Review: ‘Life in a Haunted House’ by Norman Prentiss

Life in a Haunted House by Norman Prentiss
Amazon Digital Services (May 2017)
175 pages; $0.99 e-book
Reviewed by Kevin Lucia

I absolutely love coming of age stories. I don’t know why. Maybe because I’m an overgrown kid myself. Maybe there’s something inside me which looks back on those years fondly, but also remembers how hard it was to be a kid. Everyone expects you to “grow up” and figure out what it is you want to do with your life, all before your sixteenth birthday. I remember those years well, and as a high school teacher, I see it enacted before me, in living color, every single day. So I’m always a sucker for a well-told, engrossing coming of age tale. Continue Reading

Gwendy’s Button Box by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar — Publication Day Has Arrived!

The big day is here! Gwendy’s Button Box by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar has officially been published and we’re down to our very last copies of the First Edition, First Printing! From here on out, retailers and distributors will be getting the SECOND PRINTING, so don’t miss your chance to own a piece of publishing history by snagging a copy of the very first edition of this exciting new title!

In celebration of the publication, Entertainment Weekly has published a great new article: Stephen King made a frightening proposal with Gwendy’s Button Box: Write a story with him.

If you haven’t ordered Gwendy’s Button Box already, here are those links again:

Trade Hardcover Edition: Cemetery Dance Publications

eBook: Amazon * Barnes & Noble * Kobo * iTunes

Audio: Amazon * Audible on Amazon * Audible.com

Gwendy's Button Box

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

Review: ‘Savage Jungle’ by Hunter Shea

Savage Jungle by Hunter Shea
Severed Press (April 2017)
198 pages; $11.95 paperback; $4.99 e-book
Reviewed by Frank Michaels Errington

Fresh from their adventure in Scotland, Natalie McQueen and her brother Austin are called upon to aid Henrik Kooper in his quest to find the lost city Gadang Ur and the elusive Orang Pendek. Go ahead and Google it. You’ll find it’s every bit as much of a thing as Bigfoot, Yeti, The Jersey Devil, and The Loch Ness Monster—all cryptids Hunter Shea has written about in previous books. As a matter of fact, Savage Jungle is a sequel to his book Loch Ness Revenge.Continue Reading

Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King Slipcased Gift Edition Now 75% Sold Out!

Stephen King and Owen King collectors please take note, 75% of our Oversized Slipcased Hardcover Gift Editions of Sleeping Beauties are now reserved, just two weeks after the special edition was officially announced!

This is a ONE-TIME printing of 1,750 illustrated copies, which will be printed in two colors with two-color hot foil stamping, a fine binding, epic wrap-around cover artwork, nearly a dozen interior color paintings by Jana Heidersdorf, and this huge volume will be housed in a custom-made slipcase. There will be NO SECOND PRINTINGS for this special edition, so once they are gone, they are gone!

READ MORE OR RESERVE YOUR COPY WHILE SUPPLIES LAST!

Sleeping Beauties

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‘Life in a Haunted House’ – The Story Behind the Cover(s)

Norman Prentiss’ new novel, Life in a Haunted House, debuts May 15 at Amazon as an eBook (with a trade paperback soon to follow). To celebrate the book’s launch, he decided to do an interview with the book’s cover artist, Lynne Hansen. In addition to having Lynne create covers for some of his own books, Norman is also the editor of Cemetery Dance’s eBook line, and he frequently hires Lynne to create covers for Cemetery Dance ebooks.Continue Reading

Cutting Class for a Higher Education

Here’s a little public service announcement that you’ll never get on TV.

Nothing helped foster my career as a horror writer more than cutting entire days of class when I was in college. Not only that, it also provided the foundation of my marriage.

Now there’s a one-two punch I never would have gotten from another psych or communications class. Continue Reading

Hap and Leonard: Savage Season Joe R. Lansdale Signed Limited Edition Hardcover!

We’re very pleased to report we will be receiving copies of the signed Limited Edition hardcover of Hap and Leonard: Savage Season from SST Publications in the UK! Only 270 copies will be produced, so we’re expecting this to be a hot collectible among Joe R. Lansdale fans!

THE FIRST HAP AND LEONARD GRAPHIC NOVEL!

A rip-roaring, high-octane, Texas-sized thriller, featuring two friends, one vixen, a crew of washed-up radicals, loads of money, and bloody mayhem.

Hap Collins and Leonard Pine are best friends, yet they couldn’t be more different. Hap is an east Texas white-boy with a weakness for Texas women. Leonard is a gay, black Vietnam vet. Together, they steer up more commotion than a fire storm. But that’s just the way they like it. So when an ex-flame of Hap’s returns promising a huge score. Hap lets Leonard in on the scam, and that’s when things get interesting. Chockfull of action and laughs, Savage Season is the masterpiece of dark suspense that introduced Hap and Leonard to the thriller scene. It hasn’t been the same since.

