Texas Book Festival
With Noah Hawley:
First Buffalo Hunter Hunter review?
I mean, outside Goodreads and Netgalley. First one I’m getting linked to, anyway. And, something about that domain name, it sort of . . . speaks to me:
Good list of indigenous lit
Maybe you can see it if you’re not Bluesky? Not exactly sure how it all works . . .
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter Blurbs so far
“For me and vampires, there is Stoker, there is Rice, and now there is Jones. It’s harrowing, agonizing, nuanced, and downright philosophical. Very likely Jones’s masterpiece.” —Daniel Kraus, New York Times bestselling author of Whalefall “Stephen Graham Jones has lit a slow-burning candle that grows into a forest fire, illuminating the life of a Pikuni vampire and everyone
Grab bag of links & lists &etc
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
Hey: Bats
It went away from where it used to be, but . . . it’s back, sort of, if you click from post to reply to reply:
Best Reads from Lately
Will require some real vigilance on my part, which is far from my strong suit, but I’m gonna try to post these each time the counter gets to “10.” Like this: https://www.livescience.com/animals/orcas/orcas-start-wearing-dead-salmon-hats-again-after-ditching-the-trend-for-37-years https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/948440-we-are-now-ready-to-tackle-dickens-we-are-now# https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/texas-restaurants-new-recipe-cost-her-life-parents-on-a-mission-to-make-changes https://knewz.com/world/archaeologists-discover-neanderthals-seaside-cave-with-60-000-year-old-glue-making-oven-stunned-by-the-construction Spain to enshrine gay marriage and abortion rights into its constitution so ‘they cannot be undone in the future’ –
Lettering protocol for comic books
100% agree with this. And, in addition, I so like stabbing a colon down at the END of a balloon, then putting that post–colon matter in the NEXT balloon (usually with a bridge between the two balloons). However, I found out pretty quickly that I’m the only one who’s a proponent of that. But .
Slasher Symposium
Or, rather, somebody recorded what we do when we all find each other in the lobby of a con: talk slashers!
Dead links
If anyone skating through here catches one, maybe reply under this? Now that comments are finally working again . . . Speaking of, need to go back a few posts and open comments on everything. Wish I could set it as default, not have to remember to do it manually, but should probably just be
Couple of cool best of the year lists
Honored for Tolly and Ambs to be on them both. Library Journal: And NPR:
Elky fun
A Love Letter To THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS by Stephen Graham Jones https://www.audible.com/blog/top-100-horror-audible-essentials https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/Display-Shelf-Indigenous-Fiction Best Books for Native American Heritage Month 10 Horror Authors To Read If You Love Stephen King
Lots of Angel of Indian Lake links
(and Reaper and Chainsaw as well) My Retreat From the Mad and Maddening World: A Guest Post by Stephen Graham Jones – B&N Reads Paula Guran Reviews The Angel of Indian Lake by Stephen Graham Jones – Locus Online https://fictionmajorette.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-angel-of-indian-lake-stephen-graham.html Nicholas Belardes’s Horror and Not-So-Horror Reads – Kensington Books Publishing https://www.reedfaster.com/2024/10/jade-daniels-is-my-final-girl-angel-of.html?m=1 https://shipwreckedsailor.substack.com/p/friday-links-th3-night-jad3-dani3ls http://www.theretiredlibrarian.com/2024/11/i-was-teenage-slasher.html https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/201963.Best_Dark_Fiction_of_2024 https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/2844-getting-moody-new-dark-twisty-reads-across-genres?ref=darkNtwisty24_sa
The Dickens Dash!
Didn’t even know that’s what it was called—thought I was nabbing it from Nabokov:
Lots of Teenage Slasher stuff
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
Live Wire, Portland Oregon
Couldn’t have been more fun. My first time doing a thing like this. Here’s to many more: