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Interview: Crafting Horror with Jenny Kiefer

Cemetery Dance OnlineOctober 28, 2025October 9, 2025InterviewsCrafting for Sinners, Haley Newlin, Interviews, Jenny Kiefer, This Wretched ValleyLeave a comment

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Jenny Kiefer is an award-winning author of spine-tingling, fierce, and cathartic horror. Her debut novel, This Wretched Valley, was a 2024 Bram Stoker Award Nominee and named a Library Journal Best Horror Book of the year. Readers have been anxiously awaiting her second release, Crafting for Sinners, a survival horror story about a queer woman trapped in a craft store run by religious fanatics. It is all over BookTok and Bookstagram as one of the most anticipated horror book releases of 2025.

Together with her mother, Kiefer owns and manages Butcher Cabin Books, an all-horror bookstore in Louisville, Kentucky.

Kiefer sat down with Cemetery Dance to discuss her debut novel, This Wretched Valley, her new release, Crafting for Sinners, survival horror, her favorite reads of the year, and of course, crafts.

You can find the author on Instagram @_jennykiefer and on her website. Continue Reading

Review: Crafting for Sinners by Jenny Kiefer

Cemetery Dance OnlineOctober 27, 2025October 9, 2025ReviewsCrafting for Sinners, Haley Newlin, Jenny Kiefer, ReviewsLeave a comment

Crafting for Sinners by Jenny Kiefer
Quirk Books (October 2025)
Reviewed by Haley Newlin

In Jenny Kiefer’s latest release, Crafting for Sinners, Ruth walks the aisles of a craft store in Kill Devil, Kentucky. There’s fall decor from floor to ceiling, but no sign of ghosts, witches, or black cats for Halloween, the holiday omitted entirely. Emblazoned glass jars read: Be Pure, for those who give themselves to immortality will suffer the punishment of eternal fire. A placard with two vintage handguns forming an X, barrels overlapping, declares: Righteous judgment will be revealed on the day of His wrath – Romans 2:5. Continue Reading

Stinger by Robert McCammon: Signed & Numbered & TRAYCASED Limited Edition!

Cemetery Dance OnlineOctober 25, 2025Breaking NewsLeave a comment

Stinger by Robert McCammon
Signed & Numbered & TRAYCASED Limited Edition!
Coming Soon from SST Publications in the UK!

As we mentioned the other week, we’ve been way too busy shipping The Stand to carry books from other publishers lately, but we don’t want our collectors to miss out on this one, so we’re going to point you toward some other great places to order:

Stinger by Robert McCammon is a Signed, Numbered, and TRAYCASED Limited Edition from SST Publications in the UK and they’re only making 500 copies of this amazing edition. SST always punches above their weight in the production department and this sounds like another major winner.

For our friends in the United States and Canada, Brian over at Lividian Publications has added the book to the Lividian online store. He’ll handle the shipping costs from the UK and any tariffs or taxes that pop up, and then ship your copy to you from either a US or Canadian address.

If you’re in the UK or Europe, you can order directly from SST Publications to save on postage and taxes. Don’t miss out on this one!

E.M. Carroll Has A Guest In The House

Cemetery Dance OnlineOctober 24, 2025October 7, 2025Interviews, The Comic VaultA Guest in the House, Columns, Danica Davidson, E.M. Carroll, Interviews, The Comic VaultLeave a comment

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cover of A Guest in the House E.M. Carroll’s horror graphic novel A Guest in the House is out in paperback, and Cemetery Dance is excited to share the a few pages below. The graphic novel, which follows a new wife who becomes suspicious about the death of her husband’s previous wife, won the 2024 LA Times Book Prize. Cemetery Dance spoke to Carroll about being drawn to dark subjects, the book’s inspiration, and the creative process.Continue Reading

Interview: Jordan Thomas and Chris Matthews Take Us to EXORCISM ISLAND

Cemetery Dance OnlineOctober 21, 2025October 19, 2025Interviews, The Comic VaultChris Matthews, Columns, Danica Davidson, Exorcism Island, Interviews, Jordan ThomasLeave a comment

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cover of Exorcism Island In the 5-issue horror comic Exorcism Island, the worst instances of demonic possession are all sent to a special island. Writer Jordan Thomas and artist Chris Matthews, who have known each other since childhood and previously worked together on Mugshots, spoke to Cemetery Dance about what led them to teaming up, their inspiration, and how to be both horrifying and highly entertaining.Continue Reading

Review: White Flight by Peter O’Keefe

Cemetery Dance OnlineOctober 20, 2025October 4, 2025ReviewsElizabeth Broadbent, Peter O'Keefe, Reviews, White FlightLeave a comment

White Flight by Peter O’Keefe
Uncomfotably Dark Horror (October 2025)
Reviewed by Elizabeth Broadbent

Everyone loves a good haunted house story. Make it short and quick, throw in some serious tension, stir in a few vivid characters, add a dose of disorientation — you’ve probably got a hit. Peter O’Keefe does this one better in White Flight, out October 21 from Uncomfortably Dark. His fast-paced, nail-biting little gothic novella delivers something unexpected: a seriously squirm-worthy look at American racism. Continue Reading

Review: The Possession of Alba Díaz by Isabel Cañas

Cemetery Dance OnlineOctober 17, 2025October 7, 2025ReviewsHaley Newlin, Isabel Canas, Reviews, The Possession of Alba DiazLeave a comment

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Berkley (August 2025)
Reviewed by Haley Newlin

Isabel Cañas is a gothic horror revivalist who would appease and astonish the founding mothers of the genre and excite the readers they continue to lure in today. What makes Cañas stand out is her use of classic Gothic tropes — such as isolation, family turmoil, claustrophobic settings, and hauntings —but she re-centers them in Mexico. She symbolizes historical trauma, evangelization, colonization, generational violence, and misogyny throughout her work in a way that’s accessible and impactful.

In her latest genre-defying release, The Possession of Alba Díaz, Cañas conjures an unforgettable, wicked tale so compelling and cinematically evocative that readers will talk about it for years to come. It’s haunting and gory. Fierce and uncanny.Continue Reading

Mark Russell on finding the horror in the Thanksgiving holiday

Cemetery Dance OnlineOctober 15, 2025October 4, 2025Interviews, The Comic VaultAhoy Comics, Columns, Danica Davidson, Interviews, Mark Russell, Previews, Thanksgiving, The Comic VaultLeave a comment

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cover of Thanksgiving graphic novel The holiday Thanksgiving is getting a one-shot horror comedy comic from writer Mark Russell and artist Mauricet, named, simply enough, Thanksgiving. Russell describes it as a “metaphor for what our nation is in danger of becoming” and it will hit bookshelves on October 22. Meanwhile, Cemetery Dance spoke to Russell about why he chose to write a horror comic about Thanksgiving, its three covers, and what he hopes readers take away.Continue Reading

Review: Feral and Hysterical by Sadie Hartmann

Cemetery Dance OnlineOctober 13, 2025October 7, 2025ReviewsFeral and Hysterical, Mother Horror, Reviews, Rowan B. Minor, Sadie HartmannLeave a comment

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Page Street Publishing (August 2025)
Reviewed by Rowan B. Minor

Sadie Hartmann, also known as Mother Horror, is a writer and editor from the Pacific Northwest. She is the co-owner of the horror fiction subscription company Night Worms and has been the editor-in-chief of her own horror fiction imprint, Dark Hart Books. Hartmann is a 2023 Bram Stoker Awards Winner for her book 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered from Page Street Publishing. Her most recent book is Feral and Hysterical: Mother Horror’s Ultimate Reading Guide to Dark and Disturbing Fiction by Women, also from Page Street Publishing.Continue Reading

Cover Reveal: True Believers #3 by Stephen Graham Jones

Cemetery Dance OnlineOctober 10, 2025October 7, 2025The Comic VaultBit Bot Media, Columns, Cover Reveal, Danica Davidson, Preview, Stephen Graham Jones, The Comic Vault, True BelieverLeave a comment

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The comic True Believers: Issue #3 — Slashfest by Stephen Graham Jones and Josh Viola takes place at a real horror convention and is coming out on October 13 thanks to Bit Bot Media. One of its variant covers is of Klayton (Celldweller), a musician and cofounder of Bit Bot Media, by artist Matthew Therrien. Cemetery Dance gets to reveal it exclusively here before the comic’s official launch.Continue Reading

