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LAUNCHING TODAY! SURPRISE NEW WEBSITE!
Cemetery Dance Online Will Feature Horror Interviews, Essays, Columns, Short Fiction, Reviews!

Hi Folks!

The staff of Cemetery Dance Publications would like to invite you to visit CemeteryDanceOnline.com, our new website where we’ll be posting free reading material including interviews, essays, columns, short fiction, reviews, and other items of interest to horror fans!

Think of this as a free online version of what we’ve been doing with Cemetery Dance magazine since 1988. The magazine isn’t going anywhere, but we always have a lot more great material submitted to us than we can use in a print magazine, so this gives us a new venue to publish that material — plus much, much more!

Read more at CemeteryDanceOnline.com and let us know what you think!

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

Hi Folks!

The staff of Cemetery Dance Publications would like to welcome you to Cemetery Dance Online, our new website where we’ll be posting tons of free reading material for all kinds of horror fans including interviews, essays, columns, some short fiction, and book and movie reviews. Think of this as a free online version of what we’ve been doing with Cemetery Dance magazine since 1988. The magazine isn’t going anywhere, but we always have a lot more great material submitted to us than we can use in a print magazine, so this gives us a new venue to publish that material — plus much, much more!

Blu Gilliand of October Country fame is the managing editor of Cemetery Dance Online and he’s working with a great group of columnists and contributors to provide you with new reading material every week. We don’t want to ruin any of the surprises, but there are some very exciting free reads in the works.

To be notified of new posts, please enter your email address in the subscription box on the RIGHT and click SUBSCRIBE. This mailing list is separate from any Cemetery Dance Publications list you might already be on and will only be used for CemeteryDanceOnline.com updates.

(If you’re on the mobile version of the site, you’ll want to look for the subscription box down at the bottom of the page.)

Stay tuned because we have a lot of irons in the fire and we have big plans for this website. Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!

— Brian James Freeman

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Working Stiff: The Special Edition
by Kevin J. Anderson
Signed Special Edition From Gauntlet Press!

Hi Folks!

We’re pleased to report we’ll be getting a handful of copies of the signed special editions of Working Stiff by Kevin J. Anderson from Gauntlet Press, and we don’t expect these to last very long!

About the Book:
Back from the dead… and back on the case!

Even being murdered doesn’t keep a good detective down, and in the Unnatural Quarter—inhabited by ghosts, vampires, werewolves, mummies, and all sorts of creatures that go bump (or thud!) in the night—a zombie P.I. fits right in. Dan Chambeaux, a.k.a. “Shamble,” solves a string of madcap cases with his ghost girlfriend Sheyenne, his Best Human Friend Officer Toby McGoohan, and his firebrand lawyer partner Robin Deyer.

WORKING STIFF contains seven cases from the files of Chambeaux & Deyer Investigations. Dan Shamble has to solve the mystery of a stolen deck of fortune-telling cards and the undeath-defying feats of a vampire trapeze artist, finds himself sealed in a coffin in the back of a truck with no idea where he’s being taken, and is even hired by Santa Claus to find his lost ”
naughty and nice” list. Being trapped in an unbreakable monster-proof crypt, deciphering a string of mysterious zombie graffiti, investigating the murder of a costumed fan at a science fiction convention where the monsters are the normal attendees, or tracking down a kidnapped hellhound for legendary vigilante werewolf cop Hairy Harry—it’s all in a day’s work for Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I.

Both editions contains an all-new story not included in the original edition of Working Stiff, an introduction by the author, and an Afterword by Jonathan Maberry.

Both editions will also include the only print appearance of the original 42-page comic script of the Dan Shamble and Kolchak the Night Stalker crossover story from Moonstone Comics, written by Kevin J. Anderson and Richard Dean Starr. Kolchak is used to people skeptical about his newspaper stories about monsters. How does he handle a case with a real zombie PI?

The lettered edition also includes the never-before-published pitch and treatment optioned for a Dan Shamble television series.

Read more on our website or place your order while supplies last!

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

The Night Listener and Others
by Chet Williamson
Special Edition From PS Publishing in the UK!

Hi Folks!

