Return to Stephen King’s Castle Rock in this appealing chiller!

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SPECIAL ALERT! The hardcover editions of Gwendy’s Button Box and Gwendy’s Magic Feather are both currently under $20 at Amazon.com for a limited time! Just click on those linked titles to place your order!

Gwendy’s Magic Feather
A Brand New Castle Rock Novel by Richard Chizmar
A New Review Has Arrived and It’s Another Good One!

Hi Folks!

A new review for Gwendy’s Magic Feather. an original full-length Castle Rock novel by Richard Chizmar, has arrived and while we don’t want to give away too much about the story (which they do in their full review!), here’s a little bit of what Publishers Weekly had to say:

Chizmar returns to Castle Rock, Maine, after the 2017 novella Gwendy’s Button Box, co-written with Stephen King, in this appealing chiller… Short, punchy chapters keep the pages turning… the charming protagonist and thrill of temptation will enthrall fans and new readers alike.

Gwendy's Magic Feather

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Review: Violet by Scott Thomas

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Book Cover for VioletViolet by Scott Thomas
InkShares (September 24, 2019)
446 pages; $17.99 paperback; $7.99 e-book
Reviewed by Sadie Hartmann

Did Scott Thomas peek inside our horror-loving brains while we weren’t looking and use what he found there to write the most appealing book just for us? He might have. In fact, the more I sit here with all my review notes, the more I’m convinced he overheard us talking about all our favorite things to read about and he used ALL OF THEM in this one book: Violet. Continue Reading

Bev Vincent reviews Mr. Mercedes Season 3

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Stephen King News From the Dead Zone

“A Series of Dreams”

Today is publication day for Stephen King’s new novel, The Institute, which I reviewed last week. Book release day is always a big one for fans. However, that’s not the only thing happening today. Season 3 of Mr. Mercedes launches on AT&T Audience Network, and it’s a good one! [Note: Everything I’m going to discuss in this review is covered in the trailer, more or less.]Continue Reading

Review: In the Garden of Rusting Gods by Patrick Freivald

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Cover of In the Garden of Rusting GodsIn the Garden of Rusting Gods by Patrick Freivald
Barking Deer Press (September 2019)
210 pages; $14.95 paperback; $4.95 e-book
Reviewed by A.E. Siraki

Patrick Freivald has released a new short story collection from Barking Deer Press entitled In the Garden of Rusting Gods. An established novelist, Bram Stoker Award-nominee (and, with Andrew Wolter, winner of the Richard Laymon President’s Award in 2015), he writes horror for both young adult and adult audiences alike. His short fiction has mostly tended toward science fiction horror, which he excels at, so for readers wanting their fix, his collection will fit the bill. Continue Reading

Seasons of Terror: Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Stephen King, and Robert McCammon

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Seasons of Terror
Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Stephen King, and Robert McCammon
An Epic New Special Edition For Horror Collectors!

Hi Folks!

We’re very pleased to announce Seasons of Terror from the imaginations of Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Stephen King, and Robert McCammon!

These four classic tales of terror are each set during a different season of the year, and the text has been adapted to graphic format by Richard Chizmar and lavishly illustrated by four of our favorite artists: Ray Fawkes, Dennis Calero, Francois Vaillancourt, and Steve Wands!

To celebrate this incredible publication, we’re planning an epic set of special editions with some features that are unprecedented in the 30+ year history of Cemetery Dance Publications — and the Artist Edition and Lettered Edition are already selling out fast due to higher than expected demand from the Cemetery Dance Collectors Club!

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

Kevin Lucia on Walking Lazarus — The Movie

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The premise of my column “Revelations” is a reflection on fiction I encountered during a specific time in my career; fiction which changed the way I thought about horror, or influenced me in some way. The column has wandered from contemporary writers to masters of the genre, and it will at times wander off the “horror map” and into that hazy borderland of “speculative fiction.”

An author I’ll eventually feature is speculative fiction writer T. L. Hines, and how he shaped my thoughts about speculative fiction, most especially in terms of flawed characters, and how those flaws made those characters stronger. Today, however, I’m writing about Tony’s current project, and that’s his indie effort to bring his first novel, Waking Lazarus, to cinema life. Continue Reading

Bev Vincent reviews It Chapter Two

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Stephen King News From the Dead Zone

“We Are What We Wish We Could Forget”

aka

“Let’s Kill this Fucking Clown”

Let’s get this out of the way right up front. Yes, It Chapter Two is nearly three hours long. Did it feel like it? Not in the least. Because my phone was turned off during the press screening I attended on Tuesday evening, I had no sense of the passage of time, but I never felt the movie dragged. Not for a moment. I saw it on an IMAX screen, the first time I’ve seen anything on a screen that big in many years. It’s hard to say if it’s worth the premium, but the experience felt immersive to me.

The movie is R-rated, with good reason. It’s pretty darned scary, and very, very bad things happen to cute little kids. I admit, without reservation, that I was jolted into yelling out loud on at least a couple of occasions, which hardly ever happens to me. While the movie has more than its fair share of jump scares, it’s also tense, full of dread, and frightening.

It Chapter Two picks up exactly where we left off two years ago, with the young Losers in the aftermath of their battle with Pennywise, promising to come back if the killings in Derry, Maine start again.

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Bev Vincent Reviews The Institute by Stephen King

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Stephen King News From the Dead Zone

“Great Events Turn on Small Hinges”

When The Institute was announced in January, the book’s description had people wondering if it would have ties to Firestarter or the Dark Tower series. Kidnapping kids with psychic powers sounds like what happened to the Breakers at Algul Siento, and Charlie McGee underwent extensive testing at a compound run by the Shop to determine the range of her pyrokinesis.

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In fact, The Institute isn’t connected to those earlier works—or really to anything else in King’s work. The organization that runs the Institute in remote northern Maine (in TR-110, for those keeping track) isn’t the second coming of the Shop. The covert group has been operating for over sixty years. The kidnapped children, ranging from eight to sixteen years of age, aren’t being used to bring down the Beams supporting the Dark Tower. The one story that comes to mind when reading King’s latest is his 1997 novella “Everything’s Eventual,” which ultimately turned out to have Dark Tower implications, although that wasn’t clear at the time.

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CD eBook Spotlight: Curtain Call by Mark Allan Gunnells

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In previous columns we’ve shared fun facts about authors or their books, or featured a mini-interview. This time we’re trying something a little different related to Mark Allan Gunnells’ collection of film- and theater-themed horror stories, Curtain Call and Other Dark Entertainments: we’re spotlighting the author’s recent TEDx talk on “How Horror Movies Taught Me Empathy.” Check out the video below (and the mini-interview that follows!), and then visit the CD website to learn more about the book. Continue Reading