Hi Folks!

We’re pleased to report we’re now taking preorders for the Scribner trade hardcover of Doctor Sleep by Stephen King, a brand new sequel to The Shining! We’re also producing a custom-made slipcase for this title like we have for the last couple of King books, which you can also preorder now.

About the Book:
Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance and the very special twelve-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals.

Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood winter, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father’s legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant “shining” power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes “Doctor Sleep.”

Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan’s own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra’s soul and survival.

On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless—mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and tween Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the “steam” that children with the “shining” produce when they are slowly tortured to death.

This is an epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of hyper-devoted readers of The Shining and wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon.

Read more or place your order while supplies last!

Add A Special Exclusive Slipcase To Your Order To Protect Your Book!

Even though Doctor Sleep by Stephen King is being published by another publisher, we will be producing a custom-made slipcase for this title like we have for the last few Stephen King books!

The easiest way to add a slipcase to your purchase is by selecting the “Trade Hardcover Edition with Exclusive Slipcase!” option on the product page — you’ll also save on shipping by ordering this way! (You can order just the slipcase by itself on the Doctor Sleep Slipcase product page.)

Don’t know what a slipcase is? That’s okay! It’s easily the best way to protect your book for generations to come. You can see some sample images of other slipcases we’ve made below. We’re using the same high-quality materials we have used for our previous Stephen King cases, with one color hot foil stamping. The company who makes these for us is the best in the business and you won’t find a better way to protect your investment! (If you’re new to collecting, you can read more about slipcases on our Book FAQ page.)

These slipcases are an extremely affordable way to protect your book.  They’ll be produced after the book is published because we need a real copy of the book to get the sizing just right, so your book and slipcase will ship together to save you on shipping. We think our collectors will be very pleased with what we have in mind for these very special cases! Don’t wait to place your order!

Sample Slipcase Photos:

Read more or place your order while supplies last!

Today we’re pleased to offer preorders on two more very exciting signed Limited Edition hardcovers from ChiZine Publications, but these books have extremely low print runs and our supplies are very limited, so be sure to place your order before supplies run out!

Janus
by John Park

Publisher: ChiZine Publications
Format: Signed Limited Edition Hardcover
Print Run: Just 150 Copies!

About the Book:
In the near future, Jon Grebbel arrives on the colony world of Janus, and finds himself mysteriously without memory of his life on Earth. It seems that the long journey has caused severe memory loss in many of Janus’s colonists.

While Grebbel wants to start his new life, he also wants his memory back, and starts treatments to restore his past. But they only leave him angry and disturbed and he begins to doubt the glimpses of the past the treatments reveal.

Grebbel meets Elinda, an earlier arrival, whose lover, Barbara, vanished and then was found lying in the woods, apparently brain-damaged. Elinda has also lost her memories of Earth, but unlike him she has abandoned the effort to recover them. Now their meeting brings each of them a glimpse of an experience they shared back on Earth.

Investigating Barbara’s fate and their own, the two find their love and their search for justice turning toward bitter self-discovery and revenge, even as they begin to uncover the darkness at the heart of their world.

Read more or place your order while supplies last!

The Indigo Pheasant: Volume Two of Longing for Yount
by Daniel A. Rabuzzi

Publisher: ChiZine Publications
Format: Signed Limited Edition Hardcover
Print Run: Just 150 Copies!

About the Book:
London 1817. Maggie Collins, born into slavery in Maryland, whose mathematical genius and strength of mind can match those of a goddess, must build the world’s most powerful and sophisticated machine – to free the lost land of Yount from the fallen angel Strix Tender Wurm.

Sally, of the merchant house McDoon, who displayed her own powers in challenging the Wurm and finding Yount in The Choir Boats, must choose either to help Maggie or to hinder her.

Together – or not – Maggie and Sally drive to conclusion the story started in The Choir Boats – a story of blood-soaked song, family secrets, sins new and old in search of expiation, forbidden love, high policy and acts of state, financial ruin, betrayals intimate and grand, sorcery from the origins of time, and battle in the streets of London and on the arcane seas of Yount.

Read more or place your order while supplies last!

Hi Folks!

Earthling Publications has graciously allotted us a few copies of their Deluxe Signed 25th Anniversary Special Limited Edition of Weaveworld by Clive Barker for our customers, but don’t wait around to place your order because this beautiful special edition isn’t going to be around for long!

