Richard Chizmar

Richard Chizmar is an American writer best known for the Gwendy's Button Box trilogy, written alongside Stephen King, which follows a young girl given a mysterious box in the town of Castle Rock. Born in 1965, Chizmar is also the publisher and editor of Cemetery Dance magazine and owns Cemetery Dance Publications, and he edits anthologies, produces films, writes screenplays, and teaches writing. The trilogy moves from supernatural horror into fantasy and psychological suspense.