Okay, we were blown away by the response to Friday's special offer, and we were also surprised by the number of emails we received from customers asking if they could use the coupon on some other items.

So after some discussion we decided we would offer ONE MORE 40% OFF coupon that can be used on a few other items (plus a couple of popular selections from the weekend special), but after this coupon expires, the special is over!

Remember, you can order as many of these items as you want, but if you want to take advance of this special 40% off discount, don't wait! We don't know when we'll be making all of these items available for a special discount again!

Here are the instructions:
* The coupon code is: NEWDEC40

* Just add any of qualifying items listed below to your shopping cart and then use that special Coupon Code when you checkout:

The Big Book of Necon edited by Bob Booth
A Chapbook for Burnt-Out Priests, Rabbis and Ministers by Ray Bradbury
Stephen King: A Primary Bibliography of the World's Most Popular Author by Justin Brooks
Brimstone Turnpike edited by Kealan Patrick Burke
Afterlife by Douglas Clegg
The Folks 2: No Place Like Home by Ray Garton
British Invasion edited by Christopher Golden, Tim Lebbon, and James A. Moore
Mind the Gap: A Novel of the Hidden Cities by Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon
Mad Dogs by Brian Hodge
Old Flames by Jack Ketchum
The Woods are Dark (The Original, Uncut Version) by Richard Laymon
Halloween and Other Seasons by Al Sarrantonio
Halloweenland by Al Sarrantonio
Moonbane by Al Sarrantonio
Titanic 2012 by Bill Walker
Camp Stalag by Bill Walker
Stephen King: The Non-Fiction by Rocky Wood & Justin Brooks
Hellboy: Emerald Hell
Lovecraft Unbound: Tales Inspired by HP Lovecraft
Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein
Creepy Archives: Volume 1
Vampire Hunter D: Volume 1
Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery
Just After Sunset
Cemetery Dance magazine subscription
Grave Tales subscription


HOW TO REDEEM THE CODE:
That code must be entered into the Coupon Code field on the Payment Page before you click REDEEM COUPON. The page will then reload and show your discount, and you can continue checking out like normal. If the discount does not load for some reason or if you have any questions, please contact brianfreeman@cemeterydance.com for help.

So don't waste any time! This special will be over before you know it!

Orders that are paid for via store credit, coupons, savings certificates, or other discounts cannot qualify for the additional discount. The Secretary of Dreams and books from other publishers that are not on this list do not qualify. This special offer cannot be applied to previous orders.

* Surprise Special Offer: This Weekend ONLY! Save 40% Off Select Titles!
* Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery

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We haven't done one of these specials in a very long time, but for this weekend only we're going to allow a bunch of different products to qualify for a special discount, including some books from Other Publishers, which most of our regular customers know we NEVER discount due to the low discount we receive from the distributors, etc.

You can order as many of these items as you want, but if you want to take advance of this special 40% off discount, don't wait! We don't know when we'll be making all of these items available for a special discount again!

Here are the instructions:
* The coupon code is: DEC40

* Just add any of qualifying items listed below to your shopping cart and then use that special Coupon Code when you checkout:

Last Exit For the Lost by Tim Lebbon
Occasional Demons by Rick Hautala
Futile Efforts by Tom Piccirilli
Hell Hollow by Ronald Kelly
Lilja's Library: The World of Stephen King by Hans-Ake Lilja
Invisible Fences by Norman Prentiss
Catching Hell by Greg Gifune
The Corpse King by Tim Curran
The Dark Tower Concordance by Robin Furth
Stephen King: The Non-Fiction by Rocky Wood & Justin Brooks
Butterfly by Simon Clark
The Turtle Boy: Peregrine's Tale by Kealan Patrick Burke
The Forum by James Newman
Halloween: New Poems edited by Al Sarrantonio
Hellboy: Emerald Hell by Tom Piccirilli
Lovecraft Unbound: Tales Inspired by HP Lovecraft edited by Ellen Datlow
Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein
Creepy Archives: Volume 1
Vampire Hunter D: Volume 1
Riding the Bullet by Stephen King and Mick Garris
Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery
Just After Sunset (trade hardcover) by Stephen King
Cemetery Dance magazine subscription
Grave Tales subscription


HOW TO REDEEM THE CODE:
That code must be entered into the Coupon Code field on the Payment Page before you click REDEEM COUPON. The page will then reload and show your discount, and you can continue checking out like normal. If the discount does not load for some reason or if you have any questions, please contact brianfreeman@cemeterydance.com for help.


Orders that are paid for via store credit, coupons, savings certificates, or other discounts cannot qualify for the additional discount. The Secretary of Dreams and books from other publishers do not qualify. This special offer cannot be applied to previous orders.

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A great new hardcover from Dark Horse!

About the Book:
A circus performer terrorized by mysterious powers from beyond . . . a jade idol of a monkey that carries a curse on a South Pacific island drives a man to the brink of madness . . . an art gallery haunted by paintings that come to life at night . . . a dictator who sees enemies around every corner, but who can't see the threat right before his eyes.

For nearly twenty years, the comic-book series Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery wove stories of intrigue, suspense, and macabre drama.

Hosted by renowned actor Boris Karloff, the comic featured contributions from some of comics history's most well-known creators: Alex Toth, Joe Orlando (EC artist and editor), Mike Sekowsky (Justice League of America artist), Frank Thorne, José Luis García-López, Arnold Drake, Len Wein (co-creator of Swamp Thing and Wolverine), Al Williamson, Jerry Robinson (creator of the Joker), Dan Spiegle, and many others.

* Originally published by Gold Key and unavailable for three decades, more than thirty spine-chilling stories are compiled in a new collection.

* Features a new introduction by Boris Karloff's daughter Sara Karloff

Click here to read more or to place your order while you can get that 40% off discount!

(Since this is another publisher's book, we have to charge our normal shipping rates. No coupons or discounts or credit of any kind can be used on this special offer due to the low discount we'll be receiving other than the discount in this newsletter, which is for this weekend only.)

• Lettered Edition of Four Ghosts (Straub, Hill, Garton, and Burke) Now Available!
• Follow Us on Twitter and Facebook and Recieve an Exclusive Special Offer!
• A Great Grave Tales 5 Review
• Ray Garton Title Change and Cover Debut
• Stephen King: The Non-Fiction News and Reviews
• Unannounced Signature Series Bonus Material

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Four Ghosts is a special anthology of classic ghost stories by four of our favorite authors: Peter Straub, Joe Hill, Ray Garton, and Kealan Patrick Burke.

The signed Limited Edition of this very special book is already SOLD OUT and OUT OF PRINT before publication. It will never be available to the general public: no dealers, no wholesalers, no bookstores, no direct sales, no individual copy sales. Only Cemetery Dance Book Club 3.0 members will receive this very exciting NOT FOR SALE signed Limited Edition when it is published next year and there are NO MORE additional memberships available. We've offered Not For Sale books before, but there has always been the understanding the book might be republished down the road. With this book, we can tell you right now: IT WILL NEVER SEE PRINT AGAIN!

As we mentioned in the Book Club announcement, there will also be a deluxe traycased Lettered Edition of this title. That special edition is now available for sale to the first 52 collectors who place an order, but after those copies sell, the book will never be reprinted again. Not as a trade edition, not as a paperback, not as an eBook. Once these copies sell, no one else will ever be able to get a brand new copy direct from the publisher!

This is your last chance to snag a copy of Four Ghosts, so don't let the opportunity pass you by!

Place your order today so you don't miss out!

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There are a lot of different ways to get news and updates out there, and although this mailing list and our Breaking News page will always be our first method, we also wanted you to know about our pages on the social networking sites where we will post the highlights of the news and even some special offers we won't be posting anywhere else!

If you're on those services and you're not aware of our pages, now is the time to check them out because we're going to send out some very cool special offers EXCLUSIVELY to those customers, readers, and friends who follow us on those social networking sites.

So friends and followers of Cemetery Dance will get something special; friends and followers of Richard Chizmer will get something special that is different from what the Cemetery Dance group got, etc. All in all, you can easily get FOUR different specials!

We're not going to say WHEN these specials are going out, and they might be staggered over a couple of weeks, so the fastest and easiest thing to do is sign-up now so you don't miss out!

• Cemetery Dance:
   On Facebook
   On Twitter

• Cemetery Dance Founder and Publisher Richard Chizmar:
   On Facebook

• Cemetery Dance staffer and author Brian Freeman:
   On Facebook
   On Twitter

• Lonely Road Books:
   On Facebook
   On Twitter


You don't have to sign-up for all of those and you don't need to do anything after you start following our updates. At some point in the near future, we'll simply send a DIFFERENT special to each of the above groups to say thanks for signing up!

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Decapitated Dan at ComicAttack.net has posted a terrific review of Grave Tales #5. Here's just a little taste:

"I know that there is a good mix of horror anthologies out there, trust me, I read them all. What makes Grave Tales stand out to me is the quality of the work by the creative teams. This issue in particular had me terrified and entertained all at one time. The art is creepy, the stories are spooky, and you just get sucked right in. This is how it’s done!"

Click here to visit our website and place your order!

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Vespix by Ray Garton has a new title: Death Hunt on Ervoon. The book is designed and being proofread, and Ray should be signing the signature sheets soon. After that, we just need the interior artwork, which is currently in progress. You can see the final cover artwork on the website.

Click here to check out the great cover for this book!

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Stephen King: The Non-Fiction by Rocky Wood & Justin Brooks has been nominated for a Black Quill Award by Dark Scribe Magazine: http://www.darkscribemagazine.com/3rd-annual-bqa-nominees/

The book also recently received another excellent review:

"The scope of The Non-Fiction is simply epic... Clearly The Non-Fiction is going to go on the wish list of every serious King fan on the planet... If you are serious about your King library it's a most have book folks..."
— Scaryminds

Read the rest here: http://www.scaryminds.com/reviews/book36.php

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In the last update, we forgot to mention two very exciting additions to our announced Cemetery Dance Signature Series books.

The Turtle Boy: Peregrine's Tale by Kealan Patrick Burke now includes a BONUS SHORT STORY entitled "Genesis" that wasn't previously announced. Coming in around 5,000 words, this piece is also introduced by the author. Copies of the Limited Edition of this book are still available to preorder, but this title is getting closer to selling out and we can't guarantee that copies will still be around when the book returns from the printer.

Scratch by Brian Keene, which is already sold out, has its own previously unannounced bonus feature: a reprint of Nick Mamatas's insightful interview with the author, which originally appeared in Cemetery Dance magazine. We thought Nick's piece did a great job of covering Brian's work and who he is as an author, so we were very pleased when he granted us permission to include it in this special edition.

More news to come soon! As always, thanks for your continued support and enthusiasm!

Cemetery Dance #63 is in the hands of the printer and it's going to be a special "winter" Halloween issue. We really wanted to do a complete special issue dedicated to Halloween (kind of like October Dreams in magazine form!), but we didn't want to wait until next fall. We figured fans of the genre would be okay with a big old issue of Halloween stories and columns during the coldest months of the years. Douglas Clegg’s serial novella will skip this issue and return in Cemetery Dance #64, which is going to be a very exciting issue for our collectors. Watch for some news on that soon. Click here to read more about #63 and to see a larger version of that beautiful Alan M. Clark artwork.

In book news, we've made a lot of progress on getting new titles to the printer this fall and those efforts are really going to pay off for our readers and collectors in the coming months. Here are just a few updates on some of our upcoming releases:

Scratch by Brian Keene and The Innswich Horror by Edward Lee are almost completed at the printer and should be shipping to us at the end of the month or early next year. The following books are moving along at the printer and should be shipping to us very soon after those two:

Last Exit For the Lost by Tim Lebbon
Occasional Demons by Rick Hautala
Butterfly by Simon Clark
The Turtle Boy: Peregrine's Tale by Kealan Patrick Burke
The Forum by James Newman
Halloween: New Poems edited by Al Sarrantonio

After those are completed, the printers should be able to finish up these titles: Futile Efforts by Tom Piccirilli, Hell Hollow by Ronald Kelly, Sims 5 by F. Paul Wilson, and Lilja's Library: The World of Stephen King by Hans-Ake Lilja.

And then the following books are just a small sample of what's ready to go to the printer and will be sent as soon as possible while the projects listed above are being published:

Invisible Fences by Norman Prentiss
Catching Hell by Greg Gifune
The Corpse King by Tim Curran
The Cage by Brian Keene
The Exorcist and Legion (Special Edition) by William Peter Blatty

There are already approximately fifteen titles total lined up and ready to go to the printer for our 2010 slate and many of them are unannounced, so it's going to be a very exciting year for Cemetery Dance collectors!

For Stephen King fans, we have a very important update about two upcoming projects:

All of the artwork for The Secretary of Dreams (Volume Two) by Stephen King is now in place, the book has been proofread, and the signature sheets have been completed. Everything is ready for the printer, but after discussions with King's agents, this title is being re-scheduled as a spring 2010 publication. This change was made to accommodate the release of Under the Dome. Also, we recently revamped our website a bit and all of the sample artwork can now be viewed on this one page:

http://www.cemeterydance.com/extras/2009/10/20/samples-of-sod-volume-two/

In other King related news, The Dark Tower Concordance by Robin Furth has been finished at the printer for a while now and our slipcase maker is working hard on the 2,000+ cases. He had hoped to ship them to us by the end of the year, but very early in 2010 is looking more likely.

For fans of our Cemetery Dance Signature Series, the next four unannounced titles are deep in production and they should all be sent to the printer in 2010, which means next year should be a great one for collectors of this series. We've lined up some great authors and we think you'll be pleased with the line-up. In addition, Douglas Clegg is hard at work on Mr. Darkness and a while back he sent us an updated description, a very cool cover mock-up, and the first excerpt from the opening of the book:

http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/clegg09

And finally, we have some huge news about the next volume in the Shivers series, but we'll save that for another day. We can say that we've landed some really incredible authors for the table of contents -- bestselling authors who have never appeared in the series before!

That's all for now, but don't forget you can also follow us on Facebook, MySpace, or Twitter so you don't miss important updates. We're going to have some big announcements to make in the coming months.

• Cemetery Dance on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Forest-Hill-MD/Cemetery-Dance-Publications/58907867880

• Cemetery Dance on Twitter:

http://twitter.com/CemeteryDance

• Cemetery Dance on MySpace:

http://www.myspace.com/cemeterydancepublications

As always, thanks for your continued support and enthusiasm!

On Friday we announced a brand new special edition of The Exorcist and Legion by William Peter Blatty -- over 550 pages of classic horror -- and a very limited $25 off savings offer for our customers. The response has been incredibly enthusiastic and we have two important updates for you:

* We forgot to mention that Keith Minnion is providing over TEN beautiful new black and white illustrations for this special edition!


* We heard from enough customers who just saw the newsletter at work this morning that we're going to extend the $25 off special offer for ONE MORE DAY!

To take advantage of this special offer, just go to the The Exorcist and Legion page, add the edition(s) you want to your cart, and then checkout like normal.

When you reach the PAYMENT page, just enter the special code listed below in the COUPON CODE field and then click the REDEEM COUPON button.  (If the code is redeemed properly, the page will reload and show your discount. If you run into any trouble or have any questions, please email brianfreeman@cemeterydance.com and he'll help you out.)

*** Here's your $25 OFF Coupon Code:

BLATTY25

*** Here is the link to the product page on our website:

http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/blatty02

This code expires TOMORROW and your order must include the The Exorcist and Legion special edition.  This coupon cannot be combined with other coupons, gift certificates, saving certificates, special offers, or discounts.

Click here to place your order and to qualify for FREE SHIPPING to US addresses!

Also, you might want to consider adding your home email address to the mailing list or following us on Facebook, MySpace, or Twitter so you don't miss important updates. We're going to have some big announcements to make in the coming months.

• Cemetery Dance on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Forest-Hill-MD/Cemetery-Dance-Publications/58907867880

• Cemetery Dance on Twitter:

http://twitter.com/CemeteryDance

• Cemetery Dance on MySpace:

http://www.myspace.com/cemeterydancepublications

As always, thanks for your continued support and enthusiasm!

As you might remember, we'll be publishing a great anthology called Smoke and Mirrors, which collects screenplays, teleplays, stage plays, comic scripts, and treatments by thirteen masters of horror and fantasy. This deluxe oversized book reproduces the scripts exactly as they were written in the author's own formatting. The book is currently being designed the signature sheets have been printed, and they'll start circulating after the holidays.

Today we're pleased to announce the full contents of this incredible book:

"The Magic Shop" by Neil Gaiman (teleplay)
"Hell Hospital" by William Peter Blatty (teleplay)
"Faith" by William Peter Blatty (treatment)
"Softwar" by Stewart O'Nan (feature film treatment)
"Showdown" by Frank Darabont (teleplay)
"The Ventriloquist's Dummy" by Frank Darabont (teleplay)
"The Joy of Living" by William F. Nolan (teleplay)
"Freddy Wertham Goes to Hell" by Joe Hill (comic script)
"To Fight With Monsters" by Brian Keene & Michael Oliveri (comic script)
"Becoming the Monster" by Poppy Z. Brite (comic script)
"Snowmen" by Kealan Patrick Burke (teleplay)
"Jimmy Miracle" by Mick Garris (feature length film script)
"Hole" by Ray Garton (comic script)
"By Bizarre Hands" by Joe R. Lansdale (stage play)

About the Book:
Tales of horror and the fantastic have been told in many ways over the centuries — around the campfire, on the stage, in books and movies, and even on television — but no form is quite so visceral and direct as the script.

Whether it's a stage play, a feature film screenplay, or the script for a classic horror comic, these acclaimed authors aren't just putting black text on a white page. The writing may seem clean and simple at first, but the authors are actually creating worlds; they're luring you into their creations and before you know it, there's no way out. You're part of the story and you have to keep turning the pages until you reach "The End" or "Fade Out."

The big question is: will you survive to see the final curtain call?

Come now, take your seat, and let the show begin. You have nothing to fear but your own imagination.

Click here to place your order and to qualify for FREE SHIPPING to US addresses!

There's less than a week left to order your custom slipcase or traycase for Under the Dome by Stephen King!

Because these are going to be custom made in a ONE-TIME run, we're only going to accept reservations until the middle of next week and then that's it. We'll have enough made to cover those orders and there won't be extras.

We know that not everyone could afford the Collector's Set or the signed Limited Edition, so we're also going to go ahead and make a slipcase for the regular trade hardcover edition that you'll be seeing in stores everywhere. If you want a little something extra for your King collection, this would be a great way to protect that hardcover for generations to come.

Here are the three options we're offering:

• Custom-made REGULAR SLIPCASE for the regular trade edition featuring hot foil stamping on the spine ($24.95)

• Custom-made DELUXE SLIPCASE for the Collector's Gift Edition featuring a different cloth material than the regular slipcase and hot foil stamping on the front and the spine ($29.95)

• Custom-made DELUXE TRAYCASE (like you'd expect to see on one of our Lettered Editions) for the Signed Limited Edition featuring hot foil stamping on the front and the spine ($49.95)

If you're interested in reserving one of these, please don't wait. Our slipcase and traycase makers will be ready to roll as soon as the final orders are tallied and we will not be making extras. Please be aware, of course, that these are just cases for the books and this offer does not include the actual books. This is a unique chance to add value to your collection and it won't last long!

Click here to read more or to place your order!

These items are being custom-made based on the number of orders we receive. We'll need to charge our regular shipping charges for these items. We'll have a better idea of the shipping date when we confirm the total number of orders. Please be sure to select the correct case for the edition you have because we cannot accept any returns on this item. For the same reason, we cannot accept any orders placed with coupons, gift certificates, savings certificates, etc.

• Friday the 13th Is Here! Get THREE Signed Limited Editions Today For Just $13 Each!
• Fantastic New Reviews For Invisible Fences, Lilja's Library, and Futile Efforts!
• LAST CHANCE! Under the Dome LIMITED EDITION: One Copy signed by Stephen King FOR SALE!

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In celebration of Friday the 13th, we're going to offer one of our famous $13 Bundles!

With this deal, you get THREE signed Limited Editions for just $13 each! That's a savings of 60% to 70% off the retail price!

We could be using any of our instock Limited Editions including some very cool Limited Editions from other publishers!

We might also toss in some Out of Print Limited Editions!

You never know what you're going to get, but we think all of the books we're using are great reads!

So if you're a collector, you get a great deal for your collection. If you're a reader, you get a great book at an unbeatable price!

If you've never purchased a special offer like this before, you're really in for a treat! We always hear back from customers who are extremely pleased that they took a chance on this random assortment of books, etc -- it's a fantastic way to build your collection! And with this deal, who knows what kind of cool items you'll end up with!

These brand new "Friday the 13th" Bundles are being put together right now to ship next week, so if you're interested in taking advantage of this offer, you'd better hurry because we won't be selling these for very long!

Click here to place your order while supplies last!

After all the bundles have sold, we'll remove the offer from our website. Limit of two sets per customer and you will receive the same books in each set. A shipping charge of $9 applies to each set sent to a US address. Non-US customers will be charged the appropriate shipping amount for their location and the weight of the package. No other coupons or discounts or gift certificates or savings certificates can be applied to this offer because of the huge discount already built into the purchase price. Substitutions may be made if we run out of an item, but the replacement item will be of an equal or greater value. No returns or exchanges can be allowed due to the large discount. If you have any questions, please contact our office before you place your order.

