Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Dead AirLeave a comment on Dead Air: Unboxing Jeff Terry I was waiting on my copy of the Gift Edition of The Shining from the Cemetery Dance “Stephen King Doubleday Years Set” to arrive, so I thought I’d search for some unboxing videos so I could see what people thought about it — and to get a closer look at the finished product. One of … Continue Reading! “Dead Air: Unboxing Jeff Terry”
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories InterviewsLeave a comment on Interview: John Urbancik’s Dark Walk John Urbancik has kept the ink flowing across the blurred lines of dark fantasy and horror with well over twenty books to date and counting. His rich style invokes a strong sense of cautious wonder even as you fear what lurks beyond the next page. From a book of poems and stunning photography (John The Revelator) … Continue Reading! “Interview: John Urbancik’s Dark Walk”
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Breaking NewsLeave a comment on Last Chance to Order Books For the Holidays! We’ve heard from a bunch of readers who are ordering copies of The Girl Who Builds Monsters and some other in-stock items for gifts, so we wanted to put out the word that we really need your order ASAP if you want your order delivered before Christmas. Our warehouse is slammed with Night Shift prep and shipping … Continue Reading! “Last Chance to Order Books For the Holidays!”
From the Academy Award-nominated short film The Woman in the Room, Frank Darabont’s first writer/director effort, to The Blob, The Fly II, The Mist, the first season of The Walking Dead and, of course, The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile and several more in between, Darabont has spent over thirty years creating films to … Continue Reading! “Interview: Frank Darabont on Hope and Miracles, Redemption, and Walking the Mile”
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Video VisionsLeave a comment on Video Visions: The Ultimate Movie for Halloween Night Look, I know most normal people aren’t like me, setting aside about 50 movies to watch each October. I mean, who has that kind of time and demented dedication? If I think I won’t have time to watch a movie when I get home from work, I’ll set the alarm to wake me up at … Continue Reading! “Video Visions: The Ultimate Movie for Halloween Night”
Escape from the Billings Mall: A Select Your Own Timeline Adventure by Chuck Tingle Independently Published (April 2020) 154 pages; $12.66 paperback; $6.99 e-book Reviewed by Anton Cancre Dr. Chuck Tingle tends to be treated as a joke. That guy who writes those silly Pounded books. However, that is only by those who have not bothered … Continue Reading! “Review: Escape from the Billings Mall: A Select Your Own Timeline Adventure by Chuck Tingle”
“I Contain Multitudes” What is a novella? In some quarters, it’s defined as a long short story or a short novel. But this is the Stephen King Universe we’re dealing with, where “The Langoliers,” coming it at over 90,000 words—a length many writers would find appropriate for a novel—is considered a novella because it was … Continue Reading! “Bev Vincent Reviews If It Bleeds by Stephen King”
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Revelations2 Comments on Revelations: The Third Level by Jack Finney Ironically, in my quest to discover other horror writers besides Stephen King, (I adore King’s work but at that time, I was reading him exclusively), it was King himself who helped lead the way. Somewhere in the middle of that quest I finally, for the first time, read his non-fiction treatise on the horror genre, … Continue Reading! “Revelations: The Third Level by Jack Finney”
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories My First FrightLeave a comment on My First Fright featuring Gwendolyn Kiste Two of the biggest horror-comedy films of the 1980s debuted on the exact same weekend in June 1984. Ghostbusters was the bigger success of the two, but Gremlins has remained a fan favorite amongst ’80s kids, and for good reason. It’s silly, with eye-catching character designs that just scream MERCHANDISE OPPORTUNITIES, but it’s also a … Continue Reading! “My First Fright featuring Gwendolyn Kiste”
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories InterviewsLeave a comment on Interview: Nicholas Day talks the GRIND Nicholas Day is a science fiction, horror, and crime fiction writer, and is the co-owner (with fellow writer Don Noble) of Rooster Republic Press. His first novel, Grind Your Bones to Dust, will be released on October 10. Recently, Day sat down with Cemetery Dance’s own “Mother Horror” for a chat about creativity, wild donkeys, and … Continue Reading! “Interview: Nicholas Day talks the GRIND”
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Reviews1 Comment on Review: The Bone Weaver’s Orchard by Sarah Read 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 … Continue Reading! “Review: The Bone Weaver’s Orchard by Sarah Read”
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Interviews3 Comments on Interview: Paul Tremblay on Craft, King, and Building His Cabin Paul Tremblay’s path to becoming the bestselling author he is today was quite different from that traveled by most other writers. “I would say it was atypical,” he observes. While Tremblay remembers Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” as being something that resonated with him in elementary school, he didn’t find much enjoyment in reading … Continue Reading! “Interview: Paul Tremblay on Craft, King, and Building His Cabin”
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories ReviewsLeave a comment on Review: Black Wings by Megan Hart Black Wings by Megan Hart Flame Tree Press (February 2019) 240 pages; $20.64 hardcover; $10.37 paperback; $6.99 e-book Reviewed by Frank Michaels Errington Briella is a bright child, some would say gifted. That being said, she does have trouble making friends. Along with a loathing for personal hygiene and lack of friends, Briella had taken up … Continue Reading! “Review: Black Wings by Megan Hart”
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Revelations4 Comments on Revelations: The Repairman Jack Saga by F. Paul Wilson As I’ve written this series, I’ve found it necessary to achieve a tenuous balance in my recommendations and recountings of the horror which has impacted me as a reader and writer. I’ve bounced a lot between the descriptions “fun and fast-paced” and “literate and full of substance.” The truth of the matter (as I’ve come … Continue Reading! “Revelations: The Repairman Jack Saga by F. Paul Wilson”
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories ReviewsLeave a comment on Review: Hag by Kathleen Kaufman Hag by Kathleen Kaufman Turner (October 2018) 336 pages; $25.19 hardcover; $11.59 paperback; $11.01 e-book Reviewed by Sadie Hartmann The book Hag by Kathleen Kaufman is exactly what I’ve always wanted in a novel about witches. Every night, I crawled into bed and let my mind escape to the Scottish lowlands to hear more about the Cailleach … Continue Reading! “Review: Hag by Kathleen Kaufman”
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