Weaveworld: The 25th Anniversary Limited Edition
by Clive Barker

Note From the Publisher:
All editions feature new typesetting and design, two-color offset printing on fine paper (likely 80# Finch), 7×10 inch oversized pages, smyth sewn binding, and nearly 30 original pieces of art by Richard Kirk, who has illustrated other projects by Clive Barker as well as Earthling releases by China Mieville and Christopher Golden.

About the Book:
That which is imagined need never be lost…

Earthling celebrates 25 years of Clive Barker’s Weaveworld with the definitive edition of this dark fantasy masterwork. Weaveworld: 25th Anniversary Edition will be released late 2012 in a modest print run consisting of gift, numbered, and lettered editions.

Time magazine calls Weaveworld “an irresistible yarn,” and Peter Straub says it is “pure dazzle, pure storytelling.” This 25th anniversary edition of Weaveworld will undoubtedly be the one to own and experience.

Read more or place your order while supplies last!

The Dropper by Ron McLarty:
Rave New Review, 1st Editions Still Available, and eBook Edition Available NOW!

Hi Folks!

The Dropper by Ron McLarty is receiving rave reviews from reviewers and readers alike, and we wanted to share one in particular that definitely captured the essence of what makes this such a fine novel:

“Full of substance, tempered by an unflinching realism, The Dropper is an emotionally complex portrait of a confused and determined young man aching for something better, unable to provide it, but still fighting to, anyway. This is the type of story that defies easy categorization, for all those who love rooting for the underdog, the fighter in all of us… Haunting and melancholic, with the lightest touch of the supernatural, The Dropper is sure to be one of the year’s best novels. This isn’t a “ghost story” or “dark fiction” or anything like that. This is simply storytelling at its finest, a tale about a young man who never quite figures things out, but never drops his fists, either.”

Read the complete review by Kevin Lucia on the Shroud Magazine Book Reviews website.

There are still copies of the 1st Edition, 1st Printing available, but don’t wait to place your order!

In other news, we’re pleased to report there is now an eBook edition available for those who prefer to read their books electronically:

Thanks, as always, for your continuing support!

Stephen King calls him “A master of the macabre!”

Hi Folks!

We’re very pleased to announce we’ll be publishing a value priced trade hardcover edition of The Circle by Bentley Little this fall. This is a classic horror story that only Little could have written, featuring many of the special touches his fans have come to expect from his work!

The Circle
by Bentley Little

“The shrine. How does it operate? Do you just pray to it or do you have to bring it something or what?”

In this unsettling novella by Bentley Little, many strange occurrences unsettle the inhabitants of William Tell Circle:

For Helen, a knock on the door brings an unexpected visitor along with lavish gifts, and it seems all her wishes have been granted…but at what cost?

For young Frank and his friends, a fabled neighborhood shrine may answer their prayers for a girlfriend, just as their older brothers hope the same source will grant them money. But the older boys’ improvised ritual turns into something horrible…

For Gil Marotta, a rescue mission to the shrine leads him into a chilling confrontation with the local witch…

The Circle tells the story of a normally quiet community, plunged into the kind of surreal nightmare only Bentley Little can deliver.

Read more or place your order while we’re offering FREE US SHIPPING!

Discuss this announcement on our forum!

“Take it from Uncle Stevie, this is your basic don’t-miss reading experience.”
— Stephen King on The Passage

Hi Folks!

We’re very pleased to announce our beautiful deluxe signed special edition of The Twelve by Justin Cronin, his long awaited follow-up to The Passage. There are some incredible special features that will be exclusive to our Limited Edition, including another beautiful Tomislav Tikulin cover painting and we’re also TRIPLING the amount of interior artwork for this book to make it even more collectible!

Update For Collectors #1:
The Lettered Edition is already sold out and the Limited Edition is now 97% sold out!

About the Book:
In his internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Passage, Justin Cronin constructed an unforgettable world transformed by a government experiment gone horribly wrong. With The Twelve, the story continues…

In the present day:

As a man-made apocalypse unfolds, three strangers navigate the chaos, desperate to find others, to survive, to witness the dawn on the other side of disaster.

Lila, a doctor and an expectant mother, has been so broken by the spread of violence and infection that she continues to plan for her child’s arrival even as society dissolves around her.

Kittridge, known to the world as “Last Stand in Denver,” has been forced by loss of electrical power to flee his stronghold and is now on the road, dodging the infected, armed but alone and well aware that a tank of gas will get him only so far.

April is a teenager fighting to guide her little brother safely through a minefield of death and ruin.

These three will learn that they have not been fully abandoned—and that in connection lies hope, even on the darkest of nights.

One hundred years in the future:

Amy, Peter, Alicia, and the others introduced in The Passage work with a cast of new characters to hunt the original twelve virals… unaware that the rules of the game have changed, and that one of them will have to sacrifice everything to bring the Twelve down.

The scope widens and the intensity deepens as the epic tale of sacrifice and survival begun in The Passage surges forward in this breathtaking sequel.

Special Features Exclusive to this Collector’s Edition:
• epic cover artwork by Tomislav Tikulin
• at least ONE DOZEN black & white interior illustrations by Jill Bauman
• deluxe oversized design with a fine binding
• Smyth sewn with a bound-in satin ribbon page marker
• extremely collectible print run that is a tiny fraction of the hundreds of thousands of copies of the edition you’ll see in bookstores — and you will NOT see our edition in chain bookstores!

Update for Collectors #2:
If you own a copy of the Limited Edition of The Passage and want a matching number on your Limited Edition of The Twelve, please order through our online store and then REPLY to your Order Confirmation email and let Mindy know what number your copy of The Passage is. She will make a note on your order and we will do our best to match your number.

Read more or place your order while supplies last!

Discuss this announcement on our forum!

“Ransom’s style mimics that of the early Stephen King and Dan Simmons’s horror fiction.”
— Library Journal

Hi Folks!

The trade hardcover and Limited Edition of Killing Ghost by Christopher Ransom have arrived in our warehouse, but because we’re still shipping The Dropper by Ron McLarty, we’re extending FREE US SHIPPING on the Ransom book for a few more days!

Killing Ghost
by Christopher Ransom

About the Book:
James Hastings once enjoyed a lucrative but hollow career pretending to be someone else. But when his wife Stacey dies tragically behind the Los Angeles mansion she so lovingly restored, James finds himself alone, spiraling into grief, and haunted by a familiar menace that is not ready for him to move on.

Salvation comes in the form of Annette Copeland, a beautiful widow who moves into the house next door. James and Annette bond quickly over the spousal losses they have suffered, but as their unconventional romance escalates, Annette begins to exhibit uncanny manners and desires that belong to Stacey. Concerned friends and former lovers who try to come between them meet with increasingly diabolical fates, and James becomes convinced Annette’s cosmetic changes are only the beginning of a horrific yet alluring case of possession.

Driven to isolation far outside of Los Angeles, James and his unstable companion return to the deserted gated community of Sheltering Palms, where evidence of Annette’s family tragedy is waiting for him, and James’s investigations unwillingly draw the attentions of two dangerous personalities: Rick Butterfield, a delusional policeman who knows Annette’s history and still pines for her; and Aaron, a 10-year-old boy who wanders the desolate subdivision nightly, waiting for his parents to come home.

With every attempt to atone for his failings as a husband plunging James deeper into a nightmare struggle for survival, he must finally confront the ghost of the man he used to be, the origin of his resurrected other half, and the true face of the evil that has brought them together.

Killing Ghost is at once a descent into psychological terror, a midnight meditation of the addictive nature of love, and a novel that redefines the ghost story for a culture obsessed with dark entertainments.

Previously published in the UK as The Haunting of James Hastings, this Cemetery Dance hardcover edition brings the novel to the US for the first time.

Read more or place your order today!

Hi Folks!

We’ve discovered a few very slightly dinged copies of the HUGE oversized Centipede Press slipcased special edition Knowing Darkness: Artists Inspired By Stephen King, which is an incredible Deluxe Cloth Limited Edition featuring FOUR COLOR interior printing and imported fabric binding with printed silk panels, all housed in an amazing cloth slipcase printed in four colors.  We cannot explain in words how HUGE AND IMPRESSIVE this special volume is, you really have to see it in person to understand! (Although we’ve posted a few photos on our site to give you an idea of how massive this book is!)

This book is simply amazing and the original retail price was $295, but we are selling these last copies for just $99 plus shipping while our supplies last!

From Carrie to Just After Sunset, this definitive collection of art spans King’s entire career, with newly commissioned artwork and reprinted art, most from publications long out-of-print that command premium prices! This is one of the largest books we have ever seen, measuring 11 x 15 inches and featuring more than 500 illustrations, including 30 double-page foldouts. This monster of a book weighs more than 15 pounds!

This book includes artwork by Dave McKean, Bernie Wrightson, David Palladini, John Jude Palencar, Michael Whelan, Bob Eggleton, John Cayea, Rowena Morrill, Jill Bauman, Kinuko Y. Craft, Jason Eckhard, Les Edwards, David Ho, Allen Koszowski, Zach McCain, Alex McVey, John Picacio, Don Punchatz, Rick Berry, Douglas Smith, Thomas Canty, Glenn Chadbourne, David Christensen, Alan Clark, Ned Dameron, Linda Fennimore, Stephen Gervais, Mark Geyer, Phil Hale, Don Maitz, Steven Stroud, Drew Struzan, and Mark Ryden.

In addition to the wealth of previously published Stephen King artwork, new works of art have been commissioned especially for this book that will never appear anywhere else:

Michael Whelan leads the way with a magnificent front cover and a new interior piece illustrating The Dark Tower. The newly commissioned interior pieces include art illustrating “One for the Road” (Stephen Gervais), It (Bob Eggleton), The Shining (Douglas Smith), ‘Salem’s Lot (John Picacio), Hearts in Atlantis (Les Edwards), Duma Key (Don Maitz), “The Lawnmower Man” (Jason Eckhardt), The Tommyknockers (Alex McVey), Black House and Cell (Zach McCain), “Weeds” and The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (David Ho), and others.

Read more or place your order while supplies last!

Thanks, as always, for your continuing support!

Hi Folks!

We’re very pleased to announce our new beautiful deluxe special edition of Floating Dragon: The 30th Anniversary Special Limited Edition by Peter Straub, which is already selling out extremely quickly thanks to the strong response from our Peter Straub collectors!

About the Book:

The terrors afflicting the sleepy town of Hampstead, Connecticut, were beyond imagination.

Sparrows dropping dead from the trees like rotten fruit, disfiguring diseases spreading like wildfire, inexplicable murders and child drownings shattering the lives of the citizens—never can such a list of horrors have afflicted one town.

But the evil madness had a long history.

A catastrophe had struck Hampstead every thirty years since its foundation 300 years before — yet only Graham Williams, a writer and descendant of one of the original founders, had looked into the ‘black summers’ and their mysterious origins.

When he discovers that descendants of the three other original settlers are back living in the town, he knows it will be the blackest summer yet…

Read more or place your order while supplies last!

Discuss this announcement on our forum!

Hi Folks!

Today we’re very pleased to announce V-WARS, the brand new SIGNED & NUMBERED IDW Publishing Limited Edition written by Jonathan Maberry, Nancy Holder, Yvonne Navarro, James A. Moore, Gregory Frost, John Everson, Keith R.A. DeCandido, and Scott Nicholson!

About the Book:
A sweeping threaded narrative of the global phenomenon known as the Vampire Wars.

Mankind has been silently infected by millennia-old bacteria unknowingly exhumed by a scientific expedition in Antarctica. Now, in some rare cases, a person’s so-called “junk DNA” becomes activated, and depending on their racial and ethnic heritage they begin to manifest one of the many diverse forms of the “others” that are the true basis for the legends of supernatural creatures. These aren’t your usual vampires and werewolves — it goes much deeper than that.

Conceived by Jonathan Maberry, V-WARS features stories from various frontlines as reported by such contributors as Nancy Holder, Yvonne Navarro, James A. Moore, Gregory Frost, John Everson, Keith R.A. DeCandido, and Scott Nicholson, as well as Maberry himself.

The result is a compelling series of tales that create a unique chronicle of mankind’s response to this sudden, hidden threat to humanity.

Read more or place your order while supplies last!

Discuss this exciting news on our forum!

Today we’re pleased to announce two  more great additions by Graham Masterton to our eBook store!

Flesh and Blood
by Graham Masterton

Out in a field, deep in the heart of Iowa hog-farming country, Terence Pearson beheads his own children, apparently without reason.

But appearances are deceptive. Terence is saving his children from a fate far worse: The Green Traveller, a strange mummer dressed in leaves, who with his companions, The Surgeon and The Witness, bring terror and pain to those who cross him. Terence knows his children are descendants of The Green Traveller, and he’s returning for them — the consequences of which will be devastating…

This is a complex novel which features genetics as its theme, alongside a story involving the insertion of human genes into a monstrous pig. Steeped in legends, Flesh & Blood is a fascinating read with eviscerations and decapitations aplenty.

The Sleepless
by Graham Masterton

A helicopter crashes with a young judge and his family onboard. The wreckage reveals his and his wife’s mutilated bodies — but not their daughter’s. An insurance investigator attempts to resolve this bizarre case, and in the process he discovers a merciless race of beings who never sleep…

Fast-moving and highly readable, this novel features some very graphic violence and is definitely not for the squeamish. Masterton utilizes the American setting well, managing to conjure up a genuinely scary portrait of an alien-like race which should — quite literally — get your adrenaline pumping.

Also Discounts, Special Contests, and More!

In addition to the official Production Updates page, we also post updates in the discussion threads for each project on our official Cemetery Dance Forum, including the occasional “behind the scenes” update and even some photos of the work in progress.

The Current Projects section is a good place to start, but there are also sections dedicated to STEPHEN KING, our Out of Print Books, Lonely Road Books, Movies, General Discussion, Book From Other Publishers, a Writers’ Corner, a BOOK MARKET, and more!

There are also Forum Only Contests, Special Discount Codes, and other great surprises for our regular forum posters!

New Releases in April:
The Crane House, The Mailman, The Dropper, and Killing Ghost

Hi Folks!

Here is our release schedule for April:

Shipping in the next two weeks:

Shipping in the second half of the month:

Featuring ORIGINAL STORIES by Ramsey Campbell, Peter Crowther, Dennis Etchison, Elizabeth Hand, Brian Hodge, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Stephen King, Richard Christian Matheson, Reggie Oliver, Robert Shearman, Angela Slatter, Michael Marshall Smith, and Lisa Tuttle!

We’re pleased to announce the special Limited Edition of A Book of Horrors edited by Stephen Jones, which we’re co-publishing with PS Publishing in the UK, has been sent to the printer and the Limited Edition should be shipping by the end of May! (You can see a photo of of the signature sheet here.)

This brand new anthology features ORIGINAL STORIES by Ramsey Campbell, Peter Crowther, Dennis Etchison, Elizabeth Hand, Brian Hodge, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Stephen King, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Richard Christian Matheson, Reggie Oliver, Robert Shearman, Angela Slatter, Michael Marshall Smith, and Lisa Tuttle!

Leading off the anthology is the World’s First publication of a brand new Stephen King story called “The Little Green God of Agony” and we’re pleased to report this story is good old fashioned gothic horror at its best!

Because we’re co-publishing this book, we only have half of the print run to sell and most of those copies are gone, so don’t wait to place your order!

If you’re interested, place your order today! After they’ve all sold, we won’t offer more!

The New Cemetery Dance “Will Tweet For Books” Promotion Has Ended!

And the winners are:

Ron C.
Nathan F.
Andrew C.
Frank E.
James
Bracken M.
Dylan K.
Dana J.
Jack M.
Barry S.

“Carrie White at the Prom”

Hi Folks!

Due to demand from our collectors who missed out on Glenn Chadbourne’s previous Stephen King art prints, he has provided us with an ORIGINAL full-color painting for his next signed Limited Edition art print: “Carrie White at the Prom!”

This is a brand new and stunning 11 X 17 SIGNED LIMITED EDITION art print by Glenn Chadbourne, inspired by one of the most famous scenes from any Stephen King book or movie, and it’s perfect for matting and framing if you were so inclined. These prints would also look great just posted on the wall of your home or office:

Place your order today because we will never issue a second printing!

Hi Folks!

Today we’re very pleased to announce that Cemetery Dance has been chosen as the official distributor for IDW Publishing’s exciting new line of signed Limited Edition hardcovers!  These Limited Edition books have low print runs (just 350 for this first title), high production values (slipcases, full color artwork/printing throughout), great contributors (most of whom are signing the books), and an incredible low prices for this sort of publication!

The first book in this line is an incredible anthology called Zombies vs. Robots: This Means War!, which is set in the world of the ZVR comic! Collectors who snag a copy of this book through our online store will be the FIRST collectors notified about future Limited Editions we’re distributing for IDW, so don’t wait because these are not going to last long with these very low print runs, high production values, and IDW’s rabid fan base!

About the Book:
ZVR: This Means War! takes IDW’s splatterific Zombie vs Robots comic book series—created by writer Chris Ryall and artist Ashley Wood—and expands it in ways that will redefine both zombie and robot fiction.

A shambling cohort of top horror and fantasy writers from across the globe have devoted themselves to making evocative word-pictures in your brain of this delicious cult series. This special volume features the Brain-Eating Talents of Jesse Bullington (The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart, The Enterprise of Death), Nancy Collins (Sonja Blue, Swamp Thing, Vamps), Lincoln Crisler (Despairs & Delights, Magick & Misery), Brea Grant (Dexter), Robert Hood (Immaterial), Nicholas Kaufmann (Chasing the Dragon), James A. Moore (Vendetta), Norman Prentiss (Invisible Fences), Rachel Swirsky (“The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window”), Steve Rasnic (Bram Stoker Award Winner), Rio Youers (End Times), and Jeff Conner (editor/World Fantasy Award Nominee).

This special edition features the signatures of these contributors: Jesse Bullington, Nancy A. Collins, Lincoln Crisler, Brea Grant, Nicholas Kaufmann, Joe McKinney, James A. Moore, Yvonne Navarro, Norman Prentiss, Rachel Swirsky, Sean Taylor, Steve Rasnic Tem, with ZvR co-creator Chris Ryall and editor Jeff Conner.

ZVR: This Means War! is the perfect book for readers who enjoyed World War Z, Robopocalypse, and Zombies vs Robots.

Cemetery Dance Publications is proud to be the official distributor for this brand new deluxe Signed & Slipcased Limited Edition, which is a steal at just $60, so we don’t expect copies of this beautiful FULL COLOR special edition to last long!

Read more or place your order while supplies last!

Discuss this exciting news on our forum!

Brian James Freeman has posted a couple of photos of the “approval” copy of The Mailman by Bentley Little, which will be shipping to us from the printer soon! Click on this image to see a few more photos:

There are still copies of the Limited Edition (without the slipcase) available for ordering on our website!

Hi Folks!

Today we’re pleased to announce Cemetery Dance #66 is already rolling at the printer and will be shipping early next month!

Place your order today so you don’t miss out!

Or order your subscription today!

Hi Folks!

Today we’re pleased to offer preorders on an exciting new trade hardcover from Subterranean Press, so be sure to place your order as soon as possible before our supplies run out!

Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart

by Caitlin R. Kiernan

Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart is the follow-up to Caitlín R. Kiernan’s World-Fantasy Award nominated The Ammonite Violin & Others, a collection that drew comparisons to the writings of such luminaries of the macabre and surreal as Angela Carter, Thomas Ligotti, Shirley Jackson, and Harlan Ellison.

Here, again, in her eighth collection, we visit the borderlands where the weird, horrific, mythic, and erotic intersect. Once again, Kiernan sets her masterful, intoxicating prose to the task of retelling fairy tales, spinning sensual post-Lovecraftian yarns, and blurring the lines between pain and pleasure. Here is a celebration of the bizarre and beautiful, and a marriage of unlikely worlds. From a reverence of the dead to the sacrifices the living make to unspeakable gods, from clockwork dreams to tales of merciless revenge, Kiernan blurs the artificial lines of genre, and shows us a world where there is no division between the light and dark.

Read more or place your order while our supplies last!

The Woman
by Jack Ketchum & Lucky McKee
Featuring A Brand New Bonus Novella!

Hi Folks!

We’ve heard from several customers that they never saw our announcement last month of the publication of The Woman by Jack Ketchum and Lucky McKee, so we’re sending this newsletter again just to be safe because we don’t want anyone missing out on this incredible novel!

About the Book:
The Woman is the powerful story of the last survivor of a feral tribe of cannibals who have terrorized the east coast from Maine into Canada for years now. Badly wounded in a battle with police, she takes refuge in a cave overlooking the sea.

Christopher Cleek is a slick, amoral — and unstable — country lawyer who, out hunting one day, sees her bathing in a stream. Fascinated, he follows her to her cave.

Cleek has many dark secrets and to these he’ll add another. He will capture her, lock in his fruit cellar, and tame her, civilize her. To this end he’ll enlist his long-suffering wife Belle, his teenage son and daughter Brian and Peg, and even his little girl Darlin’, to aid him.

So the question becomes, who is more savage? The hunter or the game?

About the Bonus Novella:
This new novella Jack Ketchum and Lucky McKee takes place a year after the novel ends, but to say anything else could spoil some of the surprises!

Read more or place your order!

The Doll: The Lost Short Stories
by Daphne du Maurier
Special “Limited” Trade Hardcover Shipping Now!
Just $25 For This Beautiful Special Edition!

Hi Folks!

Today we’re very pleased to announce our special new “Limited” trade hardcover edition of The Doll: The Lost Short Stories by Daphne du Maurier is now shipping!

About the Book:

Daphne du Maurier’s most famous works include the novel Rebecca and the short story “The Birds,” and today Cemetery Dance Publications is pleased to announce a collection of 13 impressive stories written by Daphne du Maurier before she was 23 years old.

This incredible new volume is comprised of eight stories that were published in a small UK volume called Early Stories, which is long out of print, and five stories that were published in periodicals during the early 1930s.

These long lost stories explore the evolution of the images, themes, and concerns that informed du Maurier’s later work. Each story in the collection highlights du Maurier’s deep understanding of human nature.

This Cemetery Dance Publications special “trade” edition will be limited to a one-time printing and there will be no second printings!

