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Review: The Dead Husband Cookbook by Danielle Valentine

Cemetery Dance OnlineNovember 19, 2025October 26, 2025ReviewsDanielle Valentine, Haley Newlin, Reviews, The Dead Husband CookbookLeave a comment

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Sourcebooks Landmark (August 2025)
Reviewed by Haley Newlin

The Dead Husband Cookbook by Danielle Valentine is a worthy follow-up to the author’s motherhood-horror and debut novel, Delicate Condition. Delicate Condition inspired season twelve of Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story: Delicate, starring Emma Roberts and Kim Kardashian.

The Dead Husband Cookbook is another exploration of the daily horror of the female experience. However, it’s less body horror than you might expect. It’s a gritty mystery, each reveal more twisted than the last. I had a really tough time putting this one down.Continue Reading

Stephen King: News from the Dead Zone #244

Bev VincentNovember 19, 2025November 19, 2025Stephen King News from the Dead ZoneBev Vincent, Claudia Inez Bachman, Columns, Holly Gibney, Mr. Yummy, News from the Dead Zone, Rat, Richard Bachman, Stephen King, The End Times, The Running Man, Welcome to DerryLeave a comment

Richard Bachman has had a very good year for adaptations. Previous to this year, it had been nearly thirty years since one of his novels was turned into a movie and now, within a span of several months, two Bachman books have turned up on the big screen with stellar casts. And even his wife (widow?) is getting in on the action. Read on!

Review: Moan by Junji Ito

Cemetery Dance OnlineNovember 17, 2025October 26, 2025Reviews, The Comic VaultColumns, Danica Davidson, Junji Ito, Moan, Reviews, The Comic VaultLeave a comment

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VIZ Media (October 2025)
Reviewed by Danica Davidson

Junji Ito, a popular horror manga creator in Japan, has been getting increasingly known in America. More and more of his horror works are being released in English, with the most recent being Moan, a short story collection. The first few stories run on the long end, and then there are a couple of shorter pieces.

Each story shows off Ito’s masterful artwork. He knows both how to draw characters beautifully and how to set a mood. The stories also showcase Ito’s penchant for weirdness, creepiness and mystery.Continue Reading

Folio Society Editor on Publishing Haruki Murakami, Horror, and More

Cemetery Dance OnlineNovember 14, 2025October 23, 2025InterviewsDanica Davidson, Daniel Liévano, Folio Society, Haruki Murakami, Interviews, Sophia SchoepferLeave a comment

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The Folio Society is doing an illustrated edition of 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, a Japanese novel about a hitwoman and a dangerous cult. Cemetery Dance spoke with editor Sophia Schoepfer about the publisher’s involvement with horror books, why they decided to take on IQ84, and her favorite horror book she’s worked on so far.

1Q84 Volume 1

FREE PREVIEW: Phantom Constellations by Daniel Braum

Cemetery Dance OnlineNovember 13, 2025November 16, 2025Free FictionDaniel Braum, Free Fiction, Phantom Constellations, The Exorcist's Red-Haired DaughterLeave a comment

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Phantom Constellations is Daniel Braum’s fifth full short story collection of dark, strange tales, exploring the metamorphic tension between the supernatural and the psychological, out now in trade paperback and eBook from Cemetery Dance Publications. Each of these stories, set in locations around the corner and around the world, evokes the Twilight Zone sense of the unreal and that mysterious, unsettling ambiguity found in classic weird and horror fiction.

It is a book of stories of haunted people, ghosts, and the Phantom Constellations all around them, bravely — and sometimes blindly — traversing the phantasmagoric happenings and psychological challenges in situations full of danger, uncertainty, grief, and tragedy, alongside a sense of hope, longing, mystery, and wonder. Appearing in the collection are four never before published stories written exclusively for the book, along with ten more of Braum’s tales including from the Shivers anthology series and a wealth of hard-to-find publications from around the world.

In today’s post is one of the original stories from Phantom Constellations titled “The Exorcist’s Red-Haired Daughter.”Continue Reading

Review: ADAK by Keith Minnion

Cemetery Dance OnlineNovember 12, 2025October 23, 2025ReviewsADAK, Dave Simms, Keith Minnion, Reviews, White Noise PressLeave a comment

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White Noise Press (August 2025)
Reviewed by Dave Simms

When is an apocalypse novel not an apocalypse novel? When it’s ADAK by the incredibly talented Keith Minnion. ADAK shares some ingredients with Contagion, The Thing, and the best of the action-adventure novels of the ’70s and ’80s. It’s a thriller novel at heart that marries the theme of Michael Crichton with Preston and Child — intelligent, but never slamming the reader with scientific details that make readers’ heads spin.

