The Best of Cemetery Dance by Chizmar, Richard [Editor] - 1998

Baltimore: Cemetery Dance Publications, 1998. Limited Edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. Stacy Drum, Jill Bauman, Charles Lang. A fine, signed limited edition. Number 162 of 200 printed. Signed by Graham Masterton on the limitation page. Appears completely unread. No slipcase as issued, no dust jacket as issued. Black cloth binding. 25 pp. Octavo. There's a phrase for it — "all-consuming passion."And that's what David and Melanie had for each other. They loved each other so much that they wanted to share everything, body and soul. If they could have done, they would have breathed the same air.Their family and friends thought that their hunger for each other was unhealthy. But they were blind to what anybody else thought about them. They shut themselves away from the world and their only companion was Echo — the cat which David gave to Melanie as a living token of their obsessive love.But then Echo went missing. And that’s when David and… Read More

Baltimore: Cemetery Dance Publications, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very good/very good +. Stacy Drum, Jill Bauman, Charles Lang. A very good, signed limited edition in a very good clamshell slipcase. Letter "O" of 52 lettered copies. Signed by Stephen King, Dean Koontz and dozens of other horror writers on the first pages. This large and heavy textblock has partilly pulled away from the spine covering, see photo. Black clamshell box with a bend on front spine edge. Fine dust jacket. Black cloth binding. Full color illustrations. 786 pp. Octavo. The Best of Cemetery Dance showcases five dozen of the very finest short stories from the first 25 issues of Cemetery Dance magazine. Published over a period of nine years — and still publishing today — Cemetery Dance is the winner of the World Fantasy Award and the International Horror Critics Guild Award, as well as a recent nominee for both the British Fantasy Award and the American Horror Award.Featuring… Read More