Place your order today so you don’t miss out!

Discuss this news on our message board!

Thanks, as always, for your continuing support!

Snow Shadows by Mick Garris
New Signed Limited Edition Just Announced!
Already 94% Sold Out!

Hi Folks!

Today we’re very pleased to announce Snow Shadows by Mick Garris, which is already 94% sold out! These last remaining copies are not going to last long, so don’t wait to place your order!

Snow Shadows (Cemetery Dance Novella Series #24)
by Mick Garris
Cover Artwork by Les Edwards
Interior Artwork by Lorry Stone

About the Book:
Nicholas, a painter and teacher at the Ravensbrooke Youth Academy for the Arts, is having difficulties in his marriage.  He also fears he’s losing his artistic inspiration. A brief dalliance with a fellow teacher doesn’t solve his problems—especially when Miss Featherstone takes the affair more seriously than he does.

Enter David Sutcliffe, a young and gifted student who imagines himself as the true object of Miss Featherstone’s affections.  His jealousy causes him to view Nicholas as a rival, and the boy becomes increasingly unhinged as he seeks to eliminate the competition.

Snow Shadows is an unusual and haunting story of love and obsession, with many shocking surprises along the way.

Read more or place your order while supplies last!

Discuss this exciting news on our forum!

Limited Edition Slipcase for 11/22/63 by Stephen King Shipping Now!

Even though 11/22/63 by Stephen King was published by another publisher, we heard from so many customers who wanted one of our special Limited Edition slipcases to protect their investment that we decided to produce a custom-made slipcase for this special book! Those cases are now IN-STOCK and ready to ship, and we have a few extras left available to sell on a First Come, First Served basis!

Don’t know what a slipcase is? That’s okay! It’s easily the best way to protect your book for generations to come. You can see a photo of this actual slipcase on this page. We used the same high-quality materials we used for our previous Stephen King cases, with one color hot foil stamping. The company who makes these for us is the best in the business and you won’t find a better way to protect your investment! (If you’re new to collecting, you can read more about slipcases on our Book FAQ page.)

We’re selling these Limited Edition Slipcases for just $24.95, making them an extremely affordable way to protect your book, but our very limited supplies won’t last long!

Place your order before supplies run out!

Hi Folks!

We’re very pleased to announce the newest addition to our eBook line, the first-ever eBook edition of A Life In the Cinema, the first collection of stories by Mick Garris!

A Life In the Cinema

by Mick Garris

Introduction by Stephen King, Afterword by Tobe Hooper, Cover Art by Clive Barker

About the Book:

A Life In the Cinema is the first book from award-winning filmmaker Mick Garris. This collection of eight prickly tales and a screenplay reach under the skin of real life and reel life to take you places you never realized you wanted to go. The title story, “A Life in the Cinema” and its sequel, “Starfucker”, are set in the author’s hometown of Hollywood, and provide a yellow-jaundiced look at a world you only thought was glamorous.

As Stephen King, in his introduction, says: “Here is a real Hollywood insider writing about the real inside world of filmmaking: the good, the bad, and the cheesy. These stories are both erotic and cynical, but they are above all well and fiercely told-when he’s yarning about the tarnished tinsel underbelly of the town he knows (and clearly loves) the best, Mick Garris writes like a combination of Robert Bloch and James Ellroy, hardboiled noir with a ghastly little prick of the devil’s own pitchfork.”

Not all of the stories are Hollywood-based: Garris includes tales of a grandmother who is just as loving in death as she was in life, a geriatric trailer park with a randy secret, wistful and impossible love with a twist, the wrong kind of baby-love, and a deathly brush with fame. The book is capped with a screenplay by Garris, as well as “Chocolate”, the story it’s based on, providing, as King puts it, “a textbook seminar in the art and craft of adapting one’s own work.”

So welcome to a dark side of Hollywood you’ve never seen before…

We’re pleased to debut the final cover artwork for Pure by Julianna Baggott, which is now more than 90% sold out:

This is going to be an epic looking book, with full wrap around cover artwork:

Hi Folks!

Today we’re very pleased to announce the Table of Contents for Shocklines: Fresh Voices In Terror edited by Richard Chizmar & Matt Schwartz, an anthology that has been years in the making and which we think will be one of the most talked about books of the year!

