The Floor of the Basement
. . . is the Roof of Hell. Which is the title to a story I’ve got in the January 2020 Nightmare Magazine.
Gospel of $Z$
Man, who knew. This and Dugatti and Del Rio are all at a premium, lately. Guess I should have stocked up:
My Star Wars Theory
Or, a missed opportunity? What got me thinking about this was that fish we see Luke carrying in The Last Jedi, that he evidently speared with that super-long spear. That fish that, for a planet that kicks up Thala-sirens (those Suessian things he milks) and frog nuns that look straight out of a live-action Emmet
Best of 2019 so far: the January post
( which is IN 2020, but about this December we just had . . . )
LitReactor’s 20 2020 Horror Novels
Fun to say it like that. And, really, it’s Max Booth III’s 20 2020 . . .
Best of 2019
Just like last year, I had this idea that doing a monthly post would make it a snap to figure out my best of the years: just scroll through, it’ll be obvious. I wish. Though it does make it easier to remember stuff from before summer, say. So, without further whatever, and by category, and
All the Pretty Lists
No time to thumbnail/preview them (running out the door, in Houston, it’s raining instead of snowing and it’s December, feels like the world’s upside down, and I’m late to a thing to boot…), but here’s some recent ones I caught on Twitter that I’m super honored to have sneaked onto: http://raforallhorror.blogspot.com/2019/12/beckys-top-20-horror-for-libraries-of.html https://nightworms.com/blogs/news/the-night-worms-team-favorite-books-of-2019 https://letsgetgalactic.com/2019/12/24/my-most-anticipated-reads-of-2020/ Speaking of
The Truth About Yoda
Reprint of a thing I did . . . in 2017, maybe? Very cool of the very cool Transmotion to run it:
Black Christmas 2019
This one just keeps getting made, doesn’t it? Anyway, being not just a not-fan of cult horror, but considering it kind of my custom-made nemesis, I was kind of blindsided by this one a bit. Will link a very even-handed review below, but, for anybody who likes the message here, maybe not the wrapper? I
Best Reads from Lately
This paste-in isn’t going to be as bulletpoint-neat as before, with quotation marks and titles. But that’s just because I skipped a month of posting these, so they kind of built up, became a job. Anyway, for some reason some embeds create blank space right after them, which is kind of unkillable. Sorry for the
Pre-orderable Mannequins
Live live live. Can’t show the cover yet, but . . . maybe before 2020? If not, then shortly thereafter.
Foreign Mongrels
Would say there’ll be a pack of them soon—more coming—but we all know werewolves travel in families, not packs: