slashers
Couple Final Girl things
This is the excellent comic book / illustrated story adaptation of my “Dear Final Girls,” by the super talented Jolyon Yates: And a really cool write-up on slashers and final girls, including My Heart is a Chainsaw AND The Final Girl Support Group:
Best Reads from Lately
Which are pretty soon from the last post like this. But, in my disorganized notes, I found a whole stack that I’d meant to post (hopefully I haven’t already?), so, with them, yeah, there’s already a few here. I’ll put some “####” down where the breakover point is from recovered/unlost ones to “new” ones. https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3685298/jason-blum-explains-halloween-kills-going-straight-streaming-peacock/
Best of 2021
Novel Plural. Because: two is always better. And, both of these are doorstoppers, too. Doorstoppers I didn’t want to go over, whose labyrinths I’m still plunging through, faster and faster: Poetry It came out in 2020, but I only read it in January or so of 2021. Stuck with me all year. And I’ll probably
Demon Theory: already sold out
Su spect it was gone pretty much when it went live: Oh, and, about this one: near as I can find/tell, this is the closest I have to the version I finished in November 1999 (DT came out, in much different form, in 2006).
Hack/Slash
Most, most, MOST amazing? I got to play in Tim Seeley’s H/S world. Meaning: yes, I got to write Cassie Hack. Was as cool as it sounds.
Pieces & Bits
Haven’t had time to take a peek at this, but . . . it’s a learning exercise the NYT did, I think? Based on or around that opinion piece I did? Maybe? Somebody tell me?
Halloween Kills
SPOILERS BELOW! BEWARE, BEWARE! I only wish I had time and headspace right now to write on this one like I wrote on the last one. But, alas & alack, to even get this one into my head, I had to wake up early enough at Telluride Horror Show to stream it before hitting all
Stu’s house
Got a reminder set for this. I got zero free days in October, but, still: for this? Maybe I could find a way . . .