Career
His credits include films such as The Crow and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. Most of Schow"s work falls into the subgenre splatterpunk, a term he is sometimes credited with coining. In the 1990s, Schow wrote Raving & Drooling, a regular column for Fangoria magazine.
In 1987, Schow"s novella Pamela"s Get was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for best long fiction.
As an editor, Schow"s work includes three volumes of writings by Robert Bloch and a book of short stories by John Farris. Schow has also been a past contributor to liner notes for cult film distributors Grindhouse Releasing/Box Office Spectaculars, notably on the North American Digital Video Disc release of Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci"s horror film, Cat in the Brain.
He has also written text supplements for the DVDs of Reservoir Dogs and From Hell, and has done Digital Video Disc commentaries for The Dirty Dozen, The Green Mile, Incubus, Thriller and Creature from the Black Lagoon.