The Best of Cemetery Dance

Author Various
Edited by Richard Chizmar
Paperback
$32.00 US
On sale Nov 01, 2000 | 400 Pages | 9780451458049

From the World Fantasy Award-winning pages of Cemetery Dance—the premier horror magazine in the field—comes The Best of Cemetery Dance. This incomparable anthology showcases the best short fiction from the magazine’s first 25 issues, featuring the greatest names to ever set pen to paper and let the nightmares come out.
 
Featuring stories by:
• Stephen King
• R. C. Matheson
• Bentley Little
• And many more
 
“This hefty and satisfying anthology is superbly representative of the state of contemporary horror and dark fantasy. Selections showcase the talents of leading luminaries whose work defines the art of darkness. An embarrassment of riches about which everyone can be proud.”—Publishers Weekly
Daniel Hahn is an award-winning translator, writer and editor. His 2026 books include If This Be Magic: the unlikely art of Shakespeare in translation, and translated novels from Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Peru and Guatemala.

Padma Viswanathan is author of three novels and a memoir, published in eight countries and shortlisted for the Pen Center USA Fiction Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize and others, and has translated four books from Brazilian Portuguese. View titles by Various

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From the World Fantasy Award-winning pages of Cemetery Dance—the premier horror magazine in the field—comes The Best of Cemetery Dance. This incomparable anthology showcases the best short fiction from the magazine’s first 25 issues, featuring the greatest names to ever set pen to paper and let the nightmares come out.
 
Featuring stories by:
• Stephen King
• R. C. Matheson
• Bentley Little
• And many more
 
“This hefty and satisfying anthology is superbly representative of the state of contemporary horror and dark fantasy. Selections showcase the talents of leading luminaries whose work defines the art of darkness. An embarrassment of riches about which everyone can be proud.”—Publishers Weekly

Author

Daniel Hahn is an award-winning translator, writer and editor. His 2026 books include If This Be Magic: the unlikely art of Shakespeare in translation, and translated novels from Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Peru and Guatemala.

Padma Viswanathan is author of three novels and a memoir, published in eight countries and shortlisted for the Pen Center USA Fiction Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize and others, and has translated four books from Brazilian Portuguese. View titles by Various

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