First Word on Horror is live!
First Word on Horror – Dear Final Girls – Part Two by Philip Gelatt Stephen Graham Jones on good and evil; a bad hunting trip; and the first time he put pen to paper to write a story. Read on Substack
Buffalo Hunter Hunter graphics
If anyone needs them, wants them. Dark versions first, then the light ones:
Father, Son, Holy Rabbit
Got to talk about it with friends: Episode 016: Father, Son, Holy Rabbit by Stephen Graham Jones by radicaledward Read on Substack
Tin Type!
Well, actually it was aluminum, as that’s somehow better, but: same cool process. Took us seventy-five or eighty minutes to get just four of them done, I mean. Felt like Billy the Kid, posing with his rifle. And those flashes, man, it’s like you’re in a spaceship passing close by the sun and someone, as
Buffalo Hunter Hunter audiobook
Coming at us all soon! Shane Ghostkeeper, Marin Ireland, Owen Teale. Gonna be just amazing-cool. And? From what I hear, there may even be some fun with background noise now and then, in this production. “Excited” doesn’t really cover it.
Stack of Teen Slasher links
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
Best Reads from Lately
finally remembered to post this when the hands struck “10!” Mark Zuckerberg Defends Decision To Fly Confederate Flag At Facebook Headquarters – The Onion https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/10/science/antarctica-deep-ice-core/index.html Limerick granted ownership of her works – Longmont Times Call https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/11/03/tina-fey-profile-anchor-woman https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/17/science/giant-sea-bug-darth-vader-vietnam/index.html https://screenrant.com/the-monkey-2025-movie-osgood-perkins-stephen-king-story-change-reaction https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/01/18/oldest-gun-in-us-arizona/77802506007 https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/01/how-sleeping-pills-interfere-with-the-brains-internal-cleaning-mechanism https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/books/clay-mcleod-chapman.html
2025 Audie Award finalist(s)!
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
2025 Horror Films I’m Ready For
Also very interested in the I’ll Never Forget What You Did Last Summer. And I don’t think Victorian Psycho has a date yet, alas. Wanting to catch The Dead Thing as well, but it’s 2024, I believe?
Blue Butterfly Land
I used to keep track/embed/link fun stuff from Twitter, “Birdlandia,” when I was there. Not there anymore. Only on BlueSky. So, let’s see how & if this works: These are only seeable if you’re logged onto BlueSky, I think? meaning, they’re just links: https://bsky.app/profile/jonathanslater.bsky.social/post/3ldsxst2clk2y https://bsky.app/profile/pengarr.postes.club/post/3lecwjvjmis27
Today
but also: (and, no didn’t watch—was doing an interview about writing novels, doing art. or maybe Art. both? both) late add: And, coupled of even later additions that are too excellent (see: “sad”) to not stash here:
David Lynch
I’m forever driving down that Lost Highway: The one interview I ever got to do ON Lost Highway: And, for my money, the best book on Lost Highway—on Art, really: Completely changed the way I think about story. Couple nice obit-type write-ups: https://horror.org/in-dreams-a-tribute-to-david-lynch/https://horror.org/in-dreams-a-tribute-to-david-lynch/ https://theconversation.com/david-lynch-exposed-the-rot-at-the-heart-of-american-culture-247670 And:
Earthdivers Omnibus
Coming in October, all eighteen issues, with an intro I just wrote, and probably some ashcan type stuff in back:
Buffalo Hunter Hunter, gearing up
First industry review (yes?), by, of course, Becky Spratford: David Agranoff did a write-up as well—and we recorded a podcast episode of it, posting shortly: And, can there be a cooler site-title than “Final Girl Reviews?” And here’s Pages and Polish, coming at you live: And, All the Pretty Lists, as Mr. Cormac might have