The Ultimate Showdown of . . . Horror
Seriously, this is one of the top best most amazing coolest wow slasher things I’ve seen. Can’t get enough:
Pure Prairie Dog
Well, my story from Gamut, “The God of Low Things,” reprinted in this month’s The Dark. August 2018
Name these critters
Because I can’t. I mean, the this one‘s built like a moose, but it’s colored like a paint horse—a shetland, maybe, or a wild horse with a winter coat: It’s definitely not a horse, though. Look at those hind legs. And this one‘s . . . maybe a white raccoon? The legendary ghost coon? Whatever
Old Dreams I Still Have
Living and dying by Magnum PI growing up, I of course fell head over heels for this color scheme: However, helicopters being far from any reality I knew, and trucks being ALL of my reality, I of course, then, wanted a truck with that color scheme, as Ford was doing in the late seventies: Is
Clarion West
Anybody needs me next summer roundabout the end of June, I’m up in Seattle, teaching at Clarion West for the . . . let me see, let me see: third time : Announcing the Clarion West Summer Workshop instructors for 2019
World Fantasy Awards
Wow, Mapping the Interior‘s a finalist. So cool: https://www.tor.com/2018/07/25/2018-world-fantasy-award-finalists/
My Kind of Party
That being Buster’s ‘Welcome home from jail!’ party from ep.5 of the new/current season of Arrested Development, where all the food is limited (“limited”) by his unadventurous palate:
a Pre-Shark Week Listicle, with Teeth
Reading David James Keaton anywhere is always a good time, but especially at LitReactor. Cool to have a shark book on this list: https://litreactor.com/columns/the-top-ten-shark-books-that-are-in-my-house-just-in-time-for-shark-week
The Deer & the Owl
Hey, this tweet got enough hearts that, were it Link, he’d now be functionally immortal. But I guess this is A link, anyway: Never know if you don’t try pic.twitter.com/OIncv7WrqJ — Stephen Graham Jones (@SGJ72) July 21, 2018 Anyway, yes, I subscribe to that philosophy. It’s a big reason I have so many scars, so
When Colorado feels like West Texas
#Denver #tractor #slowspeedpursuit pic.twitter.com/jBQTEzlK9o — garbuckle (@gazucci) July 21, 2018
Suspended in Dusk II
The hard copies arrive. Very cool. “Love is a Cavity I Can’t Stop Touching” is in here. Cute little story about teenage love, and all that comes after.
ReaderCon GoH 2019!
And a big wave hello to the 2019 Guests of Honor @TananariveDue and @SGJ72! We’ll send out an update when online membership purchase is ready to go! [E] #ReaderCon — readercon (@readercon) July 15, 2018
Recommended Horror
Cool pack of books and writers to be running with: Fear Not – LJ Genre Spotlight on Horror
Pirates & Pirating
Man, looks like I’m just embedding tweets here all day—I did just wrap an extensive novel rewrite about five minutes ago—but, here’s another one, a good one, an important one: Dear person who decided to upload an e-ARC of THE GIRL IN THE GREEN SILK GOWN to an illegal download site more than a week
Love is a Cavity I Can’t Stop Touching
A story of mine that ran on Gamut a while back. It’s in here now: Change forces us into the light or the dark. Dusk is in between. It defends the light from the dark. Where things go well. Or where they go very, very bad… SUSPENDED IN DUSK II, edited by @herodfel, with @SGJ72
Bukowski
Thinking this goes for fiction as well: Charles Bukowski on writing poetry pic.twitter.com/ZbRQHK4lG6 — Poetry Is–@VVanGone (@PoetryIsPoetry) June 30, 2018
Don’t Eat Crazy
Tom Paris, saying aloud the creed I live by, pretty much. And? This is my only persistent problem with intergalactic humans in stories: they always come out of warp at some Mos Eisley of a truckstop and just eat whatever’s being served. I can’t help but think that would be instant death. Not just of
Guess this means I’ve made it?
Or, one of my books has, maybe: Anyway, he’s my new favorite fighter. Thanks to Bill Wetzel for headsup.
Bloody Flicks
Which is what Mongrels would be, I imagine. All werewolf stories walk through blood. Cool write-up from Paul Downey: Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones review
Monster Covers
Stumbled onto this Vamp poster on Twitter, which got me thinking of The Howling novel cover, and now I’m just wishing there were covers as good for any version of The Mummy. There’s wonderful amazing stuff in places like this or this or this, but, man, for me, it’s when the art and the title combine
Best of 2018 — halfway through
Every year when I cobble together some best-of-the-year list from half-remembered this and that, I always end up remembering stuff from the last few months instead of the whole year, and feeling like that’s all unfair. So, in an effort to work around that, and trusting that I actually come back and LOOK at this in five months, but mostly because I’m just now thinking of it, here’s my favorites so far:
Comic Book:
Best of 2018 so far—the July roundup
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