Here’s hoping I kept good enough notes for this to be representative, not a victim of recency bias or all the other biases I’m sure I’m prone to. Though, the one about “it’s pretty boring if there’s no blood” is a pretty good and proper bias, I have to think, and one I can’t apologize
Hopefully within the first couple weeks of 2026? Current version’s developed some slowdowns, so, working with someone who actually knows what’s going on under the hood. So, should be cleaner and faster soon, here. After I move to California . . .
Best Books of 2025 The Best Horror Books of 2025 for When You Really Want a Good Scare The Best Horror Books of 2025 – B&N Reads https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#reset=true&view=covers&year=2025 (really https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#year=2025&book=246) https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/11/19/best-scifi-fantasy-novels-2025 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/books/notable-books.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/24/books/book-recommendations-notables.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share) Every Book on Obama’s 2025 Reading List https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/display/199702383/2890165557 Booklist’s Editors’ Choice: Adult Books, 2025 Booklist Editors’ Choice: Adult Audio, 2025 14 Best
I’m teaching the Stegner Fellows at Stanford in the Spring, so, when Nightfire releases Night of the Mannequins in February, I’m doing a few stops west of the Rockies. https://us.macmillan.com/tours/stephen-graham-jones-night-of-the-mannequins Also: ECCC! (was supposed to have been there in 2020, thrilled to finally be there now)
Out today from Open Road. More flash than it used to have: Or, talking flash, this is my sort-of definition of it:
Grady Hendrix! Honored to be in this heady mix, though:
I mean, in spite of wondering and wondering and not being able to figure out why all the intolerance we’re seeing, experiencing, trying to live through, are going to have to live down somehow:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/11/17/wolf-tool-use-animals https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/business/last-penny-minted https://www.wired.com/story/a-disease-carrying-mosquito-has-landed-in-the-rocky-mountains-where-it-historically-couldnt-survive https://www.wired.com/story/can-a-hydroelectric-dam-really-make-the-days-longer Neanderthals and early humans ‘likely to have kissed’, say scientists | Neanderthals | The Guardian https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattcraig/2025/11/19/how-mark-wahlberg-became-the-king-of-streaming https://www.extremetech.com/science/scientists-successfully-extract-40000-year-old-rna-from-woolly-mammoth Superman edition found in mum’s attic is most valuable comic ever at $9.12m ”Star Trek: The Next Generation” readies for last episode https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/graphics/see-how-egyptians-built-giza-pyramids They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Christianity
In both General AND Horror! https://www.audible.com/blog/article-2025-best-horror-audiobooks https://www.audible.com/ep/best-of-the-year
Cool list for a vampire novel to be on: And, while I’m at it, here’s just a whole stack of BHH lists and reviews (which I hope to put on the BHH page soon, here): The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones – love the title and liked the book – Trending Books https://dj-screenwriter.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-buffalo-hunter-hunter-by-stephen.html
Was in Seattle at Auburn Library Friday night, where @thatnerdchick slipped me some Chipotle to I could dine in my preferred style in the green room: Then it was a lot of this fun action: Got back to the room pushing midnight, and wired, had to pack and be ready for my car at 2:30am
https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20170314-the-town-that-built-a-mirror-to-catch-the-sun https://www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/2025-10-15/banned-books-iowa-city-high-school-student-club Sealed for 5.5 Million Years, Movile Cave Hints at the Nature of Extraterrestrial Life Inside one American’s year-long attempt to date alt-right men https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/world/ireland-lion-dog-mouse.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation – High Country News For the first time, Catholic sisters return land to Ojibwe Nation https://www.wired.com/story/why-are-we-all-still-carrying-around-car-keys https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/books/features/thomas-pynchon-shadow-ticket-review-b2840031.html
