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Mike Mignola Goes BOWLING

Cemetery Dance OnlineJanuary 22, 2025January 19, 2025The Comic VaultBowling with Corpses, Columns, Danica Davidson, Interviews, Mike Mignola, The Comic VaultLeave a comment

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cover of Bowling with Corpses Hellboy creator Mike Mignola is ushering in 2025 with a brand-new anthology of folklore-inspired stories, Bowling with Corpses. Labeled as “weird, wicked and whimsical” by publisher Dark Horse Comics, this collection sees Mignola writing and illustrating stories featuring sorcerers, pirate girls, the undead and more. Mignola is joined on the project by long-time collaborator Dave Stewart on colors, along with letterer Clem Robins.

Mignola answered a few questions for Cemetery Dance about the new project. Stick around afterwards for a few pages from Bowling with CorpsesContinue Reading

Night Time Logic with Laird Barron

Cemetery Dance OnlineJanuary 10, 2025January 5, 2025Interviews, Night Time LogicColumns, Daniel Braum, Interviews, Laird Barron, Night Time Logic, Not A Speck of LightLeave a comment

Night Time Logic with Daniel Braum

“Messy and Mysterious”, the “Indiscernible, Unknowable, and Ambiguous,” and a “Destabilization of Perceptions”

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Night Time Logic is the part of a story that is felt but not consciously processed. It is also the name of this interview series here at Cemetery Dance and over on my YouTube channel.

Through in-depth conversation with authors this column explores the night time part of stories, the strange and uncanny in horror and dark fiction, and more.

My short story collection with Cemetery Dance is titled The Night Marchers and Other Strange Tales in homage to Aickman and his kind of stories that operate this way. It can be found here.

I spoke with Laird Barron in early December 2024 about his latest short story collection titled Not A Speck of Light. You can watch our conversation here.

Our conversation for the column contains topics and stories we did not cover for the YouTube show. We began our talk about the opening quote for the book.Continue Reading

Night Time Logic with Bess Lovejoy

Cemetery Dance OnlineDecember 13, 2024December 8, 2024Night Time LogicBess Lovejoy, Columns, Daniel Braum, InterviewsLeave a comment

Night Time Logic with Daniel Braum

“Borderlines of the Uncanny, Polysemy, and a Hunger for the Mysterious”

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Night Time Logic is the part of a story that is felt but not consciously processed. It is also the name of this interview series here at Cemetery Dance and over on my YouTube channel.

Through in-depth conversation with authors this column explores the night time part of stories, the strange and uncanny in horror and dark fiction, and more.

My short story collection with Cemetery Dance is titled The Night Marchers and Other Strange Tales in homage to Aickman and his kind of stories that operate this way. It can be found here.

I spoke with Bess Lovejoy in early November 2024 about her latest short story titled “Internal Theft” which appeared in the most recent issue of the acclaimed ‘zine Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, the work of Robert Aickman, and much more. We began our conversation about her death-related non-fiction work and publications.Continue Reading

The Cemetery Dance Interview: Ari Loeb

Cemetery Dance OnlineDecember 6, 2024December 8, 2024InterviewsAri Loeb, Danica Davidson, Interviews, The Stunted ManLeave a comment

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Ari Loeb’s credits include being a writer, a stuntman, a dancer, and an acrobat. You might have seen him as a zombie on TV or in a video game. But it was his work as Nicolas Cage’s movement coach on the movie Renfield that inspired his latest book, The Stunted Man. Loeb spoke to Cemetery Dance about his work in creature horror, how he got into writing, and the small-world scenario of finding his audiobook narrator. Continue Reading

The Cemetery Dance Interview: Rowan Hill

Cemetery Dance OnlineNovember 27, 2024December 1, 2024InterviewsInterviews, No Fair Maidens from Earth to Mars, Rick Hipson, Rowan HillLeave a comment

