We’re thrilled to report Darkness Whispers, the first-ever colloboration by Richard Chizmar and Brian James Freeman, is now more than 85% sold out! This beautiful special edition will also be the first signed Limited Edition hardcover from one of the hottest new publishers around, Scarlet Galleon Publications, so this is your chance to get in on the ground floor of a great new press!

Read more or place your order while our supplies last!

Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!

We’re so blown away by what our friends at Random House are doing for their incredible George R.R. Martin collectible set that we just had to let our collectors know about it. We’re not involved in the production or distribution, but we’re ordering a few sets for the office! Here are the details we grabbed from the official website:

In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the publication of A Game of Thrones, Random House has created three boxes in partnership with author George R.R. Martin and HBO. The boxes contain collectibles, exclusive items, and a special, illustrated edition of A Game of Thrones, the first book in A Song of Ice and Fire, Martin’s internationally bestselling fantasy series. This edition is not available in stores and includes an alternate cover and a full-color insert of illustrations. The box will be available for a limited time while supplies last in three versions: Special Edition, Limited Numbered Edition, and Ultra Limited Numbered Edition. Boxes will ship in December in time for the holidays.

Read more on the official Random House promotional website while supplies last!

We’re pleased to announce Shining In the Dark: Celebrating Twenty Years of Lilja’s Library edited by Hans-Åke Lilja, a brand new anthology that includes both original stories like an original novella by John Ajvide Lindqvist (Let the Right One In), very rare reprints like “The Blue Air Compressor” (a Stephen King story that has never appeared in any of his collections and hasn’t seen print anywhere since 1981), and at least one classic tale that inspired Lilja’s love of the macabre at a very young age!

Read more or place your order while our supplies last!

Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!

We’re pleased to report we will be receiving some copies of Stars In My Eyes by David Morrell, a new SIGNED LIMITED EDITION being published by Borderlands Press and Gauntlet Press:

Read more or place your order while our supplies last!

Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!

Hi Folks!

We’re pleased to report we have some copies of The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin left available for the general public, but these will not last long as collectors who bought the previous volumes elsewhere scramble to complete their sets by purchasing these copies at the regular retail price instead of chancing the second-hand market down the road!

About the Book:
The world we knew is gone. What world will rise in its place?

The Twelve have been destroyed and the terrifying hundred-year reign of darkness that descended upon the world has ended. The survivors are stepping outside their walls, determined to build society anew—and daring to dream of a hopeful future.

But far from them, in a dead metropolis, he waits: Zero. The First. Father of the Twelve. The anguish that shattered his human life haunts him, and the hatred spawned by his transformation burns bright. His fury will be quenched only when he destroys Amy—humanity’s only hope, the Girl from Nowhere who grew up to rise against him.

One last time light and dark will clash, and at last Amy and her friends will know their fate.

Special Features Exclusive to this Collector’s Edition:
• epic cover artwork by Tomislav Tikulin
• at least ONE DOZEN black & white interior illustrations by Jill Bauman
• deluxe oversized design with a fine binding
• Smyth sewn with a bound-in satin ribbon page marker
• extremely collectible print run that is a tiny fraction of the hundreds of thousands of copies of the edition you’ll see in bookstores — and you will NOT see our edition in chain bookstores!

Read more or place your order while our supplies last!

Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!

Cemetery Dance Select Series
Signed Limited Edition Hardcover Starter Bundle!
Receive ALL SIX of the launch titles for
this new series as they are published!
Save BIG off the retail price AND your shipping fees,
plus lock in matching numbers for your entire set!
TIME IS RUNNING OUT!

Hi Folks!

Due to customer demand, we’ve extended the deadline to order the heavily discounted “starter bundle” of our brand new Cemetery Dance Select Series, but we cannot allow this special to run much longer!

We do not expect these very limited bundles to last long, so if you’re interested, please place your order today!

Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!

Infernal Parade
by Clive Barker
New Title From Subterranean Press!

Hi Folks!

We’re pleased to report we’ll be getting copies of Infernal Parade by Clive Barker from Subterranean Press, but our very limited supply won’t last long, so please don’t wait to place your order!

About the Book:
From the beginning of his distinguished career, Clive Barker has been the great visionary artist of contemporary dark fantasy, a form that Barker himself has termed “the Fantastique.” Through his many novels, stories, paintings and films, he had presented us with unforgettable images of the monstrous and the sacred, the beautiful and the grotesque. His body of work constitutes a great and varied contribution to modern popular culture.

