David J. Schow is an American

United States

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 author

Author

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 of horror novels, short stories

Short Stories

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, and screenplays. His credits include films such as The Crow

The Crow (film)

The Crow is a 1994 American action film based on the 1989 comic book of the same name by James O'Barr. The film was written by David J. Schow and John Shirley, and directed by Alex Proyas...

and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, a 2006 American slasher film, functions as a prequel to the 2003 remake of the 1974 film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Directed by Jonathan Liebesman and co-produced by Kim Henkel and Tobe Hooper , the film went into release in North America on October 6,...

. Most of Schow's work falls into the sub-genre splatterpunk

Splatterpunk

Splatterpunk—a term coined in 1986 by David J. Schow at the Twelfth World Fantasy Convention in Providence, Rhode Island—refers to a movement within horror fiction distinguished by its graphic, often gory, depiction of violence and "hyperintensive horror with no limits." It is regarded as a revolt...

, a term he is sometimes credited with coining. In the 1990s, Schow wrote a regular column for Fangoria

Fangoria

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magazine.

In 1987 Schow's novella

Novella

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 Pamela's Get won a Bram Stoker Award

Bram Stoker Award

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 for best long fiction

Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction

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. "Red Light" won the 1987 World Fantasy Award

World Fantasy Award

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 for Best Short Fiction.

Schow has also been a frequent contributor to DVD extras content (liner notes

Liner notes

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) for horror film distributors Grindhouse Releasing

Grindhouse Releasing

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/Box Office Spectaculars, notably on the upcoming North American DVD release of Italian horror filmmaker Lucio Fulci

Lucio Fulci

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's Cat in the Brain

A Cat in the Brain

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.

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
  A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
  A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child is a 1989 American slasher film and the fifth film in the Nightmare on Elm Street series. It was directed by Stephen Hopkins. The film's general tone is much more gothic and dark than the films before, and used a blue filter lighting technique in most of...
  
  (1989)
• Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1989)
• Critters 3
  Critters 3
  Critters 3 is a 1991 sci-fi comedy horror film directed by Kristine Peterson. It is the third installment of the Critters series. It was shot back-to-back with its sequel, Critters 4. Unlike the first two movies, it does not take place in the town of Grover's Bend...
  
  (1991)
• Critters 4
  Critters 4
  Critters 4 is a 1992 science fiction comedy horror film starring Don Keith Opper, Terrence Mann, Angela Bassett and Brad Dourif. It was directed by Rupert Harvey and written by Harvey, Barry Opper, Joseph Lyle and David J. Schow. It is the fourth and seemingly final film in the Critters series...
  
  (1991)
• The Crow
  The Crow (film)
  The Crow is a 1994 American action film based on the 1989 comic book of the same name by James O'Barr. The film was written by David J. Schow and John Shirley, and directed by Alex Proyas...
  
  (1994)
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
  The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
  The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, a 2006 American slasher film, functions as a prequel to the 2003 remake of the 1974 film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Directed by Jonathan Liebesman and co-produced by Kim Henkel and Tobe Hooper , the film went into release in North America on October 6,...
  
  (2006)
• Masters of Horror—"Pick Me Up" (2006)
• Masters of Horror- "We All Scream For Ice Cream" (2007)

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