Stephen King calls Bentley Little “A master of the macabre!”

Hi Folks!

Today we’re very pleased to announce we’ll be publishing The Mailman: The 20th Anniversary Special Limited Edition by Bentley Little later this year!

Yep, you read that right! We’re thrilled to report that Bentley Little has finally decided to publish a signed Limited Edition of one of his classic novels! Considering how long the collecting world has been waiting for a signed Limited Edition of a novel like The Mailman (with the assumption it would never happen), we expect both signed editions to sell out VERY quickly! There will be no second printings of our edition!

Special Features Exclusive to this Deluxe Collector’s Edition:

• deluxe oversized (7 X 10) design different from any other edition ever published

• a color signature sheet featuring exclusive artwork by Glenn Chadbourne and personally signed by the author

• fine binding for both the Limited Edition and the Lettered Edition

• full color cover artwork by Les Edwards

• extremely collectible print run that is a tiny fraction of the hundreds of thousands of copies of the paperback editions that have been printed over the years — and you will NOT see our edition in chain bookstores!

About the Book:

Once upon a time, waiting for the mail was filled with warm anticipation. But the suicide of the local mailman has left the residents of this tiny Arizona town shell-shocked. Nothing this bad has ever happened here. And now there’s a new mail carrier in town, one who’s delivering lethal letters stuffed with icy fear. Nothing — not even the most outstanding citizens or the most secret weaknesses — is safe from the sinister power of this malicious mailman…

Click here to read more or to place your order before supplies run out!

Or visit our new message board to discuss this new Signed Limited Edition with other readers, fans, and collectors!

Thanks, as always, for your continuing support!

Hi Folks!

Brides of the Impaler by Edward Lee is now 85% sold out, just 24 hours after it was announced, so we can say for certain we will not be sending any copies to the big online booksellers. Order your copy right away or you’re going to miss out!

The Miniaturist by Jay Bonansinga is now 95% sold out and, again, we won’t be able to fill any orders for the big online booksellers. The Cemetery Dance Signature Series books are some of our most sought-after of the past few years, so don’t wait to place your order!

There is a lot more news to come this month, so stay tuned. And thanks, as always, for your continuing support!

Don’t forget to visit our new message board to discuss these new Signed Limited Editions with other readers, fans, and collectors!

Hi Folks!

Today we’re very pleased to announce Brides of the Impaler by Edward Lee, a “surprise” in-stock Limited Edition that is in our warehouse right now and will be ready to ship next week!

Update for the Collectors:
Both editions are already 78% sold out and the remaining copies may not last long!

About the Book:
Cristina Nichols fears the future, through the harrowing whispers of her past.
She longs to forget the depraved abuses she suffered in her youth that left
her afraid of love and passion. But something, somewhere, is suddenly tantalizing her, beckoning into a muse of carnal revelation and ecstatic fulfillment…

SECRET PASSIONS…

Deep in the cryptic New York City brownstone, something awakens, brimming with hot, real breath, libidinous longings and desires of the flesh the likes of
which Cristina cannot conceive…

A SECRET LUST BURIED FOR AGES… In the basement she finds it, the sinister evil finally unbound, reaching forth in vampiric bloodlust to prey upon her most forbidden fantasies and plummet her body and soul into a chasm of wantonness as black as the most timeless sin…

IMPALER

The secret will drench your desires in blood…

Click here to read more or to place your order before supplies run out!

Or visit our new message board to discuss this new Signed Limited Edition with other readers, fans, and collectors!

There is a lot more news to come this month, so stay tuned! Thanks, as always, for your continuing support!

Hi Folks!

Today we’re pleased to announce we’ve launched a completely revamped Cemetery Dance official website:

Just a few of the improved features include:

* easier checkout and more shipping options based on where you live

* easier navigation, larger cover images, and more information about each product… with more excerpts, book trailers, and author interviews in the works for the near future!

* our brand new Production Updates page where we post the latest news about each of our announced projects as they travel the road to their publication

* a “Current Specials” page where we’ll list all of the “public” specials that are available at any given time (but there will still be “secret” specials just for members of our mailing lists!)

