Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Breaking NewsLeave a comment on We’re All In This Together by Owen King Cover Reveal! We’re All In This Together by Owen King Cover Reveal!
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We’re pleased to reveal the cover artwork for our revised and expanded special signed Limited Edition of We’re All in This Together by Owen King, and we don’t expect the remaining copies of the Limited Edition to last long:
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Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Breaking NewsLeave a comment on Four Bentley Little eBooks On Sale Now! Just in case you missed the news, we’re pleased to report that we’ve published FOUR of Bentley Little’s acclaimed books as eBooks and there will be more to come over the next couple of years! Read more about each book by clicking on the cover artwork below or the store link of your choice!
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“Legendary author Terry Brooks weaves a tale about an apocalyptic showdown in a small Illinois town between humans and the amber-eyed trolls from another realm that only a girl named Nest can see.”
â Library Journal
Running With the Demon by Terry Brooks
Surprise Signed Limited Edition Already Rolling At the Printer!
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We’re extremely pleased to announce we’ll be publishing a special signed Limited Edition of Running With the Demon by Terry Brooks, and this title is already rolling at the printer and we don’t expect either edition to last long given the very small print runs and the author’s devoted following!
Note for the Collectors:
This is the first of several Limited Editions by Terry Brooks that we’ll be publishing, and collectors who order this book through our website will be the first notified about future special editions!
About the Book:
In a sleepy steel-mill town, the ultimate battle between Good and Evil is about to begin…
Sinnissippi Park, in Hopewell, Illinois, has long hidden a mysterious evil, locked away from humankind by powers greater than most could even imagine. But now the malevolent creatures that normally skulk in the shadows of the park grow bolder, and old secrets hint at a violent explosion.
The brewing conflict draws John Ross to Hopewell. A Knight of the Word, Ross is plagued by nightmares that tell him someone evil is coming to unleash an ancient horror upon the world. Caught between them is fourteen-year-old Nest Freemark, who senses that something is terribly wrong but has not yet learned to wield the budding power that sets her apart from her friends.
Now the future of humanity depends upon a man haunted by his dreams and a gifted young girl â two souls who will discover what survives when hope and innocence are shattered forever…
Special Features Exclusive to this Deluxe Collector’s Edition:
âą deluxe oversized design different from any other edition
âą a full-color signature sheet personally signed by the author
âą fine binding for both the Limited Edition and the Lettered Edition
âą epic cover artwork by Tomislav Tikulin
âą extremely collectible print run that is a tiny fraction of the hundreds of thousands of copies of the edition you’ve seen in bookstores â and you will NOT see our edition in chain bookstores!
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The Consultant by Bentley Little
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We’re very pleased to report that we will be publishing The Consultant by Bentley Little in September! This is a brand new 400+ page novel that has never been published anywhere in the world! This novel is classic Bentley Little and we’re thrilled to be able to share it with readers everywhere.
About the Book:
CompWare is in serious trouble after a promised merger falls through, so they do what other businesses have done to bolster their public image: they hire a consulting firm to review and streamline their business practices.
But there’s something strange about the firm they hireâmore specifically, the quirky gentleman who arrives to supervise the project: Mr. Patoff, tall and thin and wearing a bow tie, and with an odd smile that never quite reaches his eyes.
In his first interactions, the consultant asks a few inappropriate questions, and generally seems a nuisance. Over time, Patoff gains more power, to the point where he seems to be running the whole company. Â He enacts arbitrary and invasive changes to office protocol. He places cameras all over the building, making workers paranoid; he calls employees at all hours of the night, visits some of their homes and menaces their families.
People who defy the consultant get fired⊠or worse.
The employees of CompWare soon realize they’re not just fighting for their jobs: they’re fighting for their lives.
The Consultant is a biting workplace satire, with the horrific touches only Bentley Little could provide.
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Featuring Joe R. Lansdale, Robert R. McCammon, Bentley Little, Elizabeth Massie, Brian Keene, J.F. Gonzalez, Steve Rasnic Tem, Kealan Patrick Burke, Brian Hodge, Billie Sue Mosiman, Kathryn Ptacek, Thomas F. Monteleone, Gary Raisor, Yvonne Navarro, Robert Swartwood, G. Wayne Miller, and Paul F. Olson!
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We’re pleased to report that the eBook edition of Better Weird: A Tribute to David B. Silva edited by Richard Chizmar, Brian James Freeman, and Paul F. Olson is now available for purchase from most of the major online eBook retailers. The signature sheets for our Signed Limited Edition are now circulating among 
the authors, but we won’t be offering preorders for the print edition until those sheets are back in our hands. In the meantime, we hope you’ll order the eBook and check out this incredible anthology!
About the Book:
Better weird than plasticâŠ
For a generation of horror fans, those four words signaled a momentous occasion: the arrival of a new issue of David B. Silva’s seminal publication, The Horror Show. For nine years in the 1980s, Dave and his magazine published some of the biggest names in the genre and introduced the world to countless others, nurturing dozens of careers along the road from first publication to major success. A man of limitless talent, Dave also earned a reputation as one of the field’s finest writers, producing a handful of brilliant novels and a vast collection of award-winning stories.
Following Dave’s untimely death in 2013, authors from around the horror world came forward to honor his memory. Those who grew up reading his immortal magazine, those who learned from his kind and careful tutelage, those who admired the editor, the writer, the man â they are all here, gathered in the pages of this special anthology: Kealan Patrick Burke, Brian Hodge, Joe R. Lansdale, Robert R. McCammon, Bentley Little, Elizabeth Massie, Brian Keene, J.F. Gonzalez, Steve Rasnic Tem, Billie Sue Mosiman, Kathryn Ptacek, Thomas F. Monteleone, Gary Raisor, Yvonne Navarro, Robert Swartwood, G. Wayne Miller, and Paul F. Olson.
With brand new tales of terror, lovingly-chosen classics, and heartfelt tributes, these writers have come to raise a chill, bring a tear, and remind you of the truth in Dave’s immortal words: It’s always Better WeirdâŠ
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Lettered Edition Has Sold Out and the Limited Edition is More Than 50% Sold Out!
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We’re extremely pleased to report that our revised and expanded special signed Limited Edition of We’re All in This Together by Owen King is selling even faster than we expected! All 52 copies of the Deluxe Lettered Edition have already been reserved and the Limited Edition is going fast as well.
This special signed edition includes a new foreword by the author, revised and expanded versions of the stories, and a bonus short story, “The Idiot’s Ghost,” which hasn’t appeared in any other publication of this collection.
In addition, there will be a brand new introduction by John Freeman, who was editor of the literary magazine Granta until 2013 and is the former president of the National Book Critics Circle.
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Finders Keepers: A Novel
by Stephen King
Last DAY To Order Your Custom Slipcase!
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Don’t forget that we’re producing one of our popular custom-made slipcases for Finders Keepers by Stephen King like we have for the last few King books, but we have to place our order for these cases TODAY, so this is your last chance to lock in your reservation!
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Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Breaking NewsLeave a comment on Family Secrets by F. Paul Wilson and Tom Monteleone Family Secrets: Book Two of the Nocturnia Series
by F. Paul Wilson and Tom Monteleone
Signed & Numbered Limited Edition of only 350 Copies!
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We’re pleased to report we’ll be getting a handful of copies of Family Secrets by F. Paul Wilson and Tom Monteleone from Borderlands Press & Gauntlet Press, and we don’t expect these to last very long!
About the Book:
Family Secrets is the second volume of the Nocturnia Chronicles. This Young Adult series by F. Paul Wilson and Tom Monteleone continues the story of Ryan and Emma, trapped in a parallel universe called Nocturnia. It is a world where all the archetypal monsters of our world are actually separate species of creatures who run their own nations and conduct commerce and even wars amongst themselves.
In their continuing search for their missing older brother, Ryan and Emma are helped by a variety of displaced humans and monsters ranging from Ambrose Bierce to vegetarian werewolves. During their attempts to escape from the fierce renegade ruler, Falzon, they embark on an odyssey of adventure and revelation of not only a strange nightmare world . . . but also about themselves.
About the Authors:
Paul Wilson is the author of the Repairman Jack novels. Tom Monteleone is author of The Blood of the Lamb and editor of the Borderlands Anthology Series.
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Author Bev VincentPosted on Categories Reviews2 Comments on Stephen King: News from the Dead Zone #179 
Lisey Landon had a word for the people who clamored for the fragments, snippets and memorabilia of her dead husbandâs literary estate: Incunks. Is there is a similar word for those who seek the remnants of a living (though perhaps inactive) author?
Morris Bellamy is obsessed with John Rothstein, a writer cut from the same cloth as J.D. Salinger. Rothstein withdrew from the world in 1960, living in New Hampshire a mile from his nearest neighbor. Now almost eighty, he is most famous for a trilogy featuring protagonist Jimmy Gold.
Bellamy has read the first two books, The Runner and The Runner Sees Action, countless times, but the final book only once, so much does he loathe the fate that befell a character who is more alive to him than most real people. He thinks Rothstein sold out, made Gold go establishment in The Runner Slows Down (the series titles are reminiscent of John Updike), where Gold winds up married with kids and working in advertising.
In 1978, convinced that Rothstein must have continued writing in the two decades since his last story appeared in The New Yorker, Bellamy enlists the help of two clueless accomplices and invades Rothsteinâs farmhouse. They uncover wads of cash and, more importantly to Bellamy, scores and scores of ledgers containing Rothsteinâs handwriting.
By all rights, Bellamy should have been caught soon after the robbery, but, like Brady Hartsfield in Mr. Mercedes, luck is on Bellamyâs side. Sort of. He isnât arrested because of this incident but rather because of something that happens subsequently. His Achillesâ heel is that he canât handle being made to feel stupid. Heâd already spent nine months in juvenile detention after a drunken rampage sparked by an argument with his mother over the Rothstein novels. He blames her for his incarcerationâheâs never takes responsibility for his own actions. This time, his drunken misadventures end in a far worse outcome and he is sentenced to life in prisonâbefore he has the chance to savor the spoils of his robbery.
Though nominally a sequel, Finders Keepers works perfectly well as a standalone novel. It intersects with Mr. Mercedes via the City Center Massacre, where Hartsfield killed several people and maimed others with a stolen Mercedes. In the second book of a proposed trilogy, that incident is represented by the Saubers, a family who fell on hard times during the economic downturn. Tom Saubers was waiting in line at the job fair that fateful day. He survived, but was seriously injured and ends up hooked on painkillers during his rehabilitation. There are frequent loud arguments with his wife, mostly over money.
Then thirteen year old Pete Saubers stumbles upon a buried treasure. Not only does the trunk he discovers in a vacant lot near his house (the same one Morris Bellamy grew up in) contain stacks of cash, it also holds intriguing, handwritten ledgers. At the time, Pete has no idea who John Rothstein is, but over the following years he becomes familiar with the manâs work.
In Peteâs mind, this is a case of âfinders keepers,â but if he gives the money to his parents, theyâll want to report it to the cops. So, he mails them $500 each month anonymously. The Saubers convince themselves itâs further compensation for Tomâs injuries. It wonât make them wealthy, but itâs enough to silence the worst of the arguments. Peteâs discovery represents the turning point for his family.
But the money runs out four years later.
By then, Pete understands the true value of the ledgers, which contain poems, short stories and two unpublished Jimmy Gold novels that complete the cycle. Liquidating them is a problem, especially for a high school sophomore. If he turns them in, he wonât get anything more than a pat on the back, and he wants to raise enough money so his younger sister, Tina, can go to private school. Sheâs smart, but falling through the cracks at public school. Heâs forced to seek the help of a shady individual, which sets into motion a catastrophic sequence of events that jeopardizes his entire family.
For the first 150 pages, the story bounces around between 1978 and 2009-2013, relating incidents in Bellamyâs and the Saubersâ lives. Then Det/Ret Bill Hodges gets involved and the pace of the novel accelerates to breakneck speed, with the second half covering only a few days.
The novel is dedicated to John D. MacDonald, who wrote the introduction to Night Shift and penned a series featuring Travis McGee[1]. McGee helped people who had things stolen from them in a way that precluded legal recourse. For his services, he kept fifty percent of whatever he recovered. Half of something was better than nothing, he reasoned.
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Crossovers As with Mr. Mercedes, Finders Keepers is set in the âreal world,â where Stephen King is a person who writes books, movies are adapted from them and popular tropes have entered the cultural awareness. And yet, it canât be a coincidence that Brady Hartsfield resides in Room 217 of the Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic. Can it? Can it? |
Hodges, slimmer and healthier than when he first retired, is in a similar business, a company called Finders Keepers he formed after he wriggled out of the trouble he found himself in because of his rogue investigation into the Mercedes Killer case four years earlier. When first seen in 2014, heâs repossessing a stolen Lear Jet from a con man. His fee isnât half of the jetâs value, but itâs a tidy sum nonetheless. Plus, he brings the culprit to justice and puts a feather in his former partnerâs hat, another move toward reconciling their rocky relationship.
Holly Gibney, the awkward and damaged woman who emerged to the forefront in Mr. Mercedes, is now Hodgesâ assistant. She runs the office, keeps the files and performs computer research to help Hodges track his targets. Sheâs not completely healedâshe still has numerous quirksâbut her self-confidence has been boosted by recent experiences.
Hodgesâ other âirregular,â Jerome Robinson, is at Harvard. His younger sister Barbara happens to be good friends with Pete Saubersâ sister, which is how Hodges gets involved. The disreputable bookstore owner Pete consults about the manuscripts puts the teenager in a difficult spot. The stress takes a toll on him and Tina notices the change in her brotherâs behavior. However, Pete rebuffâs Hodgesâ offer of assistance.
Morris Bellamy is paroled from prison after nearly four decades. Finally given a chance to recover the ledgers, he is incensed to discover that someone has beaten him to the punch. He has a suspect, though: the one person who knew about them when he was arrested. This puts him on a collision course with Pete Saubers and, ultimately, with Bill Hodges. Hodgesâ investigation isnât really the typical stuff of a detective novelâwith the assistance of Jerome and Holly, they try to help Pete out of his predicament without understanding until late in the game exactly who is after him or why.
In the novel, King discusses the world of rare books and literature. He talks about natural selection in terms of which authorsâ works survive over the decades and which donât. The power of a story to captivate plays an important part in the novelâs resolution, as does the question of which is more important: the writing or the writer. Bellamy and Annie Wilkes share a common belief that their favorite authors owe them something when a series of books takes a direction they donât like.
At times, Finders Keepers enters Kate Atkinson territory. Coincidence (or co-inky-dink, as one character puts it) plays a part in the proceedings. Pete finds Bellamyâs stash shortly after the Emergency Fund for victims of the City Center Massacre runs out. He approaches the bookseller with the ledgers barely a week before Bellamy goes looking for them. And Bellamy gets closer to the ledgers than he could possibly imagine due to a coincidence of geography.
And what of Brady Hartsfield? At the conclusion of Mr. Mercedes, King hinted that we hadnât seen the last of him. That despite the grievous injury he received at the hands of Holly and Hodgesâ happy slapper, there was still some life left in the young psychopath. Hartsfield is Hodgesâ obsession. The retired detective wonders if heâs faking his condition, so he visits him frequently to try to catch him out. In the final pages of Finders Keepers, King lays the groundwork for the third book in the series, tentatively titled The Suicide Prince. It seems that Hodges is in for a rematch with his old nemesis.
[1] Another MacDonald novel, The Executioners, the inspiration for the movies Cape Fear, makes a cameo appearance in Finders Keepers in much the same way that a couple of King novels cameoed in Travis McGee novels
We’re All In This Together by Owen King
Revised and expanded for this special edition including a new foreword by the author and a bonus story, “The Idiot’s Ghost,” which hasn’t appeared in any other version of the book! Plus a new introduction by John Freeman!
Brand New Signed Limited Edition With FREE US SHIPPING For A Limited Time Only!
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We’re extremely pleased to announce we’ll be publishing a revised and expanded special signed Limited Edition of We’re All in This Together by Owen King, and we don’t expect either edition to last long given the very small print runs!
If you haven’t read the works of Owen King yet, you’re in for a treat! The stories in this collection, including the brilliant title novella, carry the weight of real emotion and revelation and showcase the impressive versatility of a rising talent.
This special signed Limited Edition of King’s acclaimed debut includes a new foreword by the author, revised and expanded versions of the stories, and a bonus short story, “The Idiot’s Ghost,” which hasn’t appeared in any other publication of this collection. In addition, there will be a brand new introduction by John Freeman, who was editor of the literary magazine Granta until 2013 and is the former president of the National Book Critics Circle.
This beautiful special edition will be a must-have for our collectors and we don’t expect copies to last long!
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by Stephen King
The Full Cover Has Been Revealed!
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The full cover artwork for The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King has been revealed and it’s easily one of our favorite SK covers in many, many years! Reserve your copy today, especially if you want one of our custom-made slipcases because we’re already working on a very cool stamping design to make this one extra special:
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A Little Purple Book of New Orleans Stories
by Poppy Z. Brite
Signed & Numbered Limited Edition of only 500 Copies!
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We’re pleased to report we’ll be getting a handful of copies of A Little Purple Book of New Orleans Stories by Poppy Z. Brite from Borderlands Press, and we don’t expect these to last very long given the popularity of this series and Poppy’s work!
