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Review: 'The Moving Soul' by Joshua Criss

Cemetery Dance OnlineMay 25, 2016ReviewsFeatured, Joshua Criss, Reviews, The Moving SoulLeave a comment

The Moving Soul by Joshua Criss
Self-Published (October 2015)
262 pages; $9.95 paperback; $1.99 e-book
Reviewed by Josh Black

“Three hundred and thirty-five years ago, a settler in the Virginia colonies completed a sacrificial spell and buried a legendary occult book for the next one destined to find it. Now, that person has…”

The Moving Soul is a supernatural thriller that focuses on three main characters, all students at Jamestown University in Virginia. Louis is a meek, socially awkward kind of guy, Carolyn is the girl he longs for and eventually ends up in a relationship with, and Darin is his new roommate. Darin also happens to be a real piece of work, a sociopath who’s seeking everything he needs to complete a spell that will grant him immortality. When he makes a certain sacrifice and reaches that goal, he intends to taunt, torture, and kill for eternity.Continue Reading

Review: 'The Everything Box' by Richard Kadrey

Cemetery Dance OnlineMay 23, 2016ReviewsFeatured, Reviews, Richard Kadrey, The Everything BoxLeave a comment

The Everything Box by Richard Kadrey
Harper Voyager (April 2016)
368 pages; $17.14 hardcover; $15.29 paperback; $12.99 e-book
Reviewed by Frank Michaels Errington

“Earth. Four thousand years ago. Give or take.” When this is the opening line in your new novel, it better be epic. The verdict? Richard Kadrey delivers again.

It’s just after the great flood and the angel Qaphsiel is sent by God to finish off mankind, but he misplaces the Instrument of Destruction. Fast-forward to the present day where a number of individuals and groups are closing in on The Everything Box. Of course the usual Kadrey wit abounds. It’s a story filled with magic, where literally anything is possible.Continue Reading

THE SHINING Second LAST Chance! First Come, First Served!

Cemetery Dance OnlineMay 20, 2016July 12, 2016Breaking NewsLeave a comment

The Shining: The Deluxe Special Edition
LAST CHANCE TO RESERVE THE SLIPCASED GIFT EDITION!

Hi Folks!

We took purchase links for The Shining by Stephen King off our site on Monday, just FOUR DAYS after the official announcement, because we were speeding toward all 3,000 copies being reserved and we wanted to confirm our order numbers and make sure we didn’t oversell.

We now know exactly how many we have left and we can say for certain that this is your last chance to reserve your copy of The Shining with Stephen King’s lost prologue because we DO NOT have very many copies left available!

These last copies are being sold FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED. No second chances!

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

Making a Living in a Post Mid-List World without Borders

Cemetery Dance OnlineMay 20, 2016Brian Keene's End of the RoadBrian Keene, Columns, End of the Road, Featured3 Comments

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Making a Living in a Post Mid-List World without Borders

So, we ended last week’s column about the deaths of the mid-list and the Borders bookstore chain with the following question: “If self-publishing, independent presses, and independent bookstores are more preferable to former mid-list authors then why are you still selling books to mainstream publishers and signing in big chain bookstores, as well, Keene?” Is the answer:

A) Money.
B) People are stupid.
C) To have a stable, secure writing career in this post-mid-list world without Borders, full-time writers of genre fiction need to diversify.
D) All of the above.

Review: 'Mongrels' by Stephen Graham Jones

Cemetery Dance OnlineMay 18, 2016ReviewsBlu Gilliand, Featured, Mongrels, Reviews, Stephen Graham JonesLeave a comment

Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones
William Morrow (May 2016)
320 pages; $19.39 hardcover; $12.99 e-book
Reviewed by Blu Gilliand

The werewolves of Mongrels roam the South like a pack of feral dogs, surviving on the very instincts and abilities that often work directly against them. They live in ratty trailers, work an endless parade of menial jobs, subsist on road kill and strawberry wine coolers. They sneak into town under assumed names and sneak out under the cover of night when things go bad. And they always go bad.Continue Reading

Is Today The Last Day To Order A Copy of THE SHINING??

Cemetery Dance OnlineMay 17, 2016July 12, 2016Breaking NewsLeave a comment

The Shining: The Deluxe Special Edition
Is Today The Last Day To Order A Copy??

Hi Folks!

As you know, The Shining by Stephen King is now more than 98% sold out and we’re preparing to remove the order button from the website at the close of business today.

Tomorrow, we will manually check all of our counts to confirm exactly how close we are to all copies being reserved. We didn’t expect the slipcased Gift Edition to sell this quickly, but our collectors have clearly spoken!

Then, this FRIDAY, we will put the product back on the website and send out one more newsletter. Those last copies will be sold FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED. No second chances.

But if you don’t want to try your luck on Friday, place your order NOW before time runs out!

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

The Shining Slipcased Gift Edition Now 95% Sold Out!

Cemetery Dance OnlineMay 16, 2016July 12, 2016Breaking NewsLeave a comment

The Shining: The Deluxe Special Edition
Slipcased Gift Edition Now 95% Sold Out!

BREAKING NEWS! Our special edition of The Shining by Stephen King is now more than 95% sold out and we expect to take this title off the site within the next 24 hours! Read more or place your order while supplies last!

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

Featured review: 'The Fireman' by Joe Hill

Bev VincentMay 16, 2016ReviewsBev Vincent, Featured, fireman, harry potter, helen reddy, Joe Hill, mary poppins, Reviews, rush, Stephen King, The Fireman, The Stand, toto1 Comment

The Fireman by Joe Hill
William Morrow (May 17, 2016)
768 pages; $18.82 hardcover; $14.99 e-book
Reviewed by Bev Vincent

The Fireman, Joe Hill’s fourth novel, is an apocalyptic tale in which a deadly disease destroys the world. If this conjures thoughts of The Stand, it’s not a coincidence. Hill is on record as saying that the book is his version of The Stand “soaked in gasoline and set on fire.” In his dedication he says he stole “everything else” about the book from his father other than the title.

The illness that spreads like wildfire is Draco incendia trychophyton, a spore rather than a virus. People exposed to it do not burn with a fever—they simply burn. First, lesions develop. Some are almost decorative, resembling scales, hence the illness’s nickname: Dragonscale. Victims are mostly asymptomatic until they suddenly catch fire, usually when under stress. It’s a devastating and terrifying disease, because the conflagration takes out others in the vicinity. Buildings burn, then city blocks, and cities, and more.Continue Reading

The Shining Is Selling Out Very Quickly!

Cemetery Dance OnlineMay 13, 2016July 12, 2016Breaking NewsLeave a comment

The Shining: The Deluxe Special Edition
Includes “Before the Play,” Stephen King’s long lost 40 PAGE PROLOGUE to the novel, has been restored to its proper place at the beginning of the story!
Selling Out Very Quickly!

Hi Folks!

BIG NEWS! Our special edition of The Shining by Stephen King is selling VERY QUICKLY!

The Lettered Artist Edition is already sold out, the Numbered Artist Edition is now 93% sold out, and the Slipcased Gift Edition is already 77% sold out, just a little over 24 hours after the official announcement!

A lot of this increased interest is probably because this will be the very first edition of The Shining published anywhere in the world to include King’s original, uncut 40 page prologue entitled “Before the Play” restored at its proper place at the beginning of the story, something that may never happen again for any other edition of the book! Read more or place your order while supplies last!

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

How the Mid-List Died

Cemetery Dance OnlineMay 13, 2016Brian Keene's End of the RoadBrian Keene, Columns, End of the Road, Featured9 Comments

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How the Mid-List Died

Stephen Graham Jones signed his new novel, Mongrels, at Bookworks in Albuquerque, New Mexico, this week. I’ll be signing at that same store next month. There’s a reason both of us—and many of our peers—chose that store. If you think of the retail bookselling market as a geographical location, it currently resembles the wasteland from a Mad Max movie. But Bookworks, and hundreds of other independent bookstores, are bright, colorful oases sprouting from that formerly toxic ground.

What happened? What caused the apocalypse? And what is allowing these indie bookstores to flourish? Two things: corporate stupidity and the changes in publishing. Continue Reading

The Shining by Stephen King: RESTORED to the Author’s Original Vision for the first time EVER!

Cemetery Dance OnlineMay 12, 2016July 12, 2016Breaking NewsLeave a comment

The Shining: The Deluxe Special Edition
A Collectible Limited ONE TIME PRINTING featuring an introduction by Stephen King, an afterword by Mick Garris, color paintings by Don Maitz, and our biggest special feature in any book we’ve published to date:
“Before the Play,” Stephen King’s long lost 40 PAGE PROLOGUE to the novel, has been restored to its proper place at the beginning of the story!
Volume Three in The Stephen King Doubleday Years Set!

Hi Folks!

Huge news today, maybe our biggest announcement ever:

Our special edition of The Shining by Stephen King will be the very first edition of The Shining published anywhere in the world to include Stephen King’s original, uncut 40 page prologue entitled “Before the Play” restored at its proper place at the beginning of the story!

This may end up being the only edition to ever present the complete story of the Overlook Hotel as King originally wrote it, so don’t miss out on this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! Although an excerpt from the prologue appeared in TV Guide in the 1990s, this is the first time the complete prologue has ever appeared where Stephen King intended it to go — right at the beginning of The Shining!

Special Features For This Deluxe Special Edition:
• an introduction by Stephen King
• an afterword by Mick Garris
• includes the complete text of “Before the Play,” Stephen King’s 40 page prologue that has never appeared in any edition of The Shining
• deluxe oversized design (7 inches X 10 inches) featuring two color interior printing as part of the page design
• printed on a heavy interior specialty paper stock that is much thicker than the paper in a normal trade edition
• custom-made slipcase for the Gift Edition, custom-made traycase for the Numbered Artist Edition, and custom-made three piece traycase for the Deluxe Lettered Artist Edition
• epic wrap-around full color dust jacket artwork by Don Maitz
• a different full color dust jacket for the Numbered Artist Edition painted by Don Maitz
• full color interior paintings by Don Maitz
• interior artwork will be printed on a heavy glossy stock and tipped into the book
• special limitation page artwork for all three editions by Glenn Chadbourne
• high-quality endpapers and fine bindings
• extremely collectible print run that is a tiny fraction of the TENS OF MILLIONS of copies of this novel you’ve seen in bookstores over the years!

Gift Edition Full Cover Painting:

Signed & Numbered Artist Edition Full Cover Painting:

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

The Top Werewolf Films You (Probably) Haven’t Seen But Should: Stephen Graham Jones Talks ‘Mongrels’

Cemetery Dance OnlineMay 11, 2016June 12, 2018Paper CutsAdam Cesare, Columns, Featured, Mongrels, Paper Cuts, Stephen Graham Jones2 Comments

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Paper (n): material manufactured in thin sheets from the pulp of wood or other fibrous substances, used for writing, drawing, or printing on

Cut (v): make (a movie) into a coherent whole by removing parts or placing them in a different order.

The Top Werewolf Films You (Probably) Haven’t Seen But Should: Stephen Graham Jones Talks ‘Mongrels’

Mongrels_cover-678x1024 When I initially pitched the idea for this column to the editors at Cemetery Dance Online, it was a very, uh… loose pitch. The “hook” was me discussing horror movies and horror fiction, wherever they happen to intersect.

And while that loosey-goosey connective theme has probably turned off some readers (“now we’re just reading a list of books he likes? Get out of your own butt, guy!”), it’s meant that I basically get to write about whatever I want and have it get a bunch of eyes on it.

Amazingly those ~~suckers~~ visionaries at CD were cool with that. Also I keep coming up with jokey clickbait headlines, so that probably helps. There is a list of “Top Werewolf Films” somewhere in this interview, but you have to read to find it.

Having no set format means I get to have guests. Which is a long-winded way of saying that, this month: I wanted to talk to one of my favorite authors! And he said yes!Continue Reading

Review: 'Kill Switch' by Jonathan Maberry

Cemetery Dance OnlineMay 9, 2016Reviews- Frank Michaels Errington, Featured, Joe Ledger, Jonathan Maberry, Kill Switch, ReviewsLeave a comment

Kill Switch by Jonathan Maberry
St. Martin’s Griffin (April 26 2016)
544 pages; $9.99 paperback; $9.99 e-book
Reviewed by Frank Michaels Errington

Is it to early to add this to the list of my ten favorite reads of 2016? Kill Switch, by Jonathan Maberry, is that good. It’s hard to imagine many books to be published the rest of this year being better than this new adventure in the Joe Ledger series.Continue Reading

The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker

Cemetery Dance OnlineMay 6, 2016July 12, 2016Breaking NewsLeave a comment

The Great and Secret Show
A Stunning New Edition of Clive Barker’s Classic Novel!
Gauntlet Press Signed Limited Edition Hardcover!

Hi Folks!

We’re thrilled to report we will be receiving some copies of Gauntlet Press’s beautiful Signed Limited Edition Hardcover of The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker, but we don’t expect our allotment to last long!

About the Book:
In the little town of Palomo Grove, two great armies are amassing; forces shaped from the hearts and souls of America. In this New York Times bestseller, Clive Barker unveils one of the most ambitious imaginative landscapes in modern fiction, creating a new vocabulary for the age-old battle between good and evil. Carrying its readers from the first stirring of consciousness to a vision of the end of the world, THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW is a breathtaking journey in the company of a master storyteller.

THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW will contain a significant amount of bonus material:

* All editions will feature Clive Barker cover art expressly drawn for the book
* Brand new Barker black and white interior illustrations
* Handwritten pages from Barker’s first draft of the novel
* Notes (along with Bradbury-like doodles) from Barker
* Pages with Barker’s handwritten corrections from the first typed draft of the book

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

In Which We Answer Who, What, Where, and Why

Cemetery Dance OnlineMay 6, 2016January 22, 2018Brian Keene's End of the RoadBrian Keene, Columns, End of the Road, Featured6 Comments

In Which We Answer Who, What, Where, and Why

My name is Brian Keene. I’m a writer by trade and a road warrior by heart. Neither of these things make for very wise career or life choices, but at the age of forty-eight, it’s a little late for me to decide I’d like to become an IT Specialist or an HVAC technician instead.

Both writing and the road got in my blood at an early age. My parents were transplants from West Virginia, which is like a ghetto with trees and mountains. Seriously. All of the despair and poverty and crime that plague America’s ghettos can be found in West Virginia. But, just like the ghettos, you can also find hope and inspiration (even today, when meth production has overtaken coal mining as the state’s most popular employment opportunity). Continue Reading

Making a Living in a Post Mid-List World without Borders

How the Mid-List Died

The Top Werewolf Films You (Probably) Haven’t Seen But Should: Stephen Graham Jones Talks ‘Mongrels’

In Which We Answer Who, What, Where, and Why

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