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In addition to the official Production Updates page, we also post updates in the discussion threads for each project on our official Cemetery Dance Forum, including the occasional “behind the scenes” update and even some photos of the work in progress.

The Current Projects section is a good place to start, but there are also sections dedicated to STEPHEN KING, our Out of Print Books, Lonely Road Books, Movies, General Discussion, Book From Other Publishers, a Writers’ Corner, a BOOK MARKET, and more!

There are also Forum Only Contests, Special Discount Codes, and other great surprises for our regular forum posters!

New Releases in April:
The Crane House, The Mailman, The Dropper, and Killing Ghost

Hi Folks!

Here is our release schedule for April:

Shipping in the next two weeks:

Shipping in the second half of the month:

Featuring ORIGINAL STORIES by Ramsey Campbell, Peter Crowther, Dennis Etchison, Elizabeth Hand, Brian Hodge, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Stephen King, Richard Christian Matheson, Reggie Oliver, Robert Shearman, Angela Slatter, Michael Marshall Smith, and Lisa Tuttle!

We’re pleased to announce the special Limited Edition of A Book of Horrors edited by Stephen Jones, which we’re co-publishing with PS Publishing in the UK, has been sent to the printer and the Limited Edition should be shipping by the end of May! (You can see a photo of of the signature sheet here.)

This brand new anthology features ORIGINAL STORIES by Ramsey Campbell, Peter Crowther, Dennis Etchison, Elizabeth Hand, Brian Hodge, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Stephen King, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Richard Christian Matheson, Reggie Oliver, Robert Shearman, Angela Slatter, Michael Marshall Smith, and Lisa Tuttle!

Leading off the anthology is the World’s First publication of a brand new Stephen King story called “The Little Green God of Agony” and we’re pleased to report this story is good old fashioned gothic horror at its best!

Because we’re co-publishing this book, we only have half of the print run to sell and most of those copies are gone, so don’t wait to place your order!

If you’re interested, place your order today! After they’ve all sold, we won’t offer more!

The New Cemetery Dance “Will Tweet For Books” Promotion Has Ended!

And the winners are:

Ron C.
Nathan F.
Andrew C.
Frank E.
James
Bracken M.
Dylan K.
Dana J.
Jack M.
Barry S.

Brian James Freeman has posted a couple of photos of the “approval” copy of The Mailman by Bentley Little, which will be shipping to us from the printer soon! Click on this image to see a few more photos:

There are still copies of the Limited Edition (without the slipcase) available for ordering on our website!

Hi Folks!

Today we’re pleased to announce Cemetery Dance #66 is already rolling at the printer and will be shipping early next month!

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

Or order your subscription today!

THIS SPECIAL HAS ENDED!

Hi Folks!

Today we’re pleased to offer preorders on an exciting new trade hardcover from Subterranean Press, so be sure to place your order as soon as possible before our supplies run out!

Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart

by Caitlin R. Kiernan

Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart is the follow-up to Caitlín R. Kiernan’s World-Fantasy Award nominated The Ammonite Violin & Others, a collection that drew comparisons to the writings of such luminaries of the macabre and surreal as Angela Carter, Thomas Ligotti, Shirley Jackson, and Harlan Ellison.

Here, again, in her eighth collection, we visit the borderlands where the weird, horrific, mythic, and erotic intersect. Once again, Kiernan sets her masterful, intoxicating prose to the task of retelling fairy tales, spinning sensual post-Lovecraftian yarns, and blurring the lines between pain and pleasure. Here is a celebration of the bizarre and beautiful, and a marriage of unlikely worlds. From a reverence of the dead to the sacrifices the living make to unspeakable gods, from clockwork dreams to tales of merciless revenge, Kiernan blurs the artificial lines of genre, and shows us a world where there is no division between the light and dark.

Read more or place your order while our supplies last!

The Woman
by Jack Ketchum & Lucky McKee
Featuring A Brand New Bonus Novella!

Hi Folks!

We’ve heard from several customers that they never saw our announcement last month of the publication of The Woman by Jack Ketchum and Lucky McKee, so we’re sending this newsletter again just to be safe because we don’t want anyone missing out on this incredible novel!

About the Book:
The Woman is the powerful story of the last survivor of a feral tribe of cannibals who have terrorized the east coast from Maine into Canada for years now. Badly wounded in a battle with police, she takes refuge in a cave overlooking the sea.

Christopher Cleek is a slick, amoral — and unstable — country lawyer who, out hunting one day, sees her bathing in a stream. Fascinated, he follows her to her cave.

Cleek has many dark secrets and to these he’ll add another. He will capture her, lock in his fruit cellar, and tame her, civilize her. To this end he’ll enlist his long-suffering wife Belle, his teenage son and daughter Brian and Peg, and even his little girl Darlin’, to aid him.

So the question becomes, who is more savage? The hunter or the game?

About the Bonus Novella:
This new novella Jack Ketchum and Lucky McKee takes place a year after the novel ends, but to say anything else could spoil some of the surprises!

Read more or place your order!

The Doll: The Lost Short Stories
by Daphne du Maurier
Special “Limited” Trade Hardcover Shipping Now!
Just $25 For This Beautiful Special Edition!

Hi Folks!

Today we’re very pleased to announce our special new “Limited” trade hardcover edition of The Doll: The Lost Short Stories by Daphne du Maurier is now shipping!

About the Book:

Daphne du Maurier’s most famous works include the novel Rebecca and the short story “The Birds,” and today Cemetery Dance Publications is pleased to announce a collection of 13 impressive stories written by Daphne du Maurier before she was 23 years old.

This incredible new volume is comprised of eight stories that were published in a small UK volume called Early Stories, which is long out of print, and five stories that were published in periodicals during the early 1930s.

