William Colton Hughes out loud
https://www.audible.com/pd/Mysteries-Thrillers/The-Least-of-My-Scars-Audiobook/B07611B9SF/
Blood Business
Good time at Tattered Cover last night, with a whole TOC’s worth of us there—enough that we needed a spinner-wheel to figure out who got to read: [ photo: Catherine Spader ] Which? My number spun up. I had to borrow a woman from the audience’s reading glasses, since my arms are only so long, but
Shawn Kemp
In my weakest moments, I imagine that there’s some version of myself in some distant iteration of Earth, dunking like Shawn Kemp:
So cool
This shot of Bruce the shark about to eat little Alex Kintner in #JAWS was cut from the film. pic.twitter.com/TpFXQAsn7Y — Stan Winston School (@SWinstonSchool) November 7, 2017
Hooded Justice
Man, had no idea about any of this. And, it’s just a shade away from the slasher, too: masked, punishing the “guilty,” using violence the law can’t use, preferring the night. How the KKK Shaped Modern Comic Book Superheroes
Tunes and stories, paired up
Very cool, what Boden’s doing. You know him from the covers of Three Miles Past and Sterling City:
Werewolves and trucks
So cool to see this sticker on a truck I used to have (a truck that I left in a field for a few years, but that now lives in the magazines): I’ll just leave this here for @SGJ72 pic.twitter.com/ixGnP3PLNK — Constantino Martinez (@TinoBeano) November 5, 2017
The Midnight Coterie of Sinister Intruders
Home invasion done the Wes Anderson way. I’d somehow missed this, until the SNL Halloween special. Can’t embed the video, but I can link it, anyway.
Demon Theory write-up
Been years since I’ve seen one of these. Thanks, Michael McCarty: https://monstermikeyaauthor.wordpress.com/2017/11/01/demon-theory-by-stephen-graham-jones-book-review/Â
Dear Final Girls
Not sure how many slasher stories I’ve written, exactly. There’s this one, there’s “I Was a Teenage Slasher Victim” (also at Juked), there’s “Kissyface” in Unspeakable Horrors 2, there’s “A Survival Guide for the Police Officer Guarding the Final Girl’s House,” and I feel like there’s one or two more floating around in the horrorsphere.
We all need heroes
And I’ve got a new one: http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/fort-worth/article181696671.html Thanks to Angelique Migliore for pointing this out to me.
Slasher Boy Bands, much etc
I’m always either finding these in my inbox or searching them up myself. And they never fail to make my day. Got any more, let me know. Always hard to select which version of “Let the Bodies Hit the Floor” to include, as there’s so many. [ it doesn’t thumbnail every vid, just plays
The Elvis Room at Bloody Disgusting
Thanks to Andrew Schwarz for taking the story, making a short film from it. WORLD OF DEATH Ep. 126.5 – The Elvis Room
Halloweenie Flicks
Say it’s four days before Halloween, and you want to cue up some Halloween happiness, kind of sample across the subgenres, try out two or three different tones. Here’s what I rec: Murder Party https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI_DqgxNR7U My favorite horror is always closed-door horror, And Then There Were None style. This isn’t quite as twisty as Agatha
Mapping review video
A two-fer, actually: Mapping and a novella I blurbed: ( Mapping comes on about 4:44 or so )
Clickable horror
that’s not behind a paywall. Proud to be on this list over at LitReactor: https://litreactor.com/columns/the-20-best-horror-stories-available-online-for-free
Slasher season 2
I never even reviewed the first season, did I, from when this was a Chiller show? It was fun. It was kind of a ‘grown-up’ slasher. Well, it wasn’t teens-at-camp, anyway. The victim pool’s problems weren’t “what about curfew?” or “where’s the party,” but real, mortgage-paying actual-life kind of problems. There was a wicked knife,
New York Times & Mapping the Interior (& me)
What am I doing in these hallowed pages, right? I mean, by my reckoning, it’s been about forever since I’ve been in the NYT. Thinking . . . 2003, maybe? All the Beautiful Sinners. And that may have just been an ad that Rugged Land bought—I’ve got it stashed away somewhere—so it doesn’t really even
At the Horror Lounge
New quick & dirty interview: http://www.lounge-books.com/award-winners-we-lov/horror-lounge-author-stephen-graham-jones
Skiffy & Fanty (longer interview)
That one from a few days ago was a spotlight/author kind of thing. This is a conversation about horror, with other hosts, other horror writers: https://skiffyandfanty.com/2017/10/23/338indigenoushorror/