FREE CHRISTMAS SHORT STORY! **Updated With Links to the US, UK, and Canada!**

Hi Folks!

As we mentioned, you can download a brand new Christmas-themed short story “The Christmas Spirit” FOR FREE, but we forgot to include the links for the UK and Canada product pages, so here are all of the links again for easy reference:

Amazon US
Amazon UK
Amazon CA

The Christmas Spirit

For those of you who love beautiful CHAPBOOKS, there is also a print edition available for the bargain price of just $4.99!

Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!

FREE CHRISTMAS SHORT STORY!

Good news for our readers! Right now, you can download a brand new Christmas-themed short story “The Christmas Spirit” FOR FREE on Amazon.com! Don’t wait because this deal won’t last long… and did we mention it is FREE?!

The Christmas Spirit

Read more or grab your FREE copy before time runs out!

For those of you who love beautiful CHAPBOOKS, there is also a print edition available for the bargain price of just $4.99!

Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!

“Rock of Ages” and “Bad Luck”

*Humblebrag… I own all 75 issues. Took me 8 years to track ‘em all down. Just look at that collection!
(Photo Copyright 2016 K. Edwin Fritz)

Hello again, folks. This is the third installment of monthly double reviews studying the structure of great horror fiction published in our beloved Cemetery Dance.

Last time I reviewed David B. Silva’s “Fury’s Child” from CD #1 (1988) and Lisa Morton’s “The Rich are Different” from CD #74/75 (2016).

If you haven’t read either one, do check them out. The Silva story in particular is hard to find… of course. 😉

This month we’ve got another 2 stories from the same 2 issues…Continue Reading

Review: ‘The Train Derails in Boston’ by Jessica McHugh

trainderailsThe Train Derails in Boston by Jessica McHugh
Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing (June 2016)
346 pages; $14.95 paperback; ebook $3.99
Reviewed by Anton Cancre

What in the ever loving…

Okay, the usual review format (hook, blurb, opinion) just ain’t gonna cut it here. Call me unprofessional or just a plain fool if you want. I’m okay with that. When a train runs this far off the rails, honey, you just have to look at the wreckage from a different angle.Continue Reading

Hell’s Bounty by Joe R. Lansdale & John L. Lansdale: New Signed Limited Edition Hardcover!

Hi Folks!

We’re pleased to report we’ll be receiving some copies of the signed Limited Edition hardcover of HELL’S BOUNTY by Joe R. Lansdale & John L. Lansdale from SST Publications in the UK. This is a beautiful signed Limited Edition and we think our collectors will love it, but our copies will not last long!

Hell's Bountry

Read more or place your order while our supplies last!

Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!

The Dark Highway

“Everybody thought it was a big joke… It was so funny, I just kept on going…Everybody thought I was just going to go on tweaking the Major’s balls to the very end. Which was what I did. Then one morning I woke up and I was in. I was a Prime Walker…So I guess it turned out the Major was tweaking my balls.” Stephen King, The Long Walk

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Review: ‘Eyes Like Lighthouses When the Boats Come Home’ by Dane Cobain

dane-cobain-eyes-like-lighthouses-when-the-boats-come-homeEyes Like Lighthouses When the Boats Come Home by Dane Cobain
CreateSpace (June 2016)
170 pages, $11.99 paperback; $3.49 e-book
Reviewed by Joshua Gage

Eyes Like Lighthouses When the Boats Come Home is a self-published collection of poetry by British performance poet Dane Cobain. It shows a lot of enthusiasm and potential, but ultimately fails due to a number of basic craft issues. Continue Reading

The December 14, 2016 Special Offer

Hi Folks!

Here are the three lucky winners whose names were picked at random:

Mike K. wins 12 books!
Dorothy S. wins 14 books!
Stacy C wins 16 books!

Congratulations to all of the winners!

All selections of Cemetery Dance Publications are final. Void where prohibited. Winners will be contacted via email at the email address provided on the order.

Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!

Cautionary Splatter

I’ve been in the process of moving over the past few months. As you may imagine, there are a lot of books, magazines, and other items to be gathered and transported. I’ve been taking it slowly, and looking over a lot of the items I have. Some of which I had almost forgotten about.

I came upon the Footsteps Press chapbook edition of Douglas E. Winter’s Splatter: A Cautionary Tale. I had not read the story in many years, and it has always been a favorite of mine. So I propped up the pillows, climbed under the warm blankets, and read this chilling short story.Continue Reading

Review: ‘Devils in Dark Houses’ by B.E. Scully

devilsDevils in Dark Houses by B.E. Scully
DarkFuse (August 2016)
510 pages; $19.99 paperback; $5.99 e-book
Reviewed by Frank Michaels Errington

Having never read anything from B.E. Scully before, I had no idea what to expect. Truthfully, I didn’t anticipate being entertained as completely as I was. Devils in Dark Houses is a set of four equally powerful novellas set in the author’s home state of Oregon. The stories are all connected through a pair of homicide detectives assigned to the individual cases.Continue Reading

A Long December by Richard Chizmar New Trade Paperback Edition From the UK!

We’re pleased to report Richard Chizmar’s acclaimed short story collection, A LONG DECEMBER, is now available in trade paperback from SST Publications in the UK!

Even if you already have the SOLD OUT signed Limited Edition hardcover on the way to you, this is a beautiful edition (with new cover artwork) and it would make a terrific reading copy for you or a great gift for the horror lover in your life!

You can also save $5 off the retail price for a limited time only, and ALL copies sold through the Cemetery Dance online store will be SIGNED by the author!

Not only is Richard Chizmar signing ALL of our copies, but he can personally inscribe any copies ordered through the Cemetery Dance online store, so just reply to your order confirmation email and let Mindy know what you’d like him to write in your copy and she’ll add that request to your order!

A Long December

Read more or place your order while our supplies last!

Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!

God and Country

End of the Road

The audience in Morgantown, West Virginia was small—easily the smallest since Albuquerque—but the dozen or so people who showed up were enthusiastic and engaged. One guy, Jarod Barbee, had traveled all the way from Texas. It is December as I write this, recounting events that occurred at the end of July, and I’ve been going back through these columns, collecting them into manuscript format so Cemetery Dance can eventually publish them as a book. Many recurring things jump out at me as I re-read them. Continue Reading

Review: ‘Where the Dead Go to Die’ by Aaron Dries and Mark Allan Gunnells

wherethedeadgoWhere the Dead Go to Die by Aaron Dries and Mark Allan Gunnells
Crystal Lake Publishing (November 2016)
197 pages; $14.99 paperback; $4.99 e-book
Reviewed by Frank Michaels Errington

Been a while since I’ve read a great opening line, but this one drew me right in: The dead roam those halls.

Emily Samuels is starting new job and the protesters are out in force, complete with signs reading, “LIFE IS 4 THE LIVING”,“BRING OUT UR DED”,  “NO TOLERRENCE FOR BONE EATERS”, “LET’S FINISH THE JOB”.Continue Reading

Review: ‘Dead on the Bones: Pulp on Fire’ by Joe R. Lansdale

dead_on_the_bones_by_joe_r_lansdaleDead on the Bones: Pulp on Fire by Joe R. Lansdale
Subterranean Press (December 2016)
296 pages; $40.00 hardcover
Reviewed by Blu Gilliand

“I was living in a pulp writer fury, a storm of imagination.”

That’s how author Joe R. Lansdale describes his early years, that delicate time when a steady diet of television shows, comic books and Edgar Rice Burroughs novels cemented his desire to become a writer. Dead on the Bones: Pulp on Fire is full of stories in which Lansdale seeks to honor those early influences that have given him—and, in turn, his readers—so much.Continue Reading