Hot Picks

- Ready for My Close Up 2019

- Talk of the Dead 2016

- Tower Rats 2020

- Script of the Dead 2024

- The Bell Affair 2023

- Easter Bloody Easter 2024

- Velma 2022

- Everwinter Night 2023

- Main Character Energy 2023

- Stupid Games 2024

- Bittertooth 2023

- 4 Minutes of Terror: Night Slasher 2024

- Apart 2024

- The Abandoned 2006

- Becky 2024

- The Evil Fairy Queen 2024

- The Black Guelph 2022

- Followers 2024

- Silence of the Prey 2024

- Battle for the Western Front 2024

- Beware the Boogeyman 2024

- Subject 101 2022

- Driftwood 2023

- The Legend of Lake Hollow 2024

- Black Mass 2023

- Skinwalkers: American Werewolves 2 2023

- The Manifestation 2024

- Spirit Riser 2024

- Garden of Souls 2019

- It's a Wonderful Slice 2024

- Caleb & Sarah 2024

- The Thousand Steps 2020

- The Desiring 2021

- When a Stranger Knocks 2024

- Quint-essentially Irish 2024

- Son of Gacy 2024

- Saltville 2024

- The True Story of the Christ's Return 2024

- Whenever I'm Alone with You 2023

- Jurassic Triangle 2024

- Midnight Peepshow 2022

- Offworld: Alien Planet 2024

- The Swiss Conspiracy 1976

- Sex-Positive 2024

- Here for Blood 2022

- All Over Again 2024

- The Color Yellow 2023

- Des Töchterleins Leid 2024

- I Am a Channel 2024

- The Hermits 2023

- Murdaritaville 2024

- Inheritance 2024

- The Devil's Partner 1960

- First Impressions Can Kill 2017

- A Killer Conversation 2014

- Star Crash 1979

- Strangler of the Swamp 1946

Tales from the Cemetery on the Hill by Dale Pierce - A Book Review

by Harold Metzger

November 2008

Quick Links

Abbott & Costello

The Addams Family

Alice in Wonderland

Arsčne Lupin

Batman

Bigfoot

Black Emanuelle

Bomba the Jungle Boy

Bowery Boys

Bulldog Drummond

Captain America

Charlie Chan

Cinderella

Deerslayer

Dick Tracy

Dr. Mabuse

Dr. Orloff

Doctor Who

Dracula

Edgar Wallace made in Germany

Elizabeth Bathory

Emmanuelle

Fantomas

Flash Gordon

Frankenstein

Frankie & Annette Beach Party movies

Freddy Krueger

Fu Manchu

Fuzzy

Gamera

Godzilla

Hercules

El Hombre Lobo

Incredible Hulk

Jack the Ripper

James Bond

Jekyll and Hyde

Jerry Cotton

Jungle Jim

Justine

Kekko Kamen

King Kong

Laurel and Hardy

Lemmy Caution

Lobo

Lone Wolf and Cub

Lupin III

Maciste

Marx Brothers

Miss Marple

Mr. Moto

Mister Wong

Mothra

The Munsters

Nick Carter

OSS 117

Phantom of the Opera

Philip Marlowe

Philo Vance

Quatermass

Robin Hood

The Saint

Santa Claus

El Santo

Schoolgirl Report

The Shadow

Sherlock Holmes

Spider-Man

Star Trek

Sukeban Deka

Superman

Tarzan

Three Mesquiteers

Three Musketeers

Three Stooges

Three Supermen

Winnetou

Wizard of Oz

Wolf Man

Wonder Woman

Yojimbo

Zatoichi

Zorro

Tales From the Cemetery On the Hill is a new book available only online and at book signings where the author chooses to show up. Clearly, rather than waste time shopping around with the mainstream market, prolific writer Dale Pierce has seen fit to deal with his cult following and market to this audience alone. While Lulu’s books on demand system is not fancy, it enables any author to get his project out fast and on the market, literally changing the face of publishing. Clearly, Pierce intends to go beyond Lulu to resell his works to bigger companies for foreign reprint rights and possibly film. In Tales From The Cemetery on The Hill there are a ton of things that would make great film. Someone like Dario Argento should take note.