Review: The Witch of Willow Sound by Vanessa F. Penney

Cemetery Dance OnlineOctober 10, 2025October 7, 2025ReviewsReviews, Rowan B. Minor, The Witch of Willow Sound, Vanessa F. PenneyLeave a comment

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ECW Press (September 2025)
Reviewed by Rowan B. Minor

Vanessa F. Penney is a new author who was born in northern Newfoundland and raised in rural Nova Scotia. Currently living in Dartmouth, NS, she is most inspired by “the coal-black ocean depths and bone-buried shorelines of the East Coast.” The Witch of Willow Sound is her debut novel. Continue Reading

Matt Wagner, Kelley Jones, and the Brides of Dracula

Cemetery Dance OnlineOctober 8, 2025October 7, 2025Interviews, The Comic VaultColumns, Danica Davidson, Dracula, Interviews, Kelley Jones, Matt Wagner, The Comic Vault, The CountLeave a comment

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After the graphic novels Dracula: Book I — The Impaler and Dracula: Book II — The Brides, writer Matt Wagner and illustrator Kelley Jones are back with Dracula: Book III — The Count. The third book is currently on Kickstarter, and it’s told from Dracula’s point-of-view. Cemetery Dance spoke with Wagner and Jones about building on the previous books, what research went into this, and how their feelings about Dracula have been affected. Continue Reading

Review: The Widows of Winding Gale by Kealan Patrick Burke

Cemetery Dance OnlineOctober 7, 2025October 6, 2025ReviewsDave Simms, Earthling Halloween Series, Earthling Publications, Kealan Patrick Burke, Reviews, The Widows of Winding GaleLeave a comment

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Earthling Publications (October 2025)
Reviewed by Dave Simms

For those readers who have read Kealan Patrick Burke, a familiarity with gorgeous writing is a given. The stories themselves are varied, the voices far-ranging, but no matter how far the author stretches his wings, somehow, it all comes back to his style and craft. Like Peter Straub and Gwendolyn Kiste, one knows they are in the midst of a singular voice that entrances. For musicians, the tone of a famous saxophone player or blues guitarist can be unmistakable once the song begins.

What Screams May Come: Creatures of Liminal Space by Daniel Braum

Cemetery Dance OnlineOctober 3, 2025October 4, 2025What Screams May ComeColumns, Creatures of Liminal Space, Daniel Braum, Interviews, Rick Hipson, What Screams May ComeLeave a comment

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Creatures of Liminal Space by Daniel Braum
Jackanapes Press (June 2025)

The Synopsis

Daniel Braum’s Creatures of Liminal Space explores the spaces in between places and the strange, weird, and numinous encounters you might have there. In this collection, you will find three short story length selections of Braum’s hallmark strange tales (including one original to this book), interspersed among twelve dark and wondrous flash fiction length selections. Braum and illustrator Dan Sauer invite you to traverse these labyrinths of the liminal, and join them on a phantasmagoric journey replete with dark and ethereal denizens haunting exotic borderlands far-flung and shadowy corners just next door.

Discover the heartbreaking secrets of a Loch Ness Monster sighted in the lush jungles of Central America.

Learn who or what the enigmatic Jaguar King is protecting with the wild cats of a remote swath of tropical forest.

Traverse patterns of love and loss and time—and learn if our friendships and truths, like constellations of stars, are real or perceived.

Ghosts. Hauntings. Monsters. Creatures. Cryptids. Fear. Darkness. Loss. Wonder. Heartbreak. Mystery. The Strange. The Uncanny. The Liminal. The Interstitial. Labyrinths of time. Love and Desire. The edges of civilization. Longings for the lost.Continue Reading

Review: When Shadows Burn by Todd Brown

Cemetery Dance OnlineOctober 1, 2025October 4, 2025ReviewsReviews, Rowan B. Minor, Todd Brown, When Shadows BurnLeave a comment

When Shadows Burn by Todd Brown
Köehler Books (October 14, 2025)
Reviewed by Rowan B. Minor

Todd Brown is a neurodivergent computational sociologist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, WIRED, National Geographic, Forbes, USA Today, and other publications. He currently lives in Virginia, and has spoken in seven countries and at dozens of venues, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, Harvard, and more. His debut novel, When Shadows Burn, is a southern gothic haunted house story.Continue Reading

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