# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dennis-etchison
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:16:38.078Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dennis-etchison"
name: "Dennis Etchison"
slug: "dennis-etchison"
description: "Dennis William Etchison was an American writer and editor of fantasy and horror fiction. Etchison referred to his own work as \"rather dark, depressing, almost pathologically inward fiction about the individual in relation to the world\". 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\"."
tagline: "American writer (1943-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dennis_Etchison_at_World_Horror_Convention_2008.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1943-03-30"
deathDate: "2019-05-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.36
  momentum:             8.532110091743121
  historical:           8.352917333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0262023/"
    handle:    "nm0262023"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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    title: "دنیس اتچیسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dennis Etchison"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Etchison"
    title: "Dennis Etchison"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Etchison"
    title: "Dennis Etchison"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Etchison"
    title: "Dennis Etchison"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Etchison"
    title: "Dennis Etchison"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Etchison"
    title: "Dennis Etchison"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dennis_Etchison"
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5258392"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Dennis Etchison"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump