Hi Folks!

Don’t forget, we’re now taking preorders for Joyland by Stephen King, a new novel Hard Case Crime will be publishing in June! We’re also producing a custom-made slipcase for this title like we have for the last couple of King books, which you can also preorder now if you’re interested.

A STUNNING NEW NOVEL FROM ONE OF THE BEST-SELLING AUTHORS OF ALL TIME!

Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.

Note From the Publisher and the Author:

“I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts,” Stephen King said in the press release. “I also loved the paperbacks I grew up with as a kid, and for that reason, we’re going to hold off on e-publishing this one for the time being. Joyland will be coming out in paperback, and folks who want to read it will have to buy the actual book.”

Read more or place your order while supplies last!

Add A Special Exclusive Slipcase To Your Order To Protect Your Book!

Even though Joyland by Stephen King is being published by another publisher, we’ll be producing a custom-made slipcase for this title like we have for the last few Stephen King books.

The easiest way to add a slipcase to your purchase is by selecting the “Paperback with Exclusive Slipcase!” option on the product page — you’ll also save on shipping by ordering this way! (You can order just the slipcase by itself on the Joyland Slipcase product page.)

Don’t know what a slipcase is? That’s okay! It’s easily the best way to protect your book for generations to come. You can see some sample images of other slipcases we’ve made below. We’re using the same high-quality materials we have used for our previous Stephen King cases, with one color hot foil stamping. The company who makes these for us is the best in the business and you won’t find a better way to protect your investment! (If you are new to collecting, you can read more about slipcases on our Book FAQ page.)

We’re selling these special slipcases for just $19.95, making them an extremely affordable way to protect your book.  These cases will be produced after the book is published because we need a real copy of the book to get the sizing just right and your book and slipcase will ship together to save you on shipping. We think our collectors will be very pleased with what we have in mind for these very special cases, so don’t wait to place your order!

Sample Slipcase Photos:

Hi Folks!

Today we’re pleased to announce another exciting new eBook has been added to our online store:

I’m Not Sam
by Jack Ketchum & Lucky McKee

Now I’m way beyond confusion.

Now I’m scared.

I’ve slid down the rabbit-hole and what’s down there is dark and serious. This is not play-acting or some waking bad dream she’s having. She’s changed, somehow overnight. I don’t know how I know this but I sense it as surely as I sense my own skin. This is not Sam, my Sam, wholly sane and firmly balanced. Capable of tying off an artery as neatly as you’d thread a belt through the loops of your jeans.

And now I’m shivering too.

In some fundamental way she’s changed…

“You’d expect nothing less from the provocateurs behind The Woman, whom you can almost hear giggling in the background at the reader’s discomfort. An epilogue provides some concrete answers—and delivers a well needed climactic kick.”

— Booklist, Daniel Kraus

Richard Matheson, Robert McCammon, Joe Hill, William Peter Blatty, Ira Levin, and many others to come!

Hi Folks!

Would you like to have bought the eBook editions of I Am Legend by Richard Matheson, Swan Song by Robert McCammon, Horns by Joe Hill, and Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill for just $1.99 each?

Or how about The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty or The Boys from Brazil by Ira Levin for just $2.99 each?

Those were the first six featured deals on Brian Freeman’s new “eHorror Bargains” website, and there are many more bargains to come!

If you sign-up for Brian’s FREE updates today, you’ll automatically be notified the moment he posts about a new heavily discounted or free horror eBook.

Read more or sign-up for FREE notifications here:

http://www.eHorrorBargains.com

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(In fact, Heart-Shaped Box is still just $1.99, and The Exorcist and The Boys from Brazil are still just $2.99, so follow this link for more information if you’re interested!)

Thanks, as always, for your continuing support!

Hi Folks!

We’re pleased to announce we’ll be publishing a signed Limited Edition hardcover of The Dark Tower Companion: A Guide to Stephen King’s Epic Fantasy by Bev Vincent and for a limited time only you can qualify for FREE US SHIPPING on your preorder while supplies last!

AN ALL-NEW COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY CONSTRUCTED WORLDS IN ALL OF FICTION

Stephen King’s bestselling multi-volume Dark Tower series is the author’s most inspired and imaginative creation. The story of Roland Deschain of Gilead, the last gunslinger, and his lifelong quest to reach the tower and save humanity across infinite parallel worlds is one that has consumed King throughout his career as characters and concepts crossed back and forth between the series and the rest of his fictional universe. The mythos continues to be chronicled and expanded in graphic novels overseen by King, interactive adventures on his website, a proposed film adaptation, and in a new Dark Tower novel.

The Dark Tower Companion is the ultimate compendium to King’s evolving magnum opus, presenting the mythology, history, and geography of this epic fantasy that has captivated generations of readers. Featuring interviews with Stephen King, Ron Howard, Dark Tower expert Robin Furth and others, Bev Vincent reveals The Dark Tower’s influential literary origins, examines its connections to the vast majority of King’s other novels, explores the expanded universe, catalogs the major characters, locations and concepts, and includes a travel guide to the story’s real-world locations, giving fans who have followed Roland’s journey—or those who are discovering it for the first time—a fascinating overview of the series and an inside look at the creative process of one of the world’s most popular authors.

Read more or place your order today while supplies last!

Hi Folks!

Don’t forget, we have TWO Stephen King trivia books coming out this spring that you won’t want to miss! Both books qualify for FREE US SHIPPING for a limited time only, so don’t wait to place your order!

The Illustrated Stephen King MOVIE Trivia Book

The Illustrated Stephen King MOVIE Trivia Book by Brian James Freeman, Kevin Quigley, and Hans-Ake Lilja features more than 1,000 questions about the movies, miniseries, and television episodes based on ideas conjured from the imagination of the King of Horror, along with more than 50 illustrated questions created by Glenn Chadbourne and an exclusive afterword by Mick Garris, director of The Stand, The Shining, Riding the Bullet, Desperation, Bag of Bones, and many others

Reviews and Praise:
“I had a lot of fun trying to answer the questions in The Illustrated Stephen King Movie Trivia Book. It became a serious challenge for me and it also made me want to see some of the movies again. I could definitely see this book as being a hit at a party with some of my Stephen King-fan friends. I also found the accompanying illustrations to be amazing artwork.”
— G-POP.net, Melissa Minners

“So you’re not a big reader, okay, but you’ve seen every film adaptation of Stephen King’s work to date? Even if you haven’t seen them all, this collection of Stephen King film and TV trivia might just send you searching for them. As with The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book, everything is arranged for maximum enjoyment by listing the films by date of issue beginning with Carrie and ending with television’s Bag of Bones… The editors and illustrator are King experts, and their questions aren’t easy, I guarantee!”
— Count Gore De Vol’s Tomb of Dark Delights, J. L. Comeau

Read more or place your order today!

The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book

The revised and updated second edition of The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book features all of the original questions from the first edition, along with more than one hundred new questions about Stephen King’s most recent releases!

Also included are ten brand new illustration-based questions from Cemetery Dance favorite artist Glenn Chadbourne, along with the 60 illustration-based questions from the original edition.

This new edition concludes with a brand new afterword by Kevin Quigley, founder of Charnel House, one of the oldest Stephen King fan sites on the web.

Reviews and Praise:
“Stephen King fans will love this entertaining and completely updated collection of minutiae about the author and his work. Opening this book is like opening a bag of Cheetos—you just can’t stop once you get started… This engaging compendium of Stephen King multiple-answer questions is arranged in chapters that revolve around the author’s personal biography, his novels, novellas and short stories, as well as his Bachman titles, Dark Tower series, and films. My favorite questions are posed by renowned artist Glenn Chadbourne, whose magnificently creepy illustrations add just the right touch of visual enjoyment to the proceedings, nearly five dozen in all! If you start this book in the evening (like I did), you might be up all night (like I was). This is tremendous fun for King fans.”

— Count Gore De Vol’s Tomb of Dark Delights, J. L. Comeau

Read more or place your order today!

Hi Folks!

The next three new titles in the acclaimed Cemetery Dance Signature Series, which is always a big fan favorite among our collectors, will be published next month, but one of them is already SOLD OUT and the other two are nearly there, so this might be your last chance to reserve a copy!

Please Note: If you’re already collecting the series and you want your book’s number to match your previous volumes, please REPLY to your order confirmation email and let Mindy know what that number is. Numbers are secured on a first come, first served basis.

Here’s some information about these three new additions to the series:

• Homestead by James A. Moore featuring artwork by Alex McVey is the story of what happens when something from the past comes back, and that something is very unforgiving:

• Tyler’s Third Act by Mick Garris featuring artwork by William Stout is Mick Garris’ satire on the twisted world of reality programs:

• Dueling Minds edited by Brian James Freeman, the first-ever anthology in the series, features stories by Brian Keene, Gary A. Braunbeck, Tom Piccirilli, Tim Lebbon, Jenny Orosel, and Gerard Houarner and artwork by Alan M. Clark and Erin S. Wells. (SOLD OUT PRE-PUBLICATION!)

Hi Folks!

