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My First Fright featuring Gwendolyn Kiste

Cemetery Dance OnlineApril 3, 2020March 31, 2020My First FrightColumns, Gremlins, Gwendolyn Kiste, John Brhel, My First FrightLeave a comment

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”

Interview: Nicholas Day talks the GRIND

Cemetery Dance OnlineOctober 4, 2019October 7, 2019InterviewsExcession Press, Grind Your Bones To Dust, Interviews, Mother Horror, Nick Day, Sadie HartmannLeave a comment

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”

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 … Continue Reading! “Review: The Bone Weaver’s Orchard by Sarah Read”

Interview: Paul Tremblay on Craft, King, and Building His Cabin

Cemetery Dance OnlineMay 17, 2019May 17, 2019InterviewsA Head Full of Ghosts, Andrew J. Rausch, Disappearance at Devil's Rock, Interviews, Paul Tremblay, The Cabin at the End of the World3 Comments

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”

Review: Black Wings by Megan Hart

Cemetery Dance OnlineApril 10, 2019April 7, 2019Reviews- Frank Michaels Errington, Black Wings, Flame Tree Press, Megan Hart, ReviewsLeave a comment

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”

Revelations: The Repairman Jack Saga by F. Paul Wilson

Cemetery Dance OnlineMarch 8, 2019March 7, 2019RevelationsColumns, F. Paul Wilson, Kevin Lucia, Repairman Jack, Revelations5 Comments

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”

Review: Hag by Kathleen Kaufman

Cemetery Dance OnlineNovember 19, 2018November 18, 2018ReviewsHag, Kathleen Kaufman, Reviews, Sadie HartmannLeave a comment

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”

Firestarter and Standing Up to “The Man”

Cemetery Dance OnlineAugust 24, 2018August 22, 2018What I Learned from Stephen KingColumns, Firestarter, Jason Sechrest, What I Learned from Stephen KingLeave a comment

It’s easy to see why Stephen King’s Firestarter was nearly the novel we never read. Abandoning his manuscript on several occasions, King felt the book was too much like Carrie and feared he would be copying himself. While Carrie White had telekinesis (the ability to move objects with her mind), Charlie McGee’s gift (or curse) … Continue Reading! “Firestarter and Standing Up to “The Man””

Revelations: Ray Bradbury

Cemetery Dance OnlineMay 4, 2018May 3, 2018RevelationsColumns, Dandelion Wine, Kevin Lucia, October Country, Ray Bradbury, Revelations1 Comment

Wednesday, June 6th, 2012. First period, 10th Grade Honors English. Roughly 9 a.m. That’s when I heard the news. Even today, as I write this, I feel a chill. Looking back, it was not only a surreal and an unbelievable experience…it also offered a moment of affirmation for me as a teacher that hasn’t been … Continue Reading! “Revelations: Ray Bradbury”

Review: The Goat Parade by Peter Dudar

Cemetery Dance OnlineApril 18, 2018April 17, 2018ReviewsDave Simms, Grinning Skull Press, Peter Dudar, Reviews, The Goat ParadeLeave a comment

The Goat Parade by Peter Dudar Grinning Skull Press (March 2018) 300 pages; $23.58 paperback; $3.99 e-book Reviewed by Dave Simms Peter Dudar hit the scene hard with his Stoker finalist A Requiem For Dead Flies, offering a style that evoked the best of Bentley Little and Rick Hautula. He returns with The Goat Parade, a novel … Continue Reading! “Review: The Goat Parade by Peter Dudar”

Review: Hellraiser: The Toll by Mark Alan Miller

Cemetery Dance OnlineFebruary 5, 2018January 30, 2018ReviewsBlu Gilliand, Clive Barker, Hellraiser: The Toll, Mark Alan Miller, Reviews, Subterranean Press1 Comment

Hellraiser: The Toll by Mark Alan Miller Subterranean Press (February 28, 2018) 96 pages; $40 hardcover Reviewed by Blu Gilliand Over the years, the Hellraiser mythology has become something of a hash, combining elements of Clive Barker’s original novella The Hellbound Heart with bits from the Hellraiser movies (mainly the first two in the franchise: Hellraiser and … Continue Reading! “Review: Hellraiser: The Toll by Mark Alan Miller”

My First Fright featuring Grady Hendrix

Cemetery Dance OnlineJanuary 26, 2018January 24, 2018My First FrightColumns, Grady Hendrix, John Brhel, My First Fright, Paperbacks from HellLeave a comment

If you’ve read Paperbacks from Hell, you know that Grady Hendrix is an expert on horror fiction, most specifically mass-market paperbacks produced during the boom of the ’70s and ’80s, with their often eye-popping—some might say “garish”—cover art. What, you might ask, inspired such a fascination for weird, macabre books? In Hendrix’s case, it was … Continue Reading! “My First Fright featuring Grady Hendrix”

Exhumed: “Four-in-Hand” and “Life of the Party”

Cemetery Dance OnlineNovember 3, 2017November 3, 2017ExhumedColumns, Exhumed, K. Edwin Fritz, William Relling Jr.2 Comments

This is Exhumed’s 12th installment. That’s right, peeps, it’s been a full year of digging up and examining great old stories from the bowels of Cemetery Dance. Wow. What an honor it’s been thus far.

The Dungeon of Count Verlock

Cemetery Dance OnlineMarch 20, 2017March 19, 2017Free FictionFiction, Kindle Scout, Life in a Haunted House, Norman Prentiss, The Dungeon of Count VerlockLeave a comment

“The Dungeon of Count Verlock” (A Budget Studio Production) edited by Norman Prentiss This previously unpublished story, an anonymous “novelization” of a movie written and directed by Bud “Budget” Preston, was scheduled to appear in issue 101 of Monster Project magazine. For more information about the history of this story, and how I uncovered it, … Continue Reading! “The Dungeon of Count Verlock”

“The Departing of Debbie” and “Terry and the Werewolf”

Cemetery Dance OnlineJanuary 18, 2017January 18, 2017ExhumedAnke M. Kriske, Columns, Exhumed, Exhumed: The Fiction of Cemetery Dance Magazine, K. Edwin Fritz, William Peter Blatty3 Comments

Hello again, folks. This is the fourth installment of monthly double reviews studying the structure of great horror fiction published in our beloved Cemetery Dance. Last time I reviewed John B. Rosenman’s “Rock of Ages” from Cemetery Dance #1 (1988) and K. S. Clay’s “Bad Luck” from Cemetery Dance #74/75 (2016). Fellow author James Pyne commented that … Continue Reading! ““The Departing of Debbie” and “Terry and the Werewolf””

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