DMS, out in the world
Too cool. Only six months and change.
Chainsaw avalanche, part the fourteenth
This isn’t formatted well. Just, you know, a friendly heads-up. Trick is, whenever I stumble onto a list, a review, I stash it in a list on my phone. But, my publicity team is much better at this, and they sometimes send me nicely-done annotated lists. Which I’m including here, as, right now, I don’t
Grab bag of linkage
Nice Mannequins write-up: https://lordsamperlibrary.blogspot.com/2021/12/my-last-post-for-2021.html Cool list for The Last Final Girl to be on: https://the-line-up.com/funny-horror-books “Wait for Night” still out there, getting read: https://www.quoideneufsurmapile.com/2022/01/wait-for-night-stephen-graham-jones.html Good Indians, too: https://www.niusdiario.es/cultura/stephen-graham-jones-premio-stoker-insultante_18_3233746041.html And, talking TOGI: And, talking . . . um, well, yeah . . . like, icky stuff?
Couple Final Girl things
This is the excellent comic book / illustrated story adaptation of my “Dear Final Girls,” by the super talented Jolyon Yates: And a really cool write-up on slashers and final girls, including My Heart is a Chainsaw AND The Final Girl Support Group:
Best Reads from Lately
(not as tall a stack as usual, but, just because I often let this get all tall and teetery. so: posting earlier, this time around . . . ) https://litreactor.com/columns/jack-of-shrugtown The Great Surrender: How We Gave Up And Let COVID Win – Chuck Wendig: Terribleminds https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-technology/ancient-navigation-00963#!bywGL1 https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/crime/article/murdered-houston-couple-baby-cold-case-16767272.php https://bloody-disgusting.com/reviews/3698118/review-scream-carves-killer-heartfelt-commentary-horror-wes-cravens-legacy/
Room Rater
Fango and Scream back there, I guess. Along with Micheal and Jason and Freddy and Leatherface:
Levar Burton Reads
And, what he reads this time around is one my stories. Such an honor. He’s a hero: And, for a sample first:
Best Reads from Lately
Which are pretty soon from the last post like this. But, in my disorganized notes, I found a whole stack that I’d meant to post (hopefully I haven’t already?), so, with them, yeah, there’s already a few here. I’ll put some “####” down where the breakover point is from recovered/unlost ones to “new” ones. https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3685298/jason-blum-explains-halloween-kills-going-straight-streaming-peacock/
2022’s soundtrack
I mean, for me. Started dialing up music videos last night about 1:30 in the morning, I guess. Then, just now, had the bright idea to pull my watch-history up, add them all, in the same order, to a playlist. Which I think I’ll now use to write a novel; I like this progression, these
Best of 2021
Novel Plural. Because: two is always better. And, both of these are doorstoppers, too. Doorstoppers I didn’t want to go over, whose labyrinths I’m still plunging through, faster and faster: Poetry It came out in 2020, but I only read it in January or so of 2021. Stuck with me all year. And I’ll probably
Chainsaw avalanche, part the thirteenth
No time today to pretty this up, so, gonna be a mix of embeds and links: https://apps.bostonglobe.com/arts/graphics/2021/12/best-of-2021-books/ LitReactor Staff Picks: The Best Books of 2021 – Part II | LitReactor ? https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#view=covers&year=2021 http://sadiehartmann.blogspot.com/2021/12/best-books-of-2021.html https://www.readingforsanity.com/2021/12/my-heart-is-chainsaw-stephen-graham.html https://bloody-disgusting.com/books/3696710/10-best-horror-reads-2021/
Spotlit!
(though, if you haven’t read everything from Mongrels up to Chainsaw, then, beware spoilers . . . )