About the Book:
Some of them lurk in the shadows, others have been right in front of you for years now, but you still don’t see them coming. Who are they? That’s not an easy question to answer. It’s easy to say they are the next wave of horror superstars, but they take many forms and some don’t even categorize their work as horror. Some write stories that are rough and raw, making you squirm as they paint a portrait of terror with their words. Some write stories that are polished and deceptively quiet, making your heart ache by the final line. No matter what kind of stories they write, these authors always find a way to get under your skin. This ground-breaking anthology of horror fiction is certain to be one of the most talked about anthologies of the year.

Table of Contents:
“Stalled” by Kealan Patrick Burke
“The Transfer Student” by Norman Prentiss
“Roulette” by Brian Knight
“The Only Thing” by Yvonne Navarro
“Diablitos” by Cody Goodfellow
“Burying Reena” by John R. Little
“Mount Uncompahgre” by Michael McBride
“From Arthur Clayworth’s Diary” by Rio Youers
“Cry” by Hunter Shea
“The End of the World Man” by Lisa Morton
“Faith Leaps” by Tim Lebbon & Kath Deakin
“The Crooked Walk” by Nick Mamatas
“The Scavengers” by Tony Knighton
“Ghost Net” by Jeff Jacobson
“Momma’s Grave” by Kim Despins
“Escape He Done” by Ted Kosmatka
“Dying on the Inside” by John Everson
“Interstitial” by Robert Morrish
“Making the Decision” by Brian James Freeman

Read more or place your order while supplies last!

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We are selling a 20 inch iMac on behalf of one of our designers via eBay. We will be packing and shipping this item from the Cemetery Dance warehouse in Forest Hill, Maryland. This computer is in good shape and has never had any known problems, but our designer recently upgraded to a newer model and does not need a second computer. This computer has been wiped clean and reinstalled with a clean install of Mac OS 10.6.8. Please ask any questions you have before bidding and we’ll do our best to answer them. Read more and see some photos on the listing, please feel to bid early and bid often!

As always, we cannot accept coupons, Gift Certificates, Savings Certificates, etc, on items purchased via eBay.

New Signed Trade Paperback For Just $9.99 For A Limited Time Only!

“The Painted Darkness delves into territory that fascinates so many of us — the fine lines between beauty and horror, faith and fear, art and the unconscious. Both a wonderful allegory and a gripping read, Brian James Freeman has written a taut, memorable tale.”
— Michael Koryta, award-winning author of So Cold the River and The Cypress House

Hi Folks!

We’re pleased to report that a $9.99 trade paperback edition of The Painted Darkness by Brian James Freeman is on the way, and all of the preorders we sell for the next 10 days will be SIGNED by Freeman and Brian Keene (who wrote the introduction) — plus this title qualifies for FREE US SHIPPING for a very limited time only! Considering how fast the signed Limited Edition and Lettered Edition sold out, this is a terrific deal!

The Painted Darkness
by Brian James Freeman

Featuring an exclusive introduction by Brian Keene

About the Book:
When Henry was a child, something terrible happened in the woods behind his home, something so shocking he could only express his terror by drawing pictures of what he had witnessed. Eventually, Henry’s mind blocked out the bad memories, but he continued to draw, often at night by the light of the moon.

Twenty years later, Henry makes his living by painting his disturbing works of art. He loves his wife and his son, and life couldn’t be better… except there’s something not quite right about the old stone farmhouse his family now calls home. There’s something strange living in the cramped cellar, in the maze of pipes that feed the ancient steam boiler.

A winter storm is brewing, and soon Henry will learn the true nature of the monster waiting for him down in the darkness. He will battle this demon and, in the process, he may discover what really happened when he was a child — and why, in times of trouble, he thinks: I paint against the darkness.

But will Henry learn the truth in time to avoid the terrible fate awaiting him… or will the thing in the cellar get him and his family first?

Written as both a meditation on the art of creation and as an examination of the secret fears we all share, The Painted Darkness is a terrifying look at the true cost we pay when we run from our grief — and what happens when we’re finally forced to confront the monsters we know all too well.

Read more or place your order while supplies last!

Thanks, as always, for your continuing support!

Hi Folks!

Before we get to today’s news, we wanted to let you know the It: The 25th Anniversary Edition Limited Edition Artwork Portfolio is now SOLD OUT! Congratulations to all of the collectors who ordered a set in time!

In other news, John R. Little has been publishing his unique brand of stories for almost 30 years, and we’re pleased to highlight his SEVEN eBooks that we’ve published in the past six months. Each one is sure to be a good read, so pick one (or pick them all — they’re bargain priced at the moment!) and enjoy. The newest addition to our line-up, Ursa Major, is a Bram Stoker Nominee this year in the Long Fiction category, just another acknowledgement of Little’s incredible talent: