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Special Cemetery Dance Bentley Little Issue
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Cemetery Dance #64, The Bentley Little Special Issue, is now shipping. The issue features two brand new short stories by Little, an in-depth interview conducted by legendary The Horror Show editor and wonderful writer, David Silva, as well as Little-related non-fiction by Kealan Patrick Burke, Steve Vernon, and Mark Sieber.
Graced by another magnificent Stacy Drum cover (inspired by Bentley Little’s short story “The Mailman”), this special issue features fiction by Brian Knight, Shaun Jeffrey, Benjamin Percy, and Simon Strantzas, as well as excerpts by Stephen King and Brian James Freeman, and Part Three of Douglas Clegg’s brilliant serial, The Innocents at the Museum of Antiquities.
This issue also features Steve Vernon’s look at the rising star of Brian Knight, the launch of a new graphic novel column by Dark Horse editor Scott Allie, a feature look at The New Dead anthology, as well as non-fiction from Cemetery Dance regulars Ed Gorman, Thomas F. Monteleone, Michael Marano, Don D’Auria, Ellen Datlow, Robert Morrish, and Mark Sieber.
This issue is packed full with 136 pages of horror and suspense for every type of reader – all for the low price of just $5,
Fiction
- “The Wheel” by Bentley Little
- “We” by Bentley Little
- “An Excerpt from Blockade Billy” by Stephen King
- “The Innocents at the Museum of Antiquities: Part Three” by Douglas Clegg
- “Out of Touch” by Simon Strantzas
- “The Long Black Coat” by Benjamin Percy
- “An Excerpt from The Painted Darkness” by Brian James Freeman
- “In Darkness” by Shaun Jeffrey
- “Deathbed” by Brian Knight
Special Features
- “A Conversation with Bentley Little” by David B. Silva
- “The Indispensable Bentley Little” by Mark Sieber
- “Little Stories, Large Shadows: The Short Fiction of Bentley Little” by Steve Vernon
- “Feature Review: His Father’s Son by Bentley Little” by Kealan Patrick Burke
- “A Conversation with Brian James Freeman” by Norman Prentiss
- “The New Dead: A Feature Look” by Brian James Freeman
- “New Voices: Brian Knight” by Steve Vernon
- “Horror in Comics” by Wayne Edwards
- “A Few Words with Paul Mackman, producer of Aliens vs. Predator” by Brian James Freeman
The Usual Suspects
- “Words from the Editor” by Richard Chizmar
- “Stephen King News: From The Dead Zone” by Bev Vincent
- “Editorial Perspectives” by Don D’Auria
- “The Mothers and Fathers Italian Association” by Thomas F. Monteleone
- “Fine Points” by Ed Gorman
- “Drawing on Your Nightmares” by Scott Allie
- “MediaDrome” by Michael Marano
- “The Last Ten Things I’ve Read” by Ellen Datlow
- “Spotlight on Publishing” by Robert Morrish
- “Horror Drive-In” by Mark Sieber
- “Cemetery Dance Reviews” edited by Nanci Kalanta
- “The Final Question” by Brian James Freeman (featuring Bentley Little, Ramsey Campbell, Nancy Holder, Robert Booth, Rocky Wood, David B. Silva, John R. Little, Norman L. Rubenstein)
You can order directly from Cemetery Dance here: Bentley Little Special
Apex Releases The Blackness Within
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Apex Publications has announced the release of Stoker Award-nominated editor Gill Ainsworth’s latest anthology, The Blackness Within: Stories of the Pagan God Moccus.
From Africa to Australasia, from Europe to the US, take a terrifying journey led by world-renowned and up-and-coming authors of horror. See how Moccus, the Celtic God of fecundity, brings His barbaric brutality to the twenty-first century. Experience the nightmare of an apostle unable to live up to His teachings in “Dreaming” and, in “Without Mercy,” witness the torment of those who can. But it doesn’t stop there. Even hundreds of years after Mocuss’s death, His savage reign continues for those who dare to question, as you will discover in “For They Are As Beasts” and “Abattoir Blues.”
