The Dark, the fifth in the line of horror novellas from publisher Ravenous Shadows and editor John Skipp, seems to have a bit of an identity crisis.
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by Blu Gilliand
11/01/2012 - 3:00pm
Zombie stories tend to be large scale stories - after all, when the dead rise, it's the end of the world as we know it.
by Blu Gilliand
10/22/2012 - 7:00pm
The best creative collaborations are the ones which result in a truly unified voice, the kind of work in which you can’t pick out who wrote what. Stephen King and Peter Straub achieved this with The Talisman and its sequel, Black House; just last week I wrote about the duo of Jack Ketchum and Lucky McKee, who’ve successfully melded their talents with both The Woman and I’m Not Sam.
by Blu Gilliand
10/16/2012 - 5:00pm
As often happens with art, the novella I’m Not Sam began life as something else. As Jack Ketchum tells it in his introduction to the book (currently scheduled for a Winter 2012 release from Cemetery Dance), it was originally conceived as a short story that he and his co-writer, Lucky McKee, would then adapt into a short film.
by Blu Gilliand
10/08/2012 - 2:00pm
If you hear anyone lamenting the state of the short horror fiction market these days, pay them no mind – they are clearly not looking in the right places.
by Blu Gilliand
10/02/2012 - 2:00pm
Saying the words “giant snake book” probably conjures up images of some midnight movie cheesefest.
by Blu Gilliand
09/24/2012 - 4:00pm
Earlier this year, Cemetery Dance published the first of two posthumous releases from author Alan Peter Ryan, who died in 2011. That novella, Amazonas, was an atmospheric creeper about obsession and madness.
by Blu Gilliand
09/18/2012 - 4:00pm
Brian Keene is something of a leader in the horror genre. His books 'The Rising' and 'City of the Dead' helped resurrect the zombie subgenre that is still going strong today. When things began to go south at Leisure, the then-publisher of the huge majority of mass market paperback horror available at bookstores, he was among the first to go public with the issues before finally breaking away.
by Blu Gilliand
09/10/2012 - 1:44pm
I gotta be honest right up front: I’ve never been a big Mick Garris fan. Garris is perhaps best known for his work adapting a variety of Stephen King books for television, including The Stand, The Shining, Desperation and, most recently, Bag of Bones.
by Blu Gilliand
09/03/2012 - 6:00pm
Jason B. Sizemore has built his own “House of Imagination” in his home base of Lexington, Kentucky, the place where Apex Publications originates.