Kin by Kealan Patrick Burke! New Signed Limited Edition! SHIPPING THIS WEEK!

KinOn a scorching hot summer day in Elkwood, Alabama, Claire Lambert staggers naked, wounded, and half-blind away from the scene of an atrocity. She is the sole survivor of a nightmare that claimed her friends, and even as she prays for rescue, the killers — a family of cannibalistic lunatics — are closing in.

A soldier suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder returns from Iraq to the news that his brother is among the murdered in Elkwood.

In snowbound Detroit, a waitress trapped in an abusive relationship gets an unexpected visit that will lead to bloodshed and send her back on the road to a past she has spent years trying to outrun.

And Claire, the only survivor of the Elkwood Massacre, haunted by her dead friends, dreams of vengeance… a dream which will be realized as grief and rage turn good people into cold-blooded murderers and force alliances among strangers.

It’s time to return to Elkwood.

In the spirit of such iconic horror classics as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Deliverance, Kin begins at the end and studies the possible aftermath for the survivors of such traumas upon their return to the real world — the guilt, the grief, the thirst for revenge — and sets them on an unthinkable journey… back into the heart of darkness.

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Featured eBook for Halloween: Johnny Halloween by Norman Partridge!

Johnny HalloweenOriginally published as a LONG SOLD OUT $30 signed Limited Edition hardcover!

Norman Partridge’s Halloween novel, Dark Harvest, was chosen as one of Publishers Weekly‘s 100 Best Books of 2006. A Bram Stoker Award winner and World Fantasy nominee, Partridge’s rapid-fire tale of a small town trapped by its own shadows welcomed a wholly original creation, the October Boy, earning the author comparisons to Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, and Shirley Jackson.

Now Partridge revisits Halloween with a collection featuring a half-dozen stories celebrating frights both past and present. In “The Jack o’ Lantern,” a brand new Dark Harvest novelette, the October Boy races against a remorseless döppelganger bent on carving a deadly path through the town’s annual ritual of death and rebirth. “Johnny Halloween” features a sheriff battling both a walking ghost and his own haunted conscience. In “Three Doors,” a scarred war hero hunts his past with the help of a magic prosthetic hand, while “Satan’s Army” is a real Partridge rarity previously available only in a long sold-out lettered edition from another press.

But there’s more to this holiday celebration besides fiction. “The Man Who Killed Halloween” is an extensive essay about growing up during the late sixties in the town where the Zodiac Killer began his murderous spree. In an introduction that explores monsters both fictional and real, Partridge recalls what it was like to live in a community menaced by a serial killer and examines how the Zodiac’s reign of terror shaped him as a writer.

Halloween night awaits. Join a master storyteller as he explores the layers of darkness that separate all-too-human evil from the supernatural. Let Norman Partridge lead you on seven journeys through the most dangerous night of the year, where no one is safe…and everyone is suspect.

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Four Legs in the Morning by Norman Prentiss SHIPPING THIS WEEK!

Dr. Sibley, long-standing Chair of the English and Classical Literature Department at Graysonville University, has outlasted many of his detractors. In this collection of three linked stories, mysterious consequences await those who defy or disappoint him:

Four Legs in the Morning • a new colleague, whose avant-guard theories offend Sibley’s traditional critical sensibilities, uncovers a new answer to an ancient riddle (“Four Legs in the Morning”)

• a student plagiarist learns to regret his dishonesty (“Flannel Board”)

• a young administrator attempts to curtail some of Sibley’s power, until he discovers the fate of his predecessor (“The Mask of Tragedies”)

All of these characters eventually learn — sometimes too late — that Dr. Sibley may be far more powerful than he seems.

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Cemetery Dance #65 is at the Printer! Graham Masterton Special Issue!

Issue #65: The Graham Masterton Special Issue
144 Pages Featuring Masterton, Straub, Koryta, Hirshberg, Tuttle, Konrath, and more!

Publication Date: December 2011
Cover Artist: Vincent Chong
Interior Artists: Mike Apice, Stephen C. Gilberts, Zach McCain, Keith Minnion, Dan Moran, Tom Moran, Billy Tackett, Nick Tripiciano, Erin S. Wells

Page Count: 144 pages!

A Note From Richard Chizmar:CD #65
I want to apologize for the long delay between CD #64 (our Bentley Little special issue) and the new issue. We have had an unusually busy year with book production, but are now sufficiently caught up enough to direct our attention to both the magazine and book schedule. Rest assured, we will work hard to make sure the 2012 magazine schedule runs a lot smoother. It’s been a long climb since the days I was Cemetery Dance’s sole employee working out of a cramped apartment to where we now stand—an expansive office and warehouse with six full-time employees. The growing pains haven’t always been easy, but we’re still here.

Fiction
“Anka” by Graham Masterton
“Saint BrÓnach’s Shrift” by Graham Masterton
“An Excerpt from The Cypress House” by Michael Koryta
“Winter Takes All” by Michael Koryta
“Rainfall” by Maurice Broaddus
“After-words” by Glen Hirshberg
“Dear Diary” by J. A. Konrath
“Manskin, Womanskin” by Lisa Tuttle
“The Book of the Dead” by David Bell
“The Town Suicide” by S. Craig Renfroe, Jr.

Features
“An Interview with Graham Masterton” by J. A. Konrath
“The Stories that Graham Built” by Matt Williams
“Feature Review : Des cendant by Graham Masterton” by W. D. Gagliani
“A Few Words with Michael Koryta” by Brian James Freeman
“New Voices : Maurice Broaddus” by Steve Vernon
“What About Genre, What About Horror” by Peter Straub
“An Interview with Ray Bradbury” by Jonathan R. Eller
“An Interview with Ellen Datlow” by Danica Davidson
“An Interview with Whitley Strieber” by Thomas F. Monteleone

The Usual Suspects
“Words from the Editor” by Richard Chizmar
“Stephen King News : From the Dead Zone” by Bev Vincent
“The Mothers and Fathers Italian Association” by Thomas F. Monteleone
“MediaDrome” by Michael Marano
“Horror Drive-In” by Mark Sieber
“The Last 10 Books I’ve Read” by Ellen Datlow
“Spotlight on Publishing” by Robert Morrish
“Fine Points” by Ed Gorman
“Cemetery Dance Reviews”
“The Final Question” by Brian James Freeman

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Big Cemetery Dance eBook Store Updates!

Sony and Kobo Editions, New Releases, and The Mountain King by Rick Hautala

Hi Folks!

Today we’re pleased to announce that most of our Cemetery Dance eBooks are now available for the Sony Reader and Kobo:

This is a link to all of our titles on the Kobo store.

SONY links can be found on the individual product pages in the eBook section our website.

If you’d rather view and purchase our titles on Amazon for your Kindle, here is a short-cut link you should bookmark:

http://amzn.to/CDeBooksAmazon

If you’d rather view and purchase our titles on Barnes & Noble for your Nook, here is a short-cut link you should bookmark:

http://bit.ly/CDeBooksBN

Our titles are also on the iBookstore from Apple — see the individual product pages on our website for ordering links.


New eBooks From Cemetery Dance!

Here are our newest additions to our eBook store:

Oblivion by Jay Bonansinga

Johnny Halloween: Tales of the Dark Season by Norman Partridge

The Mountain King by Rick Hautala

Wetware by Kevin Quigley

Ink in the Veins by Kevin Quigley

Drawn Into Darkness by Kevin Quigley

Chart of Darkness by Kevin Quigley

Blood in Your Ears by Kevin Quigley


Today’s Featured eBook!
The Mountain King by Rick Hautala

The Mountain KingThere are many legends and ancient tales concerning Mount Agiochook, the second tallest mountain in Maine. Some of these tales speak of a demon that resides on the rocky slopes near the mountain’s snow-crested summit. Legend has it that a force of supernatural evil periodically emerges from the mists that shroud the mountain and comes down to the valley, looking to claim a life.

Sometimes the life it claims is an animal — perhaps a stray dog or a farmer’s cow or a horse. At other times, it claims a human life, a straying hiker or a lost camper.

Mark Newman has hiked the numerous trails to the summit of Mount Agiochook many times. He has heard the stories and Indian legend, but he doesn’t believe them.

Not until one September afternoon, when an early snow storm sweeps through the mountains, and he witnesses something he knows can’t possibly be real.

But it is all too real!

Convinced that there is something lurking near the summit of the mountain… something terrible… something that won’t be satisfied with claiming just one human life, Mark vows to hunt it down and destroy it.

What he doesn’t know is that he, too, is being hunted. Under suspicion for the murders of his best friend and his wife’s lover, Mark is being pursued by the local police, an angry mob, and something else… something he can’t begin to comprehend until he confronts it, face to face.

From international best-selling author Rick Hautala comes this terrifying adventure story of horror and suspense that will thrill you and haunt you long after you’ve finished reading it.

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The Exorcist: The 40th Anniversary Revised Limited Edition by William Peter Blatty

featuring the complete revised version of the novel and beautiful color artwork by Caniglia
Limited to just 400 total copies — SOLD OUT IN LESS THAN 30 HOURS! 

The Exorcist

Hi Folks!

Earlier this year, William Peter Blatty announced that he had revised his original manuscript for The Exorcist to be published as a special 40th Anniversary edition.

This is his final, definitive version of The Exorcist and Lonely Road Books will be publishing it as a deluxe, oversized, slipcased and signed Special Edition next year!

This special edition will feature multiple pages of full-color artwork by Caniglia and will be limited to just 374 copies of the Limited Edition and 26 copies of the Lettered Edition, making it an extremely collectible edition!

Due to strong demand, this book is already 65% sold out and we don’t expect the remaining copies to last long!

About the Revised Edition:

For the special 40th Anniversary Edition of The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty has returned to the manuscript, reworking portions of the book that never satisfied him. Due to financial constraints and a pressing workload at the time, he was forced to forego a desired revision. “For most of these past forty years I have rued not having done a thorough second draft and careful polish of the dialogue and prose,” Blatty says. “But now, like an answer to a prayer, this fortieth anniversary edition has given me not only the opportunity to do that second draft, but to do it at a time in my life — I am 83 — when it might not be totally unreasonable to hope that my abilities, such as they are, have at least somewhat improved, and for all of this I say, Deo gratias!” Among the changes, Blatty has added a chilling scene introducing the unsettling minor character of a Jesuit psychiatrist.

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News from the Dead Zone #145

Bag of Bones wrapped filming a while back and will air as a two-night/four-miniseries on A&E in early December. Though preliminary dates were announced, these are not carved in stone. A couple of teaser trailers are available on YouTube: Beware the Lake and this Behind the Scenes video.

At an awards ceremony at George Mason University last month, King surprised the audience by reading a chapter from Dr. Sleep, which is a sequel to The Shining featuring Danny Torrance some thirty-five years after his experience at the Overlook Hotel. You can watch King’s reading along with the Q&A session that accompanied the award presentation here. I wrote an essay for FearNet discussing the genesis of Dr. Sleep called Whatever happened to Danny Torrance?

Most of the details for King’s book tour for 11/22/63 have been announced and tickets to these events are selling rapidly. Even though the book won’t be out for a while, the film rights have been snapped up. Jonathan Demme optioned the feature rights,  and is set to write, direct and produce the adaptation through his Clinica Estetico banner. Excerpts from the audiobook are being released each Monday and Friday. Scribner has also produced a 2 minute video in which King discusses 11/22/63

DreamWorks’ Spielberg and Stacey Snider nabbed the rights to Under the Domel shortly after it was published in November 2009 to strong reviews and the current plan is to air the adaptation on Showtime. Search is underway for a writer to write the project, whose executive producers will include King and DreamWorks TV’s Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank.

The eBook exclusive Mile 81 is out now. I wrote an essay for FearNet discussing King’s history with electronic publication that goes back farther than you probably realized: King of the eBooks.

IDW announced this week that they will be adapting the King/Joe Hill collaboration Throttle as a comic/graphic novel. Their story will be adapted in two monthly issues starting in February 2012 and will be followed by two issues adapting the story that inspired Throttle, Richard Matheson’s classic tale of suspense, Duel, beginning in April.

There’s probably still time to catch an airing of A Night at the Movies: The Horrors of Stephen King on TCM. The network shows repeat airings on October 18 and 24. Check your local provider for details. Here’s an interview with interviewer author/filmmaker Laurent Bouzereau: THE KING’S SCREECH.

A couple of weeks after Haven wrapped its second season, SyFy announced they were renewing the weekly series for a third season. Guess we’ll get to know whose gun went off after all.

The Stephen King Library Desk Calendar 2012 is now up for preorder to Book of the Month Club/Stephen King Library members. The theme this year is the Dark Tower and I have an essay in it.

The next installment of the Marvel graphic novel series is The Way Station. It debuts in December.

Interesting links:

Meet Richard Chizmar TONIGHT, Wednesday, October 12, 2011!

Sorry for the late notice, but we wanted to let you know that Richard Chizmar will be speaking at the Jarrettsville Branch of the Harford County Public Library system TONIGHT — Wednesday, 10/12/2011 — at 6:30 PM.

The topic of discussion will be Cemetery Dance Publications and the publishing business in general. There will be a Q&A following the presentation. This will be a great chance for our customers and any local writers to meet Richard in person since he rarely attends conventions these days!

Although the library has a registration process for attending these events, registration is not required.  Walk-ins are welcome.  That said, Richard was thinking of bringing some freebies with him, so if you do register, it’ll help him know how much is needed so no one misses out.

If you’re thinking of attending, here are two webpages of interest:

The library’s website page for the speaking program

More information about the library and driving directions (at the bottom of the page)

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Replacement Dust Jackets Are Here!

Stephen King, Dean Koontz, William Peter Blatty, Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Frank Darabont, Brian Keene, Ronald Kelly, Jack Ketchum, Joe R. Lansdale, Richard Laymon, Edward Lee, Richard Matheson, Kirby McCauley, William F. Nolan, Michael Slade, Peter Straub, Thomas Tessier, Chet Williamson, F. Paul Wilson, Douglas E. Winter, and many others!

Hi Folks!

Today we’re pleased to announce we’ve finally cataloged all of our replacement dust jackets from every book we’ve ever published (plus a few from other presses!) and we’re now selling them on our site! This is something people have been asking us for years, so be sure to place your order sooner than later because most supplies are VERY limited!

Why might you want a replacement dust jacket? Easy! Sometimes a collector needs to replace the DJ that came with their book (which will improve the value!) and sometimes customers ask about purchasing just the DJ so they can hang it on the wall because they like the artwork so much!  (Some collectors have even been known to matte and frame the DJ as a true work of art!)

These DJs are from books by a “Who’s Who” in the genre: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, William Peter Blatty, Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Jay Bonansinga, Gary Brandner, Gary A. Braunbeck, Kealan Patrick Burke, Dominick Cancilla, Hugh B. Cave, Richard Chizmar, Simon Clark, Douglas Glegg, Nancy A. Collins, Geoff Cooper, Justin Cronin, Peter Crowter, Frank Darabont, Terry Dowling, Dennis Etchison, Brian James Freeman, Robin Furth, Mick Garris, Ray Garton, Christopher Golden, Ed Gorman, Beth Gwinn, Rick Hautala, Brian Hodge, Stephen Jones, Brian Keene, Ronald Kelly, Jack Ketchum, Joe R. Lansdale, Richard Laymon, Tim Lebbon, Edward Lee, Michael Marano, Graham Masterton, Richard Matheson, Kirby McCauley, Thomas F. Monteleone, James A. Moore, David Morrell, Robert Morrish, William F. Nolan, Norman Partridge, John Pelan, Tom Piccirilli, Gary Raisor, Al Sarrantonio, John Shirley, John Skipp, Michael Slade, Peter Straub, Thomas Tessier, Chet Williamson, F. Paul Wilson, Douglas E. Winter, and many others!

These dust jackets are sold First Come, First Served while supplies last and some of these are extremely limited!

Read more or place your order while our supplies last!

The Cemetery Dance “Will Tweet For Books” Promotional Offer: We Gave Away $1000 In FREE Books!

The Cemetery Dance “Will Tweet For Books” contest is now over!  Thanks to everyone who participated!  Here are the names of the 10 winners, who were contacted today about redeeming their prize:

1) Richard T.
2) Julie S.
3) Adrian T.
4) Michael F.
5) George J.
6) Michael P.
7) Laura
8 ) Gregg K.
9) Larry F.
10) Rebecca D.

Congrats to all of the winners and thanks again to everyone who took part!

 

New Signed Limited Edition Announced and Selling Very Quickly!

Vacation by Matthew J. Costello
A New Novel Inspired By The Classic Cemetery Dance Short Story!

“Costello is a master at lean, swift pacing. I read this book in three big gulps.”
— Jack Ketchum

Hi Folks!