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Invisible Fences by Norman Prentiss:
"Norman Prentiss' debut is a haunting tale of reminiscence and regret, of how things thought laid to rest long ago still lurk at the bottom of our souls.  His prose is smooth, nearly flawless, and his narrative voice invokes a Gothic, literary tone.  Best of all, the chills lie solidly in the strength and substance of the story, rather than something tacked on in pastiche at the end... The chills are there, but they are subtle, part of the characters and their existence, rather than an affected trope.  This is the mark of a writer who will enjoy a long, successful career and critical acclaim."
— Kevin Lucia, Shroud Magazine

Lilja's Library: The World of Stephen King by Hans-Ake Lilja:
"While readers probably wouldn't want to devour the contents in one sitting, Lilja's Library is a testament to Lilja's hard work, and a fascinating glimpse into the worlds of Stephen King. While no substitute for the Web site itself, the content is a fine representation of the online library's offering and a fine addition to any fan's King bookshelf."
— April Gutierrez, Green Man Review

"The bottom line: If you have more than a casual interest in King, this book is a worthy addition to your bookshelf, especially if you don't want to scroll through pages of back-lit text online (and I don't): I welcome the opportunity to sit down and browse this book, reading an interview here, a review there, and adding to my small body of knowledge about the big man in Bangor... Lilja's website is the #1 King fan website in the world, and after reading this book, you'll know why."
— George Beahm, Charnel House guest reviewer

Futile Efforts by Tom Piccirilli:
"Tom Piccirilli is a skilled and versatile wordsmith: a dark fantasist with the heart of a crime/Noir writer, a sculptor of oddities, and a gifted poet, also. However, for all Piccirilli's strange, melancholic grace, the sharp edge of steel isn't far behind."
— Shroud Magazine

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A very good customer approached us about selling his brand new and unread SIGNED LIMITED EDITION of Under the Dome by Stephen King. YES, THIS BOOK IS SIGNED BY STEPHEN KING!

The Limited Edition of Under the Dome is a truly massive volume. Not since The Stand has King tackled anything this big in a single book. These special signed Limited Edition copies basically sold out in one morning.  The publisher did offer some more copies later on, after they took stock of their sales, but from what we hear, a lot of very good collectors still missed out on the book!

Since this is a brand new Limited Edition signed by Stephen King, we've decided to make this ONE COPY available to our list of collectors. If you already have a big King collection, how could you let his newest signed special edition slip away? If you've never bought a book signed by King before, why wait? This is an incredible book and a beautiful edition!

We don't expect to see many copies of this Limited Edition on the second-hand market in UNOPENED CONDITION. Our collector has NOT opened his book. It's still in the box it arrived in and it's still SHRINKWRAPPED. This is like getting a copy directly from the publisher!

*** ABOUT THE SIGNED LIMITED EDITION:
This signed Limited Edition of Under the Dome is SIGNED by Stephen King and has a belly band around the jacket, a stamped case, four-color printed endpapers, 27 part title illustrations of characters in the book drawn by renowned New Yorker cartoonist Matthew Diffee, and a ribbon maker. The edition also contains a deck of 27 special collector's cards featuring the Diffee caricatures. The book itself is printed on speciality paper different than the trade edition. Shipping shrink-wrapped from the publisher, but you know most collectors are going to rip that right off to see what's inside! (If you want to see a few photos, visit theFree Extras section of our website for shots of one of our employees' personal copies.)

*** HOW WE'RE SELLING THESE:
We'll be taking BEST OFFERS on behalf of our customer and selling to the person who makes the best offer before the deadline. We will be processing the sale either via PayPal or Credit Card and shipping this copy for our customer via UPS for US addresses, so the book will be packed well and insured for the amount paid. No checks or money orders can be accepted for this special offer.  Customers outside the US will be shipped via USPS at their own risk since this item cannot be replaced.

*** HOW TO MAKE YOUR OFFER:
Please email Brian Freeman at brianfreeman@cemeterydance.com with your BEST OFFER as soon as possible. Serious bids only. The minimum offer for these is $299, which is still a great bargain for a brand new Limited Edition signed by Stephen King!

Please put "UNDER THE DOME Limited Edition Best Offer" in your subject line so these offers can be properly processed.

* The body of your email should include:
Your Name
Your Address
Your best offer

Please send the final amount you are willing to offer. The deadline for this "best offer" is TODAY, November 13th at 3 PM EST. The winner will be notified via email after the offers have been reviewed.  Your best offer is a binding agreement to purchase the book at that price.

If you have any questions before you send in your offer, please email Brian and he'll help you out.  As always, thanks for your continuing support!

• Under the Dome by Stephen King: Custom-made Slipcases and Traycases For A Limited Time Only!
• Bev Vincent reviews Under the Dome!

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We've heard from several very good collectors who were surprised to learn that the Collector's Set and Limited Edition of Under the Dome by Stephen King do not come with slipcases or traycases.

As long-time collectors of Stephen King books, we definitely understand where they're coming from.

Considering how important slipcases and traycases are to preserving a high-end collector's edition for future generations and protecting the future value of the book, we decided to go ahead and commission our own custom-made slipcases and traycases for this title.

These are in no way associated with the publisher of the book, but they will be sized to fit the appropriate edition. We have copies here that our designer will use to create a custom fit, just like we would for any of our own books.

Because these are going to be custom made in a ONE-TIME run, we're only going to accept reservations for the next TWO WEEKS and then that's it. We'll have enough made to cover those orders and there won't be extras.

We know that not everyone could afford the Collector's Set or the signed Limited Edition, so we're also going to go ahead and make a slipcase for the regular trade hardcover edition that you'll be seeing in stores everywhere. If you want a little something extra for your King collection, this would be a great way to protect that hardcover for generations to come.

Here are the three options we're offering:

• Custom-made REGULAR SLIPCASE for the regular trade edition featuring hot foil stamping on the spine ($24.95)

• Custom-made DELUXE SLIPCASE for the Collector's Gift Edition featuring a different cloth material than the regular slipcase and hot foil stamping on the front and the spine ($29.95)

• Custom-made DELUXE TRAYCASE (like you'd expect to see on one of our Lettered Editions) for the Signed Limited Edition featuring hot foil stamping on the front and the spine ($49.95)

If you're interested in reserving one of these, please don't wait. Our slipcase and traycase makers will be ready to roll as soon as the final orders are tallied and we will not be making extras. Please be aware, of course, that these are just cases for the books and this offer does not include the actual books. This is a unique chance to add value to your collection and it won't last long!

Click here to read more or to place your order!

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Let's get this out of the way: Under the Dome is not the second coming of The Stand. Both novels have impressive page counts and huge casts; however, there are fundamental differences between them.

King used the entire continental US as his tableau in The Stand, whereas in Under the Dome he is confined to Chester's Mill, Maine. The Stand was a chess game, with King taking months of story time to maneuver his characters into position. Under the Dome is a rapid-paced game of checkers—with one piece in the back row already crowned before the start of play.

The books explore good and evil, but in The Stand these concepts were taken to an absolute level. God does not appear in the Dramatis Personae of Under the Dome. The most sincere “religious” character is a minister who doesn't even believe in Him any more. The town leaders loudly proclaim their faith and “get knee-bound” in times of crisis, but are corrupt and decidedly un-Christian. Not Evil; merely evil.

The mysterious Dome that descends over Chester's Mill on a sunny Saturday morning in mid-October somewhere between the years 2012 and 2016 is semi-permeable. People can communicate through it, but it is unmovable and, apparently, unbreakable. It isn't really a dome; it has the same sock-shaped perimeter as the town's borders with places like Castle Rock and TR-90, and extends upward over eight miles. There is limited air exchange, and a jet of water directed at the outside produces a fine mist inside. The electric lines are down but—thanks to the prevalence of generators in Western Maine—cell phones, cable TV and the Internet all work.

The world is aware of the town's plight. CNN's Wolf Blitzer and Anderson Cooper report on the phenomenon from outside the Dome and, later, from Castle Rock after armed forces establish a perimeter.

Though the town's residents feel like ants under a magnifying glass, they have more pressing worries, like how long will their food and propane last, how will the Dome affect their weather, and when will the air no longer be safe to breathe? Those trapped by the Dome aren't so different from people stranded in New Orleans after Katrina or on Little Tall Island in Storm of the Century.

There's price gouging for commodities and a storeowner sells his overstock of questionable, stale-dated frozen food to unsuspecting customers.

These badly behaved people are small potatoes, though, compared to Big Jim Rennie, used car dealer, town selectman and operator of one of the largest meth labs in the country. When (if) the Dome is breached, Chester's Mill will fall under intense scrutiny. He needs to dismantle the drug lab and return the town's reserve propane tanks, which he appropriated for his illicit purposes. Like Flagg in The Eyes of the Dragon, Rennie is the power behind the throne, allowing a weak man to take the leadership position on the town council, and forcing through a malleable replacement when the sheriff's pacemaker explodes after he gets too close to the Dome. He surrounds himself with stupid people who won't question his orders or motives.

The book's hero, Dale “Barbie” Barbara, an Iraq war veteran employed at the town diner, was already persona non grata in Chester's Mill after a run-in with Rennie's son and other punks. Recognizing his situation as untenable, he was hitchhiking out of town when the Dome appeared. Colonel James Cox, his former commanding officer, reactivates him to duty, and they share intelligence about the situation in the town and external efforts to penetrate the Dome.

One of the book's themes can be found in the lyrics of a James McMurtry song: Everyone in a small town is supposed to know his place, and everyone supports the home team. When the President declares martial law in Chester's Mill and installs Barbie as the interim leader, Rennie's diseased heart goes into palpitations. Outside forces can't implement this directive, though, so Rennie starts discrediting Barbie while turning the town into a municipal dictatorship. To discourage resistance, he beefs up the police department with ruffians and thugs. He stages riots to demonstrate the necessity of his actions. He also seizes the opportunity to settle old grudges.

Tempers fray as days pass and efforts to break through the Dome fail. People commit suicide. Others die in accidents and altercations, or are murdered when they threaten Rennie's plans.

A small group of rebels forms around Barbie, including Julia Shumway, owner/editor of the town newspaper. Not only did she not vote for Rennie, she editorialized against him during election campaigns. The previous sheriff's widow and the Congregationalist minister are co-conspirators. As the situation degrades, other people begin to question their allegiance to Rennie.

King uses the metaphor of addiction to explain the townspeople's behavior. Anyone can become a drug addict after an injury because the body and the brain conspire to create imaginary pain to rationalize taking more painkillers. Rennie is the town's brain and most residents go along with his deception. This is the way people like Rennie are allowed to take power, King says. On a larger scale, he might have turned into another Pol Pot or Hitler.

The book is populated with fascinating, three-dimensional characters, including a trio of precocious and resourceful children, two out-of-towners forced to become surrogate parents, a physician's assistant pressed into running the hospital when the town's only doctor dies, the owner of a megastore that stocks everything imaginable, an unstable man suffering from a brain tumor, and a few dogs who offer more than comic relief.

Crossovers to other King novels are slight, except for a symbol that should inspire discussions about the true nature of the Dome. Children experience visions of the near future, but there are few other supernatural elements—beyond the Dome itself.

One character with literary ambitions muses about the risks involved in writing a novel. “What if you spent all that time, wrote a thousand-pager, and it sucked?”

King need have no such fears. This thousand-plus-pager most definitely does not suck. For such a massive book it is an incredibly fast and breezy read. It has the urgent pace of Cell without the wonky pseudoscience, and the insightful depiction of small town politics of Needful Things—except the characters in Under the Dome are sympathetic.

It's not The Stand II, but people who liked that book—or Desperation or ‘Salem's Lot—will love this one.

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Bev Vincent has been writing News from the Dead Zone since 2001. His first book, The Road to the Dark Tower, an au­thorized companion to Stephen King's Dark Tower series, was published by NAL in 2004 and nominated for a Bram Stoker Award. He contributes a monthly essay to the Storytellers Unplugged, contributed to the serial novellas Looking Glass and The Crane House, and has published hundreds of book reviews and over 50 short stories, including appear­ances in Shivers (vols II and IV), Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Tesseracts Thirteen, Doctor Who: Destination Prague, and this magazine. His latest book is The Stephen King Illustrated Companion, available in November at Barnes & Noble. Visit him on the web at www.bevvincent.com

• Under the Dome by Stephen King Limited Edition: First Look Photos!
• Under the Dome LIMITED EDITION: One Copy signed by Stephen King FOR SALE!

Plus Five Great New Additions to the Store from DARK HORSE:
• Hellboy: Emerald Hell
• Vampire Hunter D: Volume 1
• Lovecraft Unbound
• Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein
• Creepy Archives: Volume 1

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One of our employees received a copy of the brand new Under the Dome by Stephen King Limited Edition from Simon & Schuster on Friday and we thought our readers/collectors might enjoy seeing a few photos. We took a few quick shots and posted them in the Free Extras section of our website. Click here to check them out!

If you missed out on your chance to purchase one of these beautiful books SIGNED by Stephen King, keep reading because this could be your lucky day!

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A very good customer approached us about selling his brand new and unread SIGNED LIMITED EDITION of Under the Dome by Stephen King. YES, THIS BOOK IS SIGNED BY STEPHEN KING!

The Limited Edition of Under the Dome is a truly massive volume. Not since The Stand has King tackled anything this big in a single book. These special signed Limited Edition copies basically sold out in one morning.  The publisher did offer some more copies later on, after they took stock of their sales, but from what we hear, a lot of very good collectors still missed out on the book!

Since this is a brand new Limited Edition signed by Stephen King, we've decided to make this ONE COPY available to our list of collectors. If you already have a big King collection, how could you let his newest signed special edition slip away? If you've never bought a book signed by King before, why wait? This is an incredible book and a beautiful edition!

We don't expect to see many copies of this Limited Edition on the second-hand market in UNOPENED CONDITION. Our collector has NOT opened his book. It's still in the box it arrived in and it's still SHRINKWRAPPED. This is like getting a copy directly from the publisher!

*** ABOUT THE SIGNED LIMITED EDITION:
This signed Limited Edition of Under the Dome is SIGNED by Stephen King and has a belly band around the jacket, a stamped case, four-color printed endpapers, 27 part title illustrations of characters in the book drawn by renowned New Yorker cartoonist Matthew Diffee, and a ribbon maker. The edition also contains a deck of 27 special collector's cards featuring the Diffee caricatures. The book itself is printed on speciality paper different than the trade edition. Shipping shrink-wrapped from the publisher, but you know most collectors are going to rip that right off to see what's inside! (If you want to see a few photos, visit the Free Extras section of our website for shots of one of our employees' personal copies.)

*** HOW WE'RE SELLING THESE:
We'll be taking BEST OFFERS on behalf of our customer and selling to the person who makes the best offer before the deadline. We will be processing the sale either via PayPal or Credit Card and shipping this copy for our customer via UPS for US addresses, so the book will be packed well and insured for the amount paid. No checks or money orders can be accepted for this special offer.  Customers outside the US will be shipped via USPS at their own risk since this item cannot be replaced.

*** HOW TO MAKE YOUR OFFER:
Please email Brian Freeman at brianfreeman@cemeterydance.com with your BEST OFFER as soon as possible. Serious bids only. The minimum offer for these is $299, which is still a great bargain for a brand new Limited Edition signed by Stephen King!

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Please send the final amount you are willing to offer. The deadline for this "best offer" is THIS FRIDAY, November 13th at 3 PM EST.  The winner will be notified via email after the offers have been reviewed.  Your best offer is a binding agreement to purchase the book at that price.

If you have any questions before you send in your offer, please email Brian and he'll help you out.  As always, thanks for your continuing support!

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Our good friends at Dark Horse suggested some titles they thought our readers and collectors would enjoy, and we're pleased to announce that we've added FIVE fantastic selections from the book catalogue to our online store. Read on for details!


Publisher: Dark Horse

About the Book:
Hellboy comes to the crossroads in Enigma, Georgia, a small town plagued by strange occurrences. Sent to keep an eye on Sarah Nail, a young girl hiding from the curse of her family, Hellboy becomes entangled in the blood debt of evil mystical preacher, Brother Jester. Stuck between human malice and the mysteries of the occult, Hellboy comes up against an intrigue of ghosts, demon trees, talking bullfrogs, and a race of lost mutant children. An all-new Hellboy novel!

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Publisher: Dark Horse


About the Book:
The stories are legendary, the characters unforgettable, the world horrible and disturbing. Howard Phillips Lovecraft may have been a writer for only a short time, but the creations he left behind after his death in 1937 have shaped modern horror more than any other author's in the last two centuries: the shambling god Cthulhu, and the other deities of the Elder Things, the Outer Gods, and the Great Old Ones, and Herbert West, Reanimator, a doctor who unlocked the secrets of life and death at a terrible cost. In Lovecraft Unbound, more than twenty of today's most prominent writers of literature and dark fantasy tell stories set in or inspired by the works of H. P. Lovecraft.

Among the contributors are multiple New York Times best-selling authors Michael Chabon and Joyce Carol Oates, award-winning writers Brian Evenson and Marc Laidlaw, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and many others. Edited by multiple-award-winning editor Ellen Datlow.

Praise for the Book:
The 16 new and four reprint stories Datlow (Poe) assembles for this outstanding tribute anthology all capture what Dale Bailey praises as horror master H.P. Lovecraft's gift for depicting the universe as inconceivably more vast, strange, and terrifying than mere human beings can possibly imagine. Bailey and Nathan Ballingrud, in The Crevasse, evoke this alien sensibility through an Antarctic expedition s glimpses of an astonishingly ancient prehuman civilization preserved in the polar ice. Laird Barron's Catch Hell depicts a Lovecraft-type backwoods community in the grip of a profoundly creepy occult mythology. Selections range in tone from the darkly humorous to the sublimely horrific, and all show the contributors to be perceptive interpreters of Lovecraft's work. Readers who know Lovecraft s legacy mostly through turgid and tentacled Cthulhu Mythos pastiches will find this book a treasure trove of literary terrors.
-- Publishers Weekly

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Writer: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Artist: Bernie Wrightson
Introduction by: Stephen King

Publisher: Dark Horse

About the Book:
Few works by comic-book artists have earned the universal acclaim and reverence that Bernie Wrightson's illustrated version of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein was met with upon its original release in 1983.

Twenty-five years later, this magnificent pairing of art and literature is still considered to be one of the greatest achievements made by any artist in the field. Now, Wrightson and Dark Horse Books are collaborating on a beautiful new hardcover edition of the book, published in a larger 9" x 12" format intended to show off the exquisitely detailed line art of one of the greatest living artists in comics today.

This book includes the complete text of the original ground-breaking novel, and the original forty-seven full-page illustrations that stunned the world with their monumental beauty and uniqueness.

* The original edition of this book is nearly impossible to find. Don't miss your chance to enjoy one of the most talked-about books of the last twenty-five years, Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein.

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Publisher: Dark Horse

About the Book:
Gather up your wooden stakes, your blood-covered hatchets, and all the skeletons in the darkest depths of your closet, and prepare for a horrifying adventure into the darkest corners of comics history. Dark Horse Comics further corners the market on high quality horror storytelling with one of the most anticipated releases of the decade, a hardcover archive collection of legendary Creepy Magazine.

This groundbreaking material turned the world of graphic storytelling on its head in the early 1960s, as phenomenal young artists like Bernie Wrightson and Neal Adams reached new artistic heights with their fascinating explorations of classic and modern horror stories.

* Brilliant, classic Creepy stories from 1964-1966 raised from the dead after twenty-five years.

* Featuring work by such comics luminaries as Joe Orlando, Al Williamson, Alex Toth, and Frank Frazetta.

* Archive editions of Creepy will be the cornerstone of any comic-book library.

* Volume One reprints the first five terrifying issues of the magazine's original run, reprinted in the original magazine size!

Praise for this Book:
"Since the stock is much finer than the authentic newsprint, visually, these pages are better than the originals, with moodly, dark blacks that punctuate the shock endings."
-- Publishers Weekly

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Writer: Hideyuki Kikuchi
Artist: Yoshitaka Amano
Cover Artist: Yoshitaka Amano
Translator: Kevin Leahy

Publisher: Dark Horse


About the Book:
12,090 A.D. It is a dark time for the world. Humanity is just crawling out from under three hundred years of domination by the race of vampires known as the Nobility. The war against the vampires has taken its toll; cities lie in ruin, the countryside is fragmented into small villages and fiefdoms that still struggle against nightly raids by the fallen vampires-and the remnants of their genetically manufactured demons and werewolves.

Every village wants a Hunter-one of the warriors who have pledged their laser guns and their swords to the eradication of the Nobility. But some Hunters are better than others, and some bring their own kind of danger with them...

From creator Hideyuki Kikuchi, one of Japan's leading horror authors with illustrations by renowned Japanese artist, Yoshitaka Amano, best known for his illustrations in Neil Gaiman's Sandman: The Dream Hunters and the Final Fantasy games.

FOR MATURE READERS

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