Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories ReviewsLeave a comment on Review: Ghost Runner by Ann Malaspina 
Ghost Runner by Ann Malaspina
West 44 Books (June 16, 2025)
Reviewed by Joshua Gage
Award-winning children’s author Ann Malaspina writes about the environment, social justice, history, and current events in her picture books, chapter books, and YA and MG verse novels. She holds an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her newest HI-LO novel-in-verse is Ghost Runner. Continue Reading
Black Cat Tales: An Anthology of Black Cats edited by Francesca Maria and Mark S. Causey
Black Cat Publishing (June 13, 2025)
Reviewed by David Niall Wilson
This anthology does a couple of rare things. It follows a narrow theme, and it delivers variety. There are so many ways you can go with stories and poems featuring black cats, and the editors managed to gather a wide variety. It never feels like you are just getting what you expect, and in a themed anthology, I believe that to be the key to success. In this volume you are getting black cats from every conceivable angle, and with serious talent behind their tales. Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories ReviewsLeave a comment on Review: King of Ashes by S.A. Cosby 
King of Ashes by S.A Cosby
Flatiron Books|Pine & Cedar (June 10, 2025)
Reviewed by Dave Simms
Author Bev VincentPosted on Categories Reviews, Stephen King News from the Dead Zone1 Comment on Bev Vincent explores Never Flinch by Stephen King 
Although Stephen King has written books that could be classified as thrillers in the past, it’s hard to pick one with more intricate interweaving of fast-paced events featuring numerous characters in different locations than you’ll find in the climactic section of Never Flinch. With plenty of foreshadowing to prime the pump, King begins the drive toward an impressive series of confrontations at the book’s midpoint. It’s a whodunit, replete with red herrings and misdirection, and even after the true identity of the killer is revealed, King keeps the tension level high as he juggles several independent but interlinked plotlines and roars to a gripping finale.
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Interviews, The Comic VaultLeave a comment on Nick Peterson on The Harvest 
Nick Peterson is a director and producer, working on everything from short films to commercials to music videos. The horror genre has long interested him, and he’s written his first graphic novel, The Harvest, which was initially inspired by his art. Peterson spoke to Cemetery Dance about his work, being in horror film festivals, and what makes The Harvest bold and different.Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Interviews, The Comic VaultLeave a comment on Denis Kitchen’s Oddly Compelling career
Denis Kitchen has worn many hats, including artist, publisher, author, historian and founder of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. A Kickstarter has launched to fund a documentary about him, Oddly Compelling, and Cemetery Dance spoke to Kitchen about the documentary, comics censorship, if horror comics are treated differently, and ways to take action.
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories ReviewsLeave a comment on Review: Pushing Daisy by Christopher O’Halloran 
Pushing Daisy by Christopher O’Halloran
Lethe Press (May 23, 2025)
Reviewed by Elizabeth Broadbent
Christopher O’Halloran’s Pushing Daisy has a simple premise: a grieving widower begins to suspect that his recently departed wife has returned from the great beyond. Roger Darling is the type of man women tell their girlfriends to dump immediately. He’s bitter and manipulative, self-centered and cruel. Daisy martyred herself to assure his happiness. Continue Reading
Down The Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi by Susan Hendricks
Hachette Books (September 2023)
288 pages; $19.58 hardcover; $15.99 e-book
Reviewed by Haley Newlin
As a child, I spent summers in Delphi, Indiana. I remember sycamores and cottonwood trees climbing the blue sky and the churn of gravel as we sipped on McDonald’s sweet teas, approaching “the farm.”
