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Review: The Tryst by L. Marie Wood

Cemetery Dance OnlineFebruary 13, 2026February 6, 2026ReviewsElizabeth Broadbent, L. Marie Wood, Reviews, The TrystLeave a comment

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Mocha Memoir Press (February 14, 2026)
Reviewed by Elizabeth Broadbent

L. Marie Wood’s new novel, The Tryst is the first book in her five-installment Red Thread Saga, and it’s not horror, but slipstream. For those unfamiliar (and I counted myself among them), slipstream is a catch-all term for works that blend elements of different genres to create something new. When I asked Wood about it, she told me that The Tryst blends elements of “romance, horror, sci-fi, action, mystery, thriller, and suspense.” The blend creates a novel that defies expectations — it’s romance, but with a sci-fi bent; it’s horror, but with thriller and mystery thrown in. But slipstream also uses elements of those genres to defy and remix their typical conventions. Continue Reading

Stephen King: News from the Dead Zone #245

Bev VincentFebruary 12, 2026February 11, 2026Stephen King News from the Dead ZoneBev Vincent, Carrie, Claudia Inez Bachman, Columns, Holly Gibney, News from the Dead Zone, Other Worlds than These, Stephen King, The Dreamers, The End Times, The Institute, The Mist, The Revelations of 'Becka Paulson, The Talisman, Water if God Wills ItLeave a comment

“I wanted to go back to Mid-World, which was always the Territories by another name.” So says Stephen King in announcing Other Worlds than These, also known as T3, co-authored with Peter Straub. The release date has been set: October 6, 2026. What else do we know? Read on!

Hellbrothers: Todd Mignola (and His Brother) Bring a New Hellboy Tale to Life

Cemetery Dance OnlineFebruary 11, 2026February 10, 2026The Comic VaultColumns, Danica Davidson, Hellboy, Mike Mignola, Previews, The Comic Vault, The Crown, Todd MignolaLeave a comment

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cover of The Crown #1 Brothers Mike and Todd Mignola have come together for a new two-issue comic in the Hellboy Universe, spotlighting Hellboy and his brothers! The Crown: A Tale of Hell debuts on February 11, and Cemetery Dance spoke to Todd Mignola about working with Mike again, what’s based on their childhood, and what he hopes readers take away.Continue Reading

Review: The Bride of Ravencrest by Tamara Thorne and Alistair Cross

Cemetery Dance OnlineFebruary 11, 2026February 1, 2026ReviewsAlistair Cross, Reviews, Tamara Thorne, The Bride of Ravencrest, W.D. GaglianiLeave a comment

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Glass Apple Press (October 2025)
Review by W.D. Gagliani

If you’re in the mood for a thick and chewy Gothic pastiche replete with larger than life characters and a mile-wide humor streak, this new offering by Thorne & Cross may do the trick. Continue Reading

Review: The Stunted Man by Ari Loeb

Cemetery Dance OnlineFebruary 9, 2026January 24, 2026ReviewsAri Loeb, Danica Davidson, Reviews, The Stunted ManLeave a comment

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Abandoned House (August 2024)
Reviewed by Danica Davidson

The Stunted Man is well-written, informative, funny, emotional, dark and engrossing. It follows Hollywood stuntman Lex Mercier, who is working on the film Everyone’s Frankenstein — and finding plenty of horror in real life, nothing supernatural needed.Continue Reading

Review: Doodooality: Shots Fired from Uranus by Sumiko Saulson, Emily Loretta Flummox, Mysterious Backup

Cemetery Dance OnlineFebruary 6, 2026February 1, 2026ReviewsDoodooality: Shots Fired from Uranus, Emily Loretta Flummox, Joshua Gage, Mysterious Backup, Reviews, Sumiko SaulsonLeave a comment

Doodooality: Shots Fired from Uranus by Sumiko Saulson, Emily Loretta Flummox, Mysterious Backup
Dooky Zines (October 2025)
Reviewed by Joshua Gage

Sumiko Saulson, Emily Loretta Flummox, Mysterious Backup are members of the metal karaoke band, NypSlyp. When invited to submit to the sequel of Haipoo: 7 Poospectives in Pooetry, a collection of scatalogical verse, the group decided to create their own concept album of “haipoo, limershits, and other forms of poetry focusing on the fecalarity — the sentience of poop.” This chapbook is meant to mirror or mimick a punk rock or metal concept album, full of political import and social criticism, but quickly devolves into shock for shock’s sake.Continue Reading

Review: Mama Came Callin’ by Ezra Claytan Daniels and Camilla Sucre

Cemetery Dance OnlineFebruary 4, 2026February 1, 2026Reviews, The Comic VaultCamilla Sucre, Columns, Ezra Claytan Daniels, Joshua Gage, Mama Came Callin', Reviews, The Comic VaultLeave a comment

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Mama Came Callin’ by Ezra Claytan Daniels
William Morrow Paperbacks (February 2026)
Reviewed by Joshua Gage

Ezra Claytan Daniels is a mixed-race (black/white) multidisciplinary artist and creator of the award-winning graphic novels Upgrade Soul and BTTM FDRS (with illustrator Ben Passmore). Ezra’s work has been featured on the Criterion Channel, at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, and is in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum. Ezra currently resides in Los Angeles, where he writes for film and television, including Doom Patrol, for HBO Max. His newest graphic novel is Mama Came Callin’.Continue Reading

Review: Dollface by Lindy Ryan

Cemetery Dance OnlineFebruary 2, 2026May 5, 2026ReviewsDollface, Elizabeth Broadbent, Lindy Ryan, Minotaur Books, ReviewsLeave a comment

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Minotaur Books (February 24, 2026)
Reviewed by Elizabeth Broadbent

In a publishing landscape that loves to hand us blonde, virginal final girls, Lindy Ryan’s Dollface gives us something different: a forty-something mother.

That shouldn’t be rare. It is. Continue Reading

Night Time Logic with Drew Huff

Cemetery Dance OnlineJanuary 30, 2026January 24, 2026Night Time LogicColumns, Daniel Braum, Drew Huff, Interviews, Night Time LogicLeave a comment

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photo of author Drew Huff Night Time Logic is the part of a story that is felt but not consciously processed. It is also the name of this interview series here at Cemetery Dance online and over on my YouTube channel where we explore the night time part of stories, the strange and uncanny in horror, dark fiction, and more.

My latest book, Phantom Constellations: Strange Tales and Ghost Stories, out now from Cemetery Dance Publications, is full of these kind of subtle, strange, and intentionally ambiguous tales the operate with Night Time Logic.

In March 2025 I had the opportunity to meet Drew Huff at the Scares that Cares Authorcon Convention in Williamsburg Virginia and had an advance look at some of their work. I recently had the opportunity to converse with them again to talk about their new releases. We begin our conversation here with a discussion of some of their influences and favorite authors.Continue Reading

Review: The Night Ship by Alex Woodroe

Cemetery Dance OnlineJanuary 28, 2026January 24, 2026ReviewsAlex Woodroe, Elizabeth Broadbent, Flame Tree Press, Reviews, The Night ShipLeave a comment

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Flame Tree Press (January 2026)
Reviewed by Elizabeth Broadbent

For Americans, it’s difficult to conceptualize what living under a truly authoritarian government means: the snitching, the pressure to conform, the everyday minutiae of life controlled by the state. Alex Woodroe captures these quandaries in The Night Ship. While it’s a wild ride of a cosmic horror novel, the setting and characterization of life under Ceau?escu are the real stars in this one. Continue Reading

Eclusive Interview/Preview: Vampyre: A Horror Folktale

Cemetery Dance OnlineJanuary 27, 2026January 24, 2026Interviews, The Comic VaultColumns, Danica Davidson, Interviews, Previews, Ricardo Delgado, The Comic Vault, Vampyre A Horror FolktaleLeave a comment

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cover of Vampyre: A Costa Rican Folktale Graphic novelist, writer and Hollywood conceptual artist Ricardo Delgado spoke to Cemetery Dance in 2022 about his Dracula of Transylvania, and now he’s back in that dark world with his new work, Vampyre: A Horror Folktale. It is currently on Kickstarter. Cemetery Dance has exclusive artwork to show, and also caught up with Delgado about Vampyre, its connection to his childhood and previousDracula work, and what else he has going on.Continue Reading

Review: The Demon of Beausoleil by Mari Costa

Cemetery Dance OnlineJanuary 26, 2026January 10, 2026Reviews, The Comic VaultColumns, Joshua Gage, Mari Costa, Oni Press, Reviews, The Comic Vault, The Demon of BeausoleilLeave a comment

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The Demon of Beausoleil by Mari Costa
Oni Press (January 27, 2026)
Reviewed by Joshua Gage

Mariana Costa was born in Brazil (allegedly) fully formed from a hole in the ground. She is a deeply unserious creature who eats stories and then spits out new ones to repopulate the ecosystem. Whether these new stories are better or worse is for you to decide by eating them yourself. She is best known for Peritale, Paranorthern, Belle of the Ball, and Life of Melody. Her newest graphic novel is The Demon of Beausoleil, which an exciting queer romance set against a background of historical horror.Continue Reading

Review: White Noise Press — The Chapbooks edited by Keith Minnion

Cemetery Dance OnlineJanuary 23, 2026January 18, 2026ReviewsAllison Littlewood, chapbooks, Dave Simms, Elizabeth Massie, Gary Braunbeck, James A. Moore, Kealan Patrick Burke, Mary SanGiovanni, Matt Warner, Reviews, White Noise PressLeave a comment

cover of White Noise Press - The Chapbooks White Noise Press — The Chapbooks edited by Keith Minnion
White Noise Press (November 2025)
Reviewed by Dave Simms

Many horror fans love chapbooks, but they’re tough to get a hold of. Most have limited runs, are costly, or are so beautifully done that readers are reticent to open and damage them (as with Minnion’s run of these 21 novellas).

Keith Minnion, owner of White Noise Press and celebrated artist and author, has compiled all of the chapbooks into one massive collection.Continue Reading

Review: Eminence Front by Rebecca Rowland

Cemetery Dance OnlineJanuary 21, 2026January 14, 2026ReviewsEminence Front, Rebecca Rowland, Reviews, W.D. GaglianiLeave a comment

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Clash Books (January 20, 2026)
Review by W.D. Gagliani

If you’ve ever been freaked out by blizzard conditions and outrageously large snowfall totals, this short novel is likely to bring its share of shivers to bear on your chionophobia.

Titled after a relentlessly driving Pete Townshend song from The Who’s It’s Hard album, Rebecca Rowland (Optic Nerve, The Horrors Hiding in Plain Sight, and numerous splatterpunk short stories) makes the most of this exercise in mostly “quiet horror” by casting a vaguely Lovecraftian shadow over its story, in which the cosmic dread is almost tangible.Continue Reading

Exclusive Preview/Interview: Weird Tales – “Shambleau”

Cemetery Dance OnlineJanuary 20, 2026January 18, 2026Interviews, The Comic VaultBlake Northcott, Columns, Danica Davidson, Interviews, Previews, The Comic Vault, Weird TalesLeave a comment

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cover of Weird Tales The iconic Weird Tales franchise is getting a graphic novel adaptation from Monstrous Books through Kickstarter. Cemetery Dance has some exclusive artwork to share, and can confirm first and exclusively that one of the stories in it will be “Shambleau” by C.L. Moore, adapted by writer Blake Northcott (best known for her work on Catwoman) and artist George Quadros (best known for his work on Sumerian). Northcott spoke to Cemetery Dance about her work on the comic adaptation of“Shambleau.”Continue Reading

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