Here are the details of this limited hardcover edition:
– Signed by Joe R. Lansdale & Jussi Piironen on a specially designed signature page
– Limited to only 270 copies worldwide
– Each copy is numbered by hand
– Premium quality archival ink
– Printed on acid-free paper

Hap and Leonard is now a SundanceTV original series.

Savage Season

Read more or place your order while our supplies last!

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

Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King: Sneak Peek At A New Piece of Artwork!

Jana Heidersdorf is making great progress on the artwork for our special edition of Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King, and we wanted to take a moment to show you another painting she has delivered for this project:

Sleeping Beauties

READ MORE OR RESERVE YOUR COPY WHILE SUPPLIES LAST!

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

GWENDY’S BUTTON BOX: Preview of the Exclusive Interior Artwork by Keith Minnion!

Since we’ve started packing the First Edition, First Printings of Gwendy’s Button Box by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar to ship this week for the new publication date of May 16, 2017, we thought this was the perfect time to show off some of Keith Minnion’s incredible interior illustrations for the book (but not all of them because we don’t want to spoil some of the surprises!)

Gwendy's Button Box

Gwendy's Button Box

Gwendy's Button Box

Gwendy's Button Box

Gwendy's Button Box

Gwendy's Button Box

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

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel Signed Limited Edition Hardcover!

We’re pleased to report we’ll be receiving copies of the signed Limited Edition hardcover of Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel from Subterranean Press!

Emily St. John Mandel’s New York Times bestselling Station Eleven is at once a gripping post-apocalyptic page turner and a hopeful, elegiac masterpiece that explores the connections that bind humanity. Shortlisted for the National Book Award and winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, among many other honors and accolades, Station Eleven has joined the classic pantheon of imagined futures.

Station Eleven

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

‘Creepshow’ Makes a Comeback

Creepshow CoverIt’s unusual for a Stephen King book to be out of print, but that’s been the case with Creepshow, the 1982 adaptation of the George Romero-directed, King-scripted move of the same name. The original edition published by Plume has only been available on the collector’s market—usually at a cost well above its original $6.95 price tag.

If you’ve been holding out, your luck’s about to change. In honor of the 35th (!) anniversary of the book and movie, Gallery 13 is releasing a brand new edition of Creepshow. It arrives May 9 full intact and nearly identical to the original edition, albeit with a slightly higher cover price ($18) and some minor cosmetic differences.Continue Reading

Join on us on Facebook today for our first-ever live stream!

Join on us on Facebook today for our first-ever live stream!
Richard Chizmar will be signing Gwendy’s Button Box and answering your questions!

Well, I’m not sure how we talked him into this, but Richard Chizmar will be going LIVE on Facebook today at approximately 11 AM eastern time while he continues signing trade hardcovers of Gwendy’s Button Box, which will be officially published next week, and as he signs he’ll be answering questions that are posted in the comments section of the Facebook live stream!

This is our first time streaming video on Facebook, and we have no idea what we’re doing, but luckily Richard’s son Billy Chizmar will be here to help.

Tune in via the Cemetery Dance Publications Facebook Page to watch, listen, and chime in with your own questions if you’d like. And feel free to wish Richard luck because he has around 3,500 more copies to sign this week!

Richard Chizmar

Join us on Facebook at 11 AM (give or take) eastern time today!

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

Honky Tonk Samurai Joe R. Lansdale Signed Limited Edition Hardcover!

We’re pleased to report we’ll be receiving copies of the signed Limited Edition hardcover of Honky Tonk Samurai by Joe R. Lansdale from Gauntlet Press!

Only Hap and Leonard would catch a cold case with hot cars, hot women, and ugly skinheads. Filled with Joe R. Lansdale’s trademark whip-smart dialogue, relentless pacing, and unorthodox characters, Honky Tonk Samurai is a rambunctious thrill ride by one hell of a writer.

Honky Tonk Samurai

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

Mikita Brottman: The Study of Fear

Mikita Brottman has loved horror since an early age. She was reading it as a child in England, reading it as a student at Oxford University, and has been reading it during her career as a professor and psychoanalyst. Since the ’90s, she has published a series of both fiction and nonfiction books on taboo subjects—everything from cannibalism to serial killers to her experience doing a literature program at a Maximum Security prison. In their own ways, each book brings together her love of horror, the misunderstood, psychology and academia. Her academic works that deal with horror are both full of detail and accessible, something not always found together, especially when the academic world has tended to turn its nose up to the aesthetic of fictional horror. Brottman spoke about her books, the appeal of horror and what she thinks can make horror its scariest.Continue Reading

Stephen King: News from the Dead Zone #198

Stephen King News From the Dead ZoneThe Dark Tower trailer we’ve all been waiting for is finally here. Let’s get that out of the way straight off:

However, before the trailer showed up at 9:19 am Keystone Earth Time today, we were treated yesterday to some Twitter banter between Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey as they laid the groundwork for a couple of teaser trailers that contain some footage not found in the official trailer.Continue Reading