Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories ReviewsLeave a comment on Review: The Chill by Scott Carson 
The Chill by Scott Carson
Atria (February 11, 2020)
448 pages; $24.30 hardcover; $12.99 e-book
Reviewed by Dave Simms
What is The Chill? Answer: the first great novel of 2020 that sets a high bar for the rest of the genre with a story that both mines familiar territory but digs deeper than most.Continue Reading
In our last column, we discussed Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto—a novel written in 1764 that merged supernatural situations with realistic characters in a natural setting. I mentioned that while it was inarguably the world’s first supernatural horror novel, the marketing category of Horror wasn’t invented until the Eighties, so it was instead categorized as a “Gothic.” Continue Reading
First Novel Ever by the director and screenwriter of Fright Night and the original Child’s Play!
We’re very pleased to report we’ll be publishing The Notch by Tom Holland, the very first novel ever by the director and screenwriter of Fright Night and the original Child’s Play!
About the Book:
Joe Arachro pulled to a halt on a small hillock, looking across the expanse as it rose up into a sudden flat top butte. There was another jagged butte tilting at an angle next to the mesa, not as wide or long. It was like they just appeared from nowhere, dropped down here in the middle of the desert. And in the shimmering glare in the notch between these two buttes, a ten-year-old boy walked out of the sun, surrounded by the blazing rays.
The boy doesn’t speak, but he has startling powers: he heals a young girl’s torn cuticle, and later erases all damage to a man’s badly burnt hand, and it seems there’s no limit to the miracles he can perform. After a dog gets run over by a car, the boy apparently brings the animal back to life, and a video of the event goes viral. Suddenly everybody has an idea of who the boy is, and what he might do for them — and it’s a race against time to see who can get to the boy first and gain control over him.
In the wrong hands, the boy’s powers could be catastrophic.
From Tom Holland, director and screenwriter of Fright Night and the original Child’s Play, comes this new fast-paced thriller with surprises at every turn.
Read more or place your order on our website while supplies last!
Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!
Bloody Walls: A Collection from a Fractured Mind by Thomas Scopel
Independently Published (July 2019)
236 pages; $7.99 paperback; $0.99 e-book
Reviewed by R.B. Payne
A corpus is technically defined as a collection of a single writer’s work or grouped writings about a particular subject—in this case, Thomas Scopel and his horror scrivenings. Given there are eleven tales of terror in this volume and about an equal number of speculative dark fiction shorts, there is certainly something here for everyone.Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories ReviewsLeave a comment on Review: Grim Harvest by Patrick Greene 
Grim Harvest by Patrick Greene
Lyrical Underground (September 2019)
197 pages; $7.85 paperback; $4.99 e-book
Reviewed by R.B. Payne
Grim Harvest by Patrick C. Greene is the second novel of “The Haunted Hollow Chronicles,” a planned series centering on Ember Hollow, an isolated community in the American heartland where cell phones and the internet simply don’t work. When, at the annual Halloween Harvest, events take a nasty supernatural turn, they have only themselves to count on.
And that may not be enough.Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Dead Trees1 Comment on Dead Trees: Nightmare Seasons by Charles L. Grant 
2020. As I write this, the new year and new decade are seven hours away. I think back to the years and years I have spent as a horror reader, and I am reflecting on the one moment when it all crystallized and became embedded into my soul.
I’d have to say the year was 1984. Thirty-six long years ago. Years that brought joy beyond belief, heartbreak, laughs, fun, agony, laughs, tears. All of this and lots more.Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories ReviewsLeave a comment on Review: Every Foul Spirit by William Gorman 
Every Foul Spirit by William Gorman
Crystal Lake Publishing (October 2019)
112 pages; $9.99 paperback; $2.99 e-book
Reviewed by R.B. Payne
In horror fiction, there are often remote towns and villages such as Oxrun Station (Charles L. Grant), Cedar Hill (Gary Braunbeck) and even Ulthar (H. P. Lovecraft). In these wicked places on the backroads of fear, dark forces gather and do evil upon the innocent and not-so-innocent. These are off-the-main highway places where malignant entities rise and make a bloody and horrifying mess by ravaging pets, murdering children, compromising priests and virgins, befouling police officers, and corrupting any responsible adult who doesn’t have the sense to get the hell out of town when the first flesh-stripped beheaded corpse appears. Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories ReviewsLeave a comment on Review: Spungunion by John Boden 
Spungunion by John Boden
Fungasm Press (January 15, 2020)
106 pages: $9.95 paperback
Reviewed by Sadie “Mother Horror” Hartmann
Once every blue moon, a reader will encounter an author who possesses a storytelling style that works for them every damn time. I have a few of these authors. Let’s call them the “Do-No-Wrongs.”
John Boden is a “Do-No-Wrong.”Continue Reading
Author Bev VincentPosted on Categories Stephen King News from the Dead ZoneLeave a comment on Bev Vincent reviews The Outsider (HBO) 
“There’s Always a Reasonable Explanation”
This Sunday, January 12th, HBO premieres the first two episodes of their 10-episode adaptation of The Outsider. Is it good? Absolutely. One of the best. Before I get into that, let me take a little step back.Continue Reading
For some reason, the eBay link we used for thsoe auctions by along-time Cemetery Dance staffer didn’t work for everyone. Here’s a different link to try if you would like to see her listings!
In other news, yesterday Richard Chizmar started promoting a big Amazon.com sale on Gwendy’s Magic Feather, only to see the price go back to normal a few minutes later. To make it up to everyone who missed out, we are temporarily reducing the price of the Signed 1st Edition Hardcovers of the book on our website to just $12.50! This price won’t last long, though, so be sure to order ASAP if you want one!
Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!
A long-time Cemetery Dance staffer (25+ years!) is parting with some of her small press collection this month via eBay, including some much sought-after CD titles! Keep checking this eBay link for new listings over the next few weeks, and please bid early and often!
Also, have you been chatting with other horror fans, readers, and collectors on the Cemetery Dance Forum? If not, now would be a great time to join everyone there. It’s free and many of our top collectors are there to discuss books, movies, and more!
Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories ReviewsLeave a comment on Review: The Sky Done Ripped by Joe R. Lansdale 
The Sky Done Ripped by Joe R. Lansdale
Subterranean Press (December 2019)
296 pages; $95 signed limited edition hardcover; $40 trade edition hardcover; $6.99 e-book
Reviewed by Blu Gilliand
I think that, sometimes, in the midst of all the discussion about craft and theme and structure, we—meaning writers and readers and reviewers—forget that this stuff is supposed to be fun. It’s so refreshing, then, when an author like Joe R. Lansdale comes along, manuscript in hand and shit-eating grin on his face, to remind us of that very fact.Continue Reading
For those who missed out on the hardcover edition of Gwendy’s Magic Feather, the thrilling sequel to the New York Times bestselling novella by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar, there will be Trade Paperback and eBook editions published later this month!
“Something evil has swept into the small Maine town of Castle Rock on the heels of the latest winter storm. Sheriff Norris Ridgewick and his team are desperately searching for two missing girls, but time is running out…”
Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!
We’re very pleased to announce the Cemetery Dance Automatic Store Credit Plan for 2020, the new our very popular savings program we re-launched last year to great acclaim from collectors!
For those of you on a budget or who just enjoy saving big on your collectible book purchases, this special offer will help you to build a huge collection at a fraction of the retail price. Whether you’re a general reader or a hardcore collector or general reader or a big Stephen King fan, this is the deal you really cannot afford to miss!
Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Breaking NewsLeave a comment on FREE AND DISCOUNTED eBOOKS FOR A VERY LIMITED TIME ONLY! Our eBook editor, Norman Prentiss, has some of his own books on sale or reduced to promote his incredibly fun Apocalypse-a-Day Desk Calendar eBook series.
Volume 3 and Volume 4 of the series were just released this week, and Volume 1 is currently free (last day!), with Volume 2 reduced to 99 cents for a limited time. Here’s a link for all 4 books in the series!
In addition, his mini-collection THE BOOK OF BABY NAMES, which sold out as a limited edition hardcover, is a free eBook for the next few days!
And, IN THE BEST STORIES, AND OTHER UNEASY HORRORS, a 4-story collection featuring the Bram Stoker Award-winning short, “In the Porches of My Ears,” is also free for a limited time!
Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!
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