* a brand new Message Board / Forum for Cemetery Dance customers, collectors, authors, artists, and fans:

* plus hundreds of other tweaks and improvements to make it easier for you to find what you’re looking for!

We’re still working out some little bugs, but the site is now LIVE and ready for orders, so please feel free to look around and kick the tires and send your feedback to: [email protected]. There might even be a special or two already on the “Current Specials” page.

Please Note: Your login and password information from the old website should still work when you go to checkout. In fact, you should be able to use your email address OR your original login. If you have any trouble, just email [email protected] and he’ll help you out! (Some customers had several logins and that will need fixed before your next order, but it’s a quick fix. Just contact Brian if you have trouble.)

Hi Folks!

Today we’re very pleased to announce The Miniaturist by Jay Bonansinga, a “surprise” in-stock Limited Edition that is in our warehouse right now and ready to ship to our collectors! This book was not previously announced and has not been used in any forthcoming Grab Bags or the Book Club!

The Miniaturist is the eighth book in our acclaimed Cemetery Dance Signature Series, and the featured artist for this title is Vincent Chong! If you’re new to the Signature Series, each book features more than a dozen illustrations by the artist, and due to Jay Bonansinga and Vincent Chong’s huge followings, we don’t expect either edition of this title to last very long! View a Sneak Peek at the book in Our Free Extras Section!

Update for the Collectors:

The Lettered Edition sold out less than three hours after it was announced, and the Limited Edition is now already 87% SOLD OUT!

About the Book:

Her real name is Eva Strange, although most people know her by her obligatory city registration number: 0004511477.  ‘Sevens’ to her friends.  Of which she has very few.

With her trademark fedora, her shaded welder’s eyeglasses, and her stoic loneliness, Eva is a distant cousin of Phillip Marlow and Sam Spade.  She is also a special detective for a newly formed adjunct to the police force — the White Patrol — a secret intelligence unit charged with ferreting out black sorcery in a future world rotten with magic.  And like Spade and Marlow before her, Eva is about to unlock a horrifying conspiracy — this one threatening the very fabric of space and time.

With echoes of Lovecraft, fantasy pulps, and neo-futuristic noir, The Miniaturist unfolds in feverish, dreamy bullet-time, an acid trip for lovers of all things dark and fantastic.

About the Author:

Jay Bonansinga is a national bestselling author, screenwriter, and filmmaker, whose directorial debut, Stash (based on a Cemetery Dance story), premiered in 2010 in fifty million households on On-Demand.  As a novelist Jay has been called “one of the most imaginative writers of thrillers” by the Chicago Tribune. His 2005 novel, Frozen, is in development as a major motion picture starring Dennis Haysbert, and his latest book, Perfect Victim, is an alternate title for The Book of the Month Club.  He has worked with George Romero, and has won major film festival awards, including a Gold Remi at the Houston International WorldFest, and a Best Comedy Feature at the Iowa City “Landlocked” Festival.  His forthcoming non-fiction Civil War thriller, Pinkerton’s War, is due out from Lyon’s Press in late 2011, and he is currently hard at work on a trilogy of original zombie novels for St. Martins Press based on the universe of Robert Kirkman’s brilliant graphic novel, The Walking Dead (the inspiration for the mega-hit AMC series of the same name).  Find Jay on-line at www.JayBonansinga.com

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Hi Folks!

Today we’re very pleased to announce King Blood by Simon Clark has arrived at our warehouse and we’ve started filling the preorders! There will not be a lot of copies left after the retailers are taken care of, so please don’t wait to order if you’re interested in adding this massive end of the world novel to your collection!

About the Book:
Warm
Rick Kennedy feels pretty good. Tonight there’s going to be the party of the summer. The brother he hasn’t seen for years has just flown in, and this is the night Rick plans to do something about Kate Robinson — the beautiful girl he just can’t get out of his mind. In the pleasant village of Fairburn the evening air is warm…

Warmer
And this is the night that Rick encounters the mysterious stranger in the woods.

Hot
Soon he wakes to find 30,000 refugees choking the streets. People are running for their lives. Only there’s nowhere to run.

Hotter
The ground heats up inexorably. Roads melt. Cities erupt into flame. Lakes boil. Pockets of natural gas explode like nuclear bombs and geysers of scalding water flood through whole communities.

Burning
Survivors search desperately for refuge in a landscape burning forever hotter beneath their feet. But they have yet to confront the Grey Men — and the demons inside themselves…

About the Author:
Simon Clark lives in Doncaster, England with his family. When his first novel, Nailed by the Heart, made it through the slush pile in 1994 he banked the advance and embarked upon his dream of becoming a full-time writer. His subsequent novels include Blood Crazy, Darkness Demands, Death’s Dominion, and The Night of the Triffids, which continues the story of Wyndham’s classic The Day of the Triffids. His revival of the wickedly ambulatory Triffid plants won the British Fantasy Society’s August Derleth Award for best novel. He also created and co-presented “Winter Chills” for the BBC TV.

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Hi Folks!

If you haven’t ordered your copy of Picking the Bones by Brian Hodge, you don’t want to wait because Publishers Weekly just weighed in and gave the book a much coveted STARRED REVIEW and they had nothing but great things to say about Hodge’s new collection!

What does this mean for you, the reader or collector? Here’s what happens when our books get a starred review: hundreds of “purchase orders” from book distributors, booksellers, and libraries start pouring into our office… but because we print Limited Editions, we only have so many copies to sell and we can’t fill all of the orders!

Picking the Bones was already headed for very low stock levels due to strong preorder demand and we don’t want our direct customers don’t miss out. We will do everything we can to fill your order if you order through our website this week, but next week we’ll begin filling distributor orders, so the rest of the copies could go very quickly!

Please Note: If you ordered from a big online retailer or bookseller, we can’t guarantee their orders will get filled before we run out of copies. Do NOT depend on one of the large booksellers if you really want this title in your collection. (All of our usual indie retailers are getting their copies if they’re up-to-date on their invoices, so don’t worry if you ordered from them.)

Here’s just a little bit of this terrific review:

“ Hodge explores the nature of humankind’s deepest fears and worst failings in his eclectic fourth dark fiction collection. Eloquent, intensely intimate, and infused with existential angst, each of the 17 stories packs a powerful thematic punch… The diversity and quality of stories will more than satisfy longtime horror and dark fantasy fans, and will have new readers hastily seeking out Hodge’s earlier works.”

— Publishers Weekly (starred review)

You can read the rest on our website, but don’t wait too long to place your order because this Signed Limited Edition is going fast!

Click here to read more or to place your order before supplies run out!

Hi Folks!

Today we’re pleased to announce Island Funeral, a signed Limited Edition color cover chapbook by Keith Minnion, which is already in-stock and ready to ship!

Featuring cover artwork by Steve Gilberts, we’ve priced this one at just $12 to make it a real bargain!

PLEASE NOTE: ALTHOUGH IT IS ALREADY IN-STOCK, THIS ITEM QUALIFIES FOR FREE US SHIPPING FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY!

About the Chapbook:
“I want to be buried at home. In the family plot. On the mainland.”

Promises made. Promises kept. Promises broken…

In this haunting novellette, grieving widower Tim Moser finds that a wedding night vow isn’t always easy to keep — especially when his wife’s strong-willed father has other ideas. This atmospheric tale of dread explores family secrets and the strange traditions of an isolated community. It’s sure to be an instant classic.

“Island Funeral” is a signed Limited Edition color cover chapbook by Cemetery Dance favorite Keith Minnion.

Click here to read more or place your order today!

Here is a sneak peek at the cover for Scribner’s hardcover edition of 11/22/63 by Stephen King, his huge new epic novel:

This is just part of the cover, though, so visit the product page to see the full cover!

Today we’re very pleased to announce Picking the Bones by Brian Hodge has arrived at our warehouse and we’ve started filling the preorders!

This exciting new signed Limited Edition hardcover features exquisite cover artwork by Vincent Chong and a very affordable price tag for the beginning collector, but we’re only printing 750 copies of the Limited Edition and 26 copies of the Lettered Edition of Picking the Bones, and the Lettered Edition sold out within hours of being announced and we don’t expect the Limited Edition to last long after publication!

