Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories ReviewsLeave a comment on Review: Neon Dies at Dawn by Andersen Prunty 
Neon Dies at Dawn by Andersen Prunty
Grindhouse Press (March 2019)
130 pages; $12.95 paperback; $2.99 e-book
Reviewed by Anton Cancre
I will admit that I was drawn to this book by the cover. That vaporwave, retro ’80s look is all the rage nowadays, and this one surely pops with just the right balance of bright light and dust. I was not prepared for the story inside, though, which is kind of my own fault for thinking I was prepared for anything Prunty writes.Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Dead TreesLeave a comment on Dead Trees: The Armageddon Rag by George R.R. Martin 
Many look back to the Splatterpunk days of Skipp, Spector, and Schow for the birth of heavy metal horror. And, certainly, The Scream and The Kill Riff were extraordinary examples of groundbreaking, rock and roll horror of the time. But they were not the first.
My social media feeds are filled with talk about Game of Thrones. The beloved show has finally ended, and the last episode was hotly controversial. George R.R. Martin is the most popular fantasy writer since J.R.R. Tolkien, but once upon a time Martin was poised to be a horror writer.Continue Reading
We’re pleased to report we’ll be receiving copies of both signed editions of The Last Christmas by F. Paul Wilson from Gauntlet Press, but please place your order ASAP because we don’t know how long our supplies will last!
About the Book:
Jack is back.
It’s late December between Ground Zero and Fatal Error, a winter of discontent for Jack who’s perhaps spending too much time hanging at Julio’s. An old contact, Edward Burkes, convinces him to take on a missing-person fix. As usual, nothing is as it seems and the missing person isn’t exactly a person. In fact, it’s like nothing anyone has ever seen.
And in the middle of all this, the mysterious Madame de Medici hires him to safeguard a valuable object. Simple, right?
Not even close.
Yep, Jack is back and, as usual, weird trouble is on his heels.
Read more or place your order while our supplies last!
Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Reviews3 Comments on Review: We Live Inside Your Eyes by Kealan Patrick Burke 
Elderlemon Press (April 2019)
227 pages; $9.99 paperback; $4.99 e-book
Reviewed by Blu Gilliand
I’ve long considered Kealan Patrick Burke to be something of a throwback. I imagine him as one of those long-ago pulp writers who used to churn out stories by the fistful, back when there were magazine racks brimming over with periodicals hungry for tales. Like them, Burke never seems to run out of ideas, always finding fresh approaches to the tropes of his chosen genre. To see what I mean, look no further than his new collection We Live Inside Your Eyes, a batch of scary stories that run the gamut from quietly unsettling to downright terrifying.Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories ReviewsLeave a comment on Review: Dragonfly and Other Songs of Mourning by Michelle Scalise 
Dragonfly and Other Songs of Mourning by Michelle Scalise
Lycan Valley Press (May 2019)
56 pages; $15 hardcover; $8.50 paperback
Reviewed by Anton Cancre
Death may be our most common denominator, but loss is the thing that really connects all of us. While we all die eventually, we don’t usually have much to say about the experience afterwords. But, when someone we care about passes into the dense fog of whatever it is that follows, all of us are left dealing with the absence. That coping is what Dragonfly is about.Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Reviews2 Comments on In Remembrance of Frank Michaels Errington 
Cemetery Dance, and the horror fiction community as a whole, lost a special member of our ranks last week when Frank Michaels Errington passed away.
I never got the chance to meet Frank in person, but we’ve been swapping emails and Tweets for almost four years. One of the first reviews I ran after we started Cemetery Dance Online was Frank’s take on Little Girls by Ronald Malfi. “Includes one of the most disgusting scenes I’ve ever read,” he wrote in that review, and I could just see him grinning about that. His love and enthusiasm for horror was infectious and shined through every review he wrote. Even when he didn’t love (or like) the book he was reviewing, he tried to find something positive to say.Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Revelations4 Comments on Revelations: Robert McCammon 
(Before we begin, a moment of shameless self-promotion: For a limited time, the ebook of my novella quartet, Through A Mirror, Darkly, is free on Amazon. That’s a price you can’t beat! Grab it while you can.)
I have friend and colleague Bob Ford to thank for introducing me to Robert McCammon’s work. I’m not sure exactly when I stumbled across his blog entry about Boy’s Life, but it must’ve been late summer or early fall 2010, because I read Boy’s Life for the first time not long after. And, I can say—without an ounce of hyperbole—that novel impacted me more than any novel I’ve ever read. It changed me, fundamentally, as a writer. I made me realize the limitless possibilities of speculative fiction. Continue Reading
REVIVAL: The Deluxe Special Edition
by Stephen King
LAST DAY TO RESERVE YOUR COPY!
TOMORROW, THE BOOK IS OUT OF PRINT FOREVER!
Hi Folks!
Well, the headline speaks for itself, we think: today is the last day ever to order REVIVAL: THE DELUXE SPECIAL EDITION by Stephen King!
Tomorrow, Brian Freeman will add up all the orders from his retailers and start printing the signature sheets, so the book have an official print run and be OUT OF PRINT forever! No additional copies will be printed or distributed.
PLEASE NOTE: Production updates galore will be shared via the LetterPress Publications mailing list, and the LetterPress Publications social media pages: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
If you haven’t reserved your copy yet. this is your very last chance, and we strongly recommend you do so because this special edition is going to be incredible!
Read more or place your order before the preorder window closes FOREVER tonight!!
Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!
REVIVAL: The Deluxe Special Edition
by Stephen King
The First Limited Edition from LetterPress Publications!
From the team that helped make The Secretary of Dreams, It, Doctor Sleep, Sleeping Beauties, and many other amazing special editions!
Hi Folks!
We cannot say enough good things about Brian James Freeman’s new side project, LetterPress Publications, and obviously he’s starting out in a big way with his special edition of REVIVAL: THE DELUXE SPECIAL EDITION by Stephen King!
Brian and his wife worked together here for many, many years on hundreds of Cemetery Dance books including our most popular Stephen King special editions from THE SECRETARY OF DREAMS to IT to DOCTOR SLEEP to their final CD collaboration, SLEEPING BEAUTIES, which began shipping last week!
We hope you’ll show him the same support you’ve always show us over the years while also getting in on the ground floor of an incredible new press (wait until you hear about his plans for his second project!) by ordering your copy of REVIVAL: THE DELUXE SPECIAL EDITION by Stephen King through our online store today:
Read more or place your order while our supplies last!
Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories ReviewsLeave a comment on Review: The Gemini Experiment by Brian Pinkerton 
The Gemini Experiment by Brian Pinkerton
Flame Tree Press (May 30, 2019)
240 pages; $16.48 hardcover; $10.37 paperback; $6.99 e-book
Reviewed by Frank Michaels Errington
The premise is somewhat familiar and rather simple. Technology has advanced to the point where it’s possible to digitize the mind. Combine this with the ability to create a perfect, nearly indestructible, mirror-image of a human body and you have the recipe for immortality…or disaster.Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Reviews1 Comment on Review: The Bone Weaver’s Orchard by Sarah Read 
The Bone Weaver’s Orchard by Sarah Read
Trepidatio Pub (February 2019)
194 pages; $12.36 paperback; $4.95 e-book
Reviewed by Sadie Hartmann
Where are my fellow John Bellairs fans? Raise your hands and be counted. I need to know who you are. It’s important to this review because I’m an avid horror fan who was first nourished on the horror milk of John Bellairs novels. Bellairs wrote dark, gothic mysteries for young readers and he never shied away from being “too scary” for kids. I relished my time in those pages.
Here I am now at forty-two years of age and Sarah Read, the talented author of The Bone Weaver’s Orchard, has just rekindled that fire by tapping some of my favorite things I loved as a young reader.Continue Reading
If you’ve bought a limited edition book from Cemetery Dance in the last decade or so, chances are extremely high that Brian James Freeman and Kate Freeman had a hand in making that book a reality. Recently, Brian announced the formation of a new small press, LetterPress Publications, which he and Kate will use to continue pursuing and creating their own publishing passion projects. (Fear not, Brian remains an integral part of the Cemetery Dance family!) They’re off to a great start with their debut* project, a special limited edition of Stephen King’s 2014 novel Revival.Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Interviews2 Comments on The Cemetery Dance Interview: Joe Lansdale 
When Joe Lansdale speaks, you listen. A fearless writer and natural storyteller who moves effortlessly between genres, Lansdale has made a career out of doing what he wants. He counts Stephen King, Joe Hill, and Dean Koontz among some of his most vocal fans, and has been steadily earning a large and devoted following since his first novel, Act of Love, was published in 1981. Since then, hardly a year has gone by without a new Lansdale book on the market, sometimes more than one. He has now written nearly 50 novels, dozens of novellas, and hundreds of short stories.Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Breaking News1 Comment on Stephen King Brings News From Castle Rock! Stephen King’s introduction for Gwendy’s Magic Feather. the new full-length Castle Rock novel by Richard Chizmar, has arrived and it’s classic King non-fiction. Titled “How Gwendy Escaped Oblivion,” it’s a great read, and we don’t want to spoil the fun, but we did feel we had to share this particular quote:
“In the story you’re about to read—lucky you!—all of Rich’s formidable skills are on display. He evokes Castle Rock well, and the regular Joes and regular Jills that populate the town ring true. We know these people, and so we care for them. We also care for Gwendy. To tell you the truth, I sort of fell in love with her, and I’m delighted that she’s back for more.”
We’re accepting our FINAL RESERVATIONS for signed copies, so please visit our Gwendy’s Magic Feather page now and place your order now!
Read more or place your order for a SIGNED 1st Edition/1st Printing while our supplies last!
Cemetery Dance is famous for its long-running magazine and its impressive span of collectible print editions, but we’ve also been quietly building an extensive list of eBooks. We’ve started this column to draw attention to eBooks that some of you might have missed.
This installment is devoted to two books by Gary Raisor, the newly revised and expanded edition of his collection Sinister Purposes, and a reissue of the cult-classic vampire novel, Less Than Human.
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