30 Haunted-up Houses
Honored to have Mapping the Interior included here: https://bookriot.com/2019/07/10/best-haunted-house-books/amp/
Crawl
What are all the crocagator movies? Alligator, Primeval, Lake Placid. I keep hearing about Rogue, but can’t place it, though I’m fairly certain I saw it in the theater. Much like this afternoon’s Crawl. So, in short: it’s nothing but fun. Anybody see Hurricane Heist? It’s got that feel. Just, with monsters. So, with no
ReaderCon 2019!
I’ve been there before, some three or four times, and it’s always been nothing but a ball, but being a GoH (thanks, Rose Fox!), that was completely different. Not only was my schedule super-super packed: But I of course had a handler, a chaperone, Nightwing Whiteshade, who . . . rememberer years and years back,
Hey, not Key and Peele, but Peele and Us
My phone and podcasts were fried in a gym the other day, so I dialed back to 2016, to Jordan Peele before Get Out hit, and took over the world. Very cool episode, as they all are, but what’s especially cool is, at about the 48-, 49-minute mark, Peele, maybe not even thinking he’d ever
Another Tor.com Novella!
Title . . . . Night of the Mannequins. Slasher through and through. For a long time I’ve been wondering what’s left to do in slasherland, what territory hasn’t already been gone over fifty times, and better than I could ever do it. Night of the Mannequins is in what feels like that unexplored space.
Best Reads from Lately
Ones I thought to copy onto a scratchpad, anyway: “Forget Strong Female Characters! We Need Complicated Female Characters Who Screw Up (A Lot)“ “Interview: Jonathan Frakes On Casting Marina Sirtis And What ‘The Orville’ And ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Share“ “It’s Time to Give Billy Joel the Respect He Deserves“ “Why narrating an audiobook is a
Clarion 2019 & Seattle (also 2019)
Always great, being in Seattle, wearing a Batman shirt, being at the University Bookstore, having fun at the mic with seventy or eighty readers and writers. Thanks to all these cool folk for snapping pics, posting them up: pics by @AndreaLRogers, crowdsourced reading glasses, Neile Graham
The Shortlist
Honored to have “Raphael,” my first published horror story, included in Paul Tremblay’s list of five horror stories: And, if you maybe like his selections, then you might just also like his collection Growing Things, out tomorrow / July 2nd:
Last Final Girling it up, Pt 2
Originally? “Part II” was the title I fought and fought for on this book. Glad I lost that.
Camp Wedding
Okay, probably not a slasher, but it’s a summer camp, there’s lots OF slashing going on. I’m there:
Ladies of the Fright panel / podcast
Is now available to Patreoners. And I’d guess it’ll roll even more available after a while. It’s a recording of this panel, from StokerCon 2019: Podcast’s here: Oh, wait, it’s HERE, now: https://www.ladiesofthefright.com/podcast/2019/6/28/lotf-38-why-does-horror-matter-stoker-con-2019-panel
Fangoria!
Never thought I’d have the chance to slip into these pages with some fiction, since Fango was dead. But then it came back. And now it’s having it’s 40th Anniversary. And I’ve got a story, “Night Tag,” in THAT issue, out as of . . . either now, or July 1st. Either way, they’re already
Child’s Play 2019
Man, seems I was just talking about the Halloween sequel we never thought we’d get, and now I’m here after seeing the Child’s Play remake nobody expected. In short: it’s really good, all kinds of fun. Most interested in how they updated it from 1988. Back then, the cautionary tale—or, what opens the cycle of
Who Knew
Scooting through eBay the other day, looking for a good cloth version of Crichton’s Eaters of the Dead—a novel I’ll never not be in love with (though my favorite film adaptation of Beowulf is Outlander, of course)—I remembered that I’ve had a few people in my inbox and around lately asking did I have any
Twitter Comic
A comic strip/book thread. Pretty cool. Haven’t seen it presented this way before. And: it’s a cool story. 🦷🦷🦷 Dental Plan by joy san – A comic thread 1 of 8 🦷🦷🦷 pic.twitter.com/RYhEBNP4dZ — JOY SAN (@sexytuna) June 7, 2019