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3 • Words from the Editors (Cemetery Dance #51) • [Editorial (Cemetery Dance)] • essay by Robert Morrish 3 • Words from the Editors (Cemetery Dance #51) • [Editorial (Cemetery Dance)] • essay by Richard Chizmar 4 • A Conversation with Stephen Laws • interview of Stephen Laws • interview by Rick Kleffel 14 • Outrage • interior artwork by Chad Savage 15 • Outrage • short story by Stephen Laws 22 • Author's Note (Outrage) • essay by Stephen Laws 24 • From the Dead Zone: Stephen King News (Cemetery Dance #51) • [From the Dead Zone] • essay by Bev Vincent 30 • S& Man • interior artwork by Julia Morgan-Scott 31 • S& Man • short story by J. T. Petty 38 • Any Way You Slice It, It's Still Just a Loaf ... • [The Mothers and Fathers Italian Association] • essay by Thomas F. Monteleone 42 • Watermelon • interior artwork by Alex McVey 43 • Watermelon • short story by Scott Nicholson 48 • Waves of Fear (Cemetery Dance #51) • essay by Paula Guran 50 • Review: Murder of Angels by Caitlín R. Kiernan • review by Paula Guran 51 • Review: The Dry Salvages by Caitlín R. Kiernan • review by Paula Guran 51 • Review: The Cat's Pajamas & Other Stories by James Morrow • review by Paula Guran 51 • Review: A Dirge for the Temporal by Darren Speegle • review by Paula Guran 52 • Special Delivery • interior artwork by Randy Broecker 53 • Special Delivery • short story by Bev Vincent 56 • MediaDrome (Cemetery Dance #51) • [MediaDrome] • essay by Michael Marano 62 • A Conversation with Sephera Giron • interview of Sèphera Girón • interview by Nathan Tyler 66 • Binky • interior artwork by Chad Savage 67 • Binky • short story by Sèphera Girón 70 • Collecting Modern Horror (Cemetery Dance #51) • essay by John Pelan 72 • Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em (On Horror as Wisdom, and the Radiant Dawn of Cody Goodfellow) • essay by John Skipp 76 • Burning Names • interior artwork by Alex McVey 77 • Burning Names • short story by Cody Goodfellow 82 • Our Ladies of Darkness: A Conversation with Chelsea Quinn Yarbro • interview of Chelsea Quinn Yarbro • interview by Hank Wagner 86 • Mr. Goodnight • interior artwork by Alex McVey 87 • Mr. Goodnight • short story by Kealan Patrick Burke 92 • A Conversation with Steve Gerlach • interview of Steve Gerlach • interview by Ron Clinton 98 • Feature Review: In the Night Room • essay by Bev Vincent 98 • Review: In the Night Room by Peter Straub • review by Bev Vincent 100 • CD Reviews (Cemetery Dance #51) • essay by various 100 • Review of the audio drama "Afterhell: Dark Descent" created by Joe Median • essay by Wayne Edwards 100 • Review: 100 Jolts by Michael A. Arnzen • review by Hank Wagner 100 • Review: The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross • review by Rick Kleffel 101 • Review: Banquet for the Damned by Adam L. G. Nevill • review by William P. Simmons 101 • Review: Black Fire by James Kidman • review by Mark Louis Baumgart 101 • Review: By Reason of Darkness by William P. Simmons • review by Garrett Peck 102 • Review: Coffin Blues by Tom Piccirilli • review by Hank Wagner 102 • Review: The Coma by Alex Garland • review by Rick Kleffel 102 • Review: Compositions for the Young and Old by Paul G. Tremblay • review by David Niall Wilson 102 • Review: CrissCross by F. Paul Wilson • review by Hank Wagner 103 • Review: Damned: An Anthology of the Lost by David G. Barnett • review by William D. Gagliani 103 • Review: Dark Places by Jon Evans • review by Wayne Edwards 103 • Review: Dead Lines by Greg Bear • review by Rick Kleffel 104 • Review: Deep Blue by David Niall Wilson • review by William D. Gagliani 104 • Review: The Double Shadow by Clark Ashton Smith • review by William D. Gagliani 104 • Review: Duel & The Distributor by Richard Matheson • review by William P. Simmons 104 • Review of nongenre Eye for an Eye by Joel Ross • essay by William D. Gagliani 105 • Review: Dust of Eden by Thomas Sullivan • review by David Niall Wilson 106 • Review of the soundtrack to "Godzilla: 50th Anniversary Edition", music by Akira Ifukube • essay by Randall D. Larson 106 • Review: Family Inheritance by Deborah LeBlanc • review by Hank Wagner 106 • Review: Father Exorcist by K. Sheehan • review by Garrett Peck 106 • Review: The First Cut by Peter Robinson • review by Wayne Edwards 107 • Review: Green Grow the Rushes-Oh by Jay Lake • review by Rick Kleffel 107 • Review: Havoc After Dark by Robert Fleming • review by Wayne Edwards 107 • Review: In This Skin by Simon Clark • review by Hank Wagner 108 • Review: Iron Council by China Miéville • review by Rick Kleffel 108 • Review: The Labyrinth by Catherynne M. Valente • review by David Niall Wilson 108 • Review: The Lebo Coven by Stephen Mark Rainey • review by David Niall Wilson 108 • Review: Liquor by Poppy Z. Brite • review by Garrett Peck 109 • Review: The Manor by Scott Nicholson • review by William P. Simmons 109 • Review: Meg: Primal Waters b...
Authors
Born and raised in a small harbor town in the south of Ireland, Kealan Patrick Burke knew from a very early age that he was going to be a horror writer. The combination of an ancient locale, a horror-loving mother, and a family full of storytellers, made it inevitable that he would end up telling stories for a living. Since those formative years, he has written five novels, over a hundred short stories, six collections, and edited four acclaimed anthologies. In 2004, he was honored with the Bram Stoker Award for his novella The Turtle Boy. Kealan has worked as a waiter, a drama teacher, a mapmaker, a security guard, an assembly-line worker at Apple Computers, a salesman (for a day), a bartender, landscape gardener, vocalist in a grunge band, curriculum content editor, fiction editor at Gothic.net, and, most recently, a fraud investigator. When not writing, Kealan designs book covers through his company Elderlemon Design. A movie based on his short story "Peekers" is currently in development as a major motion picture. Represented by Merrilee Heifetz at Writers House Agency.
'Simmons draws from a well with waters dark and deep, that taste of guilt, despair and fear, to cultivate his surprising and inventive tales of horror.' — ADAM NEVILL (British Fantasy Award Winning author of THE RITUAL and NO ONE GETS OUT ALIVE). William Simmons is an acclaimed author, critic, anthologist, and journalist specializing in supernatural horror fiction. He is an Active Member of the HWA. Eight of his stories received ‘Honorable Mentions’ in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror. His collection WE FEED THE DARK received accolades from such horror legends as ADAM NEVILL, ERIC J. GUINGARD, and FORREST AGUIRRE. “Avoiding horror’s traditional icons and their premeasured fright potential ... (Simmons is) a writer whose approach is both original and refreshingly unconventional.”
- PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY His collection BY REASON OF DARKNESS received rave reviews from Cemetery Dance, All Hallows, and Publisher's Weekly, who called him Simmons “…evokes both Ray Bradbury and Joyce Carol Oates.” – PETER BELL, All Hallows His first collection BECOMING OCTOBER sold out quickly upon release, and he collaborated on the Halloween collection DARK HARVEST with author Paul Melznick. His stories have appeared in several venues, including Cemetery Dance, Flesh & Blood, Darkness Rising (1-9), Infinity Plus, Dark Discoveries, and many more. His poetry has appeared in Chizine, Gothic.net, Lullaby Hearse, Dead Cat Bouncing, etc. GRAHAM MASTERTON, author of The Minatou, said Simmons “has the gift of making an ordinary day seem scary.” NANCY KILPATRICK, author of The Goth Bible, said “Simmons has a knack for constructing dark, creepy, introverted tales, full of obscure terrors that reflect nearly mythical realms.” And T.M. WRIGHT, author of Strange Seed, compared Simmons’ horror fiction to “like being taken back forty years and discovering Poe for the first time, and M.R. James, and Shirley Jackson.” Simmons has contributed reviews, essays, and scholarship to Rue Morgue, Publisher’s Weekly, Wormwood, Hellnotes, Gauntlet, Cemetery Dance, and others. His review columns include “Dark Devotions”, “Literary Lesions”, and “Folk Fears”. He contributed an introduction to Falling into Heaven, by Maynard & Sims, and his reviews have been blurbed for several books. As a journalist, he created Our Ladies of Darkness, one of the earlier interview columns devoted to female genre authors, and Beyond the Fifth Dimension: The Twilight Zone Interviews, which spoke with surviving scribes of the influential television series. He also conducted two special chapbook length interviews with Richard Matheson and F. Paul Wilson, both for Gauntlet Press. His reviews have been used as blurbs by Tartan Asian Extreme and he has contributed Liner Notes to DVD releases. “His anthologies are carefully crafted, the stories bleeding into each other with seamless precision.” – MAYNARD & SIMS, Demon Eyes. As an anthologist he has edited the bestselling SEASON OF THE DEAD: SUPERNATURAL HORROR FOR HALLOWEEN (reviewed by Rue Morgue) and the bestselling WILDWOOD: TALES OF TERROR & TRANSFORMATION FROM THE FOREST. His other anthologies are MONSTER CARNIVAL and YULETIDE FRIGHTS. He is the series editor for Shadow House Publishing has several anthologies and single author collections in development. for Shadow House Publishing, including The Library of Weird Fiction and Horror Hall of Fame Novellas.
Subscribe to myNewsletter Join my street team on Facebook to win prizes, discuss my work with others, and get exclusive content and offers David Niall Wilson has been writing and publishing horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction since the mid-eighties. An ordained minister, once President of the Horror Writer 's Association and multiple recipient of the Bram Stoker Award. He lives outside Hertford, NC with the love of his life, Patricia Lee Macomber, His children Zane and Katie, occasionally their older siblings, Stephanie, who is in college, and Bill and Zach who are in the Navy, and an ever-changing assortment of pets. David is CEO and founder of Crossroad Press, a cutting edge digital publishing company specializing in electronic novels, collections, and nonfiction, as well as unabridged audiobooks and print titles.
A professional writer for more than forty years, Yarbro has sold over eighty books, more than seventy works of short fiction, and more than three dozen essays, introductions, and reviews. She also composes serious music. Her first professional writing - in 1961-1962 - was as a playwright for a now long-defunct children's theater company. By the mid-60s she had switched to writing stories and hasn't stopped yet. After leaving college in 1963 and until she became a full-time writer in 1970, she worked as a demographic cartographer, and still often drafts maps for her books, and occasionally for the books of other writers. She has a large reference library with books on a wide range of subjects, everything from food and fashion to weapons and trade routes to religion and law. She is constantly adding to it as part of her on-going fascination with history and culture; she reads incessantly, searching for interesting people and places that might provide fodder for stories. In 1997 the Transylvanian Society of Dracula bestowed a literary knighthood on Yarbro, and in 2003 the World Horror Association presented her with a Grand Master award. In 2006 the International Horror Guild enrolled her among their Living Legends, the first woman to be so honored; the Horror Writers Association gave her a Life Achievement Award in 2009. In 2014 she won a Life Achievement Award from the World Fantasy Convention. A skeptical occultist for forty years, she has studied everything from alchemy to zoomancy, and in the late 1970s worked occasionally as a professional tarot card reader and palmist at the Magic Cellar in San Francisco. She has two domestic accomplishments: she is a good cook and an experienced seamstress. The rest is catch-as-catch-can. Divorced, she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area - with two cats: the irrepressible Butterscotch and Crumpet, the Gang of Two. When not busy writing, she enjoys the symphony or opera. Her Saint-Germain series is now the longest vampire series ever. The books range widely over time and place, and were not published in historical order. They are numbered in published order. Known pseudonyms include Vanessa Pryor, Quinn Fawcett, T.C.F. Hopkins, Trystam Kith, Camille Gabor.
