Just, cleaning up my laptop and found this/below stashed in a tmp directory. It’s echo-ey, sounds like I’m on a stage, maybe? File’s called “GT,” if that means anything. Anyway, what it looks to be: somebody asking me questions about being Blackfeet, writing horror. Or . . . it’s the Q&A from the audience, after
This makes my heart beat so hard. I’m never going to get to sleep now. Thanks to Joe Lansdale for the link (and for so many more like it—he’s the only person I know as into all this as I am):
https://t.co/ILqfBwUQ3h ( that’s a facebook link I can’t see, as I don’t have login privileges ) The Last Bookstore
Was a great event last night for Theo and Sacred Smokes—for us, really. Packed house, good words, and a lot of laughing.
It’s a better title than Agatha Christie foisted on us, yes? (which—I do love that novel. without it, do we even have the slasher?) https://www.bookish.com/articles/native-american-heritage-month-books/
Gabino Iglesias, slipping a werewolf in mongst the gunfire and car chases: https://crimereads.com/the-10-weirdest-crime-novels-you-probably-havent-read/
October was packed full of good times. I don’t think this is all of them, but it’s all of them I can dig up goods for—or, that I can remember to dig up pics and links for. Started out giving a zombie lecture to an auditorium of people at CU: Then I was at the
Mike Flanagan’s Netflix series, I mean, not Shirley Jackson’s 1959 novel*—though? I do kind of wonder if a whole generation will find a re-issue of The Haunting of Hill House, maybe even with a cover from this television series, and consider it this weird old-timey novelization that doesn’t have Theo being a sister, that puts
Proud honored thrilled to be special guesting it then and there: https://www.wfc2020.org/guests
How about instead of an actual write-up for Shudder’s Video Palace podcast series—limited series, I guess—I’ll just do a cloud-gallery of associated stuff. Wish I could make it swirl:
“J.J. FTW” at Yale Review “Greased Lightning” at Pidgeonholes Well, I mean, aside from pretty much ever story in Cat Valente’s The Future is Blue. Especially and forever “Planet Lion.” That story’s right up there with Peter Watts’ “The Things,” for me.
https://relay.nationalgeographic.com/proxy/distribution/public/amp/science/2018/10/news-neanderthal-teeth-nursing-seasons-stress
Did this from a hotel room in Alabama. Good discussion: https://600kcol.iheart.com/featured/kcol-morning-s-with-jimmy-lakey/content/2018-11-01-stephen-graham-jones-talks-to-jimmy-10-30-2018/
Got a new story in the new Lightspeed. It’s about the coolest mag going. Proud to be included: http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/issues/nov-2018-issue-102/
One of which is yellow and werewolfy . . . https://www.unboundworlds.com/2018/09/the-100-best-horror-books-of-all-time/
Or, what I was for Halloween, 2018 (all thanks to my wife): And, let’s see if I can get this video to work: Anyway, was cool to be one of my rock ‘n roll heroes for a day. First album I ever got? A record. KISS Destroyer.
Excellent graphic for this one: https://www.cpr.org/news/story/brains-rotting-flesh-and-infection-zombie-101-with-an-expert-cu-professor
These are a few of the things I really love: https://dgomag.com/contents/tips-on-how-to-survive-creepy-killers-from-horror-and-crime-author-stephen-graham-jones-3453
If you like a good gory time with some ridiculous storytelling and nothing but laughs, you can’t do better than Gravy: If you like that, then Murder Party‘s a sure bet: And it goes without saying that Trick ‘r Treat is called for this time of year: And, for something less silly that comes in
but the app window for my horror workshop at the Stanley closes on Halloween. Click here to go there.
For real horror, you need: an empty rocking chair, rocking a crackle-faced porcelain doll the close-up of an eyeball a spread-fingered hand on the other side of a window a tree swing, creaking back and forth and a cat flying out of every closet: doesn’t hurt to have a mysterious shape walking past a doorway,