This astonishing novella, Infernal Parade, perfectly encapsulates Barker’s unique abilities. Like the earlier Tortured Souls, an account of bizarre–and agonizing–transformations, Infernal Parade is tightly focused, intensely imagined, and utterly unlike anything else you will ever read. It begins with the tale of a convicted criminal, Tom Requiem, who returns from the brink of death to restore both fear and a touch of awe to a complacent world. Tom becomes the leader of the eponymous “parade,” which ranges from the familiar precincts of North Dakota to the mythical city of Karantica. Golems, vengeful humans both living and dead, and assorted impossible creatures parade across these pages. The result is a series of highly compressed, interrelated narratives that are memorable, disturbing, and impossible to set aside.

Infernal Parade is quintessential Barker: witty, elegantly composed, filled with dark and often savage wonders. It proves once again that, in Barker’s hands, the Fantastique is not only alive and well, but flourishing. This is vital, visionary fiction by a modern master of the form.

Limited: 500 signed numbered hardcover copies
Trade: Fully cloth bound hardcover copies

Read more or place your order while our supplies last!

Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!

The NEW and Complete Dark Tower Boxed Set!
by Stephen King
All EIGHT Books in The Dark Tower Series Together At Last!

Hi Folks!

We have some amazing news from the good people at Scribner, Stephen King’s New York publisher. Later this year, they’ll be publishing a brand new and COMPLETE BOXED SET of the DARK TOWER series by Stephen King — all EIGHT books, matching new editions, in one matching set! We were able to secure some of these for our collectors, so read on for details and please place your order before time runs out!

About the Box Set:
For the first time ever, all EIGHT books in Stephen King’s Dark Tower series have been gathered together in matching editions, all housed together in a matching slipcase style boxed set!

The books included in this boxset are the new Scribner editions of:

The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger
The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three
The Dark Tower: The Waste Lands
The Dark Tower: Wizard & Glass
The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole
The Dark Tower: Wolves of the Calla
The Dark Tower: Song of Susannah
The Dark Tower: The Dark Tower

This huge and heavy set weighs in at 4,720 (!) pages, making Stephen King’s western-horror-fantasy tale truly an epic in every sense of the word! Don’t miss out on this amazing new matching set that will look stunning on your bookcase!

Read more or place your order while our supplies last!

Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!

IMPORTANT NEWS FOR COLLECTORS!
SIX SCARY STORIES
Selected and Introduced by Stephen King!
1st Edition, 1st Printing Hardcover Selling Out Pre-Publication!

Hi Folks!

We have some exciting news about SIX SCARY STORIES selected and introduced by Stephen King! Orders from our distributors are arriving faster than we can keep up, and it looks like the 1st Edition, 1st Printing Hardcover Edition will be SOLD OUT pre-publication! We do not yet know if we’ll be running a second printing, so this is the time to place your order if you want to add this edition to your collection!

About the Book:
Number 1 bestselling writer Stephen King introduces and presents six gripping and chilling stories in this captivating anthology!

Stephen King discovered these stories when he judged a competition run by Hodder & Stoughton and the Guardian to celebrate publication of his own collection The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. He was so impressed with the entries that he recommended they be published together in one book, which Cemetery Dance Publications and Hodder & Stoughton are pleased to report has become a reality. The six stories are:

WILD SWIMMING by Elodie Harper
EAU-DE-ERIC by Manuela Saragosa
THE SPOTS by Paul Bassett Davies
THE UNPICKING by Michael Button
LA MORT DE L’AMANT by Stuart Johnstone
THE BEAR TRAP by Neil Hudson

Reader beware: the stories will make you think twice before cuddling up to your old soft toy, dipping your toe into the water, or counting the spots on a leopard…

Read more or place your order on our website!

Cemetery Dance Select Series
Signed Limited Edition Hardcover Starter Bundle!
Receive ALL SIX of the launch titles for
this new series as they are published!
Save BIG off the retail price AND your shipping fees,
plus lock in matching numbers for your entire set!
Launch Titles Already 60% SOLD OUT!

Hi Folks!

Due to customer demand, we’re thrilled to announce our Cemetery Dance Select Series, an exclusive new line of signed hardcover Limited Edition books published by Cemetery Dance Publications!

Each volume features three to five short stories personally selected by the author as his or her favorites from a lifetime of work. Long-time fans will enjoy revisiting some classic tales. New readers will find this series a handy introduction to each author’s best work. Each volume also includes an exclusive afterword where the author explains the reasoning behind each selection, and provides insights into the writing of each story.

These signed Limited Edition hardcovers feature some of our lowest print runs ever and will be hand-numbered to increase the value of a complete set, so we expect this series to be a huge hit with collectors!

* The first six titles in this new series will be:

Cemetery Dance Select: Michael Marshall Smith
Cemetery Dance Select: Lisa Morton
Cemetery Dance Select: Terry Dowling
Cemetery Dance Select: Kealan Patrick Burke
Cemetery Dance Select: Peter Atkins
Cemetery Dance Select: Jeff Strand

* Special “Starter Bundle” Offer to Launch Your Collection and Save Your Budget!

