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Review: Secret Identity by Alex Segura

Cemetery Dance OnlineMarch 7, 2022February 28, 2022ReviewsAlex Segura, Blu Gilliand, Flatiron Books, Reviews, Secret IdentityLeave a comment

cover of Secret Identity Secret Identity by Alex Segura
Flatiron Books (March 15, 2022)
368 pages; $27.99 hardcover; $14.99 e-book
Reviewed by Blu Gilliand

“It was barely eleven and Carmen Valdez already wanted to die.”

Doesn’t exactly sound like someone working at their dream job, does it? Carmen Valdez knows that being the secretary for the owner/editor-in-chief of Triumph Comics isn’t what she wants, but she’s hoping it’s at least a foot in the door…a first step on her journey to writing comic books for a living.Continue Reading

Review: Escaping the Body by Chloe N. Clark

Cemetery Dance OnlineMarch 4, 2022February 20, 2022ReviewsChloe Clark, Escaping the Body, Joshua Gage, poetry, ReviewsLeave a comment

Escaping the Body by Chloe N. Clark
Interstellar Flight Press (March 7, 2022)
118 pages; $12.99 paperback; $9.99 e-book
Reviewed by Joshua Gage

Chloe N. Clark is the author of Collective Gravities, Under My Tongue, Your Strange Fortune, and The Science of Unvanishing Objects. Her forthcoming books include Every Song a Vengeance and My Prayer is a Dagger, Yours is the Moon. She is a founding co-EIC of literary journal Cotton Xenomorph. Her favorite basketball player will always be Rasheed Wallace and her favorite escape artist can only be Houdini. Her newest collection, Escaping the Body, is a tour de force exploring the physical body and the liminal spaces between one’s soul and one’s skin and bones. Continue Reading

Review: The Pussy Detective by DuVay Knox

Cemetery Dance OnlineMarch 2, 2022February 28, 2022ReviewsDuVay Knox, Mother Horror, Reviews, Sadie Hartmann, The Pussy DetectiveLeave a comment

cover of The Pussy Detective The Pussy Detective by DuVay Knox
CLASH Books (February 2022)
180 pages; $14.95 paperback
Reviewed by Sadie “Mother Horror” Hartmann

The Pussy Detective. A title like this elicits a response; an invite to engage right off the bat. For some, it’s off-putting because of the p-word. Others see the title and the amazing retro-inspired artwork and pull the trigger. Some people think it’s a joke or a parody.

“Wait, this book is about women who have lost their pussy and some detective helps them find it?”

That’s exactly right.Continue Reading

Review: Entomophobia by Sarah Hans

Cemetery Dance OnlineFebruary 28, 2022February 13, 2022ReviewsAnton Cancre, Entomophobia, Reviews, Sarah HansLeave a comment

cover of Entomophobia Entomophobia by Sarah Hans
Omnium Gatherum Media (January 2022)
178 pages; $14.99 Paperback; $3.49 ebook
Reviewed by Anton Cancre

Bugs, amiright? Creepy little bastards. Skittering around on too many legs. Staring at us with too many eyes. Click-clacking their chitinous carapaces from the dark corners. Then they have the nerve to squirt out all those gloppy bits when you squish them. EW!Continue Reading

Dead Trees: Mystery Walk by Robert McCammon

Cemetery Dance OnlineFebruary 25, 2022February 13, 2022Dead TreesDead Trees, Mark Sieber, Mystery Walk, Robert McCammonLeave a comment

banner reading Dead Trees by Mark Sieber

To say that Robert McCammon is one of the best living storytellers is to belabor the obvious. I’m sure there are a few unfortunates who dislike his work, but nearly everyone I’ve ever met has practically worshiped it.Continue Reading

Review: The Headsman by Cristina Mirzoi

Cemetery Dance OnlineFebruary 23, 2022February 13, 2022ReviewsCristina Mirzoi, R.B. Payne, Reviews, The HeadsmanLeave a comment

cover of The Headsman The Headsman by Cristina Mirzoi
Independently Published (January 2022)
41 pages; $3.50 e-book
Reviewed by R.B. Payne

One of the joys of living abroad is meeting new writers and connecting as storytellers. Living in Europe, that means meeting poets, writers, and artists from various countries and cultures.

Cristina Mîrzoi is Romanian and English and also speaks Spanish and French. She is a member of the European Dark Fiction Writers group. She is a new writer, emerging onto the scene. It’s my pleasure to introduce you to her and encourage you to take the time to support her by reading her tale.

Without delay, then, let’s review The Headsman by Cristina Mîrzoi.Continue Reading

Cover Reveal and Exclusive Excerpt: Michael J. Seidlinger’s ANYBODY HOME?

Cemetery Dance OnlineFebruary 22, 2022February 22, 2022Breaking NewsAnybody Home?, CLASH Books, Cover Reveal, Excerpt, Michael J. SeidlingerLeave a comment

Cemetery Dance is proud to join our friends at CLASH Books to reveal the cover of Michael J. Seidlinger’s upcoming home invasion novel, Anybody Home?

cover of Anybody Home? by Michael J. Seidlinger

Review: Sleepwalkers: Round One by Izzi Breigh

Cemetery Dance OnlineFebruary 21, 2022February 13, 2022ReviewsIzzi Breigh, Joshua Gage, Reviews, SleepwalkersLeave a comment

cover of Sleepwalkers Sleepwalkers: Round One by Izzi Breigh
Somnium Publishing LLC (Feb 22, 2022)
332 pages; $19.99 paperback
Reviewed by Joshua Gage

Izzi Breigh, raised by a family of peacocks, grew up on a rutabaga farm. She now resides in a small cottage made entirely of pinecones. Izzi enjoys knitting shirts for starfish, rooms without corners, and peddling time. Her day job is filling hourglasses with precisely the right amount of sand, which she sells for two copper pennies every Saturday at her local flea market. Hide and seek is her favorite sport and though she has repeatedly spotted Waldo, she has yet to figure out where in the world Carmen Sandiego is. Her newest book is Sleepwalkers: Round One, a dark middle-grade book that will thrill readers young and old alike.Continue Reading

Contest Winners Announced!

Dan HockerFebruary 18, 2022Breaking NewsLeave a comment

The three winners of the signed GWENDY’S FINAL TASK hardcovers are:

Bonnie Bullock
Michael Pemantel
Diana Petroff

Congratulations!

ORDER your copy now!

Review: Dancing With Maria’s Ghost by Alessandro Manzetti

Cemetery Dance OnlineFebruary 18, 2022February 13, 2022ReviewsAlessandro Manzetti, Anton Cancre, Dancing with Maria's Ghost, poetry, ReviewsLeave a comment

cover of Dancing with Maria's Ghost Dancing With Maria’s Ghost by Alessandro Manzetti
Independent Legions (December 2021)
65 pages; $11.90 paperback, $2.99 ebook
Reviewed by Anton Cancre

Alessandro Manzetti always does a great job of evoking a narrative with his poems. He has figured out a great balance of information given and withheld within the swirling images his poems paint that hints at the larger narrative beyond what we are given. I love it. So, when he has a narrative stretched over fifteen poems, you know I’m in. Continue Reading

Bev Vincent explores Gwendy’s Final Task

Bev VincentFebruary 15, 2022February 25, 2022Stephen King News from the Dead ZoneBev Vincent, Gwendy's Button Box, Gwendy's Final Task, Gwendy's Magic Feather, News from the Dead Zone, Nineteen, Reviews, Richard Chizmar, Stephen King, Stephen King News, The StandLeave a comment

“The Tower Is Strong”

There’s a lot going on in Ben Baldwin’s artwork on the cover of the Cemetery Dance edition of Gwendy’s Final Task, coauthored by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar. The dominant figure is the enigmatic Richard Farris, who has burdened Gwendy Peterson with custody of a mysterious and dangerous box of buttons on two previous occasions. In the foreground we see an illustration of a town or a city and what looks to be a rocket or a shooting star.

But what’s that behind Mr. Farris? Could it be…could it possibly be…the Dark Tower? This image generated a lot of discussion and debate when it was first revealed. The Gallery Books cover for the final book in the Gwendy trilogy puts the question to rest—the central image is the Tower and, in the foreground, a field of red roses.

Gwendy’s Final Task by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar: Last DAY to Win a Copy Signed by BOTH Authors!

Cemetery Dance OnlineFebruary 14, 2022February 14, 2022Breaking NewsLeave a comment

Plus: An Update on the Variant Binding!

Tomorrow is publication day for Gwendy’s Final Task, which means today is the LAST DAY to enter the giveaway for one of THREE copies signed by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar! Read all the details on the website before time runs out!

For those who missed the video Richard Chizmar posted explaining the challenges of printing Gwendy’s Final Task, and why there are two versions of binding, here is a link!

For the completists out there, the best way to find the gray version is to order a copy from Amazon or pick one up at your local chain bookstore. The best way to get the green binding is to order directly through the Cemetery Dance online store (or to get lucky at your local bookseller).

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

Interview: Editor James Aquilone Kickstarts Kolchak

Cemetery Dance OnlineFebruary 14, 2022February 13, 2022InterviewsDanica Davidson, Interviews, James Aquiolone, KolchakLeave a comment

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Moonstone Books and editor James Aquilone recently took to Kickstarter to launch Kolchak: The Night Stalker 50th Anniversary Graphic Novel, featuring 11 original stories based on the series featuring monster-hunting report Carl Kolchak. Participating authors include Jonathan Maberry, Kim Newman, Peter David, and more.

While the initial Kickstarter campaign has finished after reaching its goal, the creators are still accepting late pledges.

Danica Davidson recently sat down with Aquilone to discuss the project for Cemetery Dance.Continue Reading

Review: The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass

Cemetery Dance OnlineFebruary 11, 2022February 10, 2022ReviewsHaley Newlin, Reviews, Ryan Douglass, The Taking of Jake LivingstonLeave a comment

The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass
G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers (July 2021)
244 pages; hardcover $14.39; $10.99 e-book; $35 audiobook (or 1 Audible credit)
Reviewed by Haley Newlin

It seems impossible to turn something so pretty so ugly, but it’s not. Everything turns ugly after it’s dead.

? Ryan Douglass, The Taking of Jake Livingston

I stumbled on The Taking of Jake Livingston through one of my favorite YouTube channels, BowTies & Books. According to the channel host, BookTube collectively held its breath for the release of this YA horror story.

And I can see why. Continue Reading

Review: Devil House by John Darnielle

Cemetery Dance OnlineFebruary 9, 2022February 8, 2022ReviewsBlu Gilliand, Devil House, John Darnielle, ReviewsLeave a comment

cover of Devil House Devil House by John Darnielle
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (January 2022)
416 pages; $20.16 hardcover; $14.99 e-book
Reviewed by Blu Gilliand

Diving into John Darnielle’s Devil House is akin to entering a hedge maze: there are twists and turns ahead, and a few dead ends, and there will be times where you feel a little lost, but for the most part it’s a worthy journey.Continue Reading

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