Exciting Cemetery Dance Books Still Available for Preorder!

Hi Folks!

There are several very exciting upcoming Cemetery Dance books still available for preorder, so don’t wait to place your order! (Plus: Several of these still have FREE US SHIPPING for a limited time only!)

This is not a full list of everything we’ll be publishing in the fall, but instead just some of the exciting books that are still available for preorder, so don’t panic if you don’t see something you’re waiting for. You can always check the Production Update page if you have any questions about the status of a book you’ve ordered.

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Thanks, as always, for your continuing support!

Exciting Cemetery Dance Items Still Available!

Hi Folks!

There are still some exciting Cemetery Dance books, magazines, and art prints available on our website that you might have missed out on! Click on the images below for more information or to place your order while supplies last:

Thanks, as always, for your continuing support!

The Circle by Bentley Little
Outstanding Booklist Review!

Hi Folks!

The Circle by Bentley Little just received a terrific review in the trade publication Booklist. Without spoiling too much, here are some of the highlights:

“In what might be the greatest opening scene ever, a filthy, loinclothed child bursts into a woman’s home, bolts straight for the bathroom, and begins defecating diamonds. This novella from Little gets away with its crimes by pleading insanity, but readers who groove on it… will be telling their friends about this one for ages.”
— Booklist, Daniel Kraus

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Thanks, as always, for your continuing support!

Update on the IDW Signed Limited Editions!

Hi Folks!

As you might remember, Cemetery Dance has been chosen to distribute some of IDW Publishing’s exciting new signed Limited Edition hardcovers!  These Limited Edition books have low print runs, high production values, great contributors (most of whom are signing the books), and incredible low prices!

The first book is an incredible anthology called Zombies vs. Robots: This Means War!, which is set in the world of the ZVR comic and will be ready to ship later this summer! Contributors include 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).

Order your copy of ZVR: THIS MEANS WAR! while supplies last!

The second book we’re offering is V-WARS by Jonathan Maberry, Nancy Holder, Yvonne Navarro, James A. Moore, Gregory Frost, John Everson, Keith R.A. DeCandido, and Scott Nicholson!

This title is moving through production on schedule and we’ll have an official publication date soon.

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.

Order your copy of V-WARS while supplies last!

Thanks, as always, for your continuing support!

Today we’re pleased to announce a great new addition to our fall line-up: The Buffalo Hunter by Peter Straub! The signed editions are going fast (there are less than 30 copies of the Limited Edition left) and there is also a value priced trade hardcover!

About the Book:
The Buffalo Hunter chronicles the fixations of a 35-year-old man who numbs his fear of women in some very unusual ways.  This Peter Straub novella was inspired by an art opening that stuck with the author longer than expected, leading him to purchase an unusual number of baby bottles and discover the haunting story of Bobby Bunting in the process…

About the Inspiration:

“(The Buffalo Hunter) was inspired by a show — an art opening. Her work is often primal, and this show included several beds with baby bottles lashed to them. The next morning, as soon as I woke up, I wondered what that kind of thing would look like if it were made without any artistic impulse. And what kind of person would make it? That morning, I went out and bought a bunch of baby bottles. Bobby Bunting came into view very early on. I knew I wanted to write a novella, and I had so much fun that it turned out to be a little longer than I had expected it to be.”

— Peter Straub

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Hi Folks,

We’re pleased to report that Amazonas: A Novella by Alan Peter Ryan and The Back of Beyond: New Stories by Alan Peter Ryan have both been sent to the printer and will be published in August.

As you may know, Alan Peter Ryan passed away suddenly in last year.  He had just started a major resurgence in his fiction career — which began in the 1980s with classic horror novels like The Kill and Dead White — and we were proud to be working with him on several projects. Alan was definitely at the top of his game when he wrote these and we’re glad to be able to share them with the world.

Read more below and place your preorders while supplies last:

Amazonas: A Novella

by Alan Peter Ryan

The river, the river. She thought it would never end…

They were in search of The Slave Tree, and this had been a mistake. As the boat traveled up the river, deep into the heart of darkness, Henrietta watched Edwin closely. She watched him chew at his fingernails and spit into the river. She watched a vein in his temple that never stopped throbbing and the tic that made a muscle twitch beside his eye. She watched Edwin and the man named Crown whispering some secret, back and forth, as if Crown was hypnotizing Edwin.

The most frightening part of this insane journey was not the fear of losing her husband. She had passed beyond fearing that. But if she did lose Edwin, here, so far upstream from the last outpost of civilization, surrounded by the green-walled forest and the dark and tangled terrors it contained, what in the name of God would become of her?

There were things moving about the jungle, and there was a madman waiting for them at the end of their journey… and then, most importantly, there was The Slave Tree, which held a secret so dark it could drive a person mad.

Amazonas is a piercing look into the true of heart of darkness into which many men enter… and few ever return.

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The Back of Beyond: New Stories

by Alan Peter Ryan

Each of these four brand new stories from Alan Peter Ryan feature men who are haunted by different demons in different places and different times…

In Brazil, there are signs that say “Sexual Exploration Is a Crime,” and Jerry Crenshaw has traveled to the country in search of a girlfriend. He finds one and he has never known a girl like Renata. She is friendly and vivacious. She stands very close to him and looks up straight into his eyes and keeps one hand resting lightly on his arm. But Jerry’s going to find a lot more in Brazil than he bargained for, including something in a bag that will change his world forever….

“The Winter’s Tale” tells the story of a man who lives by a churchyard that is widely and firmly reputed to be the haunt of sprites and goblins. The man cares not for such tales, but he should have paid heed to the warnings because he’s about to find out the hard way that he is not alone in the cold winter night…

In “Starvation Valley,” a man and his son are on a cross country drive that is not going according to plan when they end up at a place called Janey’s, which may or may not be real. It certainly feels real while they’re there, but when the man goes back to find it again, he learns that some places in the world, once visited and then left behind, seem never to have existed at all…

In “Mountain Man,” there’s an old man named Hiram Fuller whose hands are thin and gray with dirt, the nails long and broken, each with a black crescent of dirt. He reeks to high heaven, not just of old sweat but of something thick and suffocating like the smell of a savage animal unwillingly caged… and when you meet him on the old trail he says he “ate his horse,” and he “might just have to eat you as well…”

Journey with Alan Peter Ryan into the darkness that resides within all of these men… but don’t travel too far off the path because you might not find your way home again.

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Hi Folks!

Today we’re pleased to announce our special signed Limited Edition of A Book of Horrors edited by Stephen Jones, which we’re co-publishing with PS Publishing in the UK, will be shipping to us from the printer later this month, so this is your last chance to place your preorder and ship in the first round of shipping! (All orders received after Monday will have to wait to ship in July.)

This brand new anthology features ORIGINAL HORROR 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 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, so this book will be a must have for every Stephen King collector and fan!

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

Thanks, as always, for your continuing support!

Hi Folks!

This fall, Scribner will be publishing stunning new hardcover editions of The Talisman and Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub, and due to popular demand we’ll be creating a special slipcase to house both books in stylish fashion for our collectors! As a special bonus, we’ll also include an incredible full-size poster featuring an original color piece of artwork by Tomislav Tikulin created just for this set! We can’t say more about the artwork just yet, other than it’ll be inspired by The Talisman or Black House and we think our collectors will be thrilled with it!

We’ll only produce enough slipcases and posters to fill our preorders for the two book set, so there might only be a couple dozen or a few hundred (at the very most) of these collectible book sets anywhere in the world! Place your order early so you don’t miss out!

Included in this Collectible Set will be:

* the new hardcover edition of The Talisman, to be published by Scribner this fall ($35.00 retail value)

* the new hardcover edition of Black House, to be published by Scribner this fall ($35.00 retail value)

* a special Limited Edition Slipcase custom-made by Cemetery Dance specifically for this set. This huge slipcase will be sized perfectly to protect both books and the design features will include custom hot-foil stamping and the high production values of our previous Stephen King slipcases. ($29.95 retail value)

* an original full-size poster featuring original artwork by Tomislav Tikulin that is being commissioned by Cemetery Dance specifically for this set ($20 retail value)

So that’s nearly a $120 retail value for just $99, and the slipcase and the poster will not be sold in stores! If you want this very cool collectible set for your Stephen King collection, our website is the place to order!

If you’re interested, place your order today so you don’t miss out!

Thanks, as always, for your continuing support!

Hi Folks!

Today we’re pleased to announce we’re now offering The Fall (Deluxe Signed Limited Edition) by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan from Lonely Road Books for preorder! This beautiful special edition will be published later this year and is sure to be a hit with collectors!

About the Book:

Last week they invaded Manhattan. This week they will destroy the world.

The vampiric virus is spreading and soon will envelop the globe. Amid the chaos, Eph Goodweather—head of the Centers for Disease Control’s team—leads a band out to stop these bloodthirsty monsters. But it may be too late.

Ignited by the Master’s horrific plan, a war has erupted between Old and New World vampires. Caught between these warring forces, powerless and vulnerable, humans find themselves no longer the consumers but the consumed. At the center of the conflict lies an ancient text that contains the vampires’ entire history . . . and their darkest secrets.

Whoever finds the book can control the outcome of the war and, ultimately, the fate of us all.

