The Ghosts of October
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
The Haunting of Hill House
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
World Fantasy 2020 SLC!
Proud honored thrilled to be special guesting it then and there: https://www.wfc2020.org/guests
Video Palace
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:
Best couple of stories I’ve read lately
“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.Â
Neanderthals in Five Minutes
https://relay.nationalgeographic.com/proxy/distribution/public/amp/science/2018/10/news-neanderthal-teeth-nursing-seasons-stress
KCOL
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/
Lightspeed
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/
100 Best Horror Books
One of which is yellow and werewolfy . . . https://www.unboundworlds.com/2018/09/the-100-best-horror-books-of-all-time/
Fabulous Skeletal Starchild
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.
On Zombies
Excellent graphic for this one: https://www.cpr.org/news/story/brains-rotting-flesh-and-infection-zombie-101-with-an-expert-cu-professor
DGO Mag Interview
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
Do You Like Scary Movies?
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
Winter is Coming
but the app window for my horror workshop at the Stanley closes on Halloween. Click here to go there.
The Main Staples of Horror
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,