Marla by Jonathan Janz Earthling Publications (October 2022) SOLD OUT Limited Edition; $TBD Lettered Edition Reviewed by Dave Simms Another year, another home run for Earthling, this time thanks to the magic of Jonathan Janz. This offering is no different than any of the other great stories Paul Miller has unleashed unto the world of … Continue Reading! “Review: Marla by Jonathan Janz”
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories ReviewsLeave a comment on Review: Grasshands by Kyle Winkler Grasshands by Kyle Winkler JournalStone Publishing (January 2024) 216 pages; $16.95 paperback; $6.95 e-book Reviewed by Haley Newlin In Kyle Winkler’s Grasshands, the line between reality and nightmare trembles, unsteady, before dispersing into scattering spiders. “Farce lands first. Tragedy knocks later.” Throughout this read, I often thought of Ray Bradbury, who wrote stories like Fahrenheit 451, emphasizing the … Continue Reading! “Review: Grasshands by Kyle Winkler”
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories ReviewsLeave a comment on Review: Black Mouth by Ronald Malfi Black Mouth by Ronald Malfi Titan Books (July 19, 2022) 448 pages; $15.99 paperback; $9.99 e-book Reviewed by Blu Gilliand When an evil once thought vanquished rears its ugly head again, a group of childhood friends reunite to confront it, hoping to put an end to it — and to some raging personal demons of their … Continue Reading! “Review: Black Mouth by Ronald Malfi”
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Night Time LogicLeave a comment on Night Time Logic with Matthew Cheney “Magic Tricks. Nightmares. Ambiguities and Confessions” Night Time Logic is the part of a story that is felt but not consciously processed. In this column I explore the phenomenon of Night Time Logic and other aspects of horror and dark fiction through in depth conversation with authors about their stories. I have an interest in … Continue Reading! “Night Time Logic with Matthew Cheney”
We’re very pleased to announce Infinity Dreams by Glen Hirshberg is now in-stock and shipping! About the Book: There are people who collect coins, baseball cards, flashlights. They trade and sell them at conventions, flea markets, antique malls. Those are not the people Nadine and Normal (a.k.a. The Collector) serve, and those places are not … Continue Reading! “Infinity Dreams by Glen Hirshberg: Trade Paperback Shipping Now!”
We’re very pleased to announce we’ll be publishing Infinity Dreams by Glen Hirshberg, which is already very deep in production and will be coming this December in trade paperback and eBook formats! About the Book: There are people who collect coins, baseball cards, flashlights. They trade and sell them at conventions, flea markets, antique malls. … Continue Reading! “Infinity Dreams by Glen Hirshberg: Coming Soon in Trade Paperback and eBook Formats!”
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Horror Drive-In1 Comment on Horror Drive-In: Holiday Slasher-Thon Sometimes I bring up slasher movies to people of my age group. I’m talking fifties and early sixties. I often see a glint in their eyes. A recognition of something magical. A recollection of a time of youthful fun and rebelliousness. When our hearts were still untamed. Before the soul-crippling drudgery of work. When our … Continue Reading! “Horror Drive-In: Holiday Slasher-Thon”
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories ReviewsLeave a comment on Review: Collectibles edited by Lawrence Block Collectibles edited by Lawrence Block Subterranean Press (May 2021) 320 pages; $50 limited edition hardcover; $9.99 e-book Reviewed by Blu Gilliand I’ve been a collector as long as I can remember. From Star Wars figures to comics to trading cards to wrestling magazines to movie posters to….well, you get the picture. This continues today as I … Continue Reading! “Review: Collectibles edited by Lawrence Block”
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories InterviewsLeave a comment on The Cemetery Dance Interview: Max Booth III Max Booth III is the editor-in-chief of Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing, the managing editor of Dark Moon Digest, and the host of two podcasts: Ghoulish and Castle Rock Radio. He’s the author of We Need to Do Something, Touch the Night, Carnivorous Lunar Activities, and several other novels. Bylines include LitReactor, CrimeReads, the San Antonio … Continue Reading! “The Cemetery Dance Interview: Max Booth III”
The year was 2000. It was date night and a young couple sat in a sold-out movie theatre waiting to see if the feature, something called Final Destination, would live up to the awesome looking trailer… Of course it did, and it remains one of my Top Ten horror movies of all time, also being … Continue Reading! “Devon Sawa looks back at FINAL DESTINATION, and Ahead to CHUCKY”
Stephen Graham Jones is to slashers what peanut butter is to jelly. Separately they are still awesome, but together they are perfection. With the popularity of the genre on the rise again due to movies such as Fear Street and the new Halloween Kills, and books from powerhouses such as Grady Hendrix, I got to … Continue Reading! “The Cemetery Dance Interview: Stephen Graham Jones’s Heart is a Chainsaw”
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories InterviewsLeave a comment on The Cemetery Dance Interview: Revisiting Richard Chizmar On the heels of reading Cemetery Dance’s recent publication of Stephen King: Revisited Volume One, I was loaded up with tons of questions, the first of which was who would be daring enough to go back in time and re-read every Stephen King book in order of publication? Richard Chizmar, that’s who. As a best … Continue Reading! “The Cemetery Dance Interview: Revisiting Richard Chizmar”
Haunted Attractions with your Other Father by Norman Prentiss is the sequel to his Odd Adventures with your Other Father, and continues the horror/fantasy road trip adventures of Jack and Shawn as they fight monsters and homophobia in the ’80s. Cemetery Dance is proud to publish this new novel (with an e-book version now on sale at Amazon … Continue Reading! “FREE FICTION: “The Canyon of Terrible Lizards” (Part 3) by Norman Prentiss”
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Video VisionsLeave a comment on Video Visions: The Twelve Assholes of Christmas Whether you’re a ho-ho or a humbug, it’s impossible to ignore the holiday season. I know I can’t. As I write this, the threat of having to string up lights outside is looming, which is why I just might take my sweet time getting this done. After subjecting my wife to watching at least one … Continue Reading! “Video Visions: The Twelve Assholes of Christmas”
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories RevelationsLeave a comment on Revelations: Russell Kirk When you engage in any kind of artistic “career” over a certain period of time, lots of preconceived notions are shed. Nowhere is that truer than in writing. It’s part of the gig. Over time, idealistic goals either vanish altogether, or, in the best case scenario, transform into more obtainable goals. For me, it was … Continue Reading! “Revelations: Russell Kirk”
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