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For a collection of "the best of" this really didn't impress me. Most of the stories had me questioning if they were really horror, and in some cases if the story was just snuff. There were few gems, but most of it gave me a serious case of boredom or disgust. I can't say don't read it, because once every 7 or 8 stories you'll find one worth reading.
Ketchum, Garton, Little. I love short stories and Cemetery Dance publishes some of the best. Cemetery Dance is a fantastic magazine and if you have not read the magazine pick up an issue and give it a read
Some of the stories were excellent, while others just left me confused
It took me three Halloween seasons to finish this collection (although I skipped a few items). It’s what you would expect from a short story collection. Some of the stories are good, some of them are not. Some of them have terrible endings. Some of them have no point. And there are also some winners.
Love, love, love! A great collection of stories. Highly recommended for any horror fan.
What a ride! The genre was amazing! I can honestly say that there might have only been a couple of stories that didn't hold me but the stories that did, oh boy! Loved every bump in the night!
There were a few really good horror stories in here, but the majority were bland. It starts off fairly strong and toward the end gets weak.It appears that in the '90s, dark crime stories were the in thing, and I really didn't care for many of those. My favorites of the collection were two stories I'd already read: Stephen King's "The Chattery Teeth" which I read in another compilation and Bentley Little's "The Mailman" (not the novel by the same author) which I read in his collection. Some of th...
Sadly, this book is nearly impossible to get--as is the case with so much great horror. But if you're lucky enough to have a library nearby, or to pick up a pricey copy online, do it. If you can't, then go to Cemetery Dance, look at the table of contents, and track down each story a la carte. You'll rarely be disappointed. This is essential horror reading. My personal favorites:"Halceldama" by Gary Braunbeck. It was the basis for "Coffin Country" by him, and it's a phenomenal gutpunch of a story...
If this sampling is representative of the typical content of Cemetery Dance magazine, its readers must really like slasher stories. Further, nearly half of the tales contained in this two-volume set (reviewed here as a single work due to the shared page numbering system) involve brutality of one sort or another inflicted on an animal or a child. That isn’t necessarily to say that they’re all bad; for example, Thomas F. Monteleone’s “The Cutty Black Sow” is the first really scary story I’ve read
Cemetery Dance & Robert Chizmar never disappoint.