About this Special Edition:

With an oversized page size, an extremely low print run, and an “old world” design to resemble an ancient volume, this special edition will feature a high-quality paper stock and a deluxe binding selected from the finest materials available. This special edition will feature 20 original illustrations by acclaimed comic artist and film director Troy Nixey. This stunning special edition will be like no other book in your collection. Per the policies of Lonely Road Books, customers who buy this volume from Cemetery Dance will have the first opportunity to reserve the final volume in the series.

About the Authors:

Born in Guadalajara, Mexico, Guillermo del Toro made his feature directorial debut in 1995 with the film Cronos, and has since gone on to direct Mimic, The Devil’s Backbone, Blade II, Hellboy I, Hellboy II, and Pan’s Labyrinth, which garnered enormous critical praise worldwide and won three Academy Awards.

Chuck Hogan is the author of several acclaimed novels, including Devils in Exile and The Killing Moon. The Town was awarded the Hammett Prize for excellence in crime writing, and named one of the ten best novels of the year by Stephen King. He lives with his family outside Boston.

Read more or place your order while supplies last!

Hi Folks!

We’re very pleased to announce we’ll be publishing Sick Chick Flicks by John Skipp this fall as a value priced trade paperback edition! At this time, this is the only planned edition anywhere in the world — and for a limited time only we’re offering FREE US SHIPPING!

INTRODUCING THREE KICKASS LEADING LADIES FROM HADES!

Sit back and enjoy, as mad maverick author-turned-filmmaker John Skipp unspools this twisted TRIPLE-BILL of fierce, fun, f***ed-up mind-movies for the wild at heart:

AFTERPARTY

She’s a caretaker for Hollywood’s broken-hearted. He’s a collector of artists and other lost souls.  And Death is a party that never ends, in this haunting bohemian L.A. ghost story.

THE LEGEND OF HONEY LOVE

The outrageous adventures of a beautiful barmaid who – in thwarting a psycho killing spree – becomes a national hero. And the target of every wannabe psycho killer on Earth.

ROSE

Welcome to “Rose’s Place,” a crazed cable-access/internet puppet show where the songs, skits, and rescue stations run all night long. Or at least until the zombies get in…

SPECIAL FEATURES:

Provocative in-depth commentary from John Skipp and Cody Goodfellow exploring the scripts, the filmmaking process, writers vs. directors vs. producers, and the joy of creating powerful, ground-breaking roles for women.

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Hi Folks!

Today we’re very pleased to report that the Limited Edition of Snow Shadows by Mick Garris has sold out pre-publication!

In addition, our distributor and retailer sales for Torn by Lee Thomas are about to skyrocket due to a terrific review in the trade publication Booklist. Here is just a small taste to avoid spoilers for those who want to approach the book with no idea of what is about to happen:

“The latter third of this novella is a full-on guns-versus-monsters blastathon, with plenty of gore for those so inclined and just enough tortured insight for those looking for some poignancy, too.”
— Booklist

For those who missed the news, Torn is the story of a small town sheriff whose marriage is falling apart.  When a little girl is abducted from a local park and carried into the woods, he leads a desperate search to find her. But the little girl is only bait, and something vicious waits in the woods for her rescuers…

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

Hi Folks!

Today we’re very pleased to report that Torn by Lee Thomas and Snow Shadows by Mick Garris are being sent to the printer and will be published in July! We’re running low on copies of both books, so don’t wait to place your order!

Torn (Cemetery Dance Novella Series #23)
by Lee Thomas

Artwork by Vincent Chong

How do you go on when something like that happens to your child?

Bill Cranston is a family man, whose marriage is falling apart, eroding under his wife’s constant bitterness and her retreat into alcohol and drugs.  He is also the sheriff of Luther’s Bend, a generally quiet town. When a little girl is abducted from a local park and carried into the woods, Bill leads a desperate search to find the child. But the little girl is only bait, and something vicious waits in the woods for her rescuers.

I am me. Can’t you see?  I am me and he is he. When he is he, I can’t be me.

Douglas Sykes is insane. He sits in Bill Cranston’s cell, speaking in rhymes and riddles. Though a stranger to Luther’s Bend, Sykes seems to know a lot about Sheriff Cranston. Through his ramblings he reveals secrets about Bill, and secrets about himself. Sykes claims to be a mythological creature – a monster – and a handful of his victims have finally tracked him down, victims who now share Sykes’ affliction.

A pack is descending on Luther’s Bend. They are hunting Sykes, and they will not stop until everyone near him is left broken, bleeding, and torn.

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

Snow Shadows (Cemetery Dance Novella Series #24)
by Mick Garris

Cover Artwork by Les Edwards

Interior Artwork by Lorry Stone

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!

The Providence Rider by Robert McCammon
Brand New Signed Limited Edition!

Subterranean Press will be publishing The Providence Rider by Robert McCammon this summer and we’ve managed to secure some SIGNED copies of the trade hardcover edition and also some copies of the beautiful signed Limited Edition!