Thirteen stories–some menacingly dark, others violent and rapacious–will show you a future where death is a blessing.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The New God, The New Order —Gill Ainsworth
- “Secrets of Fatima” —Steven L. Shrewsbury
- “Without Mercy” —Lucas Pederson
- “The Messiah of Mincemeat” —S. Clayton Rhodes
- “Dreaming” —Brenton Tomlinson
- “Daughter of God” —Maxwell Peterson
- “The Free Poor” —Mark Grundy
- “Bad Meat” —Michael Keyton
- “Chain of Hearts” —Eric Gregory
- “Big Game” —Conrad Zero
- “Dance of the Psychopomps” —Joshua McCune
- “Song-Ji and the Wolf” —Paul Williams
- “For They Are as Beasts” –Camille Alexa
- “Abattoir Blues” —Geoffrey W. Cole
- “The Holy Meal” —Moccus Meats
For the next seven days(until September 6th), use the coupon code BLACKNESS20 on checkout to receive 20% off your order. Here’s where to order: The Blackness Within
Suspense Magazine September 2010
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The September 2010 issue of Suspense Magazine is out. This marks the second print edition of Suspense Magazine and the issue is dedicated to debut authors (meaning many milestones have been achieved, but there are more hills to climb to conquer in order to reach the ultimate goal of success).
The featured debut authors include:
- Joan Francis Turner
- Alan Orloff
- Joshua Graham
- Allison Leotta
- Katia Lief
Readers will also find work by Donald Allen Kirch, Nancy Mason, Tiffany Colter, Scott Nicholson, Gillian Scott, Corinna Underwood and many others, covering writing, book reviews, movie reviews, interviews and more. Plus there’s an Author Hall of Fame piece celebrating Peter Benchley.
You can learn more and subscribe here: Suspense Magazine
One more note: Suspense Radio is now live, every Tuesday and Friday night at 6:00 pm Pacific time, with authors being interviewed and much more. You can find out more by visiting Suspense Radio for a full list of guests and the schedule.
Apex Publications Signs Brian Keene
Posted by: | CommentsApex Publications has announced the signing of Brian Keene, who will be penning a novella exclusively for Apex with an expected publication date of the summer of 2011.
Keene is the author of over twenty books, including Darkness on the Edge of Town, Urban Gothic, Castaways, Kill Whitey, Ghost Walk, Dark Hollow, Dead Sea, Ghoul and many more. He also writes comic books such as The Last Zombie and Dead of Night: Devil Slayer. His work has been translated into German, Spanish, Polish, French and Taiwanese. Several of his novels and stories have been optioned for film, one of which, The Ties That Bind, premiered on DVD in 2009 as a critically-acclaimed independent short. Keene’s work has been praised in such diverse places as The New York Times, The History Channel, The Howard Stern Show, CNN.com, Publisher’s Weekly, Fangoria Magazine, and Rue Morgue Magazine. Apex readers will remember his work in the final issue of Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest and the recently released anthology Dark Faith.
Shivers VI Coming
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Cemetery Dance Publications has announced the sixth entry in its award-nominated and best-selling anthology series. Shivers VI is by far the largest volume to date and the first volume in the series to be published as Limited Edition and Lettered Edition hardcovers signed by the editor for the collectors in addition to the affordable trade paperback edition for general readers.
Shivers VI weighs in at 410 pages and contains more than 110,000 words from today’s most popular authors of horror and suspense including Stephen King, Peter Straub, Al Sarrantonio, Jay Bonansinga, Lisa Tuttle, David B. Silva, Melanie Tem, Brian Hodge, Brian Keene, Alan Peter Ryan, Blake Crouch and Jack Kilborn, Bev Vincent, Brian James Freeman, Norman Prentiss, and many others.
Two of the longest pieces are a long lost novella, “The Crate” by Stephen King, which was only published once and hasn’t been in print in more than three decades, and “A Special Place: The Heart of A Dark Matter” by Peter Straub, a novella that is “creepy to the core” and “shines a terrible light on the backstory of Straub’s acclaimed A Dark Matter” according to the coveted Starred Review from Publishers Weekly.
Featuring original dark fiction with a handful of rare reprints, Shivers VI is available only from Cemetery Dance Publications.
Table of Contents:
“Serial” by Blake Crouch & Jack Kilborn
“The Crate” a novella by Stephen King
“The Last Beautiful Day” by Brian James Freeman
“Cobwebs” by Kealan Patrick Burke
“The Old Ways” by Norman Prentiss
“Waiting for Darkness” by Brian Keene
“Like Lick ‘Em Sticks, Like Tina Fey” by Glen Hirshberg
“Ghost Writer in My Eye” by Wayne Allen Sallee
“Palisado” by Alan Peter Ryan
“Stillness” by Richard Thomas
“In the Raw” by Brian Hodge
“I Found A Little Hole” by Nate Southard
“Fallow” by Scott Nicholson
“Last” by Al Sarrantonio
“Mole” by Jay Bonansinga
“The Shoes” by Melanie Tem
“Bits and Pieces” by Lisa Tuttle
“Trouble Follows” by David B. Silva
“Keeping It in the Family” by Robert Morrish
“It Is the Tale” by Bev Vincent
“A Special Place: The Heart of A Dark Matter” a novella by Peter Straub
The collection will be published in three states
- Trade Paperback ($20)
- Hardcover Limited Edition of 750 copies signed by the editor, bound in full-cloth, and Smyth sewn ($40)
- Deluxe Traycased Lettered Edition of just 52 hardcover copies signed by the editor and lettered, bound in leather with a satin ribbon page marker ($175)
Ordering information can be found here: Shivers VI
New Ray Bradbury Full Color Illustrated Collection
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Gauntlet Press will be publishing its first full-color illustrated collection this fall, The Fall of the House of Usher/Usher II, illustrated by Allois. They took on this project after Ray Bradbury (author of Usher II) saw the finished book and expressed his enthusiasm, and also agreed to sign a limited number of signature sheets for two editions of the book.
“The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe has become one of the most recognized psychological horror story of all times. The fable of tainted bloodline and madness is as disturbing today as it was at the time of “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” The pain of Roderick Usher was retold innumerous times, including musical and visual art forms. The Grand Master of Science Fiction, Ray Bradbury himself, has re-built and re-demolished the House of Usher in his Martian Chronicles with the story “Usher II.”
The Usher legend is given another life in this edition, combining the stories from our past and from our future, united through the art of the present-day artist Allois. As Ray Bradbury broke the barrier between Sci-Fi and mainstream literature, so Allois had made an attempt to combine two art forms into one. The reader is presented by the printed stories and their visual counterpart as found in the depths of the artist’s imagination. The result, a Fine Art Novel, combines the strength of classic literature and the power of fine art.
As to who is Allois? Allois is an American painter and illustrator, best known for the striking and bizarre images of Aliens in her surrealist work. Says art critic Peter Frank, “Allois paints presences. Her figures manifest conditions, sliding away from personality and into mood. A particular character may present itself as a child or adult, man or beast, but its identity gives way almost immediately to its nuance. Personages making their way through a landscape come to embody self-containment, self-absorption. This is real abstraction, a dissolution of the seen into the sensed.”
You can see a number of images from the two stories in the collection, as well as her portrait of Ray Bradbury here: Usher II.
Gauntlet Press expects a Fall 2010 release for this title.
Untreed Reads Releases One Mistake
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Untreed Reads Publishing has released another electronic horror short. One Mistake by author Andy Frankham-Allen is available from Untreed Reads, Amazon and most of the 45+ vendors listed on their website.
Description: When Robert discovers a business card in a phone booth advertising astral projection lessons, he thinks he’s stumbled upon a way to improve on his ordinary life. Unfortunately, the instructor has much more sinister plans for his student. A short story from the bestselling author of Seeker and Off Flesh.
Find out more here: One Mistake