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Californian born, Australian raised, world traveled, Rowan Hill puts her doctorate in Applied Linguistics to devastating purpose throughout her tales of science fiction and terror. Author of the A Dark Witch series and damn near too many short stories to count, Hill has most recently published her debut collection, No Fair Maidens From Earth To Mars. I caught up with Hill in between adventures to chat with her about her Journal Stone/Trepidatio publication and asked her to guide us on a tour of the vast and wonderous worlds swirling within her muse and to show us the sights no matter the dangers that await us. Hill was all too eager to oblige as she opens up about the process of collecting stories with strong woman characters and how they cope with absolute isolation, lethal environments, and vicious outcomes despite their best intentions. Continue Reading

Night Time Logic with Ian Rogers

Cemetery Dance OnlineNovember 15, 2024November 11, 2024Night Time LogicColumns, Daniel Braum, Ian Rogers, Interviews, Night Time Logic, SycamoreLeave a comment

Night Time Logic with Daniel Braum

“Noir, Supernatural Noir, and The Black Lands”

Night Time Logic is the part of a story that is felt but not consciously processed. It is also the name of this interview series here at Cemetery Dance and over on my YouTube channel.

Through in-depth conversation with authors this column explores the night time part of stories, the strange and uncanny in horror and dark fiction, and more.

My short story collection with Cemetery Dance is titled The Night Marchers and Other Strange Tales in homage to Aickman and his kind of stories that operate this way. It can be found here.

I spoke with Ian Rogers in early October 2024 about his new novel from Cemetery Dance, Sycamore. Our conversation is available on YouTube.

We begin our conversation today catching up with some of Ian’s 2024 publications before diving into Sycamore and the Black Lands.Continue Reading

Meet Marco Finnegan’s Undead Detective

Cemetery Dance OnlineNovember 8, 2024November 4, 2024The Comic VaultColumns, Danica Davidson, Interviews, Marco Finnegan, The Comic VaultLeave a comment

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cover of Calavera, P.I. Cartoonist Marco Finnegan’s love of film noir and pulps led him to creating Calavera, P.I., about an undead murdered detective who comes back on Dia de los Muertos. Not only will Detective Juan Calavera have to solve a new crime, he also needs to find out who killed him. Finnegan spoke with Cemetery Dance about the use of Mexican folklore in the graphic novel, his horror influences, and what he would like people to take away from his newest work.Continue Reading

Kolchak Kickstarted Again! Kolchak Meets the Classic Monsters

Cemetery Dance OnlineOctober 22, 2024October 19, 2024The Comic VaultColumns, Danica Davidson, Interviews, James Aquilone, Kickstarter, Kolchak Meets Classic Monsters, Rodney Barnes, Steve NilesLeave a comment

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Cover of Kolchak Meets the Classic Monsters — Art by Dave Acosta

After successfully Kickstarting Kolchak: The Night Stalker 50th Anniversary Graphic Novel and Jeff Rice’s original novel Kolchack: The Night Stalker, editor James Aquilone is back with a Kickstarter campaign for Kolchak Meets the Classic Monsters from Moonstone Books. Cemetery Dance spoke with Aquilone, along with writers Rodney Barnes and Steve Niles, both of whom are contributing stories, about this latest project in the world of Kolchak. Continue Reading

Night Time Logic with Brian Evenson

Cemetery Dance OnlineOctober 18, 2024October 10, 2024Night Time LogicBrian Evenson, Columns, Daniel Braum, Interviews, Night Time LogicLeave a comment

Night Time Logic with Daniel Braum

“MU-TH-UR, Overlapping Nets, and Productive Ambiguity.”

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Night Time Logic is the part of a story that is felt but not consciously processed. It is also the name of this interview series here at Cemetery Dance and over on my YouTube channel.

Through in-depth conversation with authors this column explores the night time part of stories, the strange and uncanny in horror and dark fiction, and more.

My short story collection with Cemetery Dance is titled The Night Marchers and Other Strange Tales in homage to Aickman and his kind of stories that operate this way. It can be found here.

I spoke with Brian Evenson in September 2024 about his new short story collection Good Night, Sleep Tight. Our conversation is here on YouTube.

We begin our conversation today with a look at “crossing over” in fiction and a discussion of the first two stories in the new book.Continue Reading

CJ Leede, Pray for Us

Cemetery Dance OnlineOctober 11, 2024October 14, 2024Interviews, ReviewsAmerican Rapture, CJ Leede, Cynthia Pelayo, Interviews, ReviewsLeave a comment

Cemetery Dance is proud to present this special review/interview combo from Bram Stoker Award & 6x International Latino Book Award winning author Cynthia Pelayo.