Reading Down The Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi was nostalgic, hopeful, and tragic. I naively believed McDonald’s sweet tea and car rides through the small town were unique to my childhood. But I was wrong. Many kids in Delphi did the same — like 13-year-old Abby Williams and 14-year-old Libby German on the day they disappeared. Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories ReviewsLeave a comment on Review: Hospital of Haunts edited by Heather Daughrity 
Hospital of Haunts edited by Heather Daughrity
Watertower Hill Publishing (October 2024)
Reviewed by Rowan B. Minor
Hospital of Haunts, edited by Heather Daughrity, is the second installment in a unique horror anthology series. The first book in this series focuses on a haunted house; the current book is set in a hospital; and the forthcoming installment will be in a hotel. Although part of a series, these books also stand alone as individual anthologies. Hospital of Haunts includes twenty-three stories by twenty-three authors. All stories in this book were written for and are set in Lychhurst, a fictional hospital set in the mountains of West Virginia, and are sectioned off into different “triage levels.” Not only does Hospital of Haunts include interactive passages that break the fourth wall, but readers get floor plans and a history of the hospital as well. Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories The Comic VaultLeave a comment on Review: The Harrowing Game by Antoine Revoy
The Harrowing Game by Antoine Revoy
23rd St. (May 27, 2025)
Reviewed by Joshua Gage
Antoine Revoy is an award-winning French writer, artist and designer, raised in Tokyo, Japan and Mexico City, Mexico. Revoy has created illustrations for clients such as The New York Times, Der Spiegel and Harvard University. He teaches visual storytelling and comics-making courses at the Rhode Island School of Design and is a thesis mentor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Revoy lives in Providence, Rhode Island, with his wife, author-illustrator Kelly Murphy, and their many animal companions. His newest graphic novel is The Harrowing Game.Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Dead TreesLeave a comment on Dead Trees: Cold Blood 
Horror didn’t die in the nineties. It pulled back its reins, regrouped, and emerged as something different than we had in the eighties.
The market was flooded with weak product that eclipsed the truly worthy books being published. Those inferior books have ironically become more valuable collector’s items than most of the better titles of the time.Continue Reading
Haint Country: Dark Folktales from the Hills and Hollers edited by Matthew R. Sparks and Olivia Sizemore
University Press of Kentucky (October 2024)
Reviewed by Rowan B. Minor
Haint Country: Dark Folktales from the Hills and Hollers is a new book of over 50 chilling short stories adapted, collected, and edited by Matthew R. Sparks and Olivia Sizemore. These local legends center around haints, boogers, UFOs, and supernatural happenings within the Appalachian region. Separated into five sections, the otherworldly retellings in Haint Country are accompanied by unsettling watercolor illustrations by co-author Olivia Sizemore. These beautifully eerie designs are reminiscent of those by Stephen Gammell in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, and the legends and lore will remind you of an adult version of the Short and Shivery series. Haint Country also corrects misinformation and harmful stereotypes about rural folklore and Appalachia as a whole. Authors Sparks and Sizemore have expanded the traditions within Appalachian storytelling and invite their audience to participate in its culture. Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories ReviewsLeave a comment on Review: Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Ananda Lima 
Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Ananda Lima
Tor Books (June 2024)
Reviewed by Chandra Claypool (Instagram) (TikTok)
Imaging meeting the Devil at a bar and they convince you that you’re kindred spirits because you both crave stories and you’re just drunk and heartbroken enough to let them in. This book has a unique format in that there’s stories within the main story. We follow the main character and her several encounters with the Devil as we get a peek into the stories she is writing for them. I absolutely love the cover for this as it shows this concept so well.Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories The Comic VaultLeave a comment on Exclusive Preview: Lost Marvels No. 1: Tower of Shadows
The Tower of Shadows anthology series from 1969, which includes the work of such comics bigwigs as Stan Lee, Neal Adams, Bernie Wrightson and more, is being published by Marvel and Fantagraphics together as Lost Marvels No. 1: Tower of Shadows on April 29. Cemetery Dance gets to show this exclusive preview of Gary Friedrich and George Tuska’s story. And don’t forget to check out the following Lost Marvels volumes:
These will be out in July and November, respectively.Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories ReviewsLeave a comment on Review: The Haunting of Room 904 by Erika T. Wurth 
The Haunting of Room 904 by Erika T. Wurth
Flatiron Books (March 2025)
Reviewed by Rowan B. Minor
Erika T. Wurth, a Kenyon and Sewanee fellow, lives in Denver, Colorado and is an urban Native of Apache, Chickasaw, and Cherokee descent. She has published in The Kenyon Review, Buzzfeed, and The Writer’s Chronicle. She is a narrative artist for the Meow Wolf Denver installation and has been a guest writer at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Wurth’s horror novel White Horse is a New York Times editor’s pick and a Good Morning America buzz pick. Her most recent novel is The Haunting of Room 904. Continue Reading
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