Lightspeed
Got a new story in the new Lightspeed. It’s about the coolest mag going. Proud to be included: http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/issues/nov-2018-issue-102/
100 Best Horror Books
One of which is yellow and werewolfy . . . https://www.unboundworlds.com/2018/09/the-100-best-horror-books-of-all-time/
Fabulous Skeletal Starchild
Or, what I was for Halloween, 2018 (all thanks to my wife): And, let’s see if I can get this video to work: Anyway, was cool to be one of my rock ‘n roll heroes for a day. First album I ever got? A record. KISS Destroyer.
On Zombies
Excellent graphic for this one: https://www.cpr.org/news/story/brains-rotting-flesh-and-infection-zombie-101-with-an-expert-cu-professor
DGO Mag Interview
These are a few of the things I really love: https://dgomag.com/contents/tips-on-how-to-survive-creepy-killers-from-horror-and-crime-author-stephen-graham-jones-3453
Do You Like Scary Movies?
If you like a good gory time with some ridiculous storytelling and nothing but laughs, you can’t do better than Gravy: If you like that, then Murder Party‘s a sure bet: And it goes without saying that Trick ‘r Treat is called for this time of year: And, for something less silly that comes in
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/