About the Book:

Dying is easy. Living is hard.

Step back, back into the world of 1996…

“Dark fiction so numbing cold and cutting edge you better hold onto your ass with your free hand … There are no simple ‘entertainments’ or cheap grabs for the throat to be found here. Hodge is deadly serious about presenting a world where the worst punishment is the mere fact that you are aware you will probably live to see another day.”

So wrote critic Stanley Wiater about Brian Hodge’s renowned first short fiction collection, The Convulsion Factory. Three collections later, nothing has changed.

Dying is easy. Living is hard. And forces beyond your control have a bone to pick with you.

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We are very pleased to report Publishers Weekly has awarded Shivers VI a highly sought-after Starred Review! Very few books receive one of these, so it’s a huge deal to the booksellers and distributors — it really makes the book standout in the marketplace!

What does this mean for our collectors and general readers?  Well, we were already down to less than 100 copies left of the second printing, and these copies are FLYING out the door as booksellers and librarians grab whatever copies they can of this acclaimed anthology.  We have not yet decided if we’re going to do athird printing, and the turn-around time will be about six weeks if we did decide to print more copies, so we recommend you don’t wait.  Place your order today so you don’t miss out!

Here is that incredible review:

“Stephen King tops the list with “The Crate,” a darkly funny monster-on-the rampage tale rarely reprinted since its first publication in 1979. Lisa Tuttle’s “Bits and Pieces” is a deft and disturbing fantasia on the battle of the sexes, and Peter Straub’s novella “A Special Place: The Heart of a Dark Matter” is a grim tale whose stand-alone incarnation was named one of 2010’s best books by PW. The other 18 stories, which include work by Glen Hirshberg, Melanie Tem, Brian Hodge, and David B. Silva, run the gamut from supernatural terror to psychological suspense, and from subtle dark fantasy to violence and gore. The uniformly high quality of writing makes this volume a must for any horror fan.”

Click here to read more or to place your order while supplies last!

Many of our collectors asked if we could get copies of the UK Hardcover Edition of King’s next book since the British editions feature completely different designs than the US editions and are traditionally printed in much smaller print runs, making them more collectible and harder to find. We checked and we will be able to get a few copies, so place your order today so you don’t miss out!

Please Note:
We’ve been asked for many years if we could make custom slipcases for the UK editions of King’s books (like we sometimes do for the US editions) and today we’re pleased to report we’ll be doing just that for 11/22/63! Scroll down for details.

About this Book:
This fall will see the publication of Stephen King’s heart-stopping new novel, a thousand page tour de force about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination, and we’re pleased to report that we’ll be getting copies for our customers!

King sweeps readers back in time to another moment—a real life moment—when everything went wrong and he introduces readers to a character who has the power to change the course of history.

Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students—a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk.

Not much later, Jake’s friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane—and insanely possible—mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination.

So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake’s life—a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.

A tribute to a simpler era and a devastating exercise in escalating suspense, 11/22/63 is Stephen King at his epic best!

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

Even though the UK edition of 11/22/63 by Stephen King is being published by another publisher, we’ve heard from so many customers who want one of our special slipcases to protect their investment that we’ve decided to accept preorders for a custom-made slipcase for this title! This slipcase will be specially designed to match the look and feel of the UK edition, and will be sized to be an exact fit. We will only make enough slipcases to fill our preorders, so don’t wait to reserve yours!

The easiest way to add one to your purchase is by selecting the “UK Trade Hardcover 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 11/22/63 UK Slipcase product page.)

Don’t know what a slipcase is? That’s okay! It’s easily the best way to protect your book for generations to come. You can see some sample images of other slipcases on the product page. 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 and your book and slipcase will ship together. We think our collectors will be very pleased with what we have in mind for these very special cases, and we don’t know how long we’ll be selling this as an option, so don’t wait to place your order!

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Today we have a bunch of great production updates for you and they’ve been posted on our new Production Status List on this website. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions about any of those updates.