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Those Crazy Swedes

Cemetery Dance OnlineMarch 2, 2017February 19, 2017Video VisionsColumns, Hunter Shea, John Carpenter, The Thing, Video Visions2 Comments

John Carpenter’s The Thing was one of the very first VHS tapes I ever bought because it was, and still is, my hands-down favorite horror movie. Coming in at #2 is Alien. I’m a sucker for flicks with isolated, well-defined characters getting picked off by terrifying creatures. That also explains my infatuation with The Descent.

The Thing tape had a shelf all by its lonesome, a place of special importance, flanked by posters of Loni Anderson and Samantha Fox. Aside from being creepy, gory and this side of awesome, The Thing was also associated with a very special memory.

It’s the movie that made my father throw up. Continue Reading

Interview with Stephen King and Richard Chizmar

Bev VincentMarch 1, 2017March 1, 2017AsideInterviews, Stephen King News from the Dead Zonecastle rock, Hulu, Richard Chizmar, Skeleton Crew, Stephen King, Stephen King Revisited, The Talisman24 Comments

Constant Readers the world over are rejoicing over the news that Stephen King is returning to Castle Rock, the small town he created, nurtured and nearly destroyed in works such as The Dead Zone, The Dark Half and Needful Things. Joining him as co-writer of the new novella “Gwendy’s Button Box” is Cemetery Dance founder and publisher Richard Chizmar, fresh off his successful short story collection A Long December. Recently, the two authors answered a few questions from our Bev Vincent about their highly anticipated collaboration.Continue Reading

Review: ‘Behind Her Eyes’ by Sarah Pinborough

Cemetery Dance OnlineMarch 1, 2017February 20, 2017Reviews- Frank Michaels Errington, Behind Her Eyes, Flatiron Books, Reviews, Sarah Pinborough2 Comments

Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough
Flatiron Books (January 2017)
320 pages; $18.18 hardback; $12.99 e-book
Reviewed by Frank Michaels Errington

There’s a quote from Benjamin Franklin at the beginning of Behind Her Eyes. It provides a clue, of sorts, as to the devilish nature of the story which follows.

Three can keep a secret if two are dead.

Stephen King: News from the Dead Zone #195

Bev VincentFebruary 28, 2017March 6, 2017Stephen King News from the Dead Zone1922, Bev Vincent, castle rock, Columns, Gerald's Game, Gwendy's Buttons, It, Mr. Mercedes, News from the Dead Zone, Stephen King, The Dark Tower, The Mist4 Comments

Castle Rock.

A little town in the lakes region of Maine, just south and west of Lewiston-Auburn, population somewhat less than two thousand. Not much to make it stand out from all of the other little places in the state. The founders made full use of the Castle name. Castle View is right next door. Nearby bodies of water are the Castle Stream, Castle River and Castle Lake, and the town is the county seat of Castle County. The more affluent people live on Castle Hill.Continue Reading

Gwendy’s Button Box: A Brand New Castle Rock Novella by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar!

Cemetery Dance OnlineFebruary 28, 2017February 28, 2017Breaking News1 Comment

We are extremely pleased to announce the World’s First Edition of Gwendy’s Button Box by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar, a brand new original Castle Rock novella!

Featuring full-color cover artwork by Ben Baldwin and black and white interior artwork by Keith Minnion, this book marks the first-ever colloboration by these two long-time friends and award-winning authors.

Please visit the product page to read more about this exciting news and to reserve your copy today!

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

Big News Coming Tomorrow!

Cemetery Dance OnlineFebruary 27, 2017Breaking NewsLeave a comment

Tomorrow, February 28, we’ll be announcing the trade edition of the brand new Stephen King and Richard Chizmar novella.

Please note that things might be a little crazy because Entertainment Weekly is “revealing” the book first, so please be patient if you have trouble accessing the CemeteryDance.com website. Our hosting company is preparing things on their end, but you know how the Internet can be.

You can follow Cemetery Dance Publications on Facebook and Twitter to see the news as soon as possible since the newsletter will probably go out very slowly.

Also, please be sure to sign-up for Richard’s FREE mailing list for occasional updates, and follow him on Facebook and Twitter and Instagram.

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

The Women I Have Known

Cemetery Dance OnlineFebruary 27, 2017February 22, 2017EssaysAmber Fallon, Anne Rice, Charlee Jacob, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Cherie Priest, Damien Angelica Walters, Daphne du Maurier, Elizabeth Massie, Essays, Francis Stevens, Joyce Carol Oates, Karen Taylor, Kathe Koja, Krisi de Meester, Kristin Dearborn, Lisa Tuttle, Lucy Taylor, Marjorie Bowen, Mary SanGiovanni, Mary Shelley, Melanie Tem, Melissa Lason, Michelle Garza, Nancy Collins, Sarah Langan, Sarah Pinborough, Shirley Jackson, Somer Cannon, Tanith Lee, The Women I Have Known, V.C. Andrews, Women In Horror6 Comments

The Women I Have Known
by Mary SanGiovanni

As a horror writer coming up in the first decade of the new millennium, I’ve had the opportunity to see the dual perspectives of women’s place in the horror genre, the former reflecting where we used to be, and the latter reflecting how much progress we’ve made. Continue Reading

Epilogue, Part One

Cemetery Dance OnlineFebruary 24, 2017February 22, 2017Brian Keene's End of the RoadBrian Keene, Columns, End of the Road1 Comment

November 16, 2016

Brian and his oldest son have spent a week in Seattle. His oldest son, now twenty-five, is a social worker by day, and a budding rock guitarist by night. He is a fan of Alice In Chains, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Mother Love Bone, and the rest of the grunge-era music (which is now considered classic rock—something that makes Brian feel that full weight of fifty that he knows will be drawing down on him next year). Given this, Seattle makes sense for what will be their first father and son vacation since the now-young-man was ten years old.Continue Reading

HUGE Stephen King and Richard Chizmar News Coming on February 28! Plus: The Dark Screams eBooks Have New Covers!

