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Interview: Laurel Hightower on The Long Low Whistle

Cemetery Dance OnlineJanuary 7, 2026December 29, 2025InterviewsHaley Newlin, Interviews, Laurel HightowerLeave a comment

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Laurel Hightower is a bourbon-loving native of Lexington, Kentucky. She is the Bram Stoker-nominated author of Whispers In The Dark, Crossroads, Below, Every Woman Knows This, Silent Key, Spirit Coven, The Day Of The Door, and The Long Low Whistle, and has more than a dozen short fiction stories in print.

Hightower sat down with Cemetery Dance to talk about cryptid horror, powerful and flawed female characters, horror films, The Long Low Whistle, and Shortwave Publishing’s Killer VHS Series. Continue Reading

Review: The Long Low Whistle by Laurel Hightower

Cemetery Dance OnlineJanuary 5, 2026December 29, 2025ReviewsHaley Newlin, Killer VHS Series, Laurel Hightower, Reviews, Shortwave Publishing, The Long Low WhistleLeave a comment

The Long Low Whistle (Killer VHS Series #7) by Laurel Hightower
Shortwave Publishing (November 2025)
Reviewed by Haley Newlin

The seventh installment in Shortwave Publishing’s Killer VHS Series is gory, claustrophobic, and probably the most terrifying book you’ll read all year. Laurel Hightower’s The Long Low Whistle swells with an aching grief that throbs through the pages from start to finish and will thrill fans of cryptid and survival horror. Not only would this be a great introduction for readers new to Hightower’s work but it will make fans of the Bram Stoker-nominated author absolutely giddy because, like most of Hightower’s books, The Long Low Whistle is packed with creative, but brutal body horror you won’t be able to shake for days. Continue Reading

Review: Children of the Night (When Monsters Wake Book 1) by Victoria Setian and Savanna Ganucheau

Cemetery Dance OnlineDecember 31, 2025November 30, 2025Reviews, The Comic VaultChildren of the Night, Columns, Joshua Gage, Reviews, Savanna Ganucheau, The Comic Vault, Victoria SetianLeave a comment

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Children of the Night (When Monsters Wake Book 1) by Victoria Setian
Abrams Fanfare (January 2026)
Reviewed by Joshua Gage

Victoria Setian started her career in Gotham City, specifically the third floor of DC Comics in the heart of New York City. Her writing chops eventually landed her a role on the DC interactive team, and since then she’s continued her crossover work with credits including the Batman: Arkham series, Mortal Kombat X, and Just Cause 4. She’s a game developer conference speaker and NYU Game Center Incubator advisor, and she helped pilot the Girl Scouts Game Design patch with Women in Games International. When she’s not tinkering on her next project, she’s hanging with her family or practicing Armenian folk dance.

Savanna Ganucheau is a comic artist from New Orleans. She coauthored her first graphic novel, Bloom, with Kevin Panetta in 2019. Bloom received a distinction from the Junior Library Guild, a GLAAD Award nomination, and Amazon’s pick for Best Graphic Novel of 2019. In 2021, she adapted the novel Turtle in Paradise into the graphic novel format. Ganucheau has been creating comics since she was in third grade, and self-published her work in local comic book shops throughout high school. Her newest YA graphic novel is Children of the Night (When Monsters Wake Book 1).Continue Reading

Interview: Viggy Parr Hampton

Cemetery Dance OnlineDecember 30, 2025December 14, 2025InterviewsA Veritable Household Pet, Haley Newlin, Interview, Viggy Parr HamptonLeave a comment

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Viggy Parr Hampton, MPH is an epidemiologist, host of the podcast “Horror Humor Hunger,” and the author of A Cold Night for Alligators, Much Too Vulgar, The Rotting Room, and A Veritable Household Pet. She is a graduate of Georgetown University and Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health. She is also a member of the Purgatory Media team, producing the popular YouTube segment “Tag Team Tales of Terror,” where she challenges fellow horror authors to create a progressive story with her.

Hampton sat down with Cemetery Dance to talk about feminist horror, lobotomies, and A Veritable Household Pet. Continue Reading

Review: A Veritable Household Pet by Viggy Parr Hampton

Cemetery Dance OnlineDecember 29, 2025December 14, 2025ReviewsA Veritable Household Pet, Haley Newlin, Reviews, Viggy Parr HamptonLeave a comment

A Veritable Household Pet by Viggy Parr Hampton
Horror Humor Hunger Press (January 2026)
Reviewed by Haley Newlin

Viggy Parr Hampton is a force to be reckoned with in her medical-body horror novel, A Veritable Household Pet. It’s a blistering indictment of patriarchal power and a tragic story of the nightmare that is the theft of autonomy and identity, a quiet and constant terror women know all too well.Continue Reading

