Cemetery Dance Magazine

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Cemetery Dance is a literature magazine specializing in dark fantasy and horror. It is published out of Forest Hill, Maryland by Cemetery Dance Publications. It began its run in 1988 and continues to this day. It is published by Richard Chizmar and has published short stories by and interviews with such authors as Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Clive Barker, Richard Laymon, Bentley Little, Norman Partridge, Thomas Piccirilli, Ray Garton, Simon Green, and Robin Spriggs.

In 1992, Richard Chizmar branched out into publishing novels and novellas and the Cemetery Dance Publications imprint was born. The first book published on the imprint was Prisoners and Other Stories by Ed Gorman. Other books include a limited edition of From A Buick 8 by Stephen King, four books by Dean Koontz, and The Secretary of Dreams by Stephen King and Glenn Chadbourne.

Awards

2006 Bram Stoker Award Winner:

Best Short Fiction: "Tested" by Lisa Morton, in CD #55

2004 Bram Stoker Award Nominee:

Best Short Fiction: "A Madness of Starlings" by Douglas Clegg in CD #50

1994 Bram Stoker Award Winner:

Best Short Fiction: "The Box" by Jack Ketchum in CD #20

References

Cemetery Dance Official Site

Literature literally "acquaintance with letters" (from Latin littera letter) as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary, or works of art, which in Western culture are mainly prose, both fiction and non-fiction, drama and poetry.
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For the fantasy subgenre, see Dark fantasy

Dark Fantasy was an American old-time radio show featuring horror and suspense stories. It had a short run of 31 episodes, debuting on November 14, 1941 and ending on June 19, 1942.
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Horror fiction is, broadly, fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle, or horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience has often been the intrusion of an evil—or, occasionally, misunderstood—supernatural element into everyday human
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For the magazine with a similar title, see .

Cemetery Dance Publications is a specialty press publisher of horror and dark suspense. Cemetery Dance was founded by Richard Chizmar, a horror author, while he was in college.
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Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII
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Richard Chizmar
Born: 1965

Occupation: Writer, Editor, Publisher
Nationality: American
Genres: Horror fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction

Richard Thomas Chizmar
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Short Stories may refer to one of the following.

A plural for Short story.
Short Stories, a collection by Liam O'Flaherty.
Short Stories (Statler Brothers album)
Short Stories, a 1954 collection by O. E. Middleton.
Short Stories, a 1974 album by Harry Chapin.

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Stephen King

Stephen King
Pseudonym: Richard Bachman
John Swithen
Born: September 21 1947 (age 60)
Portland, Maine, U.S.
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Dean Koontz
Pseudonym: Aaron Wolfe, Brian Coffey, David Axton, Deanna Dwyer, John Hill, K.R. Dwyer, Leigh Nichols, Leonard Chris, Owen West, Richard Paige
Born: July 9 1945
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Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury in 1975 (photo by Alan Light).
Born: July 22 1920 (age 87)
Waukegan, Illinois
Occupation: Writer, Playwright
Nationality: American
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Richard Burton Matheson
Born: January 20 1926 (age 81)
Allendale, New Jersey, U.S.
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Clive Barker (born October 5 1952) is an English author, film director and visual artist.
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Richard Carl Laymon
Born: January 14 1947
Chicago, Illinois
Died: January 14 2001 (aged 54)

Occupation: novelist
Genres: Horror
Website: Richard Laymon Kills!

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Bentley Little

Born: 1960
Arizona
Occupation: Novelist
Genres: Horror
Debut works: The Revelation
Influences: Stephen King Bentley Little (born 1960) is an American author of numerous horror novels. He was discovered by Dean Koontz.
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Norman Partridge
Born: May 28, 1958
Vallejo, California
Occupation: Novelist, short story writer
Nationality: American
Writing period: 1989 - present
Genres: Literary fiction, horror fiction
Debut works: Short story:
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Ray Garton is the author of over fifty books including popular 1980s horror novel Live Girls and its sequel Night Life as well as the 2006 Leisure paperback The Loveliest Dead. He has also penned several short stories and novellas.
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Simon Richard Green, born 1955 in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, is a British science fiction and fantasy-author. He holds a degree in Modern English and American Literature from the University of Leicester. His first publication was in 1979.
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Robin Spriggs is an enigmatic figure in a variety of artistic fields, including dark fantasy literature, [1] theatre, and film. [2] Known primarily as a dark fabulist, he is the author of the critically acclaimed Wondrous Strange: Tales of the Uncanny
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novel (from, Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new", "news", or "short story of something new") is today a long prose narrative set out in writing.
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A novella is a narrative work of prose fiction longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. While there is some disagreement of what length defines a novella, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Awards for science fiction define the novella as having a
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Ed Gorman
Pseudonym: Daniel Ransom, E.J. Gorman
Born: 1941
USA
Occupation: writer
Nationality: American
Writing period: 196? - today
Genres: Mystery, Horror fiction, Western fiction, Crime fiction
Debut works: First Novel:: Rough Cut
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From a Buick 8
Author Stephen King
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Horror novel
Publisher Charles Scribner's Sons Simon & Schuster
Publication date September 24, 2002
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The Secretary of Dreams is a graphic short story collection authored by Stephen King and illustrated by Glenn Chadbourne. Cemetery Dance Publications released this book in December of 2006.
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Stephen King

Stephen King
Pseudonym: Richard Bachman
John Swithen
Born: September 21 1947 (age 60)
Portland, Maine, U.S.
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Glenn Chadbourne
Born: September 19 1959 (age 48)
Damariscotta, Maine
Occupation: artist, illustrator, writer
Nationality: American
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News by month
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The Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in horror writing. The awards have been presented annually since 1987, and the winners are selected by ballot of the Active members of the HWA.
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