 

At the opening of this horror novel, we find The Sin Killer, a murderous psychopath who believes himself killing for Christ to be a fine thing. According to his philosophy, if his victims will not give their hearts to Jesus while alive, they will do so when dead. Those who know Pierce’s style need not stretch their imaginations to see what happens next.

Anyway, The Sin Killer visits Hillside Cemetery in the remote parts of Sugarcreek, Ohio, where he intends to gloat over the grave of his last victim. Instead, he is confronted by a man in a priest outfit, who identifies himself only as Traveler.

Traveler seems to be more than something human, for he confronts the Sin Killer and plays a game with him, taunting him as he takes him from gravestone to gravestone, each of which offers an encounter with the supernatural. The dead rise up to speak in the whispering wind, telling ghostly stories of woe, while the murderous Sin Killer is forced to listen.

The tales are a bizarre mixture of things. A jealous magician confronts a rival to force the secrets of his magic tricks from him and finds out these are not tricks, but real magic. The rival sold his soul to the devil. Other tales deal with a man attempting to raise an army of demons to take over the world, by sacrificing his visiting niece as the last needed victim in his uncanny rituals. A writer makes a fortune by claiming to have seen the mythical Mothman in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, but evokes the wrath of the real creature. You kind of get the drift of things.

 

The best, though darkest of the tales are the first two:

 

In They’re Tearing Down Hoe Finn’s Arena, a pro wrestler confronts the past by returning to the condemned arena in Canton (Ohio) where he once killed a rival in the ring. In this empty arena, the lights come on where there is no power, the silent building rocks with cheers and once again, he relives the deeds from his past.

The ghosts of the empty arena come back to claim their own.

 

In the next tale, Between God, The Devil & A Pair Of Horns, an American bullfighter born in Ohio, but seeking adventure as a novice torero, leaves his home for Peru. There, he receives a massive goring and luckily pulls through.

After being released from the hospital, said bullfighter stumbles upon a bullfighting bar in Lima, devoted to dead bullfighters. He enters and partakes in an educational program where the narrator delivers a lecture on death in the ring.

All is fine and dandy until the young man sees his own death on the video screen.

Fleeing, he finds himself trapped in a netherworld where dressed in his suit of lights once again, he must confront destiny. The lecturer comes to his aid dressed in a bullfighting costume of his own and informs him he too, was killed in the ring.

Now, as all others have done before, the young man must prove himself in the other world. There are bullfights in heaven…or hell…one imagines, for the trumpets blow and the gates open before him.

“Who is out there, on the other side?” the young man asks, wishing to know the audience who will be appraising him.

“Who do you think?” the other man responds and with that they make their way across the sand in this phantom plaza, where the dead return to resume their passion of old.

 

The book ends with one final story, where the identity of the mysterious Traveler is revealed and The Sin Killer meets his fate at The Cemetery On The Hill.

 

A truly creepy piece of work, though not the fanciest production, this is available for book purchase in the $10.00 range and also a very economical downloaded e book version for around $2.00.

 

A mySpace for the book exists at http://www.myspace.com/graveyardpolka and the actual Lulu page where orders, sample pages and info may be found exists at http://www.lulu.com/content/5099181

 

© by Harold Metzger


Legal note: (re)Search my Trash cannot
and shall not be held responsible for
content of sites from a third party.




Thanks for watching !!!



 

 

In times of uncertainty of a possible zombie outbreak, a woman has to decide between two men - only one of them's one of the undead.

 

There's No Such Thing as Zombies
starring
Luana Ribeira, Rudy Barrow and Rami Hilmi
special appearances by
Debra Lamb and Lynn Lowry

 

directed by
Eddie Bammeke

written by
Michael Haberfelner

produced by
Michael Haberfelner, Luana Ribeira and Eddie Bammeke

 

now streaming at

Amazon

Amazon UK

Vimeo

 

 

 

Robots and rats,
demons and potholes,
cuddly toys and
shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill
Your Bones to

is all of that.

 

Tales to Chill
Your Bones to
-
a collection of short stories and mini-plays
ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic
to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle, all thought up by
the twisted mind of
screenwriter and film reviewer
Michael Haberfelner.

 

Tales to Chill
Your Bones to

the new anthology by
Michael Haberfelner

 

Out now from
Amazon!!!