“I Contain Multitudes” What is a novella? In some quarters, it’s defined as a long short story or a short novel. But this is the Stephen King Universe we’re dealing with, where “The Langoliers,” coming it at over 90,000 words—a length many writers would find appropriate for a novel—is considered a novella because it was … Continue Reading! “Bev Vincent Reviews If It Bleeds by Stephen King”
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Revelations2 Comments on Revelations: The Third Level by Jack Finney Ironically, in my quest to discover other horror writers besides Stephen King, (I adore King’s work but at that time, I was reading him exclusively), it was King himself who helped lead the way. Somewhere in the middle of that quest I finally, for the first time, read his non-fiction treatise on the horror genre, … Continue Reading! “Revelations: The Third Level by Jack Finney”
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories My First FrightLeave a comment on My First Fright featuring Gwendolyn Kiste Two of the biggest horror-comedy films of the 1980s debuted on the exact same weekend in June 1984. Ghostbusters was the bigger success of the two, but Gremlins has remained a fan favorite amongst ’80s kids, and for good reason. It’s silly, with eye-catching character designs that just scream MERCHANDISE OPPORTUNITIES, but it’s also a … Continue Reading! “My First Fright featuring Gwendolyn Kiste”
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories InterviewsLeave a comment on Interview: Nicholas Day talks the GRIND Nicholas Day is a science fiction, horror, and crime fiction writer, and is the co-owner (with fellow writer Don Noble) of Rooster Republic Press. His first novel, Grind Your Bones to Dust, will be released on October 10. Recently, Day sat down with Cemetery Dance’s own “Mother Horror” for a chat about creativity, wild donkeys, and … Continue Reading! “Interview: Nicholas Day talks the GRIND”
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 … Continue Reading! “Review: The Bone Weaver’s Orchard by Sarah Read”
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Interviews3 Comments on Interview: Paul Tremblay on Craft, King, and Building His Cabin Paul Tremblay’s path to becoming the bestselling author he is today was quite different from that traveled by most other writers. “I would say it was atypical,” he observes. While Tremblay remembers Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” as being something that resonated with him in elementary school, he didn’t find much enjoyment in reading … Continue Reading! “Interview: Paul Tremblay on Craft, King, and Building His Cabin”
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories ReviewsLeave a comment on Review: Black Wings by Megan Hart Black Wings by Megan Hart Flame Tree Press (February 2019) 240 pages; $20.64 hardcover; $10.37 paperback; $6.99 e-book Reviewed by Frank Michaels Errington Briella is a bright child, some would say gifted. That being said, she does have trouble making friends. Along with a loathing for personal hygiene and lack of friends, Briella had taken up … Continue Reading! “Review: Black Wings by Megan Hart”
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Revelations5 Comments on Revelations: The Repairman Jack Saga by F. Paul Wilson As I’ve written this series, I’ve found it necessary to achieve a tenuous balance in my recommendations and recountings of the horror which has impacted me as a reader and writer. I’ve bounced a lot between the descriptions “fun and fast-paced” and “literate and full of substance.” The truth of the matter (as I’ve come … Continue Reading! “Revelations: The Repairman Jack Saga by F. Paul Wilson”
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories ReviewsLeave a comment on Review: Hag by Kathleen Kaufman Hag by Kathleen Kaufman Turner (October 2018) 336 pages; $25.19 hardcover; $11.59 paperback; $11.01 e-book Reviewed by Sadie Hartmann The book Hag by Kathleen Kaufman is exactly what I’ve always wanted in a novel about witches. Every night, I crawled into bed and let my mind escape to the Scottish lowlands to hear more about the Cailleach … Continue Reading! “Review: Hag by Kathleen Kaufman”
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories What I Learned from Stephen KingLeave a comment on Firestarter and Standing Up to “The Man” It’s easy to see why Stephen King’s Firestarter was nearly the novel we never read. Abandoning his manuscript on several occasions, King felt the book was too much like Carrie and feared he would be copying himself. While Carrie White had telekinesis (the ability to move objects with her mind), Charlie McGee’s gift (or curse) … Continue Reading! “Firestarter and Standing Up to “The Man””
Wednesday, June 6th, 2012. First period, 10th Grade Honors English. Roughly 9 a.m. That’s when I heard the news. Even today, as I write this, I feel a chill. Looking back, it was not only a surreal and an unbelievable experience…it also offered a moment of affirmation for me as a teacher that hasn’t been … Continue Reading! “Revelations: Ray Bradbury”
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories ReviewsLeave a comment on Review: The Goat Parade by Peter Dudar The Goat Parade by Peter Dudar Grinning Skull Press (March 2018) 300 pages; $23.58 paperback; $3.99 e-book Reviewed by Dave Simms Peter Dudar hit the scene hard with his Stoker finalist A Requiem For Dead Flies, offering a style that evoked the best of Bentley Little and Rick Hautula. He returns with The Goat Parade, a novel … Continue Reading! “Review: The Goat Parade by Peter Dudar”
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Reviews1 Comment on Review: Hellraiser: The Toll by Mark Alan Miller Hellraiser: The Toll by Mark Alan Miller Subterranean Press (February 28, 2018) 96 pages; $40 hardcover Reviewed by Blu Gilliand Over the years, the Hellraiser mythology has become something of a hash, combining elements of Clive Barker’s original novella The Hellbound Heart with bits from the Hellraiser movies (mainly the first two in the franchise: Hellraiser and … Continue Reading! “Review: Hellraiser: The Toll by Mark Alan Miller”
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories My First FrightLeave a comment on My First Fright featuring Grady Hendrix If you’ve read Paperbacks from Hell, you know that Grady Hendrix is an expert on horror fiction, most specifically mass-market paperbacks produced during the boom of the ’70s and ’80s, with their often eye-popping—some might say “garish”—cover art. What, you might ask, inspired such a fascination for weird, macabre books? In Hendrix’s case, it was … Continue Reading! “My First Fright featuring Grady Hendrix”
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Exhumed2 Comments on Exhumed: “Four-in-Hand” and “Life of the Party” This is Exhumed’s 12th installment. That’s right, peeps, it’s been a full year of digging up and examining great old stories from the bowels of Cemetery Dance. Wow. What an honor it’s been thus far.
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