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Cemetery Dance Publications is widely-considered the world's leading specialty press publisher of horror and dark suspense.
Now celebrating nearly twenty years in business, Cemetery Dance magazine has won every major genre award and is healthier than ever — with a higher newsstand and subscriber circulation than ever before, a brand new bi-monthly publication schedule, ever-increasing advertiser support, and a continuing reputation for superb content and design.
In the book world, the Cemetery Dance Publications hardcover imprint is helping light the way for a new age of publishing — releasing affordable and collectible Limited Editions from the genre's most acclaimed authors. And the future looks even brighter: the next year will see over two dozen new hardcovers, including books from the likes of Stephen King, William Peter Blatty, Jack Ketchum, Peter Straub, Douglas Clegg, Rick Hautala, Richard Laymon and many others.
Perhaps the most exciting news to come from Cemetery Dance is the announcement of the brand new mass-market paperback line. That's right — before long you will be able to find Cemetery Dance paperbacks in all the major bookstores! Stay tuned to our website for more details to come!
And, finally, don't forget Grave Tales, Cemetery Dance Publications' entry into the comic book industry. You can rest assured that CD will generate plenty of excitement and chills in comic shops all over the world!
An independently-owned and operated specialty publisher. An award-winning horror magazine, deluxe hardcover books, comic books, and soon mass-market paperbacks. Cemetery Dance Publications has something for every type of horror fan. Visit our website or join our mailing list for more information!
Click here to visit our newsletter sign-up page on the CemeteryDance.com website.Richard Chizmar is the founder and publisher/editor of Cemetery Dance magazine and the Cemetery Dance Publications book imprint. He has edited more than a dozen anthologies, including The Best of Cemetery Dance, The Earth Strikes Back, Night Visions 10, October Dreams (with Robert Morrish), and the Shivers series.
Chizmar's fiction has appeared in dozens of publications, including Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories. He has won two World Fantasy Awards, four International Horror Guild Awards, and the HWA's Board of Trustees Award.
One of the longest running magazines in the genre, Cemetery Dance has published dozens of the bestselling authors in the horror business over the last 20 years. The company has been featured in The New York Times, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, Variety, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Locus, and many other publications.
Together Chizmar and Johnathon Schaech founded production company Chesapeake Films, and they've written screenplays and teleplays for United Artists, Showtime, Sony Screen Gems, Lions Gate, NBC, and many other companies. Their first projects include adaptations of Stephen King's From A Buick 8, Douglas Clegg's The Hour Before Dark, Stephen King's and Peter Straub's Black House, Ed Gorman's The Poker Club, as well as episodes of Showtime's Masters of Horror and NBC's Fear Itself.
Chizmar has appeared at numerous conferences as a writing instructor, guest speaker, panelist, and guest of honor.