All 41 instalments were collected in the book Wild Hairs (2000), which won the International Horror Guild's 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 Best Short Fiction.^[4] 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.^[5]

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.^[6][7][8] 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.^[9]

Bibliography

Novels

• The Kill Riff (1988)
• The Shaft (1990)
• Bullets of Rain (2003)
• Rocks Breaks Scissors Cut (2003)
• Gun Work (2008)
• Hunt Among the Killers of Men (under the pseudonym "Gabriel Hunt") (2010)
• Internecine (2010) (also published as The Lost Briefcase) ^[10]
• Upgunned (2012) (also published as Shoot Up the Night) ^[11]
• The Big Crush (2016) ^[12]

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 (2015) ^[13]
• DJSturbia (2016) ^[14]

Non-fiction

• The Outer Limits: The Official Companion (with Jeffrey Frentzen) (1986)
• The Outer Limits Companion (1998)
• Wild Hairs (2001)
• The Art of Drew Struzan (with Drew Struzan) (2010)
• The Outer Limits at 50 (2015) ^[15]

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)

Screenplays

• A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989) (uncredited)
• Freddy's Nightmares—"Safe Sex" (1989)
• 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" (excerpts) (1995)
• 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)
• Abattoir (2016) ^[16]

See also

• List of horror fiction authors

References

1. "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. ).
2. "David J. Schow" by S. T. Joshi, in Joshi, The Evolution of the Weird Tale (2004).
3. Bloch, R. 1998, "Look Out, He's Got a Knife!" in Crypt Orchids, David J. Schow, Subterranean Press, Burton, MI
4. World Fantasy Convention. "Award Winners and Nominees". Retrieved February 4, 2011.
5. Colton, David. "The 13th Annual Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards". Retrieved June 29, 2015.
6. Icons of Fright News and Updates: Lucio Fulci's Cat in the Brain Coming to DVD March 31st
7. DVD Trash: DVD Release: Cat in the Brain
8. Fear.net "Final Cat in the Brain DVD Specs", Dec. 29, 2008, by Gabrielle DiPietro
9. Anonymous. "David J. Schow, Biography". Retrieved June 29, 2015.
10. "The Lost Briefcase". Retrieved May 5, 2016.
11. "Shoot Up the Night". Retrieved May 5, 2016.
12. "The Big Crush". Retrieved May 5, 2016.
13. "A Little Aqua Book of Creature Tales by David J. Schow--Signed, Ltd. Edition". Retrieved May 5, 2016.
14. "DJSturbia by David J. Schow". Retrieved May 5, 2016.
15. "The Outer Limits at 50". Retrieved May 5, 2016.
16. "Abattoir". Retrieved May 5, 2016.

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

• Official website
• David J. Schow at the Internet Movie Database
• David J. Schow at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• David J. Schow on Twitter