David J. Schow
Author of The Kill Riff and The Shaft ; co-writer of the screenplay for The Crow

Read the transcript of our chat with him on April 3, 1997.

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David J. Schow lives in southern California with his wife, Christa Faust. He is known primarily for his powerful, award-winning short fiction, and for editing the anthology Silver Scream. He has had two novels published, The Kill Riff and The Shaft. In 1989 he branched out into films and television, scripting "the unsavory activities of such social lions as Leatherface and Freddy Krueger," as well as The Crow. His short fiction has been collected in Seeing Red, Lost Angels, and Black Leather Required.