David Schow

David Schow
Schow during the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike
Born	1955 Marburg, Germany

David J. Schow (born 1955) is an American author of horror novels, short stories, and screenplays. His credits include films such as The Crow and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. Most of Schow's work falls into the sub-genre splatterpunk, a term he is sometimes credited with coining. In the 1990s, Schow wrote a regular column for Fangoria magazine.

In 1987 Schow's novella Pamela's Get won a Bram Stoker Award for best long fiction. "Red Light" won the 1987 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction.

Schow has also been a frequent contributor to DVD extras content (liner notes) for horror film distributors Grindhouse Releasing/Box Office Spectaculars, notably on the upcoming North American DVD release of Italian horror filmmaker Lucio Fulci's Cat in the Brain.

Bibliography

A critical essay on Schow's novels and stories can be found in S. T. Joshi's book The Evolution of the Weird Tale (2004).

Novels

• Pamela's Get (1987) - novella
• 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 (2010, under the pseudonym "Gabriel Hunt")
• Internecine (2010)

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)

Non-fiction

• The Outer Limits:The Official Companion (1986)
• The Outer Limits Companion (1998)
• Wild Hairs (2001)

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)
• Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1989)
• Critters 3 (1991)
• Critters 4 (1991)
• The Crow (1994)
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)
• Masters of Horror—"Pick Me Up" (2006)
• Masters of Horror- "We All Scream For Ice Cream" (2007)

See also

• List of horror fiction authors
• Splatterpunk

External links

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