Halloween 2023
Wife wasn’t in town to do fancy make-up for me like usual, so had to fall back on an old standard. In stages: Was fun walking around campus, catching looks from the undergrads like, Geez, grow up already?
Best reads from lately
https://www.colorado.edu/today/2023/10/02/cu-boulder-announces-native-american-affairs-associate-vice-chancellor Confusing Haunted Maze Fails To Explain Narratively Why Someone Would Jump Out From Corner Screaming https://www.mysanantonio.com/lifestyle/slideshow/Corpus-Christi-woman-making-waves-with-Halloween-211681.php https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/dogxim-first-dog-fox-hybrid https://x.com/chris_moliere/status/1711465188900429949?s=46&t=mhZCLAE0iAiaHztioYOVjA Scientists may have untangled a mystery of Neanderthal ancestry | CNN https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/05/americas/ancient-footprints-first-americans-scn/index.html https://www.longmontleader.com/local-news/beyond-local-the-scariest-part-of-halloween-may-be-costume-contact-lenses-an-eye-doctor-says-7713194 http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/punctuation.html https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-theory-that-men-evolved-to-hunt-and-women-evolved-to-gather-is-wrong1/ Shock of the new: Jordan Peele, Mariana EnrÃquez and more on the horror fiction renaissance | Horror books | The Guardian
Red Nation
Join TRN Podcast cohost Nick Estes for a live interview this Wednesday (10/4/23) at 3PM ET with Stephen Graham Jones to discuss his most recent book, Don’t Fear the Reaper, and Indigenous horror in general.
Recent interviews, podcasts, much etc.
https://www.cbr.com/true-believers-stephen-graham-jones-interview/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stephen-graham-jones-writes-hopeful-horror/id1621128813?i=1000628671212 Coming soon, hopefully (the recording, I mean): Dead Headspace
True Believers links
Not even sure I caught them all: DreadCentral | ScreenRant | Horror DNA | Fangoria | Comic Buzz | IGN | Drop the Spotlight | Fanboy Factor | CBR | Geek Vibes Nation | Looper | Superhero Hype | Fanbase Press | AIPT Comics | Villain Media | Geek Network | Smashpages | Outside the
I’m a crossword clue?
Cool: Literary genre for Stephen Graham Jones Crossword Clue USA Today – News I never saw it, though. Was in last Sunday’s edition, I believe. 24th, I guess?
Best Reads from Lately
More Baby Boomers are living alone. One reason why: ‘gray divorce’ | CNN https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/06/nyregion/serial-killers-gilgo-beach-rex-heuermann.html Scream the Game Review: Heart-Pounding Fun | WIRED https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/a-summer-bucket-list-for-teens-in-a-slasher-movie Hammer Horror Returning to Life With New Owner and New Slate of Movies – Bloody Disgusting Population collapse almost wiped out human ancestors, say scientists | Evolution | The Guardian Solenex will
Earthdivers trade is out today!
As in, it’s hitting shelves, it’s wherever you get your comics, your books: https://bookshop.org/p/books/earthdivers-vol-1-stephen-graham-jones/19687265?ean=9798887240459
Recent Reaper and Chainsaw stuff
http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/dont-fear-the-reaper-by-stephen-graham-jones/ https://thecosmiccircus.com/book-review-dont-fear-the-reaper-by-stephen-graham-jones/ https://www.pastemagazine.com/books/stephen-graham-jones/dont-fear-the-reaper-review-stephen-graham-jones https://actualitte.com/article/113325/avant-parutions/stephen-graham-jones-se-refugier-dans-les-films-d-horreur
Vermillion, South Dakota
Great time, great people, cool bookstore (Outside a Dog). Couple pics by Doug Murano, then some shots from the crowd. But, first, the smallest, elkiest little corner of some amazing murals, downtown:
Conan Conan Conan (the Barbarian, Cimmerian . . . )
Usurper, Conqueror, etc — I finally got to write him! Could not be more thrilled! I’ve done non-fic on him, but never fiction. Finally, though. Here’s the cover for my story “Lord of the Mount,” coming September 26th from Titan: