The Best of Cemetery Dance Volume 2 by Richard Chizmar

The Best of Cemetery Dance Volume 2 Reviews

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  Rob

  This collection started out so weak that I thought I’d have to give it up. I persisted and was rewarded with the last 11 stories in the collection averaging a 4 rating. If they had all been like these last 11, this collection would have been epic.
  1. Eater - 2/5
  2. Tyrannosaurus - 1/5
  3. Vacation - 3.5/5
  4. A Taste of Blood and Altars - 1/5
  5. Mr. God - 3/5
  6. Drive-in Date - 2.5/5
  7. Desert Pickup - 3/5
  8. Fyodor’s Law - 3.5/5
  9. Five to Get Ready, Two to Go - 3.5/5
  10. Secrets - 3.5/5
  11. With the Wound Still Wet - 2/5
  12. Plainclothes - 2/5
  13. The Pattern - 2/5
  14. Seesaw - 1/5
  15. Trial By Fire - 2.5/5
  16. Almost Never - 3/5
  17. Bloodline - 2/5
  18. Four-In-Hand - 3/5
  19. The Cutty Black Sow - 4/5 (Irish ritual)
  20. The Liar’s Mouth - 4/5 (Sanity is a cozy lie)
  21. Shattered Silver - 4/5 (Unsettling, well-developed serial killer tale)
  22. YSEX - 4/5 (Sex therapy of the future?)
  23. Mongrel - 2/5
  24. The Winds Within - 4/5 (Those cold winter winds are a real killer)
  25. Crying Wolf - 3.5/5
  26. Animal Rites - 5/5 (Dread in slo-mo)
  27. Easy’s Last Stand - 3/5
  28. A Christmas Story - 3.5/5
  29. Comes the Night Wind... - 4/5 (It was like “IT”)
  
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  Kas

  If you like anthologies where it seems like every single story is written by the same person writing about the same exact things....this is a book for you
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  Jeannie Sloan

  I was disappointed in this book.One thing I do have to say is if you are into serial killers/sociopaths then this is the book for you.Something changed quite a while ago and it seems like this book is reflecting it.We stopped seeing supernatural stories and now we see way too much the psychopaths and all the horrible things that they do to people.I don't know why this is.I find stories about psychopaths boring.They seem like the lazy man's/woman's authors specialty now.I see enough of these people at work.I don't want to read about them.It also seems like anything goes with these creeps.The more horrific the better.I guess if you like this sort of thing you will like the book much more than I did.It does have some good writing in it.It's just that the stories start blending together when you are half way through the book.I can't really remember any of the stories well and I just finished it yesterday.That says something,I think.
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  Not Now...Mommy's Reading

  I immediately ordered Volume 1 after reading the first four stories in this collection. The stories were great and gave me the chills I look for when reading books of this nature. A few of my favorites include:
  
  - "Eaters"
  - "Vacation"
  - "Mr. God"
  - "Drive-in Date"
  - "Easy's Last Stand"
  ....Oh, who am I kidding? I loved them all!!! Pick this one up!!!
  
  
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  Jay

  Good collection of mostly serial killer theme which is why it was rated a bit low as it is not my kind of genre to read. There was some stories that was more of my taste. I understand that the first volume was supernatural theme. I still enjoyed this as bite pieces, if this was a novel i would have put it away long tine ago. Good subway ride time killer or waiting for something reading material.
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  Aaron Lindsey

  This is the last 29 stories and an interview from the hardback, "The Best of Cemetery Dance, Vol. 1".
  Most of the stories are very good, but a couple of them really stood out.
  My favorite story from this collection is The Liar's Mouth by Darrell Schweitzer.
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  Jeffrey W Brigham

  There were some real gems in here. Some stories I will always remember.
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  J.A. Sullivan

  Great collection of chilling short stories. The selected works offered a variety in levels of tension, subject matter and types of fears. My only complaint is I wished some of the character names had been changed - there is a clump of stories with "Jack" as the main character, and the repetitive use of the name became distracting.
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  Chris

  Great collection of short horror fiction.
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  Kyle F

  A