Today we’re pleased to announce Vacation by Matthew J. Costello, which we’ll be publishing as a signed Limited Edition hardcover with a print run of just 550 copies and a Deluxe Lettered Edition of just 26 copies! Both of these editions are already well past the 50% sold out point, so we expect this title to be hard to find on the secondary market down the road!

About the Book:
In the near future after a global crisis causes crops to fail and species to disappear . . . something even more deadly happens. Groups of humans around the world suddenly become predators, feeding off their own kind. These “Can Heads” grow to such a threat that fences, gated compounds, and SWAT-style police protection become absolutely necessary in order to live.

After a Can Head attack leaves NYPD cop Jack Murphy wounded, Jack takes his wife and kids on a much-needed vacation. Far up north, to a camp called Paterville where families can still swim and take boats out on a lake, and pretend that the world isn’t going to hell.

But the Can Heads are never far away, and nothing is quite what it seems in Paterville…

SPECIAL BONUS: This special edition includes the original short story that inspired the novel!

Read more or place your order while the signed editions last!

The Stephen King Covers That Might Have Been!

If you’ve read Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King, you know this is a book with a really dark heart, which made deciding on a cover image and designing that cover a serious challenge.

A lot of collectors never get to see “behind the scenes” of the creation of a Limited Edition book, so Brian James Freeman has written an essay about the cover artwork and design for this Stephen King book fcame to be.

He’s also posted several dozen images including the several versions of the cover artwork and ALL of cover designs we tried, along with information about why we made the decisions we made at each stage.

Full Dark Alt Cover

Visit The Stephen King Book Covers That Might Have Been to read the rest!

Brand New Halloween Signed Limited Edition: Blood Harvest by James A. Moore!

Hi Folks!

Blood HarvestWe’re pleased to report that we’ll be getting a limited supply of Blood Harvest by long-time Cemetery Dance favorite James A. Moore, which will be published this Halloween by Earthling Press!

About the Book:

Five years ago, Jason Soulis experimented on the town of Black Stone Bay, creating an army of vampires for the sole purpose of seeing which ones would survive and if the creatures could evolve. Five years later, his experiments are bearing dark, bloody fruit. A new breed of monster has come from the ashes of the old, a deadlier predator with a far greater ability to kill and destroy whatever it touches. Black Stone Bay was wounded before, but the infection left behind has festered and the darkness is spreading faster than anyone has noticed, because this time the evil is better at hiding.

Maggie Preston was one of Soulis’s victims, a college-aged girl who has become something far darker. She’s fed her urges and kept her secrets with the aid of her lover and protector, but that relationship is fraying, and the hungers she’s suppressed are growing stronger and the family she has protected in the past has fallen victim to the new evil that Soulis unwittingly unleashed.

Five years have passed, and the town of BlackStone Bay has recovered from the horrors of the past, just in time to get caught in the crossfire of the undead and a new, virulent darkness.

Sometimes the devil you know is your only hope of salvation.

Read more or place your order while our limited supplies last!

New Signature Series Book Announced Today: At the Printer and Shipping Next Month!

Four Legs in the Morning

Four Legs in the Morning
by Norman Prentiss

Hi Folks!

Today we’re very pleased to announce Four Legs in the Morning by Norman Prentiss, a brand new signed Limited Edition in our acclaimed Cemetery Dance Signature Series line! This book is already rolling at the printer and will be published next month, so don’t wait around to place your order! Many of our Signature Series titles sell out before publication and given Norman’s growing following, this tiny print run of just 550 copies for the Limited Edition won’t last long!

PLEASE NOTE: Both editions are now more than 50% sold out due to strong demand from collectors.

Four Legs in the Morning (Cemetery Dance Signature Series #9)
by Norman Prentiss

Featured Artist: Steven C. Gilberts

About the Book:
Dr. Sibley, long-standing Chair of the English and Classical Literature Department at Graysonville University, has outlasted many of his detractors. In this collection of three linked stories, mysterious consequences await those who defy or disappoint him:

• a new colleague, whose avant-guard theories offend Sibley’s traditional critical sensibilities, uncovers a new answer to an ancient riddle (“Four Legs in the Morning”)

• a student plagiarist learns to regret his dishonesty (“Flannel Board”)

• a young administrator attempts to curtail some of Sibley’s power, until he discovers the fate of his predecessor (“The Mask of Tragedies”)

All of these characters eventually learn — sometimes too late — that Dr. Sibley may be far more powerful than he seems.

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