Graveyard
People: The Collected Cedar Hill Stories, Volume 1 (2003)
A collection by Gary A. Braunbeck
Cover and interior art by
Deena Holland Warner
2003 Stoker Award Nominee

SYNOPSIS: Welcome
to Cedar Hill, Ohio, a deceptively commonplace bordertown between
the familiar everyday and the phantasms, fancies, hauntings, and
enchantments that wait in dimly-lit places for a chance to pass
through the scrim of perception & make this place their home,
as well. Those who live here don't really have any choice and neither
will you. Cedar Hill: "Main Street" tinged with the macabre,
located just this side of night. This is the first of approximately
3-5 volumes to be published by Earthling collecting the author's
stories set in his fictional town of Cedar Hill. Each collection
will feature original stories as well as reprints that have been
reworked for this collection, plus historical elements such as family
trees and a town map. Deena Warner provides cover art and over two
dozen interior illustrations. For those buyers who desire a complete
set of matching numbers/letters, we will record the name of each
buyer, who will be given first dibs at future volumes.
Available in two states:
750 numbered hardcovers signed by the author |
$40 SOLD OUT
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15 signed lettered, traycased hardcovers signed
by the author and artist, each containing one piece of original
art that was used in the book |
SOLD OUT
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"Braunbeck's fiction is the lonely howl of a wolf baying at
the moon. His characters, whether single, dating, or married, are
filled with a desperate loneliness. Some despair because they never
achieved their youthful goals, others because they never met their
soul mates, and still others because they did, only to lose them.
Love is the only balm that can soothe them, but even its promise
is empty because sooner or later we lose everyone we love, or they
lose us. Suffering is inevitable, but what's worse is wondering
if that suffering has any point. GRAVEYARD PEOPLE is absolutely
essential reading for anyone who values dark literature ... a treasure
trove of some of the most emotionally engaging fiction in the horror
field."
Garrett Peck, CEMETERY DANCE MAGAZINE
"Whether exposing the darkness of human motivation with screams
or whispers, Braunbeck reveals a paralyzing truth: the monsters
we conceal beneath logic and faith are not only formed by conditions
outside ourselves; they're created by each impression and prejudice
from within. A dark lesson from an author who explores worlds of
terror with words of pain in a collection that succeeds admirably
well in creating an entire geography of people, landmarks,
legends, and experiences."
William P. Simmons, HELLNOTES
"Gary A Braunbeck is simply one of the finest writers to come
along in years. His work is chilling, touching, moving, and above
all, compassionate and human. He elevates the genre with everything
he writes. If you've read him, you already know this, but if you
haven't, take this book home, get comfortable, and see what you've
been missing -- you're in for a treat."
Ray Garton, author of LIVE GIRLS,
THE FOLKS, and SEX AND VIOLENCE IN HOLLYWOOD
"Braunbeck's fiction stirs the mind as it chills the marrow."
Publisher's Weekly
Congrats to Geoff Garland on winning
the GRAVEYARD PEOPLE contest - he won a copy of the signed, numbered,
limited edition galley, having a run of only 10 copies.
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