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Interview: Laurel Hightower on The Long Low Whistle

Cemetery Dance OnlineJanuary 7, 2026December 29, 2025InterviewsHaley Newlin, Interviews, Laurel HightowerLeave a comment

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Laurel Hightower is a bourbon-loving native of Lexington, Kentucky. She is the Bram Stoker-nominated author of Whispers In The Dark, Crossroads, Below, Every Woman Knows This, Silent Key, Spirit Coven, The Day Of The Door, and The Long Low Whistle, and has more than a dozen short fiction stories in print.

Hightower sat down with Cemetery Dance to talk about cryptid horror, powerful and flawed female characters, horror films, The Long Low Whistle, and Shortwave Publishing’s Killer VHS Series. Continue Reading

Review: The Long Low Whistle by Laurel Hightower

Cemetery Dance OnlineJanuary 5, 2026December 29, 2025ReviewsHaley Newlin, Killer VHS Series, Laurel Hightower, Reviews, Shortwave Publishing, The Long Low WhistleLeave a comment

The Long Low Whistle (Killer VHS Series #7) by Laurel Hightower
Shortwave Publishing (November 2025)
Reviewed by Haley Newlin

The seventh installment in Shortwave Publishing’s Killer VHS Series is gory, claustrophobic, and probably the most terrifying book you’ll read all year. Laurel Hightower’s The Long Low Whistle swells with an aching grief that throbs through the pages from start to finish and will thrill fans of cryptid and survival horror. Not only would this be a great introduction for readers new to Hightower’s work but it will make fans of the Bram Stoker-nominated author absolutely giddy because, like most of Hightower’s books, The Long Low Whistle is packed with creative, but brutal body horror you won’t be able to shake for days. Continue Reading

What Screams May Come: The Day of the Door by Laurel Hightower

Cemetery Dance OnlineApril 26, 2024May 28, 2024What Screams May ComeColumns, Interviews, Laurel Hightower, Rick Hipson, What Screams May ComeLeave a comment

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The Day Of The Door by Laurel Hightower
A Ghoulish Books Publication (April 2024)

The Synopsis

Once there were four Lasco siblings banded together against a world that failed to protect them. But on a hellish night that marked the end of their childhood, eldest brother Shawn died violently after being dragged behind closed doors. Though the official finding was accidental death, Nathan Lasco knows better, and has never forgiven their mother, Stella.

Now, two decades later, Stella promises to finally reveal the truth of what happened on The Day of the Door. Accompanied by a paranormal investigative team, the Lasco family comes together one final time, but no one is prepared for the revelations waiting for them on the third floor.Continue Reading

Review: Every Woman Knows This by Laurel Hightower

Cemetery Dance OnlineApril 25, 2023April 24, 2023ReviewsAnton Cancre, Every Woman Knows This, Laurel Hightower, ReviewsLeave a comment

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Death Knell Press (March 2023)
189 pages; $14.98 paperback; $4.49 e-book
Reviewed by Anton Cancre

Every Woman Knows This is a very personal, very pointed collection of stories that reflect Laurel Hightower’s experience of the world as a woman. Experiences that are common enough she can comfortably state that commonality in the title (and yes, she is explicit in her belief that this stands for all women, so please step aside with any gender essentialism). These stories hit on everything from dealing with stalkers to the perils of motherhood to always having to clean up after some manchild that never listens to reason and climbs down into an abandoned submarine just to poke around for a bit BECAUSE OF COURSE HE DID, and every one of them hits right in the gut.Continue Reading

Review: Below by Laurel Hightower

Cemetery Dance OnlineJuly 28, 2022July 27, 2022ReviewsAnton Cancre, Below, Laurel Hightower, ReviewsLeave a comment

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Ghoulish Books (March 2022)
115 pages; $12.95 Paperback; $4.99 ebook
Reviewed by Anton Cancre

I dug the hell out of Laurel Hightower’s previous book, Crossroads. It had that heart I am always looking for, a fair amount of “messeded up,” and an attitude that took zero percent of my guff. So, of course, when I found out that she had a new one coming out, and that it involved Mothman, I was down as a clown in D-town.Continue Reading

Review: Crossroads by Laurel Hightower

Cemetery Dance OnlineAugust 5, 2020August 3, 2020ReviewsA.E. Siraki, Crossroads, Laurel Hightower, Off Limits Press, ReviewsLeave a comment

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Off Limits Press (August 10, 2020)
93 pages; $12 hardcov $7.01 e-book
Reviewed by A.E. Siraki

Thomas Campbell famously remarked: “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” This proves painfully true in Crossroads, the newest release from rising horror superstar Laurel Hightower. Her previous novel, Whispers in the Dark (2018), garnered tons of well-deserved accolades. This time around, Crossroads explores a mother, Chris, mourning the loss of her son, Trey. There is plenty of real-life horror in that itself. Things take a turn toward the supernatural as Chris recalls the concept of a crossroads demon, like the one that Robert Johnson was famously rumored to have sold his soul to in exchange for musical success. Continue Reading

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