“Well, we don’t know everything. I mean, we know basically nothing,” a character says in American Rapture, and in a way this is the major question explored by CJ Leede’s main character in her highly anticipated sophomore novel — “What do we know?”Continue Reading

Comics legends Matt Wagner and Kelley Jones resurrect Dracula

Cemetery Dance OnlineOctober 9, 2024October 7, 2024The Comic VaultColumns, Danica Davidson, Dracula, Interviews, Kelley Jones, Kickstarter, Matt Wagner, The Comic VaultLeave a comment

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Dracula: Book II — The Brides by writer Matt Wagner and artist Kelley Jones is the sequel to Dracula: Book I — The Impaler, and is currently on Kickstarter. Grendel writer Wagner and Jones had been meaning to work together for a while, and finally found an opportunity with the world’s most famous vampire. Cemetery Dance spoke to Wagner and Jones about what went into this comic, how it builds on the first book, and their process for working together.Continue Reading

It’s Judgement Day for….Archie Comics?

Cemetery Dance OnlineSeptember 27, 2024September 28, 2024The Comic VaultArchie Comics, Columns, Danica Davidson, Interviews, Jamie Rotante, The Comic VaultLeave a comment

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Since 2015, the iconic Archie Comics has delved deep into a dark new world with Archie Horror, including with their premium event Archie Comics: Judgment Day. Cemetery Dance spoke with editor Jamie Rotante about Judgment Day, how Archie works in the world of horror, and the character archetypes that allow them to be in different scenarios.Continue Reading

Night Time Logic with Paul Tremblay

Cemetery Dance OnlineSeptember 20, 2024September 7, 2024Night Time LogicColumns, Daniel Braum, Interviews, Night Time Logic, Paul TremblayLeave a comment

Night Time Logic with Daniel Braum

“Texas Chainsaw. Alfred Hitchcock. And Horror Movie.”

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Night Time Logic is the part of a story that is felt but not consciously processed. It is also the name of this interview series here at Cemetery Dance and over on my YouTube channel.

Through in-depth conversation with authors this column explores the night time part of stories, the strange and uncanny in horror and dark fiction, and more.

My short story collection with Cemetery Dance is titled The Night Marchers and Other Strange Tales in homage to Aickman and his kind of stories that operate this way. It can be found here.

I spoke with Paul Tremblay in August 2024 about his new novel Horror Movie. Our conversation is available on YouTube.

My conversation with Paul today begins with a question about the main character in Horror Movie….Continue Reading

Interview: Mikita Brottman’s GUILTY CREATURES

Cemetery Dance OnlineSeptember 18, 2024September 14, 2024InterviewsDanica Davidson, Guilty Creatures, Interviews, Mikita BrottmanLeave a comment

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Since her last talk with Cemetery Dance in 2017, Mikita Brottman has released three true crime books — An Unexplained Death, Couple Found Slain, and, most recently, Guilty Creatures. Brottman, whose many books tend to concentrate on the darker side, wants to bring more psychology and a wider view to her true crime books. She spoke with Cemetery Dance about how she does her research, why the case she portrays in Guilty Creatures caught her attention, and how being a literature professor and a psychoanalyst impacts her writing.Continue Reading

What Screams May Come: Come Out & Play by Patrick Tumblety

Cemetery Dance OnlineSeptember 13, 2024September 7, 2024What Screams May ComeColumns, Come Out and Play, Interviews, Patrick Tumblety, Rick Hipson, What Screams May ComeLeave a comment

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Come Out & Play by Patrick Tumblety
Uncomfortably Dark (September 2024)

The Synopsis

Scott has not left his house since causing the accident that killed his mother. To keep himself from harming his remaining loved ones, he repeats daily rituals and abides by superstitious, compulsive, and intrusive thoughts. He is successful in the endeavor until the night of his eighteenth birthday when something comes to tear him from the physical and mental walls he has built against the world.

Something that Scott fears has been sent by his mother to avenge her death.Continue Reading

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