These long lost stories explore the evolution of the images, themes, and concerns that informed du Maurier’s later work. Each story in the collection highlights du Maurier’s deep understanding of human nature.

This Cemetery Dance Publications special “trade” edition will be limited to a one-time printing and there will be no second printings!

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

Discuss this news on our message board!

Thanks, as always, for your continuing support!

Snow Shadows by Mick Garris
New Signed Limited Edition Just Announced!
Already 94% Sold Out!

Hi Folks!

Today we’re very pleased to announce Snow Shadows by Mick Garris, which is already 94% sold out! These last remaining copies are not going to last long, so don’t wait to place your order!

Snow Shadows (Cemetery Dance Novella Series #24)
by Mick Garris
Cover Artwork by Les Edwards
Interior Artwork by Lorry Stone

About the Book:
Nicholas, a painter and teacher at the Ravensbrooke Youth Academy for the Arts, is having difficulties in his marriage.  He also fears he’s losing his artistic inspiration. A brief dalliance with a fellow teacher doesn’t solve his problems—especially when Miss Featherstone takes the affair more seriously than he does.

Enter David Sutcliffe, a young and gifted student who imagines himself as the true object of Miss Featherstone’s affections.  His jealousy causes him to view Nicholas as a rival, and the boy becomes increasingly unhinged as he seeks to eliminate the competition.

Snow Shadows is an unusual and haunting story of love and obsession, with many shocking surprises along the way.

Read more or place your order while supplies last!

Discuss this exciting news on our forum!

Limited Edition Slipcase for 11/22/63 by Stephen King Shipping Now!

Even though 11/22/63 by Stephen King was published by another publisher, we heard from so many customers who wanted one of our special Limited Edition slipcases to protect their investment that we decided to produce a custom-made slipcase for this special book! Those cases are now IN-STOCK and ready to ship, and we have a few extras left available to sell on a First Come, First Served basis!

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 a photo of this actual slipcase on this page. We used the same high-quality materials we 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’re new to collecting, you can read more about slipcases on our Book FAQ page.)

We’re selling these Limited Edition Slipcases for just $24.95, making them an extremely affordable way to protect your book, but our very limited supplies won’t last long!

Place your order before supplies run out!

Hi Folks!

We’re very pleased to announce the newest addition to our eBook line, the first-ever eBook edition of A Life In the Cinema, the first collection of stories by Mick Garris!

A Life In the Cinema

by Mick Garris

Introduction by Stephen King, Afterword by Tobe Hooper, Cover Art by Clive Barker

About the Book:

A Life In the Cinema is the first book from award-winning filmmaker Mick Garris. This collection of eight prickly tales and a screenplay reach under the skin of real life and reel life to take you places you never realized you wanted to go. The title story, “A Life in the Cinema” and its sequel, “Starfucker”, are set in the author’s hometown of Hollywood, and provide a yellow-jaundiced look at a world you only thought was glamorous.

As Stephen King, in his introduction, says: “Here is a real Hollywood insider writing about the real inside world of filmmaking: the good, the bad, and the cheesy. These stories are both erotic and cynical, but they are above all well and fiercely told-when he’s yarning about the tarnished tinsel underbelly of the town he knows (and clearly loves) the best, Mick Garris writes like a combination of Robert Bloch and James Ellroy, hardboiled noir with a ghastly little prick of the devil’s own pitchfork.”

Not all of the stories are Hollywood-based: Garris includes tales of a grandmother who is just as loving in death as she was in life, a geriatric trailer park with a randy secret, wistful and impossible love with a twist, the wrong kind of baby-love, and a deathly brush with fame. The book is capped with a screenplay by Garris, as well as “Chocolate”, the story it’s based on, providing, as King puts it, “a textbook seminar in the art and craft of adapting one’s own work.”

So welcome to a dark side of Hollywood you’ve never seen before…

We’re pleased to debut the final cover artwork for Pure by Julianna Baggott, which is now more than 90% sold out:

This is going to be an epic looking book, with full wrap around cover artwork:

Hi Folks!

Today we’re very pleased to announce the Table of Contents for Shocklines: Fresh Voices In Terror edited by Richard Chizmar & Matt Schwartz, an anthology that has been years in the making and which we think will be one of the most talked about books of the year!

About the Book:
Some of them lurk in the shadows, others have been right in front of you for years now, but you still don’t see them coming. Who are they? That’s not an easy question to answer. It’s easy to say they are the next wave of horror superstars, but they take many forms and some don’t even categorize their work as horror. Some write stories that are rough and raw, making you squirm as they paint a portrait of terror with their words. Some write stories that are polished and deceptively quiet, making your heart ache by the final line. No matter what kind of stories they write, these authors always find a way to get under your skin. This ground-breaking anthology of horror fiction is certain to be one of the most talked about anthologies of the year.

Table of Contents:
“Stalled” by Kealan Patrick Burke
“The Transfer Student” by Norman Prentiss
“Roulette” by Brian Knight
“The Only Thing” by Yvonne Navarro
“Diablitos” by Cody Goodfellow
“Burying Reena” by John R. Little
“Mount Uncompahgre” by Michael McBride
“From Arthur Clayworth’s Diary” by Rio Youers
“Cry” by Hunter Shea
“The End of the World Man” by Lisa Morton
“Faith Leaps” by Tim Lebbon & Kath Deakin
“The Crooked Walk” by Nick Mamatas
“The Scavengers” by Tony Knighton
“Ghost Net” by Jeff Jacobson
“Momma’s Grave” by Kim Despins
“Escape He Done” by Ted Kosmatka
“Dying on the Inside” by John Everson
“Interstitial” by Robert Morrish
“Making the Decision” by Brian James Freeman

Read more or place your order while supplies last!

Discuss this exciting news on our forum!