slashers
Goodreads showing the slasher love
Couple of old The Last Final Girl reviews, I mean. This one’s fun because of all the cool gifs layered in: And this one kind of makes me realize that Jade, from My Heart is a Chainsaw, might be a sister of sorts with Izzy:
Best of 2021 so far: for January
(sorry for the lead-in ad, and this being clipped — not sure why it’s getting clipped, exactly : )
Holiday Horror!
And, I should say: before we started recording, my question was, “So . . . is this ABOUT horror set on the holidays, or is this called what it is because we’re recording here IN the holidays?” Worked out great, though: wonderful people, excellent moderating, good signals/connections all around — this is all you need
Too Many Slashers?
Nope. Not possible. But, the last ten or eleven days, I’ve been inhaling one or two a day. All Golden Age stuff (well, a little spillover). Started with watching The Thirteenth Guest from 1932 (I’m always looking for roots, for beginnings), and then I jumped ahead about fifty years. And, yeah, where’s My Bloody Valentine,
Couple Way-Cool Articles
Key line from that: “One of the things I try to do with my work is to remind people that narratives about poverty and migration aren’t about poverty and migration, they are about the people who go through these things” Gabino Iglesias
Recent Events & Interviews
And, man, there’ve been a few . . . thus the big dip in updates here at DT. But, trying to catch up: Functional Nerds Guessing this one’s posted somewhere:
Some elky & mannequin-y & werewolfy & ATBS-y lists
That’s kind of a lie. Things have been so fast & furious lately, I haven’t been able to track everything. But, I snagged a few: MANNEQUINS: ELK: MONGRELS: ATBS:
4 Write-Ups for 4 Different Things . . .
The Only Good Indians, in Jacksonville: Night of the Mannequins, at Scifi and Scary: “Attack of the 50 Foot Indian,” at Protean Depravity: And, finally, my old story “Father, Son, Holy Rabbit,” at Thresholds:
The Graveyard Shift
About the best you can have: imagining you’re the attendant at the spooky place, and you get to bring books and some etcetera with you: