slashers
Best reads from lately
Literacy crisis in college students: Essay from a professor on students who don’t read. Adrian Tchaikovsky, science fiction and fantasy author https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/thursday-february-22nd-scam-reaper https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/23/americas/worlds-biggest-snake-amazon-intl-scli-scn/index.html https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/162008/stunt-double Football Players Put Nuts in Allergic Teammate’s Locker Watch: Man spots wolverine running through field Meet the newest ‘walking’ fish—a bright red creature of the deep Colorado could bring back wolverines
Few lists and reviews
Elky, Werewolfy, Mappy, but Chainsaw and Chainsaw-adjacent stuff (the trilogy) will be in a different post, as this one’s tall enough already: https://the-line-up.com/edgar-allan-poe-readalikes https://readinghabits.substack.com/p/the-best-books-that-are-currently https://www.vulture.com/article/books-like-true-detective-night-country.html The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones – Baddie Book Reviews http://mespassionsmesenvieslemondedemarie.blogspot.com/2023/12/un-bon-indien-est-un-indien-mort.html The Best Graphic Novels by Speculative Fiction Authors https://www.themarysue.com/best-comics-and-graphic-novels-of-2023/ https://www.instagram.com/p/C2U2MYDLypV/?igsh=MTYwbjF1eDFjN3dqOA%3D%3D http://www.paperbackwarrior.com/2024/01/night-of-mannequins.html https://www.comics-culture-project.fr/post/eerthdivers-tome-1 http://davidagranoff.blogspot.com/2023/12/graphic-novel-review-earthdivers-vol1.html Time Travel Is Bloody:
Halloween 2023
Wife wasn’t in town to do fancy make-up for me like usual, so had to fall back on an old standard. In stages: Was fun walking around campus, catching looks from the undergrads like, Geez, grow up already?
Best reads from lately
https://www.colorado.edu/today/2023/10/02/cu-boulder-announces-native-american-affairs-associate-vice-chancellor Confusing Haunted Maze Fails To Explain Narratively Why Someone Would Jump Out From Corner Screaming https://www.mysanantonio.com/lifestyle/slideshow/Corpus-Christi-woman-making-waves-with-Halloween-211681.php https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/dogxim-first-dog-fox-hybrid https://x.com/chris_moliere/status/1711465188900429949?s=46&t=mhZCLAE0iAiaHztioYOVjA Scientists may have untangled a mystery of Neanderthal ancestry | CNN https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/05/americas/ancient-footprints-first-americans-scn/index.html https://www.longmontleader.com/local-news/beyond-local-the-scariest-part-of-halloween-may-be-costume-contact-lenses-an-eye-doctor-says-7713194 http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/punctuation.html https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-theory-that-men-evolved-to-hunt-and-women-evolved-to-gather-is-wrong1/ Shock of the new: Jordan Peele, Mariana EnrÃquez and more on the horror fiction renaissance | Horror books | The Guardian
Best Reads from Lately
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/word-processing-exclamation-mark-1.6795166 The Matawan Man-eater: The real-life inspiration for Jaws Blackfeet/NiimÃipuu actress Lily Gladstone on the verge of stardom Here’s How One Angry Parent Got All Graphic Novels Pulled From a School District https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-little-engine-that-could-but-chose-not-to https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2023/04/06/orangutan-breastfeeding-101-moos-cprog-orig-bdk.cnn Goujian: The Ancient Chinese Sword that Defied Time | Ancient Origins https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/texas-woman-lake-jeep-17890787.php Why is Bluetooth Called Bluetooth? (Hint: Vikings!) | Smart
Few book-type links
https://the-line-up.com/horror-books-favorite-scream-queen https://the-line-up.com/horror-books-with-hope https://litreactor.com/columns/the-top-ten-shark-books-that-are-in-my-house-just-in-time-for-shark-week
Book link grab bag:
https://the-line-up.com/7-violent-books-that-remind-us-of-our-favorite-slasher-films https://rue-morgue.com/guest-post-author-ronald-kellys-ten-creature-feature-books-for-frightful-halloween-reading/ https://the-line-up.com/werewolf-horror-stories https://www.booklistonline.com/Booklist-Backlist-Coming-of-Age-Horror-/pid=9769004?_zs=Q1UiW1&_zl=3nie8 https://www.audible.com/blog/article-audiobooks-for-horror-movie-fans https://the-line-up.com/underrated-psychological-horror-books
So many book links (lists, reviews, etc)
Wish I could embed them all, but some of them are going to be links, I’d guess: http://litlists.blogspot.com/2022/09/ten-quietly-effective-suspense-novels.html Western Horror – Mystery and Suspense Magazine October & November Reads – Bookshop.org https://www.ghoulsmagazine.com/articles/4-must-read-horror-books-for-slasher-film-fans https://www.polygon.com/2022/9/9/23341203/new-comics-2022-fall-preview https://previewsworld.com/Article/264444-Start-Here-Five-New-Comics-for-October-5 https://www.whichbook.net/book/12706/The-Only-Good-Indians-Stephen-Graham-Jones/ https://justaword.fr/un-bon-indien-est-un-indien-mort-465314f8dc4e https://www.dreadcentral.com/reviews/435387/the-babysitter-lives-review-a-fun-and-scary-reinvention-of-familiar-horrors/ https://www.booklistonline.com/The-Babysitter-Lives-Jones-Stephen-Graham/pid=9768294?_zs=Q1UiW1&_zl=Hm3b8 https://ryanthomaslabee.com/blog/the-babysitter-lives-a-review