Cemetery Dance Publications: 229 books

Twelve Tales Lie | One Tells True brings together 13 stories of the fantastic and fearsome by award-winning author Maria Alexander. WARNING: This is not your typical short story collection. While twelve of the tales are fictitious, one is a creepy true story sure to amuse and alarm even die-hard...

What makes a haunted house? The unsettled spirits of the dead? Or the unsettled spirits of the living? When Joey Lodge sustains a severe brain trauma, his delusions take the form of an alien spirit that guides him in the creation of a haunted house. He begins to populate the house with ghosts...

Eight year old Bronwyn knew she wasn't like other girls. She didn't have a mother. At least not a real one. Her mother had been in a coma at the hospital for as long as Bronwyn could remember. She couldn't feel any pain, her father said, it was just like sleeping -- only she never woke up. But on...

For young Caryn Dearborne, the cornea operation enabled her to see more than just light and shadow for the first time. For Todd Reynolds, it was his chance to run and play like other little boys. For these two children, the sudden death of another child had been the miracle they had been waiting for....

Ocean of Death Seven-year-old Kelly had always loved to romp in the surf of California's endless summer. Then tragedy struck--a sailboat accident which took the lives of her parents and her sister Melissa. Now Kelly felt drawn to the sea for a different reason. She knew her sister wasn't really gone....

It was an amusement park like no other in the world. A tri-level marvel of modern technology enhanced by the special effects wizardry of holograms, lasers, and advanced robotics. The brainstorm of billionaire developer Sheldon Rice, The Park catered to the luxury market of jet-setters, celebrities,...

From the day she brought her babies home, Morgan sensed they were closer to each other than to her. As they grew, their strange games began to disturb her, their whispered secrets to unnerve her, their malicious pranks to anger her. But it wasn't until their innocent eyes became twin mirrors of evil...

Eight-year-old Abigail was used to cold, uncaring doctors, domineering nurses, the unceasing round of pain and suffering. But from the day she was admitted to Valley Memorial's newly opened children's ward, she felt a sense of terror... At night the walls seemed to ooze with something dark...

He was a salty old sailor, weather-beaten superstitious and in desperate need of money. So he sold three pints of his pure red blood -- and the horror began... First, the brutally mutilated bodies of a honeymooning couple are found at a campsite. Next, a highly reliable nurse commits suicide during...

When Brian Clifford was brought into the Emergency Room of Coastline Hospital, a victim of a cerebral hemorrhage, the doctors did everything they could to save him. The situation appeared to be hopeless. Then it happened. Brian Clifford awakened. Disoriented and weak, there was something about him...

Jill Baker was such a pretty little girl, with long, honey-blond hair and haunting gray-green eyes. Just one look at her angelic features could dispel all the nasty rumors that had been spreading around town. Like the crazy old country doctor's story about Jill's mother vanishing right in front of...

Three brothers. One rare and terrifying ability: they can control people’s minds. Robert considers it a gift--he's used the power to set off on a successful career. For Peter, it's been a curse. He couldn't adjust and turned to drugs, a broken man. And Gabriel... he took yet another path. He sees...

The clock is ticking! In London, Department 18 Chief, Simon Crozier, is brutally stabbed and left for dead. Billionaire businessman Pieter Schroeder has laid his first card in a deadly, high-stakes game, a battle that will pit Department 18 against evils both ancient and modern. As the secret...

A modern ghost story. Life was good for Beth, once. Now a car crash has left her confined to a wheelchair. To help her recuperate and rebuild her life, she's leased Stillwater, a house with a lake in the countryside. But her dreams of peace and quiet are thwarted when she realizes she's...