1. Dennis William Etchison was an American writer and editor of fantasy and horror fiction.
21 Facts About Dennis Etchison
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Dennis Etchison was President of the Horror Writers Association from 1992 to 1994.
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Dennis Etchison was a multi-award winner, having won the British Fantasy Award three times for fiction, and the World Fantasy Award, once for short fiction and twice for anthologies he edited.
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Dennis Etchison has remarked that he was greatly spoiled during his early years and largely isolated from other children.
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In junior high and high school, Dennis Etchison wrote for the school paper and won numerous essay contests.
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Dennis Etchison discovered Ray Bradbury during this time and emulated him before developing his own style.
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Dennis Etchison began submitting it to numerous science-fiction magazines but received rejection slips each time.
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Dennis Etchison then remembered Ray Bradbury once suggesting that a writer should start by submitting their work to the least likely market.
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Dennis Etchison 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 and Stephen King.
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Dennis Etchison rewrote a Colin Wilson script, The Ogre, and completed a screenplay based on his own short story "The Late Shift".
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Dennis Etchison co-wrote a story for the Logan's Run TV series, "The Thunder Gods".
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In 1985, Dennis Etchison served as staff writer for the HBO TV series The Hitchhiker.
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On December 2nd, 1986, John Carpenter teamed up with Dennis Etchison to write a script to Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers.
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Dennis Etchison wanted a poster of Halloween 4 depicting Michael Myers bursting from a patch of pumpkins which match the scene where Michael killed D'Arcy at a pumpkin patch.
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However, franchise producer Moustapha Akkad rejected the Dennis Etchison script, calling it "too cerebral" and insisting that any new Halloween sequel must feature Myers as a flesh and blood killer.
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Dennis Etchison nearly had his first short story collection appear eleven years earlier.
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Dennis Etchison would wait over a decade before his actual first collection The Dark Country would appear, to critical acclaim.
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Under his own name, Dennis Etchison's novels include Darkside, Shadowman, and California Gothic, as well as the novelization of John Carpenter's The Fog.
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In 2002, Dennis Etchison adapted nearly 100 episodes of the original The Twilight Zone TV series for a CBS radio series hosted by Stacy Keach.
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Dennis Etchison was one of the writers on the audio series Fangoria's Dreadtime Stories hosted by Malcolm McDowell.
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Dennis Etchison was nominated for and won multiple awards for his various works.