There will only 474 copies of the Signed & Slipcased Limited Edition available to the general public, and this edition contains a new, utterly compelling novella, “Death Comes for the Rich Man,” which has never before been published and will not be reprinted anywhere else for at least two years!

The Providence Rider is the fourth standalone installment in the extraordinary series of historical thrillers featuring Matthew Corbett, professional problem solver. The narrative begins in the winter of 1703, with Matthew still haunted by his lethal encounter with notorious mass murderer Tyranthus Slaughter. When an unexplained series of explosions rocks his Manhattan neighborhood, Matthew finds himself forced to confront a new and unexpected problem. Someone is trying—and trying very hard—to get his attention. That someone is a shadowy figure from out of Matthew’s past: the elusive Professor Fell. The professor, it turns out, has a problem of his own, one that requires the exclusive services of Matthew Corbett.

The ensuing narrative moves swiftly and gracefully from the emerging metropolis of New York City to Pendulum Island in the remote Bermudas. In the course of his journey, Matthew encounters a truly Dickensian assortment of memorable, often grotesque, antagonists. These include Sirki, the giant, deceptively soft-spoken East Indian killer, Dr. Jonathan Gentry, an expert in exotic potions with a substance abuse problem of his own, the beautiful but murderous Aria Chillany, and, of course, the master manipulator and “Emperor of Crime” on two continents, Professor Fell himself. The result is both an exquisitely constructed novel of suspense and a meticulous recreation of a bygone era.

Read more about this incredible new McCammon novel or to place your order while our supplies last!

Hi Folks!

We’re very pleased to announce we’ll be publishing an original trade paperback edition of The Interrogator and Other Criminally Good Fiction edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Ed Gorman this fall!

Featuring award-winning suspense, thriller, and noir masters like Lee Child, Joyce Carol Oates, David Morrell, Bill Pronzini, Jeffery Deaver, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Max Allan Collins & Mickey Spillane, Tom Piccirilli, Dave Zeltserman, Michael Connelly, and more than a dozen others, this is an anthology not to be missed! Full of nail-biting suspense, jaw-dropping action, and even some heart-wrenching emotional drama, The Interrogator and Other Criminally Good Fiction is just that… criminally good!

Table of Contents:

“Introduction” by Jon L. Breen

“The Interrogator” by David Morrell

“The List” by Loren D. Estleman

“The Scent of Lilacs” by Doug Allyn

“Section 7 (A) Operational” by Lee Child

“The Lamb Was Sure to Go” by Gar Anthony Haywood

“Luck” by T. Jefferson Parker

“The Story of the Stabbing” by Joyce Carol Oates

“Trade Secret” by Bill Pronzini

“The Plot” by Jeffery Deaver

“The Vengeance of Kali” by David Dean

“Sometimes You Can’t Retire” by Marcia Muller

“Clutter” by Martin Edwards

“Grave Matter” by Max Allan Collins & Mickey Spillane

“Escape from Wolfkill” by Clark Howard

“The Performer” by Gary Phillips

“Loon Life” by Brendan Du Bois

“Winning Ticket” by Christine Matthews

“The Movie Game” by Dick Lochte

“Sleep, Creep, Leap” by Patricia Abbot

“The Girl in the Golden Gown” by Robert S. Levinson

“What People Leave Behind” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

“The Return of Inspiration” by Tom Piccirilli

“Archie’s Been Framed” by Dave Zeltserman

“The Perfect Triangle” by Michael Connelly

“Old Men and Old Boards” by Don Winslow

“Plainview” by David Hoing

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Throttle by Stephen King and Joe Hill:
Now Available As A 99 Cent eBook!

This is not a Cemetery Dance eBook, but we knew our Stephen King and Joe Hill fans would want to hear about it! Inspired by Richard Matheson’s classic “Duel,” “Throttle” by Joe Hill and Stephen King, is a duel of a different kind, pitting a faceless trucker against a tribe of motorcycle outlaws in the simmering Nevada desert. Their battle is fought out on twenty miles of the most lonely road in the country, a place where the only thing worse than not knowing what you’re up against, is slowing down. Click on the cover to read more:

Read more or place your order on Amazon.com!

Reminder:
Special Short Cut Link to Read Cemetery Dance Publications eBooks on Your Amazon Kindle!

Just as a reminder, if you’d like to have your Cemetery Dance eBooks automatically loaded onto your Kindle, Amazon lists our eBooks within a day or so of when we list them for sale on our website and there’s a special link you can bookmark to always pull them up:

http://amzn.to/CDeBooksAmazon

That link will fill in the correct keywords in the Amazon search to pull up our eBooks. Some of our recent and bestselling releases include: