{"id":2291,"date":"2026-01-03T22:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/a-long-december-chizmar-richard\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T22:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:21:07","slug":"a-long-december-chizmar-richard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/a-long-december-chizmar-richard\/","title":{"rendered":"A Long December – Chizmar, Richard"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cPowerful\u2026I love it\u2026 Richard Chizmar writes clean, no-nonsense prose\u2026sets his tales in no-nonsense, middle class neighborhoods I can relate to\u2026and writes terrific stories served with a very large slice of Disquiet Pie.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Stephen King<\/b><\/p>\n

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\u201cChizmar\u2019s stories are hard-hitting, spooky, suspenseful, poignant, harrowing, heartbreaking and most of all very well-written. Excellent work!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Robert McCammon<\/b><\/p>\n

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\u201cLike Ray Bradbury, Richard Chizmar has a sweet, nostalgic streak. The past in his stories is always a warm, perfect place. The present, however, belongs more to Robert Bloch, as wonder gives way to horror.\u00a0The twists are worthy of the old Twilight Zone<\/i>. Enjoy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Stewart O\u2019Nan<\/b><\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s an idyllic little world Richard Chizmar has created.\u00a0Boys fish in the shallows of a winding creek. A father tosses a baseball with his young son in the fading light of a summer day. There\u2019s the smell of fresh-cut grass. And then, well\u2026just beneath the surface? There are those missing pets whose collars turn up in a shoebox. Or the disturbing photos the dead can leave behind. Or the terrible thing you might find yourself doing when a long lost brother suddenly returns, demanding money. Chizmar does a tremendous job of peeling back his world\u2019s shiny layers, revealing the rot that lies underneath. His stories feel like so many teeth: short and sharp and ready to draw blood.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Scott Smith<\/b><\/p>\n

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\u201cRichard Chizmar\u2019s voice is authentic and powerful, and the stories he tells in A Long December<\/i> are a joy, by turns dark and darkly funny, always compelling, always evocative. He hooks you fast and his words will linger in your mind long after you\u2019ve finished reading, the mark of a special talent.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Michael Koryta<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cExceptional stories that lay our hearts, lives and fears bare with brutal, beautiful economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Michael Marshall Smith<\/b><\/p>\n

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\u201cRichard Chizmar\u2019s talent is a fierce, poignant marvel. His exquisite stories shatter.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2014Richard Christian Matheson<\/b><\/p>\n

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\u201cRichard Chizmar is the kind of writer I love\u2014his prose is sharp, simple, and to the point.\u00a0He grabs your attention in the first paragraph, and never lets go, and, even better, his writing never gets in the way of his story. It flows so smoothly it\u2019s as if you\u2019re experiencing it rather than reading it. Another writer told me years ago that whenever he wrote what he thought was a showstopper of a sentence or paragraph, he would stop writing, admire his work, then immediately cut it.\u00a0\u2018The last thing you want the reader to do is stop to admire the writing,\u2019 he said.\u00a0\u2018All that does is pull them out of the story you\u2019re trying to tell.\u2019\u00a0This, of course, is not advice you\u2019ll ever hear from MFA writing programs, but for those of us battling in the trenches every day, it was great advice. Chizmar\u00a0is a master of this form, and hats off to him!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014John Saul<\/b><\/p>\n

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\u201cA wonderful, masterful collection\u2014terrifying stories full of heart and soul\u2026and darkness. Sure to please even the most jaded reader.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Brian Keene \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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\u201cChilling and thought-provoking tales that quietly uncover horror in the most ordinary of lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Kelley Armstrong<\/b><\/p>\n

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\u201cRichard Chizmar has a very special talent for creating a homely,\u00a0believable world\u2014the kind of world that you and I live in every day.\u00a0But he gradually invests that world with a\u00a0creeping\u00a0sense of\u00a0unease, and\u00a0then he throws open those suburban front doors and\u00a0brings\u00a0us face to face with all the\u00a0unthinkable horrors that\u00a0have been hiding\u00a0behind them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Graham Masterton<\/b><\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2026a highly talented dark suspense writer with a wide range of subject matter and a knack for clear, straightforward, but evocative prose that may remind you of Stephen King, Dean Koontz and Ed Gorman.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine<\/b><\/p>\n

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\u201cRichard Chizmar is a master delineator of two phenomena\u2014the human condition and the inhuman condition. Some of his people may be monsters, but Chizmar has the rare talent to make you see his monsters as people. His work eloquently and expertly expands the dimensions of the genre\u2026and should concern anyone interested in exceptional writing talent.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u2014 Robert Bloch<\/b><\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2026a writer of great accomplishment. His work, always effective, is notable for its clarity and originality of concept. Chizmar has a great gift for the sinister.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Peter Straub<\/b><\/p>\n

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\u201cRichard Chizmar will soon distinguish himself as a major writer of American suspense fiction.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Ed Gorman<\/b><\/p>\n

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\u201cRichard Chizmar is the kind of writer who gives the genre of dark fiction the dignity it deserves. He is not only a superb writer, but a seductive storyteller as well. He dangles hidden secrets in front of our faces, and then dares us not to follow him as he pulls away. We do follow, we\u00a0have\u00a0<\/i>to follow. With vivid characters, confident prose, dialogue so realistic that the pages nearly speak it\u00a0aloud<\/i>, and carefully constructed plots, Chizmar\u00a0makes\u00a0<\/i>us follow those hidden secrets he dangles before us, just out of reach, and at the end of the journey, we are always amply rewarded.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Ray Garton<\/b><\/p>\n

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About the title novella, A Long December\u2026<\/i><\/p>\n

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\u201cA fresh, compelling take on the serial killer theme. Suspenseful, well structured, expertly characterized.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Bill Pronzini<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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