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The Woman (With Bonus Novella!)
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"He is, quite simply, one of the best in the business, on par with Clive Barker, James Ellroy, and Thomas Harris."
— Stephen King

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

Update for Collectors:
The Lettered Edition sold out within 72 hours of being officially announced.

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 ad

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The Horror Hall of Fame: The Stoker Winners
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The Horror Hall of Fame: The Stoker Winners
Edited by Joe R. Lansdale

Featuring full color cover artwork by Alan M. Clark and black & white interior artwork for every story by acclaimed artist Glenn Chadbourne

About the Book:
This landmark anthology collects for the first-time ever the Bram Stoker Award-winning short stories and novellas from legendary authors such as George R.R. Martin, Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison, Jack Ketchum, Joe R. Lansdale, David Morrell, Alan Rodgers, and many, many others! The Stoker Award is presented annually by the Horror Writers Association, and this volume represents the very best fiction in the horror field!

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Table of Contents:
"Introduction" by Joe R.

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Horror Drive-In Presents An All-Night Short Story Marathon
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Horror Drive-In Presents An All-Night Short Story Marathon
edited by Mark Sieber

About the Chapbook:
Horror Drive-In Presents An All-Night Short Story Marathon is a signed Limited Edition glossy chapbook featuring short stories by Bill Pronzini, Harry Shannon, Brian James Freeman, Norman Prentiss, and Ronald Malfi. Edited by Mark Sieber, the founder of the Horror Drive-in website and a columnist in Cemetery Dance magazine, these tales are sure to take you back to the days when books were printed on pulpy pages, and you watched scary movies outdoors under the stars. These stories are both scary and unsettling, and this chapbook is signed by all five contributors and the editor!

Table of Contents:
"Why Horror Drive-In?" by Mark Sieber
"Angelique" by Bill Pronzini
"Control" by Norman Prentiss
"Night Nurse" by Harry Shannon
"Where Sunlight Sleeps" by Brian James Freeman
"The Dinner Party" by Ronald Malfi

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The Century's Best Horror Fiction
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Featuring Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Shirley Jackson, Robert Bloch, Charles Beaumont, Jack Ketchum, Gary Brandner, Dennis Etchison, Michael Bishop, Ramsey Campbell, David Schow, Joe R. Lansdale, Elizabeth Massie, Thomas Ligotti, Robert Aickman, Poppy Z. Brite, Lucy Taylor, Stephen Laws, Brian Hodge, Glen Hirshberg, Tim Lebbon, W.W. Jacobs, H.G. Wells, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, M.R. James, H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, Manly Wade Wellman, Theodore Sturgeon, and nearly six dozen others!

The Century's Best Horror Fiction
edited by John Pelan

About the Books:
Cemetery Dance Publications commissioned a spectacular two-volume anthology project under the editorship of noted author and historian of the horror genre, John Pelan.

John selected one story published during each year of the 20th Century (1901-2000) as the most notable story of that year — all 100 st

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It (25th Anniversary Special Edition)
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"I worked on the book in a dream. I remember very little about the writing of it, except for the idea that I'd gotten hold of something that felt very big to me, and something that talked about more than monsters..."
— Stephen King, from the exclusive afterword for this special edition

It: The 25th Anniversary Special Limited Edition
by Stephen King

Featuring a brand new afterword by Stephen King, full-color wrap-around color artwork by Glen Orbik, and nearly thirty original color and black & white interior illustrations by Alan M. Clark and Erin S. Wells!

IMPORTANT UPDATE FOR COLLECTORS:
The Deluxe Lettered Edition sold out within 25 minutes of being announced and the Deluxe

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Kin
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Kin
a novel by Kealan Patrick Burke

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On a scorching hot summer day in Elkwood, Alabama, Claire Lambert staggers naked, wounded, and half-blind away from the scene of an atrocity. She is the sole survivor of a nightmare that claimed her friends, and even as she prays for rescue, the killers — a family of cannibalistic lunatics — are closing in.  
 
A soldier suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder returns from Iraq to the news that his brother is among the murdered in Elkwood.
 
In snowbound Detroit, a waitress trapped in an abusive relationship gets an unexpected visit that will lead to bloodshed and send her back on the road to a past she has spent years trying to outrun.
 
And Claire, the only survivor of the Elkwood Massacre, haunted by her dead friends, dreams of vengeance... a dream which will be realized as grief and rage turn good people into col

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Four Legs in the Morning
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Cemetery Dance Signature SeriesFour Legs in the Morning (Cemetery Dance Signature Series #9)
by Norman Prentiss

Featured Artist: Steven C. Gilberts

About the Book:
Dr. Sibley, long-standing Chair of the English and Classical Literature Department at Graysonville University, has outlasted many of his detractors. In this collection of three linked stories, mysterious consequences await those who defy or disappoint him:
 
• a new colleague, whose avant-guard theories offend Sibley’s traditional critical sensibilities, uncovers a new answer to an ancient riddle ("Four Legs in the Morning")

• a student plagiarist learns to regret his dishonesty ("Flannel Board")

• a young administrator

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Gideon's Sword
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Gideon's Sword (Deluxe Special Edition)
by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Update for Collectors:
The signed Limited Edition and Deluxe Lettered Edition sold out less than one week after they were officially announced. A few customers did not pay for their orders and we're selling those copies on First Come, First Served basis through our website.

About the Book:
At twelve, Gideon Crew witnessed his father, a world-class mathematician, accused of treason and gunned down.

At twenty-four, summoned to his dying mother's bedside, Gideon learned the truth: His father was framed and deliberately slaughtered. With her last breath, she begged her son to avenge him.

Now, with a new purpose in his life, Gideon crafts a one-time mission of vengeance, aimed at the per

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