Wolf Hunt 2 by Jeff Strand Signed Limited Edition!

Wolf Hunt 2 by Jeff Strand
Signed Limited Edition Features an Exclusive Bonus Story!

Hi Folks!

We’re pleased to report we’ll be receiving copies of the Signed Limited Edition of Wolf Hunt 2 by Jeff Strand from Dark Regions Press, and we don’t expect these to last very long!

Wolf Hunt 2Special Note For Collectors:
The signed hardcover editions of Wolf Hunt 2 feature an exclusive 10,000 word bonus story “My Werewolf Neighbor” and three exclusive interior illustrations by artist Frank Walls!

About the Book:
George and Lou used to be thugs for hire. Now they’re living in a shack in Costa Rica, hiding from the crime lord who wants them dead. Their last job, to deliver him a werewolf in a cage, went… badly.

But they can’t hide out forever, and when they’re finally captured, it seems as if George and Lou’s ultimate fate will involve being doused in gasoline and set aflame. Instead, they’re given a second chance. There’s another werewolf out there. This time, it’s Ally, a fourteen-year-old girl.

Kidnapping a teenaged girl is a major conflict with George and Lou’s moral code, but they also aren’t fans of being brutally executed, so they agree to the job. After all, the crime lord doesn’t want to kill Ally–he just wants her to bite him. They’ll snatch her, deliver her as promised, and then do everything they can to return her home safely. She doesn’t even know she’s a werewolf; it’s not as if she’ll create any complications by transforming.

Of course, this is George and Lou, so there are many, many complications.

The worst of which is that they’ve now enraged three other extremely nasty werewolves…

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Review: 'At the Lazy K' by Gene O'Neill

LazyKAt the Lazy K by Gene O’Neill
Written Backwards (May 2015)
162 pages; $10.00 paperback
Reviewed by W.D. Gagliani

All the best storytellers get it done without verbal fireworks. In fact, too much style can easily get in the way of the story – in part sparseness is what makes hardboiled fiction still work so well decades after it was written. While it’s not in the hardboiled vein, Gene O’Neill’s novella At the Lazy K is a good example of the simple art of storytelling. It’s not as easy to do as it looks, but when it works it should look easy. O’Neill always does well with common man narrators and/or characters, presenting events from their perspective with an old-fashioned street-smart approach that’s winningly convincing.Continue Reading

The Narrator In-Stock Trade Paperback Just $14!

The Narrator
by Michael McBride and Norman Prentiss
In-Stock Trade Paperback Just $14!

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The NarratorIn case you missed the news earlier this year , we’re very pleased to report that The Narrator by Michael McBride and Norman Prentiss is available as an afforable trade paperback and copies are available to ship now!

About the Book:
Critically acclaimed horror scribes Michael McBride and Norman Prentiss team up to bring you this atmospheric tale of a schoolroom descending into madness.

Something is wrong with Julia Linder’s sixth grade class.

One boy’s harmless tendency of getting lost becomes a crippling fog of disorientation. A girl’s mild twitch turns into an obsessive pattern of frightened raps and repetition. The symptoms are spreading and the source seems to be stories that seize upon the children’s deeply seated fears and intensify them exponentially.

How can mere stories change their behavior?

Abbie is a bright girl at the heart of the mystery. The others are inexplicably drawn to her and become increasingly devoted to her with each passing day. But should her classmates trust her?

The secrets are locked in tales from the past, where only The Narrator can find them.

Read more or place your order before all of our copies have sold!

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

Review: 'Dead Ringers' by Christopher Golden

Dead Ringers by Christopher Golden
St. Martin’s Press (November 20150
320 pages, e-book $12.99 , hardcover $17.76
Reviewed by Blu Gilliand

DeadRingersChristopher Golden adds another quality horror/thriller to his immense body of work with Dead Ringers, a tale of supernatural dopplegängers tormenting a small group of colleagues and friends.

Some authors lay all their cards on the table at the beginning of the story and let readers watch how everything plays out. In this book, Golden chooses to reveal details to us as he reveals them to his characters, making for a much more immersive and, at times, disorienting experience. This approach, coupled with Golden’s solid character work and relentless pacing, makes Dead Ringers a thoroughly enjoyable read.Continue Reading

Review: 'It Waits Below' by Eric Red

It Waits Below by Eric Red
Samhain Publishing (2014)
282 pages, e-book $4.24, paperback $14.13
Reviewed by Damon Smith

ItWaitsBelowOnce it hits its stride, It Waits Below has a blistering pace that is only helped by the relatively short chapter length. But it sadly takes a bit to build up to that breakneck pace, and during that phase the book is somewhat of a slog.