Scribner has posted their cover artwork for the trade hardcover of Doctor Sleep by Stephen King, the brand new sequel to The Shining, which you can see below! We’re also producing a custom-made slipcase for this title like we have for the last couple of King books, which you can preorder now. Click on the image to read more about this new novel or the slipcase or to place your order:

Read more or place your order while supplies last!

Thank you, as always, for your continuing support!

Hi Folks!

Our beautiful new deluxe special edition of The Prophet by Michael Koryta will be published in late spring and we have important news for our collectors: we have hundreds MORE purchase orders from the big box bookstores than we have copies left, so we could put this signed Limited Edition Out of Print immediately if we wanted!

That said, because this is the first of several Limited Editions by Michael Koryta that we’ll be publishing, and collectors who order a copy of The Prophet through our website will be the first notified about future special editions, so we would rather sell these copies directly to you! Please place your order ASAP so you don’t miss out!

About the Book:
Adam Austin hasn’t spoken to his brother in years. When they were teenagers, their sister was abducted and murdered, and their devastated family never recovered. Now Adam keeps to himself, scraping by as a bail bondsman, working so close to the town’s criminal fringes that he sometimes seems a part of them.

Kent Austin is the beloved coach of the local high school football team, a religious man and hero in the community. After years of near misses, Kent’s team has a shot at the state championship, a welcome point of pride in a town that has had its share of hardships.

Just before playoffs begin, the town and the team are thrown into shock when horrifically, impossibly, another teenage girl is found murdered. When details emerge that connect the crime to the Austin brothers, the two are forced to unite to stop a killer-and to confront their buried rage and grief before history repeats itself again…

Read more or place your order while supplies last!

Thank you, as always, for your continuing support!

Hi Folks!

We just wanted to send you a quick heads-up that our signed Limited Edition hardcover of The Language of Fear by Del James is now more than 75% sold out just 48 hours after it was announced! Click on the Vincent Chong cover artwork for more information or to place your order:

Read more or place your order today while supplies last!

Hi Folks!

We’re pleased to announce we’ll be publishing a signed Limited Edition hardcover of The Language of Fear by Del James, but copies are going fast, so don’t wait to place your order!

That’s right! One of the most talked about collections of the 1990s is back again as a new Signed Limited Edition from Cemetery Dance Publications featuring eleven bonus short stories not appearing in any other edition.

This special edition features the original contents of the paperback edition, including the introduction by W. Axl Rose, along with a new introduction/afterword from Del James about the eleven bonus stories.

This is a special edition that no horror collection would be complete without!

Table of Contents:
Introduction by W. Axl Rose
A Tale of Two Heroines
Adult Nature Material
Bloodlust
Date Rape
High School Memories
Mama’s Boy
Mindwarp
Saltwater and Blood
Skin Deep
The Atheist Prayer
The Immortals
The Melrose Vampire
The Nerve
Without You
An Afterword and an Introduction
Red Turns to Green
Crank & Deceit
Eye Gouge
Backstage
Paid in Full
The Concrete Is Always Cleaner On Someone Else’s Sidewalk
Haterism
The Fall
Sick Puppy
Morning Star
Do Sunflowers Have a Fragrance?

Read more or place your order today while supplies last!

Cemetery Dance magazine eBook Announcement!
Featured Authors Include Stephen King, Peter Straub, Stewart O’Nan, William Peter Blatty, David Morrell, Simon Clark, Glen Hirshberg, Lisa Tuttle, Bill Pronzini, and many more!

Hi Folks!

We’re very pleased to report we’re now producing eBook versions of Cemetery Dance magazine that will be released right around the same time as the print edition! (We aren’t offering digital subscriptions yet, but if we do, we’ll announce it in this newsletter.)

To launch this new version of the magazine in style, we’ve gone back and produced eBook versions of issues #61 through #68, which are available immediately for download from our website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and iTunes. Click on the covers below for more information about each issue and for those ordering links:

Thank you, as always, for your continuing support!

Hi Folks!

We’re down to our last 25 copies of Cold Comforts by Peter Crowther, so if you want to preorder a copy at the retail price and avoid the “game” of eBay and the secondary market down the road, now is your last chance!

As you know, Femme and Kinsmen by Bill Pronzini have both been critically acclaimed bestsellers, but we’re pleased to report our favorite review to date has arrived from Ed Gorman’s blog where he writes “Bill Pronzini’s novella Femme is one of the best written and most cleverly engineered private eye stories I’ve ever had the immense pleasure to read” and “Bill Pronzini has a special gift for portraying the ominous underbelly of America, the troubled and dangerous people who want to destroy our political system.” Read more on Ed Gorman’s blog!

