Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Interviews, The Comic VaultLeave a comment on Eclusive Interview/Preview: Vampyre: A Horror Folktale 
Graphic novelist, writer and Hollywood conceptual artist Ricardo Delgado spoke to Cemetery Dance in 2022 about his Dracula of Transylvania, and now he’s back in that dark world with his new work, Vampyre: A Horror Folktale. It is currently on Kickstarter. Cemetery Dance has exclusive artwork to show, and also caught up with Delgado about Vampyre, its connection to his childhood and previousDracula work, and what else he has going on.Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Reviews, The Comic VaultLeave a comment on Review: The Demon of Beausoleil by Mari Costa
The Demon of Beausoleil by Mari Costa
Oni Press (January 27, 2026)
Reviewed by Joshua Gage
Mariana Costa was born in Brazil (allegedly) fully formed from a hole in the ground. She is a deeply unserious creature who eats stories and then spits out new ones to repopulate the ecosystem. Whether these new stories are better or worse is for you to decide by eating them yourself. She is best known for Peritale, Paranorthern, Belle of the Ball, and Life of Melody. Her newest graphic novel is The Demon of Beausoleil, which an exciting queer romance set against a background of historical horror.Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories ReviewsLeave a comment on Review: White Noise Press — The Chapbooks edited by Keith Minnion 
White Noise Press — The Chapbooks edited by Keith Minnion
White Noise Press (November 2025)
Reviewed by Dave Simms
Many horror fans love chapbooks, but they’re tough to get a hold of. Most have limited runs, are costly, or are so beautifully done that readers are reticent to open and damage them (as with Minnion’s run of these 21 novellas).
Keith Minnion, owner of White Noise Press and celebrated artist and author, has compiled all of the chapbooks into one massive collection.Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories ReviewsLeave a comment on Review: Eminence Front by Rebecca Rowland 
Eminence Front by Rebecca Rowland
Clash Books (January 20, 2026)
Review by W.D. Gagliani
If you’ve ever been freaked out by blizzard conditions and outrageously large snowfall totals, this short novel is likely to bring its share of shivers to bear on your chionophobia.
Titled after a relentlessly driving Pete Townshend song from The Who’s It’s Hard album, Rebecca Rowland (Optic Nerve, The Horrors Hiding in Plain Sight, and numerous splatterpunk short stories) makes the most of this exercise in mostly “quiet horror” by casting a vaguely Lovecraftian shadow over its story, in which the cosmic dread is almost tangible.Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Interviews, The Comic VaultLeave a comment on Exclusive Preview/Interview: Weird Tales – “Shambleau”
The iconic Weird Tales franchise is getting a graphic novel adaptation from Monstrous Books through Kickstarter. Cemetery Dance has some exclusive artwork to share, and can confirm first and exclusively that one of the stories in it will be “Shambleau” by C.L. Moore, adapted by writer Blake Northcott (best known for her work on Catwoman) and artist George Quadros (best known for his work on Sumerian). Northcott spoke to Cemetery Dance about her work on the comic adaptation of“Shambleau.”Continue Reading
Plague House by Michael W. Conrad and Dave Chisholm
Oni Press (January 20, 2026)
Reviewed by Joshua Gage
Michael W. Conrad is a writer currently living in Portland, Oregon. Michael has worked on a number of books at DC Comics, including Wonder Woman, Batgirls, Nightwing, and more. Elsewhere, Michael has written stories for iconic characters including Godzilla, Dracula, and Boris Karloff. Michael’s creator-owned work such as Tremor Dose, Double Walker, and Neptune have revealed a level of oddity that has captivated audiences looking for experiences unlike anything else on the shelves today.
Dave Chisholm is a graphic novelist and musician currently living in Rochester, New York, where he received his doctorate in jazz trumpet from the Eastman School of Music in 2013. His expertise in music, as well as his formal inventiveness within the comics medium, has resulted in a string of critically acclaimed music-centric comics and graphic novels, including Spectrum (Mad Cave Studios), Miles Davis & the Search for the Sound, Enter the Blue, Chasin’ the Bird: Charlie Parker in California, and the groundbreaking graphic novel + original soundtrack Instrumental (Z2 Comics). Chisholm also has a passion for education and teaches comics and music at the Hochstein School and the Rochester Institute of Technology. In his free time, Dave enjoys spending time with his family and his cats. Their newest collaboration is Plague House.Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Interviews, The Comic VaultLeave a comment on Nick Cagnetti on Unleashing the Spirit of the Shadows
Nick Cagnetti of Pink Lemonade co-wrote the five-part comic Spirit of the Shadows with Daniel Ziegler and also took on all the artwork. The series takes the superhero genre into the world of horror, and the first issue drops on January 28. Cemetery Dance spoke to Cagnetti about inspiration, The Phantom of the Opera, working with his co-writer, and some of the crazy, spooky places the story goes to.Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories ReviewsLeave a comment on Review: ITCH! by Gemma Amor 
ITCH! by Gemma Amor
Hodder & Stoughton (January 2026)
Reviewed by Elizabeth Broadbent
With a title like ITCH!, you know Gemma Amor’s bringing the bug horror. I was prepared to spend this read feeling like something was biting me — and I did. I wasn’t prepared for the real soul-crushing heart of this LGBTQIA2+ novel. ITCH! led me to expect bugs and body horror. I never expected to cry. Continue Reading
When I Lay My Vengeance Upon Thee by Gus Moreno and Jakub Rebelka
BOOM! Studios (January 2026)
Reviewed by Joshua Gage
Gus Moreno is the author of This Thing Between Us. His stories have appeared in Aurealis, PseudoPod, Bluestem Magazine, LitroNy, the Burnt Tongues anthology, and a bunch of other places that are totally not defunct. Some of his favorite books are American Psycho, Battle Royale, and Under the Skin. Some of his favorite writers are Margaret Atwood, Lucia Berlin, and Amy Hempel. He likes denim jackets, professional wrestling, neighborhood pizza, and anything by The xx. He lives in the suburbs with his wife and dogs, but never think that he’s not from Chicago. His newest graphic novel is When I Lay My Vengeance Upon Thee, illustrated by Jakub Rebelka.Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Night Time LogicLeave a comment on Night Time Logic with Jeffrey Ford 
“Ghost Stories,” “Hauntings” and “Memory”
Night Time Logic is the part of a story that is felt but not consciously processed. It is also the name of this interview series here at Cemetery Dance online and over on my YouTube channel where we explore the night time part of stories, the strange and uncanny in horror, dark fiction, and more.