Interview: Erika T. Wurth on The Haunting of Room 904

Cemetery Dance OnlineDecember 24, 2025December 18, 2025InterviewsHaley Newlin, Interviews Erika T. Wurth, The Haunting of Room 904Leave a comment

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Erika T. Wurth is an urban native of Apache/Chickasaw/Cherokee descent. She is the author of the New York Times editor’s pick, White Horse. She is both a Kenyon and Sewanee fellow. She’s published in Buzzfeed and The Writer’s Chronicle, and is a native artist for the Meow Wolf Denver installation. Her most recent release, The Haunting of Room 904, has garnered national attention and received praise from some of the biggest names in horror, including Paul Trembly, S.A. Cosby, and Phillip Fracassi. She also has a short story in the recently published and highly anticipated Howl: An Anthology of Werewolves from Women-In-Horror alongside Gwendolyn Kiste, Christina Henry, Ai Jiang, Katrina Monroe, and so many other incredible women from the genre.

Wurth sat down with Cemetery Dance to discuss The Haunting of Room 904, religion and lore in horror, Howl, and more.

You can find Erika T. Wurth on Instagram @erikatwurth or on her website. Continue Reading

Review: The Haunting of Room 904 by Erika T. Wurth

Cemetery Dance OnlineDecember 23, 2025December 18, 2025ReviewsHaley Newlin, Reviews, The Haunting of Room 904. Erika T. WurthLeave a comment

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Flatiron Books (March 2025)
Reviewed by Haley Newlin

What is it that horror readers love about a haunted hotel?

Is it the haunted house feel but with more witnesses? The hauntings that vary from floor to floor as though specters and entities take the elevator themselves? The idea of a place that has seen such tragedy, death after death, that it shines like a ghoulish beacon for spirits and curses? It’s really all the above. The isolation, the secrets and hidden history, the absorption and spiritual/paranormal preservation of human suffering have popularized stories like Stephen King’s The Shining, Psycho by Robert Bloch, and The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James. Continue Reading

Review: Doctor Zomba’s Ghostly Tales by David Lucarelli

Cemetery Dance OnlineDecember 22, 2025December 14, 2025Reviews, The Comic VaultColumns, David Lucarelli, Doctor Zomba's Ghostly Tales, Joshua Gage, Reviews, The Comic VaultLeave a comment

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Abacab Studios (November 2025)
Reviewed by Joshua Gage

David Lucarelli is a writer, musician, sound engineer and dad. He is the creator of Tinseltown The Children’s Vampire Hunting Brigade graphic novels. He is the writer/producer of Doctor Zomba’s Ghost Show of Terror, the award winning campy horror comedy revival of a 1950’s style spook show, and the writer/director of Crude, the award winning completely unauthorized play about a band that rose up from the streets of Hollywood to become a cultural phenomenon. He has had stories published by Omnium Gatherum and DNA Publications. The Winter Horror Days anthology which he also edited debuted as the number one horror anthology on Amazon. He was featured in the Monsters and Other Scary Sht, and Cthulhu is Hard to Spell: The Terrible Twos anthologies. His newest comic endeavor is Doctor Zomba’s Ghostly Tales, which is a modern horror anthology comic in the style of E.C. Comics.Continue Reading

Rafael Scavone talks Devil’s Luck

Cemetery Dance OnlineDecember 19, 2025December 14, 2025Interviews, The Comic VaultColumns, Danica Davidson, Interviews, Rafael Scavone, The Devil's LuckLeave a comment

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cover of Devil's Luck #1 Rafael Scavone’s Hailstone came out several years ago, and now he’s returning to his horror sandbox with his new 5-issue comic Devil’s Luck: A Hailstone Story from Comixology Originals and Stout Club Entertainment. Cemetery Dance spoke to Scavone about collaborating with artist Eduardo Ferigato, the story’s historical setting, and what he thinks the elements for a good horror comic are.

Be sure to stick around after the interview for a special preview of The Devil’s Luck!

Review: Unworthy by L. Marie Wood

Cemetery Dance OnlineDecember 17, 2025December 18, 2025ReviewsElizabeth Broadbent, L. Marie Wood, Reviews, UnworthyLeave a comment

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Mocha Memoirs Press (September 2025)
Reviewed by Elizabeth Broadbent

Fans of psychological horror, rejoice: Unworthy, L. Marie Wood’s “novel in stories,” has dropped. Wood is a recognized virtuoso of the subgenre, her list of awards as long as it is genre-spanning, and readers craving true literary terror will find the fix they need. Continue Reading

Review: Play Nice by Rachel Harrison

Cemetery Dance OnlineDecember 15, 2025November 30, 2025ReviewsHaley Newlin, Play Nice, Rachel Harrison, ReviewsLeave a comment

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Berkley (September 2025)
Reviewed by Haley Newlin

“The world will drive a woman insane, then point and laugh.”

