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Title: The Best of Cemetery Dance, Volume 2 by Richard Chizmar, Dean R. Koontz, Joe R. Lansdale ISBN: 0-451-45813-3 Publisher: Roc Pub. Date: 09 January, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.77 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A wonderful collection of horror stories
Comment: This is one of those collections that when it says "best of" it means it. The stories collected here are wonderful. There were very few of them that I didn't like. They all made an impression one way or another and they definitely warranted being put in this collection. As a compilation from the Cemetery Dance magazine, there really is no central theme uniting all the stories, but I've never really thought that you had to have one. Just collect a bunch of really good stories together, call it something and release it. And that is exactly what Chizmar has done here.
The only thing that I thought was weird and didn't quite fit was the last story, or more accurately interview. It's an interview of Dean Koontz from a few years back. While slightly dated (he hypes the then-unreleased movie Phantoms as well as Mr. Murder, Intensity, and Survivor), it does contain some interesting points and definitely gives a better idea of who Koontz is. It just didn't seem to fit with the rest of the stories. Although I hate to limit my favorites to just a few, I've picked some and listed them below.
"Tyrannosaurus" by Norman Partridge - A woman seeks out vengeance against her child abducting ex-husband.
"Desert Pickup" by Richard Laymon - The circle is completed for a hitch-hiker in the desert and the woman who picks him up.
"With The Wound Still Wet" by Wayne Allen Sallee - An author and a photographer just do their jobs.
"Almost Never" by Edward Lee - Two thugs try to repay the mob by kidnapping a little girl.
"The Winds Within" by Ronald Kelly - A murder at an apartment building has a grisly origin.
"Animal Rites" by Jay. R. Bonansinga - A clever twist to an otherwise normal killing.
"Easy's Last Stand" by Nancy A. Collins - Workers at a phone sex operation prove that they are survivors.
Rating: 4
Summary: Amazing Horror Fiction
Comment: Cemetery Dance has become THE leading publisher of horror fiction. They put out great books by famed horror authors, but also a great magazine of short stories and articles from the leaders of the horror field. This collection of short stories reunites some of the best stories to have been featured in the Cemetery Dance magazine. And although the second tome is a little less interesting than the first one (which held 2 AMAZING Jack Ketchum stories, a good Stephen King yarn and one of the most amazing stories I've read in years by author Gary Raiser), The Best Of Cemetery Dance Volume 2 still offers some great, chilling and, at times, disturbing stories.
This tome is more concerned with detective stories/ serial killer stories. Plainclothes and The Pattern are two of the best. One of the most interesting stories in this volume is Barry Hoffman's Trial By Fire, a twisted tale of revenge. Matthew Costello's Vacation is one of the most terrifying and twisted tale I've read in a long time. And Dick Laymon's Desert Pickup is a good little story with a neat twist.
But I was disappointed that the story by Poppy Z. Brite is only the prologue to her novel Lost Souls. And Melanie Tem's contribution is very disappointing - she is able to do much better than this.
Overall, this is a great book that any horror fan should get. I am a devoted fan of Cemetery Dance and this book only reminds me of why.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Book!!!
Comment: I immediately ordered Volume 1 after reading the first four stories in this collection. The stories were great and gave me the chills I look for when reading books of this nature. A few of my favorites include:
- "Eaters"
- "Vacation"
- "Mr. God"
- "Drive-in Date"
- "Easy's Last Stand"
....Oh, who am I kidding? I loved them all!!! Pick this one up!!!
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Title: The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Vol. 14 by Stephen Jones ISBN: 0786712376 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: October Dreams: A Celebration of Halloween by Richard Chizmar, Robert Morrish ISBN: 0451458958 Publisher: Roc Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror (Mammoth Book of Best New Horror) by Stephen Jones ISBN: 0786710632 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Gathering the Bones by Ramsey Campbell, Jack Dann, Dennis Etchison ISBN: 0765301792 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 16 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Edition by Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling ISBN: 0312314256 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Pub. Date: 23 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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