Cemetery Dance OnlineFebruary 23, 2017February 23, 2017Breaking News1 Comment

Next Tuesday, February 28, Stephen King and Richard Chizmar have some huge news that will be first announced by Entertainment Weekly! If you’re not already following Richard and Cemetery Dance on social media, THIS is the time for sure!

Sign-up for Richard’s FREE mailing list for occasional updates, and follow him on Facebook and Twitter and Instagram.

You can follow Cemetery Dance Publications on Facebook and Twitter.

Also, as you might remember, Richard Chizmar and Brian James Freeman of Cemetery Dance Publications joined forces with the cutting edge team at Hydra, a division of Random House, to publish a series of horror eBook anthologies called Dark Screams that features the best horror authors working in the business today. Recently, Random House hired Kealan Patrick Burke (a man of many talents!) to create brand new covers for these eBooks and ALL FIVE volumes are available for immediate download:

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

Charles L. Grant, Part 2: The Short Stories

Cemetery Dance OnlineFebruary 23, 2017February 23, 2017RevelationsA Glow of Candles, Black WIne, Charles L. Grant, Columns, Kevin Lucia, Revelations, Scream Quietly, Tales from the Nightside5 Comments

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.

This sentiment haunts me. It has since I first heard it quoted by Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society. The quote in its entirety, by Henry David Thoreau, is even more chilling:

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation, and go to the grave with the song still in them.

The implications make me shiver. Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. Most of us are gripped by worry, anxiety, fear, and a crippling helplessness. But it’s repressed deeply inside; quiet, restrained, shackled, bringing us to the brink of madness without ever quite plunging us over the edge. And in the end, we go to the grave with the song still in us, never able to express what we wanted to—needed to—while shuffling through this numbing thing called “life.”Continue Reading

Review: ‘Zoopraxis’ by Richard Christian Matheson

Cemetery Dance OnlineFebruary 22, 2017February 19, 2017ReviewsGauntlet Press, John Skipp, Reviews, Richard Christian Matheson, Zoopraxis4 Comments

Zoopraxis by Richard Christian Matheson
Gauntlet Press
$275.00 lettered edition; $150.00 Limited Edition; $6o.oo Numered Edition
Reviewed by John Skipp

In the thirty years since Richard Christian Matheson burst upon the scene with his brilliant collection Scars and Other Distinguishing Marks, many things have changed. Up until his arrival, the short-short story was the purview of a miniscule handful of writers—Fredric Brown, Henry Slesar, and O. Henry leap most readily to mind—who’d mastered the art of telling a tight, twisted tale with a punch at the end in one thousand words or less, on a fairly regular basis.Continue Reading

Review: ‘Relics’ by Tim Lebbon

Cemetery Dance OnlineFebruary 21, 2017February 19, 2017ReviewsDave Simms, Relics, Reviews, Tim Lebbon, Titan Books2 Comments

Relics by Tim Lebbon
Titan Books (March 21, 2017)
336 pages; $9.76 paperback; $9.99 e-book
Reviewed by Dave Simms

The first literary hit of the new year has been born. Tim Lebbon, no stranger to penning stories which shrug off the shackles of genre, has hit 2017 hard with the first of a breathtaking trilogy. Equal parts thriller, horror, and fantasy, Relics takes readers back to his best world creating in the apocalyptic Silence, Coldbrook, and The Nature of Balance, along with the more fantastic in Fallen and Echo City. Continue Reading

Under My Skin

Cemetery Dance OnlineFebruary 20, 2017February 18, 2017EssaysEssays, Kathe Koja, Marilyn Munster, Seanan McGuire, Skin, Under My Skin, Women In HorrorLeave a comment

Under My Skin
by Seanan McGuire

When I was a little girl, I wanted nothing more in this world than to grow up to be Marilyn Munster.Continue Reading

Full Circle

Cemetery Dance OnlineFebruary 17, 2017February 16, 2017Brian Keene's End of the RoadBrian Keene, Columns, End of the Road5 Comments

The second to last weekend of October, I made my way up north again, this time for the Merrimack Valley Halloween Book Festival in Haverhill, Massachusetts—a mass-signing event organized by Christopher Golden and involving about twenty or thirty horror authors. Podcast co-host Dave Thomas accompanied me for this part of the tour, and we stayed at the home of author James A. Moore.Continue Reading

Review: ‘Infernal Parade’ by Clive Barker

Cemetery Dance OnlineFebruary 16, 2017February 13, 2017ReviewsBlu Gilliand Infernal Parade, Clive Barker, Reviews, Subterranean PressLeave a comment

Infernal Parade by Clive Barker
Subterranean Press (February 2017)
81 pages; $275.00 lettered edition; $60.00 limited edition; $3o.oo Trade Edition
Reviewed by Blu Gilliand

Infernal Parade is the second volume compiling stories created by Clive Barker to accompany figures created in conjunction with Todd McFarlane. The first, Tortured Souls, benefited because it began life as a novella that was broken up to go along with the packaging of the various figures. Infernal Parade is a series of character sketches meant to lend a little backstory to the figures, making it feel incomplete when pulled together in one volume.Continue Reading

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