Review: MrBallen Presents: Where Nightmares Live by MrBallen and Andrea Mutti

Cemetery Dance OnlineNovember 10, 2025October 13, 2025Reviews, The Comic VaultAndrea Mutti, Joshua Gage, MrBallen, MrBallen Presents Where Nightmares Live, Reviews, The Comic VaultLeave a comment

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MrBallen Presents: Where Nightmares Live by MrBallen and Andrea Mutti
Ten Speed Graphics (September 2025)
Reviewed by Joshua Gage

Better known as “MrBallen,” John B. Allen is a former U. S. Navy Seal, the founder of the multi-platform content company Ballen Studios, and the creator and host of the popular podcast MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories. Allen uses his platform to give back and founded the MrBallen Foundation with the mission to honor victims and support families of heinous crimes through education, training, and financial support.

Andrea Mutti began his career illustrating DNAction for Xenia Edizioni, Sergio Bonelli Editore, and Star Comics. He’s worked with Marvel, DC, Vertigo, MadCave, Stormking, Dark Horse, IDW, Image, BOOM! Studios, and more. His titles include Maniac of New York, Bunny Mask, Rebels, Batman Eternal, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. He’s a member of the National UFO Center and resides in Sarasota, Florida. Continue Reading

What Screams May Come: The Autum Springs Retirement Home Massacre by Philip Fracassi

Cemetery Dance OnlineNovember 7, 2025October 25, 2025What Screams May ComeColumns, Interviews, Philip Fracassi, Rick Hipson, The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre, What Screams May ComeLeave a comment

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The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre by Philip Fracassi
Tor Nightfire (September 2025)

The Synopsis

Brimming with dark humor, violence, and mystery, The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre is a blood-soaked slasher sure to keep readers guessing until the very last page.

Rose DuBois is not your average final girl.

Rose is in her late 70s, living out her golden years at the Autumn Springs Retirement Home.

When one of her friends dies alone in her apartment, Rose isn’t too concerned. Accidents happen, especially at this age!

Then another resident drops dead. And another. With bodies stacking up, Rose can’t help but wonder: are these accidents? Old age? Or something far more sinister?

Together with her best friend Miller, Rose begins to investigate. The further she digs, the more convinced she becomes: there’s a killer on the loose at Autumn Springs, and if she isn’t careful, Rose may be their next victim.Continue Reading

Review: Nightmuse: Poems of Speculative Darkness by Scott J. Couturier

Cemetery Dance OnlineNovember 5, 2025October 13, 2025ReviewsJackanapes Press, Joshua Gage, Nightmuse, poetry, Reviews, Scott J. CouturierLeave a comment

Nightmuse: Poems of Speculative Darkness by Scott J. Couturier
Jackanapes Press (November 2025)
Reviewed by Joshua Gage

Scott J. Couturier is a Rhysling-nominated poet and prose writer of the weird, liminal, and darkly fantastic. His work has appeared in numerous venues, including The Audient Void, Spectral Realms, Tales from the Magician’s Skull, Space and Time Magazine, Cosmic Horror Monthly, and Weirdbook; his collection of Weird fiction, The Box, is available from Hybrid Sequence Media, while his collection of autumnal & folk horror verse, I Awaken In October, is available from Jackanapes Press. His newest collection of speculative horror poetry, Nightmuse, is available on Jackanapes Press. Continue Reading

Interview: Rodney Barnes on the Dark History of Crownsville

Cemetery Dance OnlineNovember 3, 2025October 27, 2025The Comic VaultColumns, Crownsville, Danica Davidson, Interviews, Rodney Barnes, The Comic VaultLeave a comment

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cover of Crownsville For Crownsville, a new five-issue comic from Oni Press, creator Rodney Barnes took a cue from his past. The actual Crownsville Hospital Center used to be referred to as the “Hospital for the Negro Insane of Maryland” and has since shuttered. Barnes talked with Cemetery Dance about his personal connection to the hospital, the dark stories around it, and the importance of knowing history.Continue Reading

Review: The Graveyard Club by R. L. Stine and Carola Borelli

Cemetery Dance OnlineOctober 31, 2025October 13, 2025ReviewsCarola Borelli, Joshua Gage, R.L. Stine, Reviews, The Comic Vault, The Graveyard ClubLeave a comment

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The Graveyard Club by R. L. Stine and Carola Borelli
Boom! Studios (October 2025)
Reviewed by Joshua Gage

R.L. Stine, of Columbus, Ohio, is one of the best-selling children’s authors in history. His Goosebumps and Fear Street series have sold more than 400 million copies around the world and have been translated into 32 languages. He has had several TV series based on his work, and two feature films, The Goosebumps Movie (2015) and Goosebumps 2: Hunted Halloween (2018), starred Jack Black as R.L. Stine himself. Just Beyond is his first-ever series of graphic novels. Bob lives in New York City with his wife Jane, an editor and publisher. The Graveyard Club is his newest graphic novel.Continue Reading

Sneak Peek at “The Brides” of Kelley Jones

Cemetery Dance OnlineOctober 30, 2025November 11, 2025Breaking NewsLeave a comment

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Matt Wagner and Kelley Jones’s Dracula graphic novel trilogy has had its first two volumes picked up by Dark Horse, with Dracula: Book II — The Brides hitting stores on November 18. Meanwhile, Dracula: Book III — The Count is on Kickstarter. The Brides will include never-seen-before sketches of the brides by Jones, and Cemetery Dance gets the exclusive first look at these sketches.Continue Reading

Interview: Crafting Horror with Jenny Kiefer

Cemetery Dance OnlineOctober 28, 2025October 9, 2025InterviewsCrafting for Sinners, Haley Newlin, Interviews, Jenny Kiefer, This Wretched ValleyLeave a comment

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Jenny Kiefer is an award-winning author of spine-tingling, fierce, and cathartic horror. Her debut novel, This Wretched Valley, was a 2024 Bram Stoker Award Nominee and named a Library Journal Best Horror Book of the year. Readers have been anxiously awaiting her second release, Crafting for Sinners, a survival horror story about a queer woman trapped in a craft store run by religious fanatics. It is all over BookTok and Bookstagram as one of the most anticipated horror book releases of 2025.

Together with her mother, Kiefer owns and manages Butcher Cabin Books, an all-horror bookstore in Louisville, Kentucky.

Kiefer sat down with Cemetery Dance to discuss her debut novel, This Wretched Valley, her new release, Crafting for Sinners, survival horror, her favorite reads of the year, and of course, crafts.

You can find the author on Instagram @_jennykiefer and on her website. Continue Reading

Review: Crafting for Sinners by Jenny Kiefer

Cemetery Dance OnlineOctober 27, 2025October 9, 2025ReviewsCrafting for Sinners, Haley Newlin, Jenny Kiefer, ReviewsLeave a comment

Crafting for Sinners by Jenny Kiefer
Quirk Books (October 2025)
Reviewed by Haley Newlin

In Jenny Kiefer’s latest release, Crafting for Sinners, Ruth walks the aisles of a craft store in Kill Devil, Kentucky. There’s fall decor from floor to ceiling, but no sign of ghosts, witches, or black cats for Halloween, the holiday omitted entirely. Emblazoned glass jars read: Be Pure, for those who give themselves to immortality will suffer the punishment of eternal fire. A placard with two vintage handguns forming an X, barrels overlapping, declares: Righteous judgment will be revealed on the day of His wrath – Romans 2:5. Continue Reading

Stinger by Robert McCammon: Signed & Numbered & TRAYCASED Limited Edition!

Cemetery Dance OnlineOctober 25, 2025Breaking NewsLeave a comment

Stinger by Robert McCammon
Signed & Numbered & TRAYCASED Limited Edition!
Coming Soon from SST Publications in the UK!

As we mentioned the other week, we’ve been way too busy shipping The Stand to carry books from other publishers lately, but we don’t want our collectors to miss out on this one, so we’re going to point you toward some other great places to order:

Stinger by Robert McCammon is a Signed, Numbered, and TRAYCASED Limited Edition from SST Publications in the UK and they’re only making 500 copies of this amazing edition. SST always punches above their weight in the production department and this sounds like another major winner.

For our friends in the United States and Canada, Brian over at Lividian Publications has added the book to the Lividian online store. He’ll handle the shipping costs from the UK and any tariffs or taxes that pop up, and then ship your copy to you from either a US or Canadian address.

If you’re in the UK or Europe, you can order directly from SST Publications to save on postage and taxes. Don’t miss out on this one!

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