He rewrote a Colin Wilson script, The Ogre, and completed a screenplay based on his own short story "The Late Shift". He attended UCLA film school in the 1960s and has written many screenplays as yet unproduced, from his own works as well as those of Ray Bradbury ("The Fox and the Forest") and Stephen King ("The Mist"). Film studies and screen work Įtchison has written professionally in many genres since 1960. So he submitted his short story to a gentlemen's magazine called Escapade, and, a few weeks later, he received their acceptance and a check for $125. He then remembered Ray Bradbury once suggesting that a writer should start by submitting their work to the least likely market. He began submitting it to numerous science-fiction magazines but received rejection slips each time. Entitled "Odd Boy Out," it involved a group of teenagers in the woods. On the last day of his junior year in high school, Etchison began writing his first short story. He discovered Ray Bradbury during this time and emulated him before developing his own style. In junior high and high school, Etchison wrote for the school paper and won numerous essay contests. His passion for the sport continued to the end of his life, and he often wrote under the pen name "The Pro" for the wrestling publication Rampage. Fascinated by the interplay between good and evil, he would regularly attend shows at the Olympic Auditorium with his father. In his early years, Etchison also became an avid wrestling fan. This sense of isolation and need to interact with society would later form the themes to many of his works. Etchison has remarked that he was greatly spoiled during his early years and largely isolated from other children.
An only child, the earliest years of his life were spent growing up in a household devoid of men (World War II was still raging across the globe). He was a multi-award winner, having won the British Fantasy Award three times for fiction, and the World Fantasy Award for anthologies he edited.Įtchison was born in Stockton, California. He was President of the Horror Writers Association from 1992 to 1994. While he has achieved some acclaim as a novelist, it is Etchison's work in the short story format that is especially well-regarded by critics and genre fans, as with his debut collection The Dark Country (1982) selected as one of the 100 best horror books. Stephen King has called Dennis Etchison "one hell of a fiction writer" and he has been called "the most original living horror writer in America" ( The Viking-Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural). Etchison referred to his own work as "rather dark, depressing, almost pathologically inward fiction about the individual in relation to the world". Dennis William Etchison (Ma– May 29, 2019) was an American writer and editor of fantasy and horror fiction.
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