Y’all remember back when every third dog was named “Curtis Lowe?” I guess I don’t either—think it was forty-five, fifty years ago. And it was probably every 700th dog. But still, it was a thing, and it must have been cool. And? Maybe this is how it started:
“Grab bag” doesn’t quite cut it, though. “Dump truck,” maybe? Anyway, what with writing a novel and going on book tour, I kept putting off slapping all these up here. But, I mean, this, this post, is the easy part. Filing all these with their respective books, that’s gonna take me more than a few
The Best Horror Books of 2024 My Favorite Books of 2024. I read more books than this in 2024… | by Jeremy Lassen | Dec, 2024 | Medium https://www.reedfaster.com/2025/01/the-year-turns-but-we-look-back-books.html https://bookwyrm.social/book/1707609/s/i-was-a-teenage-slasher
Amazing, that, A) Horror is this year’s Judges Category, and B) I somehow snuck TWO books into that stack of five. Well, I say “I,” but that’s a lie. It’s Simon Audio who produced these, and made them amazing. All thanks go to them, for making these so good. Also, yeah, big thanks to Stephen
Stashing them here before the madness of travel and holiday and a new semester get me to forget completely: https://www.popmatters.com/bleed-into-me-stephen-graham-jones https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/202598.Horror_to_Look_Forward_to_in_2025 Most Anticipated Horror of 2025 – She Reads Chilling Reads Ahead: CinemaChords’ Top 10 Most Anticipated Horror Novels for 2025 – Cinema Chords https://sadiehartmann.substack.com/p/sadie-hartmanns-mother-horrors-must https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/best-horror-books-of-2024 The Best Horror Fiction of 2024 ‹ CrimeReads https://sadiehartmann.substack.com/p/sadie-hartmanns-mother-horrors-must
Honored for Tolly and Ambs to be on them both. Library Journal: And NPR:
Or: what-all I’ve thought to stash in Notes on my phone, anyway. But, man, it’s been a busy couple months. Can’t imagine this is actually comprehensive: https://calgaryherald.com/entertainment/local-arts/slasher-101-stephen-graham-jones-dissects-the-horror-genre-with-dark-humour-in-newest-novel https://www.grimdarkmagazine.com/review-i-was-a-tennage-slasher-by-stephen-graham-jones https://e135-abookaweek.blogspot.com/2024/09/i-was-teenage-slasher-by-stephen-graham.html https://medium.com/@jenniferfarris_54554/i-never-expected-to-have-my-heart-broken-by-a-horror-book-b90643cc373f Horror Beat: This summer’s best double bill was two excellent horror novels Review: I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones | FanFiAddict https://www.estapinto.com/books/i-was-a-teenage-slasher-characters-book-review-summary-triggers
Tolly and Ambs are in the final ten! Help them make it to that digital trophy?
Amazing. Honored: I Was a Teenage Slasher made Audible’s Best of 2024 in Horror:
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Reviews, lists, interviews–not cleaned up to properly embed, just dropped into the waters, asked to swim in this post (as I have copyedits I need to start today. Buffalo Hunter Hunter‘s not cleaning itself up): https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/books/review/stephen-graham-jones-interview-i-was-a-teenage-slasher.html https://www.tvguide.com/news/best-new-horror-books/ The Best Horror Books of 2024 (So Far) (Esquire) https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/2787-6-new-books-recommended-by-readers-this-week https://www.audible.com/newreleases https://parade.com/books/best-reads/best-new-book-releases-this-week-2024-july-16-22 https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/horror-books-for-the-summer https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/book-list/12-summerween-picks-for-the-perfect-summer-scare https://www.bookbub.com/readworthy/horror/2024/8 https://bookriot.com/new-horror-books-july-2024/ http://itseithersadnessoreuphoria.blogspot.com/2024/07/book-review-i-was-teenage-slasher-by.html https://youtu.be/Pw89CPa-d8Y?si=WeXQux10ydeEsGwZ
All these weeks later, can I still find some snapshots to document I Was a Teenage Slasher winging it from NYC to San Diego? Let’s see, let’s see: NYC Launch-day was shooting video for The Buffalo Hunter Hunter at Simon & Schuster, but ALSO seeing Tolly and Ambs in the main display case at ground-level
Told myself when I Was a Teenage Slasher came out—not a good idea to stand some metric/threshold like this up, I know, but . . . it’s hard to do only smart things?—that I’d look at its review count on Goodreads a month out, and, if it’d crossed 1000, I’d be thrilled beyond thrilled, as
