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Review: The Fearing, Book One: Fire & Rain by John F. D. Taff

Cemetery Dance OnlineJune 14, 2019June 13, 2019ReviewsFire & Rain, Grey Matter Press, John F.D. Taff, Mother Horror, Reviews, Sadie Hartmann, The Fearing3 Comments

The Fearing, Book One: Fire & Rain by John F.D. Taff
Grey Matter Press (July 9, 2019)
$3.99 e-book
Reviewed by Sadie “Mother Horror” Hartmann

I think it’s a fact that human beings are obsessed with stories about our own cataclysmic demise. There’s something about this potential threat to the end of the world as we know it that inspires writers to pen epic sagas exploring humanity under extreme duress. Off the top of my head, I have enjoyed apocalyptic books like The Stand by Stephen King, Swan Song by Robert McCammon, and The Passage by Justin Cronin.Continue Reading

Want a Personalized Horror Painting For Your Home or Office?

Cemetery Dance OnlineJune 13, 2019June 13, 2019Breaking NewsLeave a comment

Glenn Chadbourne Haunts Your House, Paints Your Zombie Family Portraits, Zombifies Your Pet, and Haunts Your Holidays!
These Paintings Will be 11 X 17 and ONE OF A KIND and Unique For YOU!

Glenn Chadbourne, who is known all over the world for his incredible horror paintings and his work with Stephen King, is making some time available in his schedule so he can work on a few commissioned, personalized horror paintings for our collectors!

For those who haven’t seen these before, Glenn will paint FULL SIZE COLOR PAINTINGS — these are not just a drawing or a sketch!

Several days of painting and layering will go into the work, and these are absolutely the coolest piece of original artwork you could commission!

These unique works of art will look great in your home or office, and they will be numbered “1 of 1” so everyone will know you own the original! An original Glenn Chadbourne painting could be the perfect gift for the special horror reader in your life — or for
yourself because you won’t find these anywhere else!

Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!

Cardinal Black by Robert McCammon: The Latest Thrilling Matthew Corbett Adventure Is Selling Out Fast!

Cemetery Dance OnlineJune 12, 2019Breaking NewsLeave a comment

Due to higher than expected demand from book distributors, our supplies of the 1st Printing of the 1st Edition of Cardinal Black by Robert McCammon are dwindling fast, so please do not wait to place your order!

And if you’re a fan of eBooks, why not grab your copy now if you haven’t already? Yeah, the eBook isn’t going anywhere, but on the other hand, downloading your copy now means it’s ready to read whenever you are!

Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!

Review: The Widening Gyre by Michael R. Johnston

Cemetery Dance OnlineJune 12, 2019June 11, 2019Reviews- Frank Michaels Errington, Flame Tree Press, Michael R. Johnston, Reviews, The Remembrance War, The Widening Gyre1 Comment

Editor’s Note: Our friend and colleague Frank Michaels Errington passed away on May 31. Frank was a voracious reader and prolific reviewer, and had filed several reviews with us before we lost him. His family has granted us permission to run those reviews, including the one below.

The Widening Gyre: The Remberance War Book 1 by Michael R. Johnston
Flame Tree Press (March 2019)
256 pages; $16.48 hardcover; $10.37 paperback; $6.29 e-book
Reviewed by Frank Michaels Errington

Warning: The Widening Gyre: The Remembrance War Book 1 is the beginning of a series. The good news is this is a complete story. Should you decide not to read future tales in said series, you can rest assured you’ve read a great yarn. But, I can’t imagine you not wanting to read the rest of the stories Michael R. Johnston has planned. The Widening Gyre is the best Space Opera I’ve read in years.Continue Reading

Review: Neon Dies at Dawn by Andersen Prunty

Cemetery Dance OnlineJune 10, 2019June 9, 2019ReviewsAndersen Prunty, Anton Cancre, Grindhouse Press, Neon Dies at Dawn, ReviewsLeave a comment

Neon Dies at Dawn by Andersen Prunty
Grindhouse Press (March 2019)
130 pages; $12.95 paperback; $2.99 e-book
Reviewed by Anton Cancre

I will admit that I was drawn to this book by the cover. That vaporwave, retro ’80s look is all the rage nowadays, and this one surely pops with just the right balance of bright light and dust. I was not prepared for the story inside, though, which is kind of my own fault for thinking I was prepared for anything Prunty writes.Continue Reading

Dead Trees: The Armageddon Rag by George R.R. Martin

Cemetery Dance OnlineJune 7, 2019June 6, 2019Dead TreesColumns, Dead Trees, George R.R. Martin, Mark Sieber, The Armageddon RagLeave a comment

Many look back to the Splatterpunk days of Skipp, Spector, and Schow for the birth of heavy metal horror. And, certainly, The Scream and The Kill Riff were extraordinary examples of groundbreaking, rock and roll horror of the time. But they were not the first.

My social media feeds are filled with talk about Game of Thrones. The beloved show has finally ended, and the last episode was hotly controversial. George R.R. Martin is the most popular fantasy writer since J.R.R. Tolkien, but once upon a time Martin was poised to be a horror writer.Continue Reading

The Last Christmas by F. Paul Wilson: New Signed Limited Edition Hardcover from Gauntlet Press!

Cemetery Dance OnlineJune 6, 2019Breaking NewsLeave a comment

We’re pleased to report we’ll be receiving copies of both signed editions of The Last Christmas by F. Paul Wilson from Gauntlet Press, but please place your order ASAP because we don’t know how long our supplies will last!

About the Book:
Jack is back.

It’s late December between Ground Zero and Fatal Error, a winter of discontent for Jack who’s perhaps spending too much time hanging at Julio’s. An old contact, Edward Burkes, convinces him to take on a missing-person fix. As usual, nothing is as it seems and the missing person isn’t exactly a person. In fact, it’s like nothing anyone has ever seen.

And in the middle of all this, the mysterious Madame de Medici hires him to safeguard a valuable object. Simple, right?

Not even close.

Yep, Jack is back and, as usual, weird trouble is on his heels.

Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!

Review: We Live Inside Your Eyes by Kealan Patrick Burke

Cemetery Dance OnlineJune 6, 2019June 5, 2019ReviewsBlu Gilliand, Elderlemon Press, Kealan Patrick Burke, Reviews, We Live Inside Your Eyes3 Comments

We Live Inside Your Eyes by Kealan Patrick Burke
Elderlemon Press (April 2019)
227 pages; $9.99 paperback; $4.99 e-book
Reviewed by Blu Gilliand

I’ve long considered Kealan Patrick Burke to be something of a throwback. I imagine him as one of those long-ago pulp writers who used to churn out stories by the fistful, back when there were magazine racks brimming over with periodicals hungry for tales. Like them, Burke never seems to run out of ideas, always finding fresh approaches to the tropes of his chosen genre. To see what I mean, look no further than his new collection We Live Inside Your Eyes, a batch of scary stories that run the gamut from quietly unsettling to downright terrifying.Continue Reading

Review: Dragonfly and Other Songs of Mourning by Michelle Scalise

Cemetery Dance OnlineJune 4, 2019June 3, 2019ReviewsAnton Cancre, Dragonfly and Other Songs of Mourning, Lycan Valley Press, Michelle Scalise, ReviewsLeave a comment

Dragonfly and Other Songs of Mourning by Michelle Scalise
Lycan Valley Press (May 2019)
56 pages; $15 hardcover; $8.50 paperback
Reviewed by Anton Cancre

Death may be our most common denominator, but loss is the thing that really connects all of us. While we all die eventually, we don’t usually have much to say about the experience afterwords. But, when someone we care about passes into the dense fog of whatever it is that follows, all of us are left dealing with the absence. That coping is what Dragonfly is about.Continue Reading

In Remembrance of Frank Michaels Errington

Cemetery Dance OnlineJune 3, 2019June 2, 2019Reviews- Frank Michaels Errington2 Comments

Cemetery Dance, and the horror fiction community as a whole, lost a special member of our ranks last week when Frank Michaels Errington passed away.

I never got the chance to meet Frank in person, but we’ve been swapping emails and Tweets for almost four years. One of the first reviews I ran after we started Cemetery Dance Online was Frank’s take on Little Girls by Ronald Malfi. “Includes one of the most disgusting scenes I’ve ever read,” he wrote in that review, and I could just see him grinning about that. His love and enthusiasm for horror was infectious and shined through every review he wrote. Even when he didn’t love (or like) the book he was reviewing, he tried to find something positive to say.Continue Reading

Revelations: Robert McCammon

Cemetery Dance OnlineMay 31, 2019May 30, 2019RevelationsColumns, Kevin Lucia, Revelations, Robert McCammon4 Comments

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

Author Robert McCammon

(Before we begin, a moment of shameless self-promotion: For a limited time, the ebook of my novella quartet, Through A Mirror, Darkly, is free on Amazon. That’s a price you can’t beat! Grab it while you can.)

I have friend and colleague Bob Ford to thank for introducing me to Robert McCammon’s work. I’m not sure exactly when I stumbled across his blog entry about Boy’s Life, but it must’ve been late summer or early fall 2010, because I read Boy’s Life for the first time not long after. And, I can say—without an ounce of hyperbole—that novel impacted me more than any novel I’ve ever read. It changed me, fundamentally, as a writer. I made me realize the limitless possibilities of speculative fiction. Continue Reading

REVIVAL: The Deluxe Special Edition by Stephen King — LAST DAY TO RESERVE YOUR COPY!

Cemetery Dance OnlineMay 31, 2019May 31, 2019Breaking NewsLeave a comment

REVIVAL: The Deluxe Special Edition
by Stephen King
LAST DAY TO RESERVE YOUR COPY!
TOMORROW, THE BOOK IS OUT OF PRINT FOREVER!

Hi Folks!

Well, the headline speaks for itself, we think: today is the last day ever to order REVIVAL: THE DELUXE SPECIAL EDITION by Stephen King!

Tomorrow, Brian Freeman will add up all the orders from his retailers and start printing the signature sheets, so the book have an official print run and be OUT OF PRINT forever! No additional copies will be printed or distributed.

PLEASE NOTE: Production updates galore will be shared via the LetterPress Publications mailing list, and the LetterPress Publications social media pages: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

If you haven’t reserved your copy yet. this is your very last chance, and we strongly recommend you do so because this special edition is going to be incredible!

Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!

REVIVAL: The Deluxe Special Edition: Time Is Running Out To Secure Your Limited Edition!

Cemetery Dance OnlineMay 29, 2019Breaking NewsLeave a comment

REVIVAL: The Deluxe Special Edition
by Stephen King
The First Limited Edition from LetterPress Publications!
From the team that helped make The Secretary of Dreams, It, Doctor Sleep, Sleeping Beauties, and many other amazing special editions!

Hi Folks!

We cannot say enough good things about Brian James Freeman’s new side project, LetterPress Publications, and obviously he’s starting out in a big way with his special edition of REVIVAL: THE DELUXE SPECIAL EDITION by Stephen King!

Brian and his wife worked together here for many, many years on hundreds of Cemetery Dance books including our most popular Stephen King special editions from THE SECRETARY OF DREAMS to IT to DOCTOR SLEEP to their final CD collaboration, SLEEPING BEAUTIES, which began shipping last week!

We hope you’ll show him the same support you’ve always show us over the years while also getting in on the ground floor of an incredible new press (wait until you hear about his plans for his second project!) by ordering your copy of REVIVAL: THE DELUXE SPECIAL EDITION by Stephen King through our online store today:

Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!

Review: The Gemini Experiment by Brian Pinkerton

Cemetery Dance OnlineMay 29, 2019May 24, 2019Reviews- Frank Michaels Errington, Brian Pinkerton, Flame Tree Press, Reviews, The Gemini ExperimentLeave a comment

The Gemini Experiment by Brian Pinkerton
Flame Tree Press (May 30, 2019)
240 pages; $16.48 hardcover; $10.37 paperback; $6.99 e-book
Reviewed by Frank Michaels Errington

The premise is somewhat familiar and rather simple. Technology has advanced to the point where it’s possible to digitize the mind. Combine this with the ability to create a perfect, nearly indestructible, mirror-image of a human body and you have the recipe for immortality…or disaster.Continue Reading

Review: The Bone Weaver’s Orchard by Sarah Read

Cemetery Dance OnlineMay 28, 2019May 24, 2019ReviewsMother Horror, Reviews, Sadie Hartmann, Sarah Read, The Bone Weaver's Orchard, Trepidatio Pub1 Comment

The Bone Weaver’s Orchard by Sarah Read
Trepidatio Pub (February 2019)
194 pages; $12.36 paperback; $4.95 e-book
Reviewed by Sadie Hartmann

Where are my fellow John Bellairs fans? Raise your hands and be counted. I need to know who you are. It’s important to this review because I’m an avid horror fan who was first nourished on the horror milk of John Bellairs novels. Bellairs wrote dark, gothic mysteries for young readers and he never shied away from being “too scary” for kids. I relished my time in those pages.

Here I am now at forty-two years of age and Sarah Read, the talented author of The Bone Weaver’s Orchard, has just rekindled that fire by tapping some of my favorite things I loved as a young reader.Continue Reading

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