Review: ‘Cry Your Way Home’ by Damien Angelica Walters

Cemetery Dance OnlineDecember 18, 2017December 17, 2017ReviewsAnton Cancre, Apex Publications, Cry Your Way Home, Damien Angelica Walters, ReviewsLeave a comment

Cry Your Way Home by Damien Angelica Walters
Apex Publications (January 2, 2018)
240 pages, $14.95 paperback; $4.99 e-book
Reviewed by Anton Cancre

I’m hoping by now that you already know who the esteemed Ms. Walters is. The queen of deft, delightfully flowing, yet quietly unobtrusive words, and the wielder of one hell of a wicked blade aimed right at your weak spots, is back with another handful of slender needles to poke holes in the red lump of knotted muscle. It doesn’t disappoint.Continue Reading

The Women I Have Known

Cemetery Dance OnlineFebruary 27, 2017February 22, 2017EssaysAmber Fallon, Anne Rice, Charlee Jacob, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Cherie Priest, Damien Angelica Walters, Daphne du Maurier, Elizabeth Massie, Essays, Francis Stevens, Joyce Carol Oates, Karen Taylor, Kathe Koja, Krisi de Meester, Kristin Dearborn, Lisa Tuttle, Lucy Taylor, Marjorie Bowen, Mary SanGiovanni, Mary Shelley, Melanie Tem, Melissa Lason, Michelle Garza, Nancy Collins, Sarah Langan, Sarah Pinborough, Shirley Jackson, Somer Cannon, Tanith Lee, The Women I Have Known, V.C. Andrews, Women In Horror6 Comments

The Women I Have Known
by Mary SanGiovanni

As a horror writer coming up in the first decade of the new millennium, I’ve had the opportunity to see the dual perspectives of women’s place in the horror genre, the former reflecting where we used to be, and the latter reflecting how much progress we’ve made. Continue Reading

Where Are We Going, Where Have We Been?

Cemetery Dance OnlineFebruary 6, 2017February 5, 2017EssaysDamien Angelica Walters, Joyce Carol Oates, Women In Horror1 Comment

Where Are We Going, Where Have We Been?
by Damien Angelica Walters

The first book I read by Joyce Carol Oates wasn’t by Joyce Carol Oates at all. It was a creepy thriller called Soul/Mate, written by Rosamond Smith, about a psychopath who becomes infatuated with a woman and kills anyone he thinks stands in the way of her happiness. Continue Reading

Review: 'Paper Tigers' by Damien Angelica Walters

Cemetery Dance OnlineFebruary 29, 2016ReviewsDamien Angelica Walters, Featured, Jonathan Reitan, Paper Tigers, ReviewsLeave a comment

Paper Tigers by Damien Angelica Walters
Dark House Press (February 29, 2016)
286 pages; $10.63 paperback
Reviewed by Jonathan Reitan

In a horribly tragic apartment fire, Allison is left disfigured and emotionally haunted by the inner ghosts of pain the trauma has caused. Her disfigurement is so overpowering, Allison confines herself to her home to escape the constant stares and whispers from the outside world. A nagging mother and routine visits with a therapist are her only connections to reality.

In her own personal confinement, Allison finds solace in collecting old photo albums and forgotten photos from sales and thrift stores. It’s through these photos of other people’s families and other people’s memories that Allison escapes. She transforms herself into their memories, their past…while leaving her sorrowful and somber self in another plane.Continue Reading

Exclusive Excerpt: 'Paper Tigers' by Damien Angelica Walters

Cemetery Dance OnlineFebruary 22, 2016Free FictionDamien Angelica Walters, Featured, Fiction, Paper TigersLeave a comment

Today we’re excited to bring readers an exclusive excerpt from Paper Tigers, the forthcoming novel from Damien Angelica Walters (due out on February 29 from Dark House Press). The early word on the novel is that it’s “…a hauntingly elegant portrait of loneliness and longing for healing…” (author Bracken MaCleod) and “Wonderfully creepy and heartwarming…” (editor Sarah Read).

If you want to know more about the novel, check out our recent interview with Walters. For now, we hope you enjoy this special peek inside its pages.

An Interview with Damien Angelica Walters: Taming the 'Paper Tigers'

Cemetery Dance OnlineFebruary 19, 2016InterviewsBlu Gilliand, Damien Angelica Walters, Featured, Interviews, Paper TigersLeave a comment

An Interview with Damien Angelica Walters:
Taming the Paper Tigers

Dark House Press will release Damien Angelica Walters‘ new novel, Paper Tigers, on February 29. An author’s life is always extra hectic when a new release is close, so we at Cemetery Dance Online were glad to snag a few minutes with Walters to talk about her latest book and her approach to the craft of writing. We invite you to spend some time with Walters today, and check back on February 22 for an exclusive excerpt of Paper Tigers.Continue Reading

"The Hands That Hold, the Lies That Bind" by Damien Angelica Walters

Cemetery Dance OnlineJanuary 1, 2016Free FictionDamien Angelica Walters, Featured, Fiction, The Hands That Hold The Lies That Bind1 Comment

Cemetery Dance Online Exclusive Fiction
“The Hands That Hold, the Lies That Bind”
by
Damien Angelica Walters

The thorn breaks through Callie’s skin, rising from her left shoulder like a small, jagged periscope. There’s no pain, no blood, only a strange sensation creeping the length of her spine. The barb, about the length and width of a fingernail, is a shade darker than her skin, its shape a tiny shark’s fin, the skin around it slightly ridged.

She covers her mouth, holding in a laugh because it’s not funny. It’s not funny at all. She takes a deep breath, stares at the posters—the Avengers and Star Wars—on her bedroom wall for a long time, then at her shoulder again. The thorn’s still there. This time she does let out a laugh because it’s ridiculous. Lots of weird things happen when you’re twelve—pimples, breasts, boys snapping your bra strap in class, your dad leaving and moving to the opposite side of the country—but thorns aren’t one of them. At least they’re not supposed to be.Continue Reading

An Interview with Damien Angelica Walters: Taming the Paper Tigers

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An Interview with Damien Angelica Walters:
Taming the Paper Tigers

Cemetery Dance Online Exclusive Fiction
“The Hands That Hold, the Lies That Bind”
by
Damien Angelica Walters