The sixth volume in our popular Series II of “Little Books” is a collection of stories set in weird and often surreal settings of the authorâs hometown. Brite achieved notoriety in the gothic horror genre during 1990s. Poppyâs later work moved into the related genre of dark comedy with many stories set in the New Orleans restaurant world. This latest collection brings together a wonderful batch of tales that will be new to many readers.
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Signed and Numbered Limited Edition Featuring THREE Bonus Stories!
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We’re pleased to report we’ll be getting a very limited supply of the signed & numbered Limited Edition hardcover of Blue World by Robert McCammon from Subterranean Press and we expect these to sell very quickly, so don’t wait to place your order!
About the Book:
In this expanded edition of Robert McCammon’s classic short story collection, you will encounter horrors and delights in equal measure, including:
* A man who awakens one morning to find a skeleton in bed where his wife had been the night before.
* A small-time thief who steals a makeup case, and learns a dead horror star’s secret.
* A roadside diner, where a Vietnam veteran comes seeking shelter from the storm.
* A young man in prison, who finds beauty and hope on the wings of a yellow bird.
* Halloween in a very special residential area, where trick-or-treating is deadly serious.
* A red house on a street of gray houses, and a breath of sweet fire.
* The adventures of a has-been serial hero, who dons his old costume and goes in search of a serial killer.
* A priest obsessed by a porno star, and his realization that both of them are being stalked by a third shadow.
* An old woman who channels early, simpler times in a melancholy Bradburyesque future.
We will see worlds within worlds through the windows of these stories. We might even see the end of the world, and we might sit on a front porch for a while and sip a glass of gasoline on a hot December day.
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Author Bev VincentPosted on Categories Breaking NewsLeave a comment on Stephen King: News from the Dead Zone #178
Next up from Stephen King is Finders Keepers, which will be out on June 2. There’s an excerpt in the May 15 issue of Entertainment Weekly (also online). Scribner and King’s office are running a contest for a signed copy of the book, as well as audio and hardcover editions. The early reviews (you can read Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Library Journal and Booklist reviews here) have been very good. Stay tuned for my review very soon.
At a recent event, King said he was hard at work on the third volume in the series, which has the working title The Suicide Prince. The previous book, Mr. Mercedes, won the Edgar Award for best novel. King was present to accept it, as he was also at the banquet to present the Ellery Queen Award to Charles Ardai, editor and founder, Hard Case Crime.
On November 3, we’ll get King’s next collection, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. King will introduce each of the eighteen stories and two poems, providing âautobiographical comments on when, why and how he came to write itâ, as well as âthe origins and motivation of each story.” The contents are:Â “Mile 81,” “Premium Harmony ,” “Batman and Robin Have an Altercation,” “The Dune,” “Bad Little Kid,” “A Death,” “The Bone Church,” “Morality,” “Afterlife,” “Ur,” “Herman Wouk is Still Alive,” “Under the Weather,” “Blockade Billy,” “Mister Yummy,” “Tommy,” “The Little Green God of Agony,” “That Bus is Another World,” “Obits,” “Drunken Fireworks,” and “Summer Thunder.” The cover is being gradually revealed at King’s official website.
Several of these stories are quite rare or haven’t been generally available. “Bad Little Kid,” for example, was only released in French and German previously. A few were only available electronically, and “Under the Weather” only appeared in the paperback edition of Full Dark, No Stars. A few of the stories are brand new. Among this number is “Drunken Fireworks,” which will be published as an audiobook read by Maine humorist Tim Sample on June 30. The story will also stream in its entirety on select CBS radio stations nationwide on July 2nd, in keeping with its Fourth of July theme.
Hard Case Crime has announced they will publish an illustrated edition of Joyland this September, featuring cover artwork by Glen Orbik, a map of Joyland illustrated by Susan Hunt Yule and more than twenty interior illustrations by Robert McGinnis, Mark Summers and Pat Kinsella. Note that this is not a limited edition. Hard Case Crime will publish as many copies as are needed to satisfy demand for the book. In related, sadder news, Orbik died recently at the age of 52 from cancer.
The Shining: Studies in the Horror Film is now available for pre-order from Centipede Press. This 752-page book, edited by Danel Olson, features a new introduction by Academy-Award winning director Lee Unkrich, and nearly two dozen new interviews with cast and crew members, reprint interviews, and a handful of excellent essays (plus one from yours truly). The book also features an amazing assortment of behind the scenes photographs, most never before published, crisp frame enlargements from the film, and a special gallery of poster artwork inspired by the movie. The book will be shipping later this month.
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