My stories often operate with Night Time Logic. My latest book, Phantom Constellations: Strange Tales and Ghost Stories, out now from Cemetery Dance Publications, is full of these kind of subtle, strange, and intentionally ambiguous tales.
Over the years I’ve had the good fortune to speak with acclaimed, multi-award winning author Jeffrey Ford about ghost stories and more. Here is a video of one of his appearances for the Night Time Logic series on YouTube.
Today we focus on one of his most recent stories, a ghost story that appeared in the journal Conjunctions, and we begin… at the end.Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories InterviewsLeave a comment on Interview: Laurel Hightower on The Long Low Whistle 
Laurel Hightower is a bourbon-loving native of Lexington, Kentucky. She is the Bram Stoker-nominated author of Whispers In The Dark, Crossroads, Below, Every Woman Knows This, Silent Key, Spirit Coven, The Day Of The Door, and The Long Low Whistle, and has more than a dozen short fiction stories in print.
Hightower sat down with Cemetery Dance to talk about cryptid horror, powerful and flawed female characters, horror films, The Long Low Whistle, and Shortwave Publishing’s Killer VHS Series. Continue Reading
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The Long Low Whistle (Killer VHS Series #7) by Laurel Hightower
Shortwave Publishing (November 2025)
Reviewed by Haley Newlin
The seventh installment in Shortwave Publishing’s Killer VHS Series is gory, claustrophobic, and probably the most terrifying book you’ll read all year. Laurel Hightower’s The Long Low Whistle swells with an aching grief that throbs through the pages from start to finish and will thrill fans of cryptid and survival horror. Not only would this be a great introduction for readers new to Hightower’s work but it will make fans of the Bram Stoker-nominated author absolutely giddy because, like most of Hightower’s books, The Long Low Whistle is packed with creative, but brutal body horror you won’t be able to shake for days. Continue Reading
Children of the Night (When Monsters Wake Book 1) by Victoria Setian
Abrams Fanfare (January 2026)
Reviewed by Joshua Gage
Victoria Setian started her career in Gotham City, specifically the third floor of DC Comics in the heart of New York City. Her writing chops eventually landed her a role on the DC interactive team, and since then she’s continued her crossover work with credits including the Batman: Arkham series, Mortal Kombat X, and Just Cause 4. She’s a game developer conference speaker and NYU Game Center Incubator advisor, and she helped pilot the Girl Scouts Game Design patch with Women in Games International. When she’s not tinkering on her next project, she’s hanging with her family or practicing Armenian folk dance.
Savanna Ganucheau is a comic artist from New Orleans. She coauthored her first graphic novel, Bloom, with Kevin Panetta in 2019. Bloom received a distinction from the Junior Library Guild, a GLAAD Award nomination, and Amazon’s pick for Best Graphic Novel of 2019. In 2021, she adapted the novel Turtle in Paradise into the graphic novel format. Ganucheau has been creating comics since she was in third grade, and self-published her work in local comic book shops throughout high school. Her newest YA graphic novel is Children of the Night (When Monsters Wake Book 1).Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories InterviewsLeave a comment on Interview: Viggy Parr Hampton
Viggy Parr Hampton, MPH is an epidemiologist, host of the podcast “Horror Humor Hunger,” and the author of A Cold Night for Alligators, Much Too Vulgar, The Rotting Room, and A Veritable Household Pet. She is a graduate of Georgetown University and Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health. She is also a member of the Purgatory Media team, producing the popular YouTube segment “Tag Team Tales of Terror,” where she challenges fellow horror authors to create a progressive story with her.
Hampton sat down with Cemetery Dance to talk about feminist horror, lobotomies, and A Veritable Household Pet. Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories ReviewsLeave a comment on Review: A Veritable Household Pet by Viggy Parr Hampton 
A Veritable Household Pet by Viggy Parr Hampton
Horror Humor Hunger Press (January 2026)
Reviewed by Haley Newlin
Viggy Parr Hampton is a force to be reckoned with in her medical-body horror novel, A Veritable Household Pet. It’s a blistering indictment of patriarchal power and a tragic story of the nightmare that is the theft of autonomy and identity, a quiet and constant terror women know all too well.Continue Reading
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