In other news, Dueling Minds edited by Brian James Freeman, Homestead by James A. Moore, and Tyler’s Third Act by Mick Garris are rolling at the printer should be shipping around the end of March or early April. Dueling Minds already sold out last year, but there are still a few copies of Homestead and Tyler’s Third Act left available for reservation.

For our Stephen King collectors, please note that our sold out “Slipcased Collector’s Set” of Scribner’s new hardcover editions of The Talisman and Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub will be ready to ship later next month when the slipcases are completed. The books are already in our warehouse and the Black House art print/poster has been printed.

For Lonely Road Books fans, the Limited Edition of The Exorcist is shipping now and you can view a few photos on Brian James Freeman’s blog:

There’s a lot more news coming, including another exciting book announcement next week, so stay tuned!

Thank you, as always, for your continuing support!

About the Book:
You know, you think you know someone and then . . . kablooey! Something comes walking along, right up to you, and then punches you in the nose. It’s like that with Peter Crowther.

After reading Peter’s previous collection for Cemetery Dance, the poignantly dark The Longest Single Note back in 1999, you’d think you have his measure — after all, it echoes the nostalgia and gore served up in Escardy Gap, his epic collaboration with James Lovegrove. But then he sideswipes you with the science fictional tales of Songs of Leaving and you think, ah, okay . . . got him now (particularly as you’ve read the Forever Twilight novellas)! But then comes The Spaces Between the Lines, as bleak a gathering of horror yarns as you’re ever likely to find (and if you don’t believe us, read ‘Bedfordshire’) . . . which neatly ties into his take on witches, By Wizard Oak.

So, at that point, you’re certain you have it. How could you not. It’s easy, right? He’s a soft-centered, spookmeister with an eye for wonder and the far reaches of space. Fine. But whooahhh hold on there! Along comes this baby . . . a bona fide set of crime and mystery stories, no less. And so, dear reader, it kind of looks like you know Jack. Cats figure strongly in this book (though Peter Crowther has never owned one) and private eyes (well, one anyways) . . . and there are no mean streets in England, though one or two of them can get a little grumpy. Unnatural death also figures strongly here, though Peter hasn’t killed anybody (not as far as we know). He hasn’t smuggled drugs either (as in ‘Boxing Day’), hasn’t shot craps with dice that can foretell the future (the Runyonesque ‘Tomorrow Eyes’), doesn’t play trumpet (though, like Cal Williston in ‘The Musician of Bremen, GA,’ he does love the Chet Baker and Gerry Mulligan version of ‘Moonlight in Vermont’), hasn’t tried to poison anyone (‘The Allotment’), and as far as he knows Sherlock Holmes and the good Doctor Watson never did make it to the genteel Yorkshire town of Harrogate (‘The Adventure of the Touch of God’).

Eighteen stories from the fertile and frisky mind of one of England’s most accomplished genre wordsmiths. And now we all know exactly what makes Peter tick. At least until next time.

Read more or place your order today while supplies last!

Hi Folks!

If you’re looking for a last second Valentine for that horror fan in your life, we’d recommend a Cemetery Dance Gift Certificate, which is valid for almost everything we offer in our online store including books like the signed Limited Edition of Doctor Sleep! (It might even be nice for you to have your own Cemetery Dance Gift Certificate ready to go when we announce our next Stephen King signed edition, so you don’t have to hesitate at all before jumping right in and placing your order!)

In other news, all of our editions of Doctor Sleep by Stephen King sold out very quickly. The Lettered Edition sold out in 75 minutes, the Limited Edition sold out in 4.5 hours, and the Gift Edition sold out exactly one week after it was announced, which is the fastest a Stephen King Gift Edition has ever sold out for us. For those who missed out, you can now join the Waiting List for this book via the Doctor Sleep product page on our website. There is no fee for joining the waiting list because you are not actually reserving a copy of the book at this time — you are only letting us know you’d like to be notified if copies do become available. This is not a reservation or order.

Finally, we’ve produced some desktop images/patterns/backgrounds/wallpapers for Doctor Sleep that are free for you to download, use, and share. Click on the images below to visit the download page on our website:

As always, thanks for your continued support and enthusiasm!

Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
Slipcased Gift Edition 90% Sold Out!

Our Slipcased Gift Edition of Doctor Sleep by Stephen King is now 90% sold out just 72 hours after it was announced, so if you were thinking of waiting until closer to publication to place your order, there won’t be any copies left to order! We’ve never had a Gift Edition sell out this fast and we suspect this will mean big things on the collectors’ market for this title.

The print run cannot be increased and there will not be a second printing, so if you want to order a copy of this Gift Edition at the retail price instead of risking a higher price down the road, now is the time to place your order so you don’t miss out!

Read more on our website or place your order before time runs out!

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