Although each title can be ordered separately for the retail price of $30 plus shipping, for a very limited time only, you can reserve ALL SIX of these launch titles for one low price — plus, with this deal, you only pay a one-time heavily-discounted shipping fee that is considerably less than the shipping fee you would pay on individual orders. This is a great way to start your collection and save big at the same time!

Also, even though you’ll pay a much lower shipping fee with this bundle, each title will still ship to you as it is published — no waiting for all of the books to be ready!

So with this deal you’ll save big off the retail price, and even bigger off the shipping cost, and… maybe best of all… you’ll instantly lock in your book number to make your entire set more collectible! Whatever your book number is for the first title, you can continue to receive that number for as long as you want, which will help make your set even more valuable down the road!

We do not expect these very limited bundles to last long, so if you’re interested, please place your order today! After they’ve all sold, we won’t offer more!

Read more or place your order while our supplies last!

Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!

New CemeteryDance.com Website Updates & Features!
IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ!

Hi Folks!

We’re extremely pleased to report that the new CemeteryDance.com is running at just about 100% now. We’re still tweaking a few things, but in the meantime, here are some really important notes to keep in mind about the new website:

* Please do not worry that your “Order History” in your “My Account” is empty. That is a huge database that will take several weeks to be moved from the old server and imported to the new store. Regardless, the website is not how WE track your orders. We have an offline order management system that downloads the orders from the store, and that’s where we keep track of what you have on order, etc.

* When you redeem your Gift Certificates on the new website, the credit is instantly added to your customer account, so you do not need to redeem your Gift Certificate again on future orders! Your “store credit” will already be there in your account, just waiting for your next order.

* We’re adding some really neat photo features including multiple photos of products, so you can get a better sense of the look and feel of new books. You can click on any of the images to see them larger, too. Visit the Cemetery Dance #74/75 product page or the Darkness Whispers product page for an example of this feature in action.

* CemeteryDanceOnline.com is now part of CemeteryDance.com and growing faster than ever! Check it out today!

* There will be more new features to come, so please stay tuned! Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!

Visit the new CemeteryDance.com to get a feel for all of the changes!

Hearts in Suspension
by Stephen King
edited and with an introduction by Jim Bishop
Featuring King’s novella Hearts in Atlantis, a very long essay by King called “Five to One, One in Five,” four installments of King’s never-before-reprinted student newspaper column, “King’s Garbage Truck,” and essays from a dozen of his fellow classmates!

Hi Folks!

We’re extremely pleased to report that we’ll be getting copies of HEARTS IN SUSPENSION by Stephen King, a brand new book being published this November by the University of Maine Press.

We have NO idea what the print run might be for this unexpected new title, but given that the publisher is a small university press instead of King’s big New York publisher, it is very likely that the first printing will be TINY compared to most of his books. This could end up being a nice collector’s item!

About the Book:
STEPHEN KING REMEMBERS A LOST ATLANTIS

This publication marks the 50th anniversary of Stephen King’s entrance into the University of Maine at Orono in the fall of 1966. The accelerating war in Vietnam and great social upheaval at home exerted a profound impact on students of the period and deeply influenced King’s development as a writer and as a man.

King’s fictional treatment of this experience in his novella “Hearts in Atlantis” (reprinted in this volume) tracks his youthful avatar, Peter Riley, through the awakenings and heartbreak of his turbulent first year at UMaine. In his accompanying essay, “Five to One, One in Five,” written expressly for this volume, King sheds his fictional persona and takes on the challenge of a nonfiction return to his undergraduate experience. The stereoscopic combination of these narratives, told with King’s characteristic blend of canny insight and self-deprecating humor, create a revealing portrait of the artist as young man and a ground-level tableau of this highly charged time.

In addition, twelve fellow students and friends from King’s college days contribute personal narratives recalling their own experience of those years. These recollections—engaged, irreverent, and affecting—bring dimension and texture to the collective witnessing of a formative time in their lives and a defining moment in the country’s history.

This book also includes four installments of King’s never-before-reprinted student newspaper column, “King’s Garbage Truck.” These lively examples of King’s damn-the-torpedoes style, entertaining and shrewd in their youthful perceptions, more than hint at a talent about to take its place in the American literary landscape.

A gallery of period photographs and documents augments this volume.

Read more or place your order while our supplies last!

Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!

Charlie the Choo-Choo
by Beryl Evans AKA Stephen King!
YES! The Famous Children’s Book from The Dark Tower Series!
Illustrated by Ned Dameron

Hi Folks!

We’re thrilled to announce we will be getting copies of CHARLIE THE CHOO-CHOO by Beryl Evans!

Who the heck is Beryl Evans? Fans of The Dark Tower probably remember!

This “children’s book” about Blaine the Train is written by… STEPHEN KING!

Yep! As a promotion for the upcoming Dark Tower movie, Stephen King is publishing the fictional CHARLIE THE CHOO-CHOO book that was originally discussed in the third Dark Tower novel, and the artwork for this project was created by well-known artist Ned Dameron!

Read more or place your order while our supplies last!

Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!

Darkness Whispers by Richard Chizmar and Brian James Freeman
BRAND NEW Signed Limited Edition Hardcover From Scarlet Galleon Publications!

“Richard Chizmar writes terrific stories served with a very large slice of Disquiet Pie.”
— Stephen King

“Brian James Freeman’s writing will leave you both chilled and deeply moved.”
— William Peter Blatty

Hi Folks!

We’re thrilled to announce Darkness Whispers, the first-ever colloboration by Richard Chizmar and Brian James Freeman, which will also be the first signed Limited Edition hardcover from one of the hottest new collectible publishers around: Scarlet Galleon Publications.

We recommend you get in on the ground floor of this exciting new publisher while you can because we don’t expect copies to last long given the extremely low print run!

About the Book:
Darkness Whispers will introduce you to the town of Windbrook, a sleepy little community nestled deep in the secluded Skullkin Valley of western Pennsylvania.

All is well in Windbrook, just like usual, just like always. Nothing changes here, nothing is different.

Except… except today something is different.

An old man with piercing gray eyes will arrive in town this morning. This man isn’t human. Not even close. And he isn’t coming alone. Death travels with him.

Richard Chizmar, award-winning author of A Long December, and Brian James Freeman, acclaimed author of The Painted Darkness, have combined forces to create an old-fashioned tale of horror, full of good and evil, with a breathtaking ending that will leave you wondering when this peculiar old man might be coming for you…

Read more or place your order while supplies last!

Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!

Dark Screams: The Complete Signed Limited Edition!
Featuring 160,000 words of horror and dark suspense from Stephen King, Robert McCammon, Clive Barker, Peter Straub, Jack Ketchum, Kelley Armstrong, Bentley Little, Bill Pronzini, Simon Clark, Ramsey Campbell, Darynda Jones, Jacquelyn Frank, Brian Hodge, Norman Prentiss, Lisa Morton, Shawntelle Madison, Graham Masterton, Heather Graham, Ray Garton, Ed Gorman, Mick Garris, J. Kenner, Kealan Patrick Burke, Del James, and Richard Christian Matheson!
Signed & Numbered Limited Edition Already More Than 70% Sold Out!

Hi Folks!

Big news on the Limited Edition front! The first five volumes in Richard Chizmar and Brian James Freeman’s acclaimed eBook anthology series Dark Screams will be published next year as an omnibus Limited Edition hardcover, and due to the number of orders received from the members of our Cemetery Dance Collectors Club, this title is already more than 70% sold out!

About the Book:
Dark Screams presents 25 stories written by the biggest names writing horror today including Stephen King, Robert McCammon, Clive Barker, Peter Straub, Jack Ketchum, Kelley Armstrong, Bentley Little, Bill Pronzini, Simon Clark, Ramsey Campbell, Darynda Jones, Jacquelyn Frank, Brian Hodge, Norman Prentiss, Lisa Morton, Shawntelle Madison, Graham Masterton, Heather Graham, Ray Garton, Ed Gorman, Mick Garris, J. Kenner, Kealan Patrick Burke, Del James, and Richard Christian Matheson.

These stories add up to more than 160,000 words of terror, which were originally published as eBook mini-anthologies by Random House, and this omnibus edition will see them in print together for the first time as one big oversized signed (by the editors and artists) Limited Edition hardcover.

Featuring full-color cover artwork by Vincent Chong and full-color endpapers by Alan M. Clark, this special edition is being designed with both general readers and serious book collectors in mind. Signed by all of the artists and editors, this will be a beautiful collectible that you’ll treasure for years to come!

Add a Special Exclusive Slipcase to Protect Your Book!

Due to demand from some of our most serious book collectors, we will be producing one of our popular custom-made slipcase for this title, but to keep this special edition afforable for general readers, we’re making this slipcase an option. Whether you want a slipcase or not is completely your choice, depending on what’s most important for your collection.

The only way to purchase a slipcase for your book is to select the Signed Limited Edition Hardcover with Slipcase ($84.95) option on the product page. We will not be able to offer these separately later on or to retailers, but right now we’re selling these special slipcases for just $24.95, making them an extremely affordable way to protect your book. We think our collectors will be very pleased with what we have in mind for these very special cases, so please don’t wait to place your order!

Read more on our website or place your order while supplies last!

Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!