Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Horror Drive-In2 Comments on Horror Drive-In: The Greatest Reading Experience of My Life 
Reading has always been one of my greatest pleasures, and recently I began to wonder about something: What has been the most pleasurable reading experience of my life?Continue Reading
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In this impressive collection of short stories, actor Wilde (who played the Female Cenobite in the film classic Hellbound: Hellraiser II) reveals a world of beautiful fear… Wilde’s mastery of shocking violence is given full rein in subjects ranging from reclusive self-imprisonment to the exploration of European nightmares. As much a chilling collection of frightful fiction as a delight for the darker senses, this is a satisfying triumph in a befitting, unforgiving, style.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Voices of the Damned by Barbie Wilde
Beautiful New Hardcover From The UK!
Hi Folks!
We’re pleased to report that we’ll be getting some copies of Voices of the Damned by Barbie Wilde from SST Publications in the UK, but we don’t expect our stock to last long because this title is now in HIGH DEMAND due to the outstanding Publishers Weekly review it just received.
Voices of the Damned
by Barbie Wilde
Publisher: Short, Scary Tales Publications
About the Book:
Enter into the mind of Barbie Wilde, whose disturbing interior world teems with the voices of rebellious female demons, devilish witches, semen-hungry neo-vampires, raging gods and home invaders, the fiends of sleep paralysis, pint-sized store-front preachers with a whiff of sulfur, body horrors of the most grotesque kind, clandestine aliens and Zulu zombies.
These truly are the Voices of the Damned: eleven short horror stories from Barbie Wilde, actress (Hellbound: Hellraiser II, Death Wish 3) and dark crime-horror novelist (The Venus Complex). Fangoria has called Wilde “one of the finest purveyors of erotically charged horror fiction around.”
Each story is accompanied by seductive, haunting, full color artworks and illustrations created by some of the most imaginative artists in the genre: Clive Barker, Nick Percival, Steve McGinnis, Daniele Serra, Eric Gross, Tara Bush, Vincent Sammy, & Ben Baldwin.
Foreword by Chris Alexander, Editor in Chief, Fangoria
Afterword by the Soska Sisters
Full Color Interior Artwork & Illustrations by
Clive Barker
Nick Percival
Steve McGinnis
Daniele Serra
Eric Gross
Tara Bush
Vincent Sammy
Ben Baldwin
What do The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, The Loved Ones, The Sender, The Colossus of New York, Circle of Eight, Beneath, The Deadly Bees, I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead, In Dreams, Shanks, Ghost Team One, and Rumpelstiltskin all have in common? They are all available free on YouTube thanks to Paramount Pictures Corporation starting their own channel there called The Paramount Vault.
Many of these were on Netflix and other pay services before, but now anyone can watch them online (if it’s rated R, like Bound, you’ll have to have a YouTube account).Continue Reading
October Dreams 2:
A Celebration of Halloween
Hi Folks!
While the authors are still busy signing the signature sheets for the special editions of October Dreams II edited by Richard Chizmar & Robert Morrish, don’t forget that the beautiful trade hardcover is IN-STOCK and ready to ship now!
Featuring Ray Bradbury, Dean Koontz, Robert McCammon, Robert Bloch, Stewart O’Nan, Glen Hirshberg, Joe R. Lansdale, Al Sarrantonio, Whitley Strieber, Lisa Morton, Matthew Costello, Elizabeth Massie, and dozens of others, this oversized volume will contain spooky Halloween short fiction, dozens of authors and artists recalling their own personal memories of Halloween, and essays detailing the “history” of Halloween.
Many of the contributing authors will also autograph the signed editions, and we don’t have many copies left for reservation!
About the Book:
The long-awaited follow up to one of the most acclaimed Halloween anthologies ever! This oversized volume contains spooky Halloween short stories, dozens of authors and artists recalling their own personal memories of Halloween, and essays detailing the “history” of Halloween.
Read more or place your order while supplies last!
Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!
One Halloween night. Ten interlocking tales. That’s the premise of Tales of Halloween, the new anthology film scheduled for limited theater and nationwide video on demand release on October 16. The movie boasts an impressive lineup of creative talent, including directors Lucky McKee (May, Red) and Neil Marshall (The Descent, Dog Soldiers), and the writer/director combo John Skipp and Andrew Kasch.
Skipp and Kasch were kind enough to take time away from their hectic pre-release schedule to talk about their segment of the film, how it all came together, and what it was like to film a Halloween movie in the middle of the Christmas season.Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Breaking NewsLeave a comment on Cemetery Dance #73 Announced! Cemetery Dance #73 Announced!
Featuring Peter Straub, Ramsey Campbell, Gerard Houarner, Keith Minnion, Thomas F. Monteleone, and many others!
Hi Folks!
We’re pleased to announce Cemetery Dance #73 will be sent to the printer early next month and will be published around the end of the year!
This issue features short stories by Gerard Houarner, Keith Minnion, Michael Wehunt, Nik Houser, and Amanda C. Davis.
The non-fiction includes “The Rise of Modern Horror Fiction” by Christopher Fulbright featuring Peter Straub, Ramsey Campbell, and Robert Weinberg.
Our usual suspects return with new columns by Bev Vincent, Thomas F. Monteleone, Michael Marano, Ellen Datlow, Ed Gorman, Robert Morrish, and Mark Sieber.
This issue’s cover artwork is by Sarah X. Dylan and there’s also interior artwork by Zach McCain, Chris Bankston, Steve Gilberts, Chad Savage, and Glenn Chadbourne.
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories ReviewsLeave a comment on Review: 'The Art of Horrible People' by John Skipp The Art of Horrible People by John Skipp
Lazy Fascist Press (August 2015)
176 pages, e-book $5.95, paperback $12.95
Reviewed by Blu Gilliand
On the back cover of John Skipp’s The Art of Horrible People, author Josh Malerman implores readers to “savor this book.” It’s a good suggestion, but difficult to follow with prose like this, which fully embodies the tried-and-true cliché of being difficult to put down.
The book collects nine stories written over the last decade, each of them featuring the razor-like wit and sharp insight which has characterized Skipp’s work all the way back to his days as a young (splatter)punk breaking into the business. Continue Reading
Dark Hallows: Ten Halloween Haunts
A surprise new Halloween anthology featuring well-known authors and up-and-coming new voices!
Last Chance To Get Your Copy Signed By Chizmar and Freeman!
Hi Folks!
This week marks your last chance to preorder your SIGNED copy of DARK HALLOWS, a surprise new value-priced trade paperback Halloween anthology coming soon from Scarlet Galleon Publications!
Edited by Mark Parker, this book is a bargain and features stories by Richard Chizmar, Brian James Freeman, Norman Partridge, Robert Morrish, Al Sarrantonio, Ronald Malfi, Aaron Dries, Adam Cesare, Mark Parker, and Lisa Morton!
About the Book:
Some treats are better than tricks!
As summer turns to autumn, Scarlet Galleon Publications, publisher of the Amazon #1 bestselling horror anthology, DEAD HARVEST: A Collection of Dark Tales, offers readers a collection of Halloween tales to help celebrate the season in a chillingly unforgettable way.
10 authors. 10 haunting tales. 1 incredible anthology.
DARK HALLOWS will have you leaving the lights on, just to make sure you’re really alone.
Featuring NEW fiction from Cemetery Dance founder and publisher, Richard Chizmar. With original artwork by Aaron Dries.
Also included are stories from:
Brian James Freeman, Norman Partridge, Robert Morrish, Al Sarrantonio, Ronald Malfi, Aaron Dries, Adam Cesare, Mark Parker, and Lisa Morton
Read more on our website or place your order while supplies last!
Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!
Zoopraxis by Richard Christian Matheson
Signed Limited Edition Hardcover From Gauntlet Press
Hi Folks!
We’re pleased to report that we’ll be getting some copies of Zoopraxis by Richard Christian Matheson from Gauntlet Press, but we don’t expect our stock to last long!
About the Book:
In the addictive new collection, “ZOOPRAXIS,” critically-acclaimed, #1 bestselling author Richard Christian Matheson gathers stories of dread, menace, and the surreal.
The tales range from prisoners executed with a hi-tech twist, to the ravages of empathy, to an uncooperative parrot, to a shape shifter’s carnal memoirs, to a man who can’t stop talking, to a murderer devoured by ice, to a baby photographer who ruins lives, to a dog that reads minds.
As in his previous collections, Matheson’s distilled style is fierce and hypnotic. The lettered edition includes additional new stories and non-fiction essays.
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Earthling Publications (October 2015)
250 pages, signed/numbered hardcover $45
Reviewed by David Simms
Each year as the special holiday approaches, Earthling Publications treats horror readers with a special book that harkens back to the good old days of the genre. The supernatural is at play with haunted houses, monstrous creatures, and otherworldly scares which make the Halloween Series such a fixture in horror fiction. Paul Miller has yet to produce a bad book, yet after last year’s stellar The Halloween Children, expectations were set at a high level.Continue Reading
The old ways are gone. This is the new Haven.
Preview: Haven Season 5B, episodes 1 & 2
All good things must come to an end, and tonight marks the beginning of the end for the Syfy series Haven. For the past 65 episodes, since the series premiered in 2010, the residents of Haven have been dealing with the most recent outbreak of the Troubles, which are far worse this time around than they’ve ever been before, in part because people have been meddling with the works. If Nathan and Duke and Dwight and the rest of the merry band had simply let matters run their natural course, Audrey Parker would have gone into the barn and everything would have been fine for another generation. But, no! They had to try to fix things and, by doing so, everything has gotten exponentially worse.Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Breaking NewsLeave a comment on The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King is coming soon! The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
by Stephen King
Brand New Hardcover Coming Soon!
Hi Folks!
If you haven’t already placed your order for The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King, you’re running out of time to reserve your copy of this amazing new book from the King of Horror!
About the Book:
A master storyteller at his best—the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story.
Since his first collection, Night Shift, published thirty-five years ago, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of short fiction. In this new collection he assembles, for the first time, recent stories that have never been published in a book. He introduces each with a passage about its origins or his motivations for writing it.
There are thrilling connections between stories; themes of morality, the afterlife, guilt, what we would do differently if we could see into the future or correct the mistakes of the past. “Afterlife” is about a man who died of colon cancer and keeps reliving the same life, repeating his mistakes over and over again. Several stories feature characters at the end of life, revisiting their crimes and misdemeanors. Other stories address what happens when someone discovers that he has supernatural powers—the columnist who kills people by writing their obituaries in “Obits;” the old judge in “The Dune” who, as a boy, canoed to a deserted island and saw names written in the sand, the names of people who then died in freak accidents. In “Morality,” King looks at how a marriage and two lives fall apart after the wife and husband enter into what seems, at first, a devil’s pact they can win.
Magnificent, eerie, utterly compelling, these stories comprise one of King’s finest gifts to his constant reader—”I made them especially for you,” says King. “Feel free to examine them, but please be careful. The best of them have teeth.”
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Even though The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King is being published by another publisher, we will be producing one of our popular custom-made slipcase for this title like we have for the last few Stephen King books!
The easiest way to add a slipcase to your purchase is by selecting the “Trade Hardcover Edition with Exclusive Slipcase!” option above — you’ll also save on shipping by ordering this way! (You can order just the slipcase by itself on the The Bazaar of Bad Dreams custom slipcase product page.)
Don’t know what a slipcase is? That’s okay! You can see some sample images of other slipcases we’ve made below. We’re using the same high-quality materials we have used for our previous Stephen King cases, with one color hot foil stamping. The company who makes these for us is the best in the business and you won’t find a better way to protect your investment! (If you are new to collecting, you can read more about slipcases on our Book FAQ page.)
We’re selling these special slipcases for just $24.95, making them an extremely affordable way to protect your book. These cases will be produced after the book is published because we need a real copy of the book to get the sizing just right. Your book and slipcase will ship together to save you on shipping. It takes approximately twelve weeks for the cases to made and we think our collectors will be very pleased with what we have in mind for this production, so don’t wait to place your order!
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Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!
Haven is set to return on October 8th for its final season. You may not have time to catch up on the 13 episodes that make up Season 5A, so this is a synopsis of events that I hope you’ll find helpful. If you want to read my posts about the characters and previous seasons, you can start here and work your way back. I’ll be updating the Who’s Who with info from Season 5A in due course, and I’ll have a sneak peak of Season 5B for you soon: I’ve already seen the first two episodes. Stay tuned. The game is changing in many different ways.Continue Reading
As you might remember, Richard Chizmar and Brian James Freeman have joined forces with the cutting edge team at Hydra, a division of Random House, to launch a series of horror eBook anthologies called Dark Screams that feature the best horror authors working in the business today. Volumes One, Two, Three, and Four have all been very well received, and Dark Screams: Volume Five is now available for download for just $2.99!
About the Book:
Mick Garris, J. Kenner, Kealan Patrick Burke, Del James, and Bentley Little pry open a sarcophagus of horror and dread in Dark Screams: Volume Five, from Brian James Freeman and Richard Chizmar of the esteemed Cemetery Dance Publications.
EVERYTHING YOU’VE ALWAYS WANTED by Mick Garris
It was supposed to be the night of his life: a celebration of his one hit slasher flick. But the price of admission is higher than this has-been filmmaker ever could have imagined.
THE ONE AND ONLY by J. Kenner
When he was seven, Will Underwood’s nanny told him she had the Sight. Years later, a broken heart sends him to New Orleans . . . but it’s fate that leads him to Madame Darkling’s Voodoo Emporium.
THE LAND OF SUNSHINE by Kealan Patrick Burke
Although she was mute long before the affair that nearly wrecked their marriage, her silence has tortured her husband ever since. Now he will seek out what he has lost—or be driven mad by remorse.
MECHANICAL GRATITUDE by Del James
Arnold loves his ’68 Camaro almost as much as he loves his wife, and he’s willing to do anything to protect them both—especially after hearing strange noises coming from his garage.
THE PLAYHOUSE by Bentley Little
A real-estate agent is drawn into a children’s playhouse behind an abandoned property she’s trying to sell—and finds herself strangely reluctant to leave.
Purchase the eBook:
Amazon.com • Amazon.ca • Amazon.co.uk • Barnes & Noble • iBookstore • Kobo
Purchase the Audiobook:
Amazon.com
Reviews & Praise:
“Freeman and Chizmar’s fifth horror anthology runs the gamut from throwback horror to lyrical and heartbreaking tales… The crown jewel is Kealan Patrick Burke’s luminous ‘The Land of Sunshine,’ about a husband guilty of infidelity who gives the ultimate gift to win his wife’s forgiveness. Another standout is Mick Garris’s gonzo ‘Everything You’ve Always Wanted,’ a gory, darkly funny tale about a has-been movie director who meets the woman of his dreams at a horror convention, with disastrous results… Loosely tied together with themes of broken hearts and wayward love, this collection will satisfy most horror fans.”
— Publishers Weekly
“I feel I’m beginning to sound redundant with these Dark Screams reviews, but I cannot help showering praise on every single installment in this ongoing series, with this latest being no exception. I suppose it’s no surprise given the editors Richard Chizmar and Brian James Freeman, who have certainly proven their merit as publishers of quality horror fiction with Cemetery Dance Publications over the years. And yet, the consistency of said quality contained within these digital pages never ceases to amaze.”
— Christopher Shultz, LitReactor
Cut (v): make (a movie) into a coherent whole by removing parts or placing them in a different order.
Special Guest: Orrin Grey
The title story in Orrin Grey’s upcoming collection, Painted Monsters, is prefaced by maybe my favorite epigraph of all time:
“For you, the living, this mash was meant too…”
— Bobby “Boris” Pickett
And then I realize that title of the story and collection — which sounded so familiar on first hearing — is actually a reference to one of Boris Karloff’s lines in Peter Bogdanovich’s Targets, one of the best horror films of all time, in my opinion.
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