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,
Isn’t that mask just so expressive? It’s supposed to make Michael Myers faceless, but really it kind of gives him a soul. A dark, evil, tortured soul. Anyway, I think it’s going to be a touch before I get to actually talking about this latest version, BUT: if you haven’t seen it yet AND you
Pretty cool B&N Halloweenie list: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fantasy/5-new-horror-books-for-dark-october-nights/
Need need NEED to figure out how to get my hands on this one. Not so I can read it. Just so I can hold it. I mean, foreign stuff usually wends its way to me through the publishers, but that can take forever, too. Ready to not-read this one now:
It’s out in the world now. Mine’s in transit, but I trust it’ll look just a whole lot like this:
Think I’m in three of these anthologies over at LitReactor: https://litreactor.com/columns/13-halloween-themed-anthologies-to-fill-your-season-with-fright#comments
https://oldfirehousebooksblog.wordpress.com/2018/10/17/review-mapping-the-interior/
Honored for Mapping to have made this list: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fantasy/13-essential-ownvoices-science-fiction-fantasy-novels/
Man, was at the gym long about 11:15 yesterday, just having a good time reading a JS Breukelaar collection and sweating on various torture devices, when I got a call that maybe I could clean up and drive into my office on campus (like, MILES away) by noon, to talk to the newspeople for a
Many thanks to Mallory O’Meara for the include on this excellent horror list over at Vulture: http://www.vulture.com/2018/10/best-horror-books-for-wimps.html
Was there this weekend, giving a couple of talks for Permian Basin Writers’ Workshop. Always neat to walk through places I grew up. And, I realized: when I left Texas, I never considered that one thing I’d been taking for granted all along was Whataburger trash in the bear grass:
Got two radio interviews next week, had either one or two this week. Here’s one that got archived. Just three minutes or so. KOA on the AM, Colorado: https://app.criticalmention.com/app/#/clip/public/d2716ff1-0092-4ea2-b2e7-31777570737a
Right at the end of this. I always see people with lines from novels or poems or songs or whatever tattoo’d on them, and I think, man, that’s forever, you might only like that passage this year. But this, from Leonard Cohen, I don’t see myself ever falling out of love with it:
The Boulder Daily Camera: http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-news/ci_32198605/cu-prof-zero-zombie-love
