Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Exhumed3 Comments on “The Departing of Debbie” and “Terry and the Werewolf” 
Hello again, folks. This is the fourth installment of monthly double reviews studying the structure of great horror fiction published in our beloved Cemetery Dance.
Last time I reviewed John B. Rosenman’s “Rock of Ages” from Cemetery Dance #1 (1988) and K. S. Clay’s “Bad Luck” from Cemetery Dance #74/75 (2016). Fellow author James Pyne commented that short fiction is becoming the preferred mode of digesting fiction these days. Do you agree? Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Breaking NewsLeave a comment on The Fireman by Joe Hill UK Signed Limited Edition! SORRY, THIS SPECIAL EDITION IS SOLD OUT!
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories ReviewsLeave a comment on Review: ‘Pinball Drugs Aliens Satan’ by Fiada Fey 
Pinball Drugs Aliens Satan by Fiada Fey
Furtive Labors (October 2015)
36 pages, $4.00 paperback
Reviewed by Joshua Gage
Fiada Fey (1980-2008) was a St. Paul-based novelist, short story writer and cut-up artist. His prose, while lacking in craft, shows a lot of passion for the bizarre horror genre. Pinball Drugs Aliens Satan is his posthumous collection.
Readers will immediately feel Fey’s desire as a writer. His collection of stories speaks to an author passionate about the tales he has to tell, and readers will be able to empathize with that urge. Fey clearly had a vision for his art, and used cut-up techniques to attempt to bring that vision to life. Pinball Drugs Aliens Satan speaks of notebooks filled with stories and story ideas, and as a posthumous collection, leaves the reader wishing that Fey had had the time and skill to carry them out. Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Essays5 Comments on Had to Let It “Linger” – Why I Wrote ‘Odd Man Out’ by James Newman WELCOME TO THE BLACK MOUNTAIN CAMP FOR BOYS!
Summer, 1989. It is a time for splashing in the lake and exploring the wilderness, for nine teenagers to bond together and create friendships that could last the rest of their lives.
But among this group there is a young man with a secret—a secret that, in this time and place, is unthinkable to his peers.
When the others discover the truth, it will change each of them forever. They will all have blood on their hands.
Odd Man Out is a heart-wrenching tale of bullies and bigotry, a story that explores what happens when good people don’t stand up for what’s right. It is a tale of how far we have come . . . and how far we still have left to go.
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Breaking NewsLeave a comment on Gorilla In My Room: Stories by Jack Ketchum Hi Folks!
We’re pleased to announce Jack Ketchum is back with a brand new short story collection, full of the horror and terror we’ve come to love and expect from the author Stephen King has called, “one of the best in the business.” This special edition will be going to the printer next month, and we don’t expect to have any copies available when publication day arrives, so place your order now or you might miss out!
Read more or place your order while our supplies last!
Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Brian Keene's End of the Road1 Comment on Go Indie or Go Home 
The third leg of the Farewell (But Not Really) Tour started off locally, at The Comic Store—an independently-owned comic book store in Lancaster, Pennsylvania (where I was joined by Mary SanGiovanni). From there, it moved on to a pop-up signing in New Jersey, independently-owned bookstores in Rhode Island (where scholar Jack Haringa led a Q&A), and Vermont (where I was joined by Asher Ellis), before eventually circling back home again for a signing at a corporate-owned Books-a-Million chain store in Harrisburg.Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Breaking NewsLeave a comment on RAMBO III Signed Limited Edition Novel! We’re pleased to report we will be receiving copies of the Rambo III signed Limited Edition hardcover by David Morrell from Gauntlet Press, but our copies will not last long!
2017 marks the forty-fifth anniversary of David Morrell’s groundbreaking First Blood, the novel that introduced Rambo and pioneered a new way of writing action that changed the world of thrillers. The huge success of that film led to three film sequels, and as an experiment, Morrell wrote novelizations for two of them: Rambo (First Blood Part II) and Rambo III.
Producers usually require novelizations to adhere so strictly to the script that there’s little opportunity to be creative. But as Rambo’s creator, Morrell had unusual freedom to add new material. In this special collectors edition for Rambo III, that freedom is manifest.
Providing abundant supplementary material, Morrell discusses the film’s complex journey. An early script had the potential to justify the project’s nickname, “Rambo of Arabia.” But as the budget exploded, the script was simplified through numerous drafts until the final version was only half of the original story. Major elements of the early script survive, however, in this remarkable novelization, to which Morrell added his own plot points!
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Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories ReviewsLeave a comment on Review: ‘The Rib From Which I Remake the World’ by Ed Kurtz 
The Rib From Which I Remake the World by Ed Kurtz
ChiZine Publications (September 2016)
350 pages; $10.39 paperback; $7.99 e-book
Reviewed by Frank Michaels Errington
The Rib From Which I Remake the World is one of those books which doesn’t fit neatly into any category. Is it noir? Horror? Psychological Thriller? Occult? The list could go on, but truthfully, what Ed Kurtz’s latest is, is a helluva read.Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Breaking NewsLeave a comment on Maelstrom 7: Three Brand New Signed Limited Editions! Hi Folks!
We’re pleased to report we were able to secure a handful of sets of Maelstrom 7: Three New Signed Limited Editions from Thunderstorm Books before they sold out. These three separate signed Limited Edition hardcover books will be a “must have” for the serious collector and they’re only available in this set, which means this is your last chance to snag a set for your collection! The signed Limited Edition hardcovers are:
1. Throne of the Bastards by Steven L. Shrewsbury & Brian Keene
2. School’s Out by Brian Keene
3. Come to Dust by Bracken MacLeod
Read more or place your order while our supplies last!
Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories ReviewsLeave a comment on Review: ‘Blue Demon’ by David Bernstein 
Blue Demon by David Bernstein
Sinister Grin Press (December 2016)
134 pages; $11.99 paperback; $2.99 e-book
Reviewed by Frank Michaels Errington
David Bernstein is rapidly becoming a MUST READ author for me. His stuff tends to be raw, gripping, compelling and, above all, imaginative. Sometimes played for fun, but more often for vengeance.Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Brian Keene's End of the RoadLeave a comment on Keene’s Eleven
There was a long moment of stunned silence.
Then Dave asked, “Are you insane?”
“No,” I replied, suddenly feeling very foolish. “I mean, Mary experienced it, too.”
“I felt something in the bookstore that day,” she confirmed, “but I don’t know what I think about the rest of this.”
“Oh, I’ve no doubt you guys experienced something,” Dave said. “I’ve had my own encounters with the paranormal over the years. And who knows? Maybe you did make brief contact with Jesus. It’s possible.”
I frowned. “Then why do you think I’m insane?”
“Because you’re not talking about seeing his ghost. You’re talking about stealing his corpse!”Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories ReviewsLeave a comment on Review: ‘Season of the Witch’ by Charlee Jacob 
Season of the Witch by Charlee Jacob
Necro Publications (September 2016)
367 pages; $15.95 paperback; ebook $3.99
Reviewed by Anton Cancre
A book of gorgeously rendered and lusciously poeticized violence. An on-the-cusp scream queen goddess of the local goth TV channel, who survived the brutal violence which tore her family apart, quite literally. A newly appeared 1-900 service that begs you to find the worst in yourself and reveal it to them. Gangs of thematically self-mutilating freaks roaming the streets. All through the background, the seductive voice of Pirsya Profana slithering between neurons. Welcome to the Season of the Witch.Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Revelations3 Comments on Charles L. Grant, Part 1: The Novels and Collections 
It was his Oxrun Station quartets which first drew me in.
It was March, 2011. We were spending Spring Break with family in Michigan. We’d visited the year before, and I’d wanted to visit a used bookstore there but hadn’t gotten the chance to because of our schedule. Fresh off my experience with Paul Wilson, Tom Monteleone and Stuart David Schiff, hitting Jellybean’s Used Books was a high priority on our next trip, to be sure. When I had some free time in our schedule, I scooted over to Jelly Bean’s, clutching cash in my grubby little fingers. To my delight, I found a sprawling bookcase full of horror. Wasn’t long before I was sitting on the floor next to a teetering stack of books.Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Reviews1 Comment on Review: ‘Little Heaven’ by Nick Cutter 
Little Heaven by Nick Cutter
Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster (January 10, 2017)
496 pages; $19.87 hardcover; $9.99 e-book
Reviewed by Blu Gilliand
Little Heaven is the first major horror novel of 2017, and it’s going to take a monumental deluge of quality horror to keep it off of those end-of-year best-of lists that will start popping up 11 months from now.Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories ReviewsLeave a comment on Review: ‘The Fathom Flies Again’ by James Walley 
The Fathom Flies Again by James Walley
Ragnorak Publications (January 2017)
286 pages; $13.95 paperback; $5.99 e-book
Reviewed by Frank Michaels Errington
If you read The Forty First Wink, the debut novel by James Walley, then you’ve more than likely been waiting for the second book in the trilogy, and why not? Book one was so much fun. Walley writes with a whimsical flair I find nowhere else in my ever-growing library.Continue Reading
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