SciFi and Scary
Nice Mongrels write-up, by @Tracy_read79:
ReaderCon interview with Paul Tremblay
Over on YouTube: ( rest of the ReaderCon pics &etc over here )
TOC for Final Cuts
One of Ellen Datlow’s new anthologies*. This one’s all film-adjacent horror: Das Gesicht by Dale Bailey Drunk Physics by Kelley Armstrong Exhalation #10 by A. C. Wise Scream Queen by Nathan Ballingrud Family by Lisa Morton Night of the Living by Paul Cornell The One We Tell Bad Children by Laird Barron Snuff in Six Scenes by
New Tell-All Interview!
Well, not even super sure what ‘tell-all’ exactly means. But I wanted to use an exclamation point, because this one was fun:
30 Haunted-up Houses
Honored to have Mapping the Interior included here: https://bookriot.com/2019/07/10/best-haunted-house-books/amp/
Crawl
What are all the crocagator movies? Alligator, Primeval, Lake Placid. I keep hearing about Rogue, but can’t place it, though I’m fairly certain I saw it in the theater. Much like this afternoon’s Crawl. So, in short: it’s nothing but fun. Anybody see Hurricane Heist? It’s got that feel. Just, with monsters. So, with no
ReaderCon 2019!
I’ve been there before, some three or four times, and it’s always been nothing but a ball, but being a GoH (thanks, Rose Fox!), that was completely different. Not only was my schedule super-super packed: But I of course had a handler, a chaperone, Nightwing Whiteshade, who . . . rememberer years and years back,
Hey, not Key and Peele, but Peele and Us
My phone and podcasts were fried in a gym the other day, so I dialed back to 2016, to Jordan Peele before Get Out hit, and took over the world. Very cool episode, as they all are, but what’s especially cool is, at about the 48-, 49-minute mark, Peele, maybe not even thinking he’d ever
Another Tor.com Novella!
Title . . . . Night of the Mannequins. Slasher through and through. For a long time I’ve been wondering what’s left to do in slasherland, what territory hasn’t already been gone over fifty times, and better than I could ever do it. Night of the Mannequins is in what feels like that unexplored space.
Best Reads from Lately
Ones I thought to copy onto a scratchpad, anyway: “Forget Strong Female Characters! We Need Complicated Female Characters Who Screw Up (A Lot)“ “Interview: Jonathan Frakes On Casting Marina Sirtis And What ‘The Orville’ And ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Share“ “It’s Time to Give Billy Joel the Respect He Deserves“ “Why narrating an audiobook is a
Clarion 2019 & Seattle (also 2019)
Always great, being in Seattle, wearing a Batman shirt, being at the University Bookstore, having fun at the mic with seventy or eighty readers and writers. Thanks to all these cool folk for snapping pics, posting them up: pics by @AndreaLRogers, crowdsourced reading glasses, Neile Graham
The Shortlist
Honored to have “Raphael,” my first published horror story, included in Paul Tremblay’s list of five horror stories: And, if you maybe like his selections, then you might just also like his collection Growing Things, out tomorrow / July 2nd: