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Review: Seth’s Christmas Ghost Stories (2022)

Cemetery Dance OnlineDecember 20, 2022December 19, 2022ReviewsBiblioasis, Blu Gilliand, Christmas, Gertrude Atherton, Lady Asquith, Reviews, Seth, Shirley JacksonLeave a comment

Seth’s Christmas Ghost Stories (2022 Set)
Biblioasis (October 2021)
$7.95 each; $25 set of three
Reviewed by Blu Gilliand

Reading a ghost story on Christmas Eve was once as much a part of traditional Christmas celebrations as turkey, eggnog, and Santa Claus.

This statement, found on the back of each of the three paperbacks in the 2022 Christmas Ghost Stories set from Biblioasis, is just another reminder that I was born in the wrong era. Ghost stories on Christmas Eve? Sign me up!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

Review: ‘Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”: The Authorized Graphic Adaptation by Miles Hyman

Cemetery Dance OnlineOctober 5, 2016October 4, 2016ReviewsDanica Davidson, Featured, Graphic Novels, Miles Hyman, Reviews, Shirley Jackson, The LotteryLeave a comment

Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”: The Authorized Graphic Adaptation by Miles Hyman
Hill and Wang (October 25, 2016)
160 pages; $30.00 hardcover; $16.00 paperback
Reviewed by Danica Davidson

Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” is one of the most famous—and infamous—short stories of all time. People reading it for the first time aren’t prepared for the twist ending, and when it was first published in The New Yorker in 1948, it offended some people so much that they wanted their subscriptions canceled. Those not so easily offended, though, were riveted to the story, and those who couldn’t keep it out of their minds realized they’d been swept up by its power. Seventy years later, the story continues to haunt, and now it’s been adapted into graphic novel format, done by Jackson’s own grandson, Miles Hyman.Continue Reading

Miles Hyman: Getting Graphic with Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”

Cemetery Dance OnlineOctober 4, 2016October 4, 2016InterviewsDanica Davidson, Featured, Interviews, Miles Hyman, Shirley JacksonLeave a comment

lotterygn Modern horror wouldn’t be what it is today without the influence of Shirley Jackson’s writing. Her grandson, Miles Hyman, pursued a career in art and has worked on many books and graphic novels, including a recent graphic novel adaptation of James Ellroy’s The Black Dahlia, published by Archaia. Now he’s releasing his graphic novel adaptation of “The Lottery,” out from Farrar, Straus and Giroux on October 25, to scare new readers and show old ones a new way of looking at the iconic short story.Continue Reading

Review: ‘Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life’ by Ruth Franklin

Cemetery Dance OnlineOctober 3, 2016October 2, 2016Reviews- Frank Michaels Errington, A Rather Haunted Life, Featured, Reviews, Ruth Franklin, Shirley JacksonLeave a comment

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin
Liveright (September 2016)
624 pages; $25.14 paperback; $16.05 e-book
Reviewed by Frank Michaels Errington

Admittedly, I don’t read a lot of biographies. Not my thing. Nothing against them, I just prefer to spend my time reading fiction. That being said, when I saw there was going to be a Shirley Jackson biography, I decided to get out of my comfort zone just a bit.Continue Reading

Horror Drive-In: The Book is Usually Better

Cemetery Dance OnlineNovember 23, 2015Horror Drive-InCarrie, Columns, Featured, Horror Drive-In, Ira Levin, Jaws, Mark Sieber, Peter Benchley, Richard Matheson, Rosemary's Baby, Shirley Jackson, Somewhere in Time, Stephen Chbosky, Stephen King, The Exorcist, The Haunting of Hill House, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris, William Peter Platty3 Comments

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The Book is Usually Better

You hear it all the time: The book is always better than the movie adaptation. Oddly, I mostly hear it from non-readers. They wearily repeat the mantra they’ve heard from tiresome readers like us. “I know, I know, the book is always better.”

But is it? The source novel of any adaptation is certainly much, much, better in most instances. Nearly all of them, in fact.Continue Reading

The Book is Usually Better

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