Review: In Dreams We Rot by Betty Rocksteady

Cover of In Dreams We Rot by Betty RocksteadyIn Dreams We Rot by Betty Rocksteady
Trepidatio Publishing (October 2019)
200 pages; $16.95 paperback; $5.99 e-book
Reviewed by Anton Cancre

I’ve made no bones about my absolute adoration of Betty Rocksteady’s work. Her novellas have all kicked me squarely in the heart-booty and the couple of shorter works I have read in anthologies were great. So, I can save you a little time and just tell you to buy her first collection of short fiction, In Dreams We Rot.

Okay. Clearly some of you need convincing. That’s fine.Continue Reading

Review: Rose by Rami Ungar

Rose by Rami Ungar
Castrum Press (June 2019)
166 pages; $9.99 paperback; $2.99 e-book
Reviewed by Anton Cancre

I’ll be honest; I’m particularly conflicted on Rami Ungar’s debut novel, Rose. On one hand, I dig the heck out of the story being told here. On the other hand, there are some severe problems with how it is told that rub me very much the wrong way.Continue Reading

The Best of Cemetery Dance 2: Headed to the Printer Next Month!

The Best of Cemetery Dance: Volume Two will be headed to the printer NEXT MONTH, and this HUGE new special edition showcases the very finest short stories from Cemetery Dance magazine, picking up where the acclaimed and award-winning first “Best of” volume left off!

For those Stephen King fans out there who want to read one of his earliest published short stories, this massive anthology concludes with his short story “The Glass Floor,” which was originally published in Startling Mystery Stories in 1967 and marked King’s first professional sale, earning him $35! We reprinted this one in Cemetery Dance a few years ago and are very pleased to be able to include it in The Best of Cemetery Dance: Volume Two with an introduction by Stephen King!

Featuring a virtual “who’s who” of today’s greatest authors of dark fiction, The Best of Cemetery Dance: Volume Two will be one of the most important anthologies published this year. Just a handful of the contributors include Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Peter Straub, Bentley Little, Michael Marshall Smith, Ray Garton, Jack Ketchum, Douglas Clegg, Poppy Z. Brite, Joe R. Lansdale, Nancy A. Collins, Peter Crowther, Norman Partridge, Ed Gorman, William F. Nolan, F. Paul Wilson, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Simon Clark, Richard Christian Matheson, David J. Schow, Stewart O’Nan, Glen Hirshberg, Ramsey Campbell, and dozens of others!

Cemetery Dance magazine has been published for more than thirty years now, and is the winner of the World Fantasy Award and the International Horror Critics Guild Award, as well as a nominee for both the British Fantasy Award and the American Horror Award. Don’t miss what’s sure to be one of the most talked about anthologies of next year!

Best of Cemetery Dance 2

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Double Feature Review: Stephen King at the Movies & The World of IT

cover of Stephen King at the Movies by Ian NathanStephen King at the Movies by Ian Nathan
Palazzo Editions (October 2019)
224 pages; $28.93 hardcover

The World of IT by Alyse Wax
Harry N. Abrams (September 2019)
224 pages: $24.49 hardcover; $16.79 e-book

Reviewed by Blu Gilliand

If there’s one thing we as horror fans have never been deprived of, it’s Stephen King adaptations. From major novels like The Shining and Misery to minor stories like “The Mangler” and “Secret Window, Secret Garden,” virtually every corner of King’s bibliography has been mined. If you count sequels and remakes, there are more than 80 film and television adaptations of King’s work…and counting.Continue Reading

SUFFER THE CHILDREN by John Saul: Now More Thank 95% Sold Out!

We’re pleased to report our Signed Limited Edition Hardcover of Suffer the Children by John Saul, the first of several books we have in production with this New York Times bestselling author, is now more than 95% sold out!

The collectors who order this book will be notified before the general public about our next John Saul special edition, so now is the time to lock in your order if you’re interested in having a nice matching set of these beautiful volumes down the road!

Suffer the Children

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Review: glass slipper dreams, shattered by doungjai gam

cover of glass slipper dreams, shatteredglass slipper dreams, shattered by doungjai gam
Apokrupha (July 2019)
80 pages; $7.99 paperback; $2.99 e-book
Reviewed by Kevin Lucia

Micro-fiction is a difficult genre to master. Like  poetry, it’s built on the art of distilled language. Expressions of thoughts, emotions, fear, pain, joy, nightmares, and dreams, conveyed through precise  word choice and imagery. And the key word here is precise. Micro-fiction can’t be just short. It  must be powerful, evocative, emotional…using the very essence of  language.Continue Reading

Gwendy’s Magic Feather: Signed Book Plates Available!

With just a little over one month to go until the publication date, we wanted to remind everyone that copies of Gwendy’s Magic Feather ordered through our website will be SIGNED by Richard Chizmar!

But if you order your copy from somewhere else like Amazon — where both Gwendy’s Magic Feather and Gwendy’s Button Box are still on sale for under $20 — and you would like a signed bookplate, just email a request to [email protected] and we will be happy to send you one!

GMF

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You can also preorder on Amazon.com if you’d like!

Revelations: Robert Aickman’s “Strange Stories

Banner for Revelations, the column written by Kevin Lucia for Cemetery Dance

Author Robert Aickman
Robert Aickman

I remember my first Robert Aickman story vividly. It was in February. Early in the morning. As the snow fell outside on an already white winter morning, I sat very still in my favorite chair, reading “The School Friend,” and wondering…just what was I reading? A story about a long-lost friend returning after her father’s death, to comfort her old school friend, who had fallen into a lonely life? Or was this friend something…more? Continue Reading

The Sky Done Ripped by Joe R. Lansdale: Trade Hardcover and Signed Limited Edition!

We’re pleased to report we’ll be getting copies of The Sky Done Ripped by Joe R. Lansdale from Subterranean Press, but we don’t expect our supplies to last very long!

Sky Done Ripped

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SUFFER THE CHILDREN by John Saul: The Classic Bestselling Novel Published As A Signed Limited Edition Hardcover!

We’re pleased to report we’ll be publishing the world’s first-ever Signed Limited Edition Hardcover of Suffer the Children by John Saul, the first of several books we have in production with him, and due to strong demand from collectors, we’re already down to our last 100 copies!

About the Book:
Innocence dies so easily. Evil lives again . . . and again . . . and again.

One hundred years ago in Port Arbello a pretty little girl began to scream. And struggle. And die. No one heard. No one saw. Just one man whose guilty heart burst in pain as he dashed himself to death in the sea.

Now something peculiar is happening in Port Arbello. The children are disappearing, one by one. An evil history is repeating itself. And one strange, terrified child has ended her silence with a scream that began a hundred years ago.

Suffer the Children

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Review: How to Survive a Horror Movie by Seth Grahame-Smith

Book cover of How to Survive a Horror Move by Seth Grahame-SmithHow to Survive a Horror Movie by Seth Grahame-Smith
Quirk Books (September 2019)
176 pages; $11.99 paperback; $9.99 e-book
Reviewed by Blu Gilliand

It’s the middle of October, just a couple of weeks away from Halloween as I write this, and I find myself (like, doubtless, many of you) in the midst of a horror movie marathon leading into my favorite holiday. Most of what I watch this time of year are classics that I’ve seen a time or two (or ten) before, and — again, I suspect, like many of you — I find myself constantly second-guessing the actions of the characters on the screen.Continue Reading

Sinister Purposes by Gary Raisor NEW eBook Edition On Sale Today For Just 99 Cents!

Heavily Revised & Includes A BRAND NEW Novel!

Hi Folks!

Wow, do we have a treat for horror readers today! Even if you think you know the book Sinister Purposes by Gary Raisor, you really don’t — especially not THIS new version!

Heavily re-worked, with a brand new novel leading off, this is a hefty collection of connected stories that form a unified, terrifying tale from horror master Gary Raisor!

Bargain priced at Amazon.com for a limited time only, snag your copy while you can, even if you don’t have time to read it right now… you don’t want to regret missing out on this one!

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Sinister Purposes eBook

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Review: The Place of Broken Things by Linda D. Addison and Alessandro Manzetti

The Place of Broken Things by Linda D. Addison and Alessandro Manzetti
Crystal Lake Publishing (July 2019)
88 pages; $11.99 paperback; $3.99 e-book
Reviewed by Anton Cancre

Let’s face it: No matter how little we may want to admit it, we’re all at least a bit broken. Something, somewhere in each of us shattered at some time or another. We’ve all felt displaced, alone, in the face of the feeling. The Place of Broken Things is centered around looking at those broken places both within us and without and about placing them in the world.Continue Reading

Video Visions: Drilling Down into The Slumber Party Massacre

With the coming of my latest Flame Tree Press book, Slash, I’ve decided to spend the rest of the year exploring the slasher genre that was the backdrop of my youth. Nothing like transitioning from “coming-of-age” to “psychos murdering people in creative and sometimes amusing ways.” Continue Reading

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson: New Signed & Slipcased Artist Edition from Suntup Editions!

We’re pleased to report we will be getting copies of the amazing new signed & slipcased Artist Gift Edition hardcover of I Am Legend by Richard Matheson from Suntup Editions, but our supplies won’t last long! If you haven’t experienced a Suntup production yet, this is a great way to see what all of the fuss is about!

Signed by Allen Williams, this Artist Gift Edition is limited to 1000 copies and features a dust jacket with wrap-around artwork. It is a full cloth smyth-sewn binding with two-hits foil stamping, and printed endsheets. The book is printed offset, and is housed in a unique embossed paper-covered slipcase with cloth on the upper and lower sections.

I Am Legend

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