Hundreds of years ago, a meteorite crashed into a Spanish Galleon, sinking both it and a massive hoard of gold to the bottom of the sea. Now in the modern day, a salvaging company is sending down a three-man sub to retrieve that treasure. Little do they know, the meteorite brought an organism to earth with it; a parasite that is more than ready to come to the surface and infect anything it touches…Continue Reading

Have You Been Reading Stephen King Revisited, Our FREE Blog For Stephen King Fans?

Have You Been Reading Stephen King Revisited, Our FREE Blog For Stephen King Fans?

Hi Folks!

Stephen King and Richard ChizmarWe’ve been sharing essays about Stephen King’s early books for StephenKingRevisited.com for more than a year now, and this massive project really is proving to be unlike anything we’ve ever undertaken before!

For those who haven’t heard about the site yet, Cemetery Dance founder and publisher Richard Chizmar is re-reading ALL of Stephen King’s books in the order of publication and he’s posting his thoughts about the experience. He shares stories about his younger days when he read many of these books for the very first time and also observations of how the books read to him now that he’s older and wiser.

When Chizmar asked Stephen King what he thought of the idea of him re-reading all of the books in order, King replied, “You should blog about it” and “go for it!”

Bev Vincent is providing “historical context essays” with hundreds of insightful details about HOW the books came to be written: where King was in his life, what was going on in the world, and other factors that fed the engine of creation.

Plus we’re posting guest essays by authors such as Michael Koryta, Ray Garton, Christopher Golden, Brian Keene, Josh Boone, Ed Gorman, Chet Williamson, Kealan Patrick Burke, and many others who are sharing their own, personal take on these classic Stephen King books.

Be sure to visit StephenKingRevisited.com so you don’t miss out on all of the fun! And while you’re on the website, be sure to sign-up for notifications and updates from Stephen King Revisited using the “Updates and Notifications via email” sign-up box on the right or bottom of the site, so you never miss a post!

Visit StephenKingRevisited.com to read more…

Dominoes in Time by Matthew Warner: eBook Available For IMMEDIATE DOWNLOAD!

“Warner’s imagination is vast, and these stories leap off the page, staying with the reader in mind and heart. A highly recommended group of tales by a virtuoso writer.”
— Lisa Mannetti, three-time nominee and winner of the Bram Stoker Award

Dominoes in Time
by Matthew Warner

eBook Available For IMMEDIATE DOWNLOAD!

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Hot on the heals of our previous eBook release, we’re very pleased to announce yet another new addition to the Cemetery Dance eBook line: Dominoes in Time by Matthew Warner.

Dominoes in TimeAbout the Book:
Like the first domino in a chain, the most traumatic episode of a person’s life shapes all things to come.

For a fashion model, the key event is a repulsive facial blemish caused by a photographer with an unusual camera. For a man in a post-apocalyptic shelter, it’s the need for emergency medical attention from the last remaining doctor: his ex-wife. For a homeless man, it’s the realization that the backward-walking man beside him controls world events from his park bench.

Matthew Warner ranges from the 19th to the 43rd century in this collection reprinting eighteen horror and science fiction stories.  In the foreword and story notes, Warner describes how his life inspired these tales of infidelity, parenthood, and death.  It includes some of his most popular stories, such as “Backwards Man” and “Second Wind.”

“Each story in Dominoes in Time is a dark gem—cold, sharp, and filled with sinister wonder.”
— Tim Waggoner, author of The Way of All Flesh

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Review: 'An Exorcism of Angels' by Stephanie Wytovich

An Exorcism of Angels by Stephanie Wytovich
Raw Dog Screaming Press (May 2015)
163 pages, e-book $4.99, paperback $13.95
Reviewed by Anton Cancre

exorcismofangelsSo that we are clear, An Exorcism of Angels is a book of poems about love, but they are a far cry from the images of roses and violets and fleas as sex metaphors. Stephanie Wytovich presents us with love born of need instead of desire. Love that is desperate, angry, bitter and spewing bile and that red, red kroovy all over the place. Love with no happily ever after, ending in padded rooms and jail cells with screams echoing outside and in. Continue Reading

A Little Magenta Book about a Dollhouse

A Little Magenta Book about a Dollhouse
by Edward Lee

Signed & Numbered Limited Edition of only 500 Copies!

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Little BookWe’re pleased to report we’ll be getting a handful of copies of A Little Magenta Book about a Dollhouse by Edward Lee from Borderlands Press, and we don’t expect these to last very long!

WELCOME TO THE PATTEN MANOR HOUSE.

It’s a horror house, a slaughter house, a devil house. And it’s something else, too:

A doll house.

Reginald Lympton collects doll houses, and now that he’s acquired the rare Patten Doll House, he can boast the most preeminent collection in the world. But after visions too abominable to reckon, and nightmares blacker than the most bottomless abyss, he discovers in short order that his acquisition is not a prized collector’s item at all but a diabolical thoroughfare designed to serve the darkest indulgences of the King of Terrors.

Now, Edward Lee, the master of hardcore horror, has penned this audacious homage to the master of the Victorian ghost story, M.R. James.

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

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

What I Learned from Stephen King: 'The Long Walk' of Life

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The Long Walk of Life

longwalkart1BEFORE THE WALK

I was having brunch with a friend of mine on a recent Sunday, a horror film actress in fact, who asked: Do you really think there’s anything spiritual about Stephen King’s books?

The question was served cold with a heaping side of skepticism, and it took me slightly off guard. It’s not the first time I have been asked the question since starting this column three short months ago, and I’m always somewhat alarmed by it.

When asked, the first thing that springs to my mind is self-doubt: What if I’m wrong? What if there really is nothing spiritual about Stephen King’s stories and I’m just grasping at straws here? What if I’ve doomed myself to write a monthly column about… nothing? The writer’s worst nightmare.  Continue Reading

The Dark at the End of the Tunnel by Taylor Grant Announced!

“A bold, unsettling new voice in suspense and horror.”
— Scott Nicholson, bestselling thriller author of The Red Church

The Dark at the End of the Tunnel
by Taylor Grant
eBook Available For IMMEDIATE DOWNLOAD!

Hi Folks!

We’re very pleased to announce the newest addition to the Cemetery Dance eBook line: The Dark at the End of the Tunnel by Taylor Grant!

The Dark at the End of the TunnelAbout the Book:
This collection features ten gripping and darkly imaginative stories by Taylor Grant, one of the horror genre’s rising stars—including the Bram Stoker Award nominated tale “The Infected.”

Discover what happens when:

– An author stumbles upon an incomplete manuscript by his deceased father, and makes the grave mistake of trying to complete the story.

– A wealthy industrialist awakens after ten years in suspended animation, and finds out that the horrors of the past can never be left behind.

– A lonely man realizes that he’s gradually vanishing from existence, into a nightmarish limbo of his own making.

– A woman learns that the imaginary voices that haunt the delusional and criminally insane are, in fact, real.

These stories expose terrors beneath the surface of our ordinary world, behind people’s masks of normalcy, and lurking in the shadows at the farthest reaches of the universe.

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Review: 'Childhood Fears' by Various

Childhood Fears by Various
Samhain Publishing (October 2015)
306 pages, e-book $9.99, paperback $16.99
Reviewed by Frank Michaels Errington

FearsIn May of 2015 Samhain Publishing released four new novellas exploring things that go bump in the night, the things that scared us as kids, and in many cases still frighten us as adults. Now, those four stories are available in a single volume called Childhood Fears.Continue Reading

The Complete Dark Screams eBook Series!

The Complete Dark Screams eBook Series!
Featuring Stephen King, Kelley Armstrong, Bill Pronzini, Simon Clark, Ramsey Campbell, Robert McCammon, Norman Prentiss, Shawntelle Madison, Graham Masterton, Richard Christian Matheson, Peter Straub, Jack Ketchum, Darynda Jones, Jacquelyn Frank, Brian Hodge, Clive Barker, Heather Graham, Lisa Morton, Ray Garton, Ed Gorman, Mick Garris, Kealan Patrick Burke, Del James, J. Kenner, and Bentley Little!

Hi Folks!

Richard Chizmar and Brian James Freeman of Cemetery Dance Publications joined forces with the cutting edge team at Hydra, a division of Random House, to publish a series of horror eBook anthologies called Dark Screams that features the best horror authors working in the business today and ALL FIVE volumes are available for immediate download:

Dark Screams

Dark Screams 2

Dark Screams 3

Dark Screams 4

Dark Screams 5

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