Cemetery Dance to Release Special Edition of Justin Cronin's "The Passage"

Highly anticipated horror novel gets special treatment

Justin Cronin's 'The Passage' to be published as deluxe signed edition by Cemetery Dance Publications

Cemetery Dance Publications announced Monday that it will publish a special deluxe, signed, limited edition of 'The Passage' by Justin Cronin, one of the most anticipated horror novels in the last decade.

The Cemetery Dance edition of Cronin's novel will be published this fall in an extremely limited run of just 876 copies signed by the author. The book will also include exclusive special features such as an afterword by the author, over three-dozen personal photos from his research trips with his notes discussing those sight visits, and a hand-drawn map. This deluxe collectible edition will be printed on heavy paper stock and will feature cover artwork from Tomislav Tikulin and black and white interior artwork from Jill Bauman.

"It has the vividness that only epic works of fantasy and imagination can achieve," Stephen King said. "Read this book and the ordinary world disappears."

'The Passage' chronicles a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility that unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. This relentlessly suspenseful adventure is an epic chronicle of human endurance in the face of unprecedented catastrophe and unimaginable danger.

Random House bought the trade rights to the novel for a seven-figure advance after a heated auction between the biggest publishers in the world. Days later Fox 2000 bought the film rights in another seven-figure deal for Ridley Scott¹s production company, Free Productions. Recently the book earned a spot on The Wall Street Journal's list of top books to be released in 2010 and Stephen King, in his Entertainment Weekly column, declared 'The Passage' to be a "don't-miss reading experience."

For more information about the Cemetery Dance deluxe, signed, special limited edition of 'The Passage' by Justin Cronin, please visit http://www.cemeterydance.com


Cemetery Dance Publications recently published the World's First Edition of 'Blockade Billy' by Stephen King and is widely-considered the world's leading specialty press publisher of horror and dark suspense. The hardcover imprint has published over 200 affordable and collectible Limited Edition hardcover books from the genre's most acclaimed authors. These authors include Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Ray Bradbury, William Peter Blatty, Peter Straub, Graham Masterton, Richard Laymon, Michael Slade, Douglas Clegg, Jack Ketchum, William F. Nolan, Joe R. Lansdale, and hundreds of others, along with the best new writers in the genre.