Chasing the Boogeyman
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Chasing the Boogeyman has come up in 2 episodes across 1 podcast in TMT, including Morbid. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Richard ChizmarAmerican horror author and founder of Cemetery Dance Publications, author of the Boogeyman trilogy
Chizmar considers Chasing the Boogeyman closer to a thriller than a traditional horror novel.
“I still think Chasing the Boogeyman in a lot of ways is more of a thriller than it is a traditional horror novel”
Morbid: Morbid Book Club: Killing The Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar (Sep 25, 2026) · Listen from 1:57:36
Chizmar says he learned the book's success came from readers relating their own childhoods to it rather than from interest in him.
“it was never about me in the first place. It was about how they related to it”
Morbid: Morbid Book Club: Killing The Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar (Sep 25, 2026) · Listen from 46:48
Chizmar says the first book used real names of his friends and parents and functioned largely as a memoir, with only the murders invented.
“everyone's names are all my true friends' names. I like my parents' names. It was just, it was a memoir in a lot of ways”
Morbid: Morbid Book Club: Killing The Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar (Sep 25, 2026) · Listen from 20:17
Chizmar says he deliberately placed photographs at the end of each chapter rather than in a central insert as true crime books do.
“So I knew I wanted photos and I knew I wanted to put them at the end of each chapter”
Morbid: Morbid Book Club: Killing The Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar (Sep 25, 2026) · Listen from 4:51
Coverage over time
Podcasts
- Morbid · 2 episodes
Episodes
The Eddy Brothers and the High Life Ski ClubMorbid · Oct 1, 2026 · 46 min
Morbid hosts Ash Kelley and Alaina Urquhart recount the 1870s Vermont mediums William and Horatio Eddy, their Spiritualist fame, fraud allegations, and their haunted former tavern.
- Morbid Book Club: Killing The Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar
Morbid · Sep 25, 2026 · 2 h 11 min
Morbid hosts Ash Kelley and Alaina Urquhart talk with horror author Richard Chizmar about his Boogeyman trilogy finale, Killing the Boogeyman, and collaborating with Stephen King.