Some more Mongrels words
Thanks, Sadie Hartmann: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2008979264
Winter is Coming
but the app window for my horror workshop at the Stanley closes on Halloween. Click here to go there.
The Main Staples of Horror
For real horror, you need: an empty rocking chair, rocking a crackle-faced porcelain doll the close-up of an eyeball a spread-fingered hand on the other side of a window a tree swing, creaking back and forth and a cat flying out of every closet: doesn’t hurt to have a mysterious shape walking past a doorway,
Halloween 2018
Isn’t that mask just so expressive? It’s supposed to make Michael Myers faceless, but really it kind of gives him a soul. A dark, evil, tortured soul. Anyway, I think it’s going to be a touch before I get to actually talking about this latest version, BUT: if you haven’t seen it yet AND you
Hey, I’m (in) 2 of 5 of these
Pretty cool B&N Halloweenie list: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fantasy/5-new-horror-books-for-dark-october-nights/
Turkish Mongrels
Need need NEED to figure out how to get my hands on this one. Not so I can read it. Just so I can hold it. I mean, foreign stuff usually wends its way to me through the publishers, but that can take forever, too. Ready to not-read this one now:
Paula Guran’s YBDF&H 2018
It’s out in the world now. Mine’s in transit, but I trust it’ll look just a whole lot like this:
13 Halloreads
Think I’m in three of these anthologies over at LitReactor: https://litreactor.com/columns/13-halloween-themed-anthologies-to-fill-your-season-with-fright#comments
Old Firehouse & Mapping
https://oldfirehousebooksblog.wordpress.com/2018/10/17/review-mapping-the-interior/
13 #OwnVoices at B&N
Honored for Mapping to have made this list: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fantasy/13-essential-ownvoices-science-fiction-fantasy-novels/
Zombie News
Man, was at the gym long about 11:15 yesterday, just having a good time reading a JS Breukelaar collection and sweating on various torture devices, when I got a call that maybe I could clean up and drive into my office on campus (like, MILES away) by noon, to talk to the newspeople for a
Mongrels and a Vulture
Many thanks to Mallory O’Meara for the include on this excellent horror list over at Vulture: http://www.vulture.com/2018/10/best-horror-books-for-wimps.html
Midland, Texas
Was there this weekend, giving a couple of talks for Permian Basin Writers’ Workshop. Always neat to walk through places I grew up. And, I realized: when I left Texas, I never considered that one thing I’d been taking for granted all along was Whataburger trash in the bear grass:
Radioland
Got two radio interviews next week, had either one or two this week. Here’s one that got archived. Just three minutes or so. KOA on the AM, Colorado: https://app.criticalmention.com/app/#/clip/public/d2716ff1-0092-4ea2-b2e7-31777570737a
Four killer lines
Right at the end of this. I always see people with lines from novels or poems or songs or whatever tattoo’d on them, and I think, man, that’s forever, you might only like that passage this year. But this, from Leonard Cohen, I don’t see myself ever falling out of love with it:
In-camera
The Boulder Daily Camera: http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-news/ci_32198605/cu-prof-zero-zombie-love
Five-Minute Zombies
note:Â when I’m listing those 4 things early in, it should be flesh-eating, infectiousness, decay, and HEAD SHOTS. got myself confused by saying ‘infectiousness’ and ‘contagion’ both, oops. but, this is what happens when I write with my mouth, not my pen . . . for zombies in TEN minutes, I did this a longtimeback (and