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  • Bibliography:
    25 Books
  • First Book:
    May 1988
  • Latest Book:
    July 2023
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Book List in Order: 25 titles



  • JUSTICE Lucas Ellington’s daughter is dead, trampled by an out-of-control mob at a rock concert turned riot. There was no trial, but Lucas has identified the murderers -- the band, Whip Hand. VENGEANCE Two of Gabriel Stannard’s ol...



  • Welcome to the midnight matinee, the great cinematic festival of horror. From the broken down picture palaces to glorious neon drive-ins, from the has-been stars of yesterday to the ambitious, rapacious would-be stars of tomorrow, from the tinsel ...



  • Lost Angels is a classic collection of short fiction by award-winning writer David J. Schow focusing on the complexities, and often horrific consequences, of love and obsession in Los Angeles, the city of angels. RED LIGHT The most beautiful girl...



  • ROBERT SILVERBERG uncovers the dark side of sunny suburbia when a stranger extracts the neuroses of an unsuspecting town.... SUZY McKEE CHARNAS lures a reluctant vampire to play a game with death.... JONATHAN CARROLL takes a dream vacation -- a...




  • David J. Schow's short stories have been regularly selected for over twenty-five volumes of "Year's Best" anthologies across three decades and have won the World Fantasy Award, the ultra-rare Dimension Award from Twilight Zone magazine, plus a 2002 I...




  • You might perceive it as an unblinking scrutiny of such topical issues as sex, obsession, idol worship, penny miracles, policing the birthrate, breast implants, mysterious phone calls in the dead of night, pornography, eternal youth, and the price of...



  • Brain-scorching review hyperbole!Pithy critical commentary!Big-name blurb mongering!Hardcore buy-or-die sales pitch hysteria!You'll find none of that in Seeing Red, David J. Schow's very first collection of short stories, back in print for the first ...






  • Widowed architect Arthur Latimer has become a recluse in his own home: a storm-proof fortress that doubles as a shrine to his dead wife. But the outside world beckons in the form of a bizarre party downbeach. Now, just as the biggest hurricane ev...



  • Zombie Jam is a festival of the living dead, featuring Schow's previously uncollected short fiction from zombie anthologies near and far, including the elusive pseudonymous works of alter ego Chan McConnell. It features the splatterpunk classic "Jerr...



  • Havoc Swims Jaded? What the hell kind of title is that? What does it mean? It sounds vaguely?threatening, doesn't it? Havoc reigns, as a Hallowe'en Horror Night goes horribly wrong, and its featured creatures turn out to be the real thing. Meanwhile,...



  • Life isn't always cheap south of the border--some lives are worth a million dollars. That's what the Mexican kidnapping cartel was demanding for Carl Ledbetter's wife. So Carl reached out to the one person he knew with a chance in hell of saving her,...



  • Inter-what? When advertising executive Conrad Maddox returns from a redeye flight and finds a mysterious locker key waiting in his rental car, he discovers a briefcase loaded with guns and money. Several hours later, his entire life tumbles down a ra...



  • Elias McCabe is having one hell of a night: He gets kidnapped at gunpoint by a professional hit man and is forced to shoot blackmail photos of a prominent politician. Things go wrong with the shoot... very wrong. When the night is over, Elias is s...



  • David J. Schow is the author of numerous horror novels and stories. His most personal novel is The Shaft, presented here with a new introduction, new afterword, the original short story, and a stunning and complex design which serves to augment th...



  • DJSturbia is home to monsters. All kinds of monsters, from skyscraper-sized Godzilla (twice!) to the microscopic space germ known as the Andromeda Strain. Monsters human and inhuman, from fictional psycho killers to the real-life terrorists of 9/1...



  • The mysterious Dr. Gold has heavy-duty backing to fund a project having to do with the recording of dreams. Her three star volunteers -- Jovana, a fashion model, Gilbert, a pop journalist, and Melinda, a bookstore employee -- seem to have nothing in ...



  • Once upon a time, there was a writer named David J. Schow. One of his specialties was the tale of unsettlement, unease, looming fear, straight-up gross-out, unnerving spookiness, gallows-humor black satire, heart-rending loss, the conte cruel, the...






  • Hot pursuit, run-and-gun action, and a romantic obsession at the center of it all. WHAT IF you reached out on the internet to that long-ago crush you had in high school…and she turned out to be a contract assassin with you on her hit list? WHAT IF ...



  • At Tattersall Prison, a max-lock for the baddest of the bad, sleepless nights are the norm… until a fireball from the sky turns the night shift into a nightmare ― trapping guards and cons on the inside, cops on the outside, and escapees in-betwe...



  • The first volume of Little Books Series II is A Little Aqua Book of Creature Tales by David J. Schow! If you were a fan and collector of the original series of Little Books, you will definitely want these! From the author's afterword: There are a lot...



  • Noted scientist Dr. Jordan Correll has discovered an amazing new mineral power source, but he had to crawl up out of the depths of the Earth to bring it back. Convicted murderer Marion Marshall Dix claims to have returned from the same Hell after bei...



  • Since college, Steven Allard and Benjamin Raines have competed to be the first to make genuine alien contact. Corporate mega-science versus home-grown improvisation. Now they both apparently succeed at the same time — but one such contact is a ...



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    Crime. Psychos. Trashed relationships. Tainted love. Murder. Sinister plots. Evil connivances. Men in Suits with a Plan.Bizarre flap copy.Not to mention hustlers, losers, cutthroats, gun fetishists, homicidal hitchhikers, demented road-hogs, serial k...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

David J. Schow has published 25 books.

David J. Schow does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, John Carpenter's Tales of Science Fiction: The Envoy, was published in July 2023.

The first book by David J. Schow, The Kill Riff, was published in May 1988.

No. David J. Schow does not write books in series.