Richard T. Chizmar Reading Order

46 books (1991–2024)

Start with Cold Blood, the first of 46 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Cold Blood 1991Buy 🇺🇸
2	100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories 1993Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Earth Strikes Back 1994Buy 🇺🇸
4	Screamplays 1997Buy 🇺🇸
5	100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment 1998Buy 🇺🇸
6	October Dreams 2000Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Best of Cemetery Dance, Volume 1 2000Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Best of Cemetery Dance Volume 2 2001Buy 🇺🇸
9	Trick or Treat 2001Buy 🇺🇸
10	Shivers 2002Buy 🇺🇸
11	Shivers II 2003Buy 🇺🇸
12	Shivers III 2004Buy 🇺🇸
13	Cemetery Dance: Issue 52 2005Buy 🇺🇸
14	Shivers IV 2005Buy 🇺🇸
15	4 Fear of... 2006Buy 🇺🇸
16	In Laymon's Terms 2008Buy 🇺🇸
17	Shocklines 2008Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Best of Cemetery Dance II 2008Buy 🇺🇸
19	Shivers V 2009Buy 🇺🇸
20	Smoke and Mirrors 2009Buy 🇺🇸
21	Shivers VI 2010Buy 🇺🇸
22	Mister October, Volume I: An Anthology in Memory of Rick Hautala 2013Buy 🇺🇸
23	Shivers VII 2013Buy 🇺🇸
24	Turn Down the Lights 2013Buy 🇺🇸
25	Cemetery Dance: Issue 71 2014Buy 🇺🇸
26	Dead Harvest 2014Buy 🇺🇸
27	10 Halloween Haunts 2015Buy 🇺🇸
28	Better Weird 2015Buy 🇺🇸
29	Hides the Dark Tower 2015Buy 🇺🇸
30	Horror 201: The Silver Scream Vol. 1 2015Buy 🇺🇸
31	Twice Upon A Time 2015Buy 🇺🇸
32	Tales from the Witching Hour 2016Buy 🇺🇸
33	Dark Places, Evil Faces 2017Buy 🇺🇸
34	The Demons of King Solomon 2017Buy 🇺🇸
35	Fantastic Tales of Terror 2018Buy 🇺🇸
36	The Washingtonians 2018Buy 🇺🇸
37	You, Human 2018Buy 🇺🇸
38	100 Word Horrors Part 2 2019Buy 🇺🇸
39	Dark Tides 2019Buy 🇺🇸
40	In Darkness, Delight: Creatures of the Night 2019Buy 🇺🇸
41	The Horror Collection: Black Edition 2019Buy 🇺🇸
42	Halloween Nights 2021Buy 🇺🇸
43	Revelations 2022Buy 🇺🇸
44	The Horror Collection: Lost Edition 2023Buy 🇺🇸
45	Vampires 2023Buy 🇺🇸
46	The Rack 2024Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2021–2026)

Start with Chasing the Boogeyman and read in order.

#	Title
1	Chasing the Boogeyman 2021Buy 🇺🇸
2	Becoming the Boogeyman 2023Buy 🇺🇸
3	Killing the Boogeyman 2026Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1996–2018)

Start with Midnight Promises and read in order.

#	Title
1	Midnight Promises 1996Buy 🇺🇸
2	A Long December 2016Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Long Way Home 2018Buy 🇺🇸

8 books (2014–2018)

Start with Dark Screams: Volume One(By: Kelley Armstrong), the first of 8 books in the Dark Screams Anthology series.

11 books (1984–2006)

Start with Night Visions: In the Blood, the first of 11 books in the Night Visions series.

#	Title
1	Night Visions: In the Blood 1984Buy 🇺🇸
2	Night Visions 1985Buy 🇺🇸
3	Night Visions 2 1985Buy 🇺🇸
4	Night Visions 3 1986Buy 🇺🇸
5	Night Visions: The Hellbound Heart 1986Buy 🇺🇸
6	Night Visions 6 1988Buy 🇺🇸
7	Night Visions 8 1990Buy 🇺🇸
8	Night Visions 9 1991Buy 🇺🇸
9	Night Visions 10 2001Buy 🇺🇸
10	Night Visions 11 2004Buy 🇺🇸
11	Night Visions 12 2006Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (1997–2024)

Start with Dirty Coppers(With: Ed Gorman), the first of 6 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	Dirty Coppers(With: Ed Gorman) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
2	Devil's Night: A Halloween Short Story 2012Buy 🇺🇸
3	Brothers 2015Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Washingtonians(With: Bentley Little,Johnathon Schaech) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
5	Widow's Point 2018Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Man Behind the Mask 2024Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2017–2024)

Start with Darkness Whispers(With: Brian James Freeman) and read in order.

#	Title
1	Darkness Whispers(With: Brian James Freeman) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Girl on the Porch 2019Buy 🇺🇸
3	Memorials 2024Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2000–2001)

Start with The Best of Cemetery Dance, Volume 1(With: Nancy Holder) and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Best of Cemetery Dance, Volume 1(With: Nancy Holder) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Best of Cemetery Dance Volume 2(With: William Relling Jr.) 2001Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2017–2022)

Start with Gwendy's Button Box(With: Stephen King) and read in order.

#	Title
1	Gwendy's Button Box(With: Stephen King) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
2	Gwendy's Magic Feather 2019Buy 🇺🇸
3	Gwendy's Final Task(With: Stephen King) 2022Buy 🇺🇸