We’re pleased to report we’ll be getting a handful of copies of The Night Listener and Others by Chet Williamson from PS Publishing the UK and we don’t expect these to last very long!

About the Book:
Chet Williamson’s first story collection, Figures in Rain, won the International Horror Guild Award and was shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award. But while that collection was primarily made up of ghost stories, The Night Listener and Others is an assemblage of tales that cover all aspects of the fantastic and horrific by a writer whose work critics have favorably compared to such disparate writers as Camus, Cheever and King, and who Supernatural Literature of the World hailed as “the rare writer whose fiction reflects an intimate familiarity with the supernatural literary tradition, and who extends it with works that occasionally subvert its principles.”

In these pages you’ll meet a number of “night listeners,” including:

Eustace P. Saunders, a New York illustrator whose desire to see the “real” Wild West he has depicted plunges him into unimaginable horror…

Bernie Worster and Jeaves, whose master/servant relationship takes the strangest of turns, due to a razor dedicated to decapitation…

Lattimore, whose guilt and sorrow over lost lives lead him into a mythical Japanese underworld that threatens his sanity and reality itself…

Andy and Kyle, teenagers who are waiting in a hospice for Kylie to die, but who learn that going “into the light” might be the worst thing you could do…

Tim Corcoran, an Irish-American musician who learns that in certain places old hatreds never die, but linger like smoke to claim new victims…

As R.C. Matheson states in his introduction, “Chet Williamson transcends the taxidermy that passes for much of contemporary writing, stirring admiration in peers, famished demand in readers and cloudbursts of devout ink from critics. For those privileged few lucky enough to be new to the miraculous Chet Williamson, you are about to enter worlds of glorious and sinister wonder. I envy you.”

Read more on our website or place your order while supplies last!

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

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
by Stephen King
Includes Several Previously Unpublished Stories!!

Hi Folks!

We’re very pleased to report we’ll be receiving The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King, which is due out later this year, and it’s turning into another amazing collection from the King of Horror! There are several BRAND NEW stories in here and also several that have never before appeared in print:

Table of Contents:
Author’s note
Introduction
1. Mile 81
2. Premium Harmony
3. Batman and Robin Have an Altercation
4. The Dune
5. Bad Little Kid – New
6. A Death
7. The Bone Church
8. Morality
9. Afterlife
10. Ur – First Time In Print
11. Herman Wouk is Still Alive
12. Under the Weather
13. Blockade Billy
14. Mister Yummy – New
15. Tommy
16. The Little Green God of Agony
17. That Bus is Another World
18. Obits – New
19. Drunken Fireworks – First Time In Print
20. Summer Thunder

Add A Special Exclusive Slipcase To Your Order To Protect Your Book!

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!

Sample Slipcase Photo:

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

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

Featured review: Drunken Fireworks

Those of us who’ve read our work in public understand how difficult it is to keep an audience engaged for longer than about 15 or 20 minutes. Unless you’re a skilled performer (Tom Monteleone comes to mind among that group), the audience will get restless if you go on much longer than that.

Which is why the producers of audiobooks so often turn to actors as narrators. Or, as in the case of “Drunken Fireworks,” the new audiobook-only story from Stephen King, to someone like Tim Sample, who has produced the “Postcards from Maine” segment for CBS Sunday Morning. Other people in his category who come to mind are Garrison Keillor of The Prairie Home Companion or, a personal favorite, Stuart McLean from The Vinyl Cafe. These are raconteurs, people you don’t mind listening to for extended periods of time as they spin out their stories.

Sample, who King hand-selected to narrate this long story (running time, approximately 80 minutes on two CDs), is particularly appropriate here, since he has the requisite Maine accent for the first person narrative that comprises most of the story. It’s an accent many have attempted but few have mastered. (For a brief and classic example of Sample’s delivery, check out this standup routine in which he expounds on the difference between Maine natives, outsiders and transplants.)

In structure, “Drunken Fireworks” will probably remind readers of Dolores Claiborne. A lifelong bachelor named Alden McCausland is at the Castle County police station telling his version of events to Andy Clutterbuck (a name that will be familiar to many, as will places like Bridgton, TR-90 and Chester’s Mill) and Ardell Benoit. As with Dolores Claiborne, it takes Alden a while to get to the point. There’s a lot of background involved, and he’s going to make sure he has his say, even if some of the details he dredges up aren’t strictly relevant to the story. He’s leading up to the events of the previous evening, July 4, 2015, but everything started, he claims, in 2012.

Alden and his mother have, through luck and circumstance, become “idle rich,” which gives them plenty of leisure time, which they spend drinking (heavily) at their lakeside cabin. They spend most of the year there, retreating to their home in town only after Thanksgiving. Despite their relative affluence, their cabin, a glorified shack that they dub the “Mosquito Bowl,” is located on the shabbier west side of Lake Abenaki. The town side. The slums. The truly wealthy are on the east side, where the beaches have real sand instead of rocks.

Directly across from the Mosquito Bowl is the modestly named Twelve Pines Cabin, the stately vacation mansion of Paul Massimo and his enormous clan. Massimo is a man from Rhode Island who is CONNECTED (as Alden’s mother always says). He’s in the same class as Tony Soprano, to their way of thinking. Alden and his mother can’t imagine having a place that big and only using it three months out of the year.

The arms race that leads up to the events of the previous evening begins, innocently enough, with some firecrackers, twizzlers and cherry bombs. However, everything the McCauslands do, the Massimos can do better. It’s a classic case of one-upmanship, and neither side will be happy until they’ve won. The financial odds seem stacked against Alden, but he knows people who know people, and each year he invests larger sums of money and strays a little farther from what’s strictly legal into territory that could potentially put him on a terrorist watch list—to the benefit of the other people who assemble around the lake, the numbers swelling from year to year as they turn out to see what the Massimos and McCauslands come up with.

Being outdone by the Massimo’s fireworks is one thing, though. To add insult to injury, one of Massimo’s sons is the proud owner of a trumpet, and each triumph is accompanied by the kind of wah-wah-waaaah sound (some people dub it the “sad trombone”) associated with losing the big prize at the last minute. The rivalry might not have heated up the way it did if the McCauslands hadn’t felt so humiliated by the trombone taunt.

This is comedic storytelling at its best. “Drunken Fireworks” doesn’t really have a point (other than the benefits of being insured and the fact that explosives and alcohol are an unwise mix), but it builds toward an “explosive” climax as the fireworks become more exotic (with names like Pyro Monkey, Ghost of Fury and Rooster of Destiny) and the booze flows freely on both sides of the lake. Readers will wonder what happened to bring Alden, whose laconic delivery is dramatized to maximum effect by Sample, to the police station that morning. After the truth is revealed, King has yet another surprise up his sleeve. This isn’t a shaggy dog story like “L.T.’s Theory of Pets.” It’s one that could be enjoyed while sitting on the back porch, late in the evening as dusk descends, swatting black flies, drinking the beverage of choice, perhaps with the sounds of fireworks echoing in the distance (or the soundtrack to Close Encounters of the Third Kind) and the scent of gunpowder in the air.

The audiobook will be released on CD and for download on June 30th, but you’ll also be able to listen to the story on demand on select CBS radio stations on July 2nd. The story will appear in print in The Bazaar of  Bad Dreams in November.

Carrie: The Deluxe Special Edition Gift Edition

Hi Folks!

We’re hearing from a lot of people asking if we still have the SLIPCASED GIFT EDITION of Carrie by Stephen King available for sale. We do have some stock left available and here are a few of the photos we posted of this beautiful special edition:

Read more on our website or place your order!

Coming Soon!
Drunken Fireworks by Stephen King

Hi Folks!

We’re pleased to report we’ll be receiving copies of Drunken Fireworks by Stephen King, a new audiobook-only story featuring a salt-of-the-earth Maine native who recounts how a friendly annual summer fireworks show rivalry with his neighbor across the lake gradually spirals out of control with explosive results:

If audiobooks aren’t your thing, don’t worry, we’ve heard this story will also appear in print for the first time in The Bazaar of Bad Dreams later this year!

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

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