In Rachel Harrison’s new gothic and paranormal horror novel, Play Nice, a stylist and influencer named Clio returns home following her mother’s sudden death. Alex left the house to Clio and her sisters who immediately wish to sell it. After all, it’s where their mother lost her mind. Continue Reading

Review: Ghost Confessions by John Shirley

Cemetery Dance OnlineDecember 12, 2025November 30, 2025ReviewsGhost Confessions, John Shirley, Joshua Gage, poetry, ReviewsLeave a comment

Ghost Confessions by John Shirley
Jackanapes Press (November 2025)
Reviewed by Joshua Gage

John Shirley has written novels, short stories, TV scripts, screenplays, song lyrics, poetry, and various forms of nonfiction. His books number more than eighty, including numerous novels of sf, dark fantasy, horror, thrillers, and westerns, and twelve short story collections. He has won the Bram Stoker Award for his collection: Black Butterflies: A Flock on the Dark Side, and the Spur Award for his Western Gunmetal Mountain. He has also written one non-fiction book, Gurdjieff: An Introduction to His Life and Ideas. As a musician, Shirley has fronted his own bands and written lyrics for Blue Öyster Cult and others. His newest collection of poetry and song lyrics is Ghost Confessions.Continue Reading

Review: The Girl, The Priest, and The Devil by Theo Prasidis

Cemetery Dance OnlineDecember 10, 2025November 30, 2025Reviews, The Comic VaultColumns, Joshua Gage, Reviews, The Comic Vault, Theo PasidisLeave a comment

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The Girl, The Priest, and The Devil by Theo Prasidis
Dead Sky Publishing (December 16, 2025)
Reviewed by Joshua Gage

Theo Prasidis is a Greek writer and graphic novelist, published by Image Comics, TKO Studios, Scout Comics, and Dead Sky Publishing. He writes quixotic fantasies about hidden folklore, bizarre rituals and wistful dreams. His newest folk horror graphic novel is The Girl, The Priest, and The Devil.Continue Reading

Review: I Was a Fashion School Serial Killer by Doug Wagner, illustrated by Daniel Hillyard

Cemetery Dance OnlineDecember 8, 2025November 11, 2025Reviews, The Comic VaultColumns, Daniel Hillyard, Doug Wagner, I Was a Fashion School Serial Killer, Joshua Gage, Reviews, The Comic VaultLeave a comment

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I Was a Fashion School Serial Killer by Doug Wagner, illustrated by Daniel Hillyard
Image Comics (December 16, 2025)
Reviewed by Joshua Gage

Doug Wagner is an American comic book writer whose Image Comics include Plastic (co-created with Daniel Hillyard), The Hard Place (with Nic Rummel), Gun Candy (with Brian Stelfreeze), and The Ride (with too many to list). He’s also written titles such as I.C.E., World of Warcraft: Bloodsworn, Legends of the Dark Knight, and Witchblade/Red Sonja. Doug can be found hiding out in Park City, Utah where he spends his days creating madness, frolicking down the slopes with his lovely wife, and reveling cuddle time with the sweetest kitty in the world. His newest graphic novel is I Was a Fashion School Serial Killer.Continue Reading

Night Time Logic with Joshua Ginsberg

Cemetery Dance OnlineDecember 5, 2025November 23, 2025Night Time LogicColumns, Daniel Braum, Dusty Tiger, Interviews, Joshua Ginsberg, Night Time LogicLeave a comment

Night Time Logic with Daniel Braum

“Haunted Florida”, “Authors from The Twilight Zone”, and “Tales from the Dusty Tiger”

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Night Time Logic is the part of a story that is felt but not consciously processed. It is also the name of this interview series here at Cemetery Dance online and over on my YouTube channel where we explore the night time part of stories, the strange and uncanny in horror, dark fiction, and more.

My short story collections are full of the kind of stories that operate with Night Time Logic. My latest is called Phantom Constellations: Strange Tales and Ghost Stories and is out now from Cemetery Dance Publications.

Over this past Halloween weekend (October / November 2025) I attended the Spooky Empire Horror Convention in Orlando Florida as part of the Creator’s Track. Author Joshua Ginsberg was one of the panelists on the Ghost Stories panel that I moderated. Over the course of the convention I had a chance to speak with Joshua about his work which including his travel guides to weird and haunted attractions in the state of Florida.Continue Reading

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