New story up
over at the cool new Automata. Wrote it after reading Donald Barthelme’s old story about the Joker. Also, shhh. Nobody tell DC. https://automatareview.com/bats-stephen-graham-jones
Four months till Halloween
So excited: https://variety.com/2018/film/news/halloween-michael-myers-jamie-lee-curtis-jason-blum-1202842744/
new (tmp) theme
something in the old theme was looping, chewing up all the memory, and it was also defaulting to the mobile version for desktop. so: new look, for a bit. just picked something simple (and not mobile friendly, alas), as I can’t mess with it at the moment. but, hopefully, maybe: And, that new header-img, it’s
NPR Horror Poll
I’m helping judge it: https://www.npr.org/2018/06/12/617208292/its-aliiiiiive-this-year-our-summer-reader-poll-is-all-about-horror
Best of 2018 so far—the June roundup
[ late with this one, oops—been in California since the end of May, and am evidently not thinking much . . . ]   Â
Ladies of Fright, Me, & Elizabeth
Ken Greenhall’s Elizabeth, which is a-a-a-a-amazing. https://www.ladiesofthefright.com/podcast/2018/5/29/lotf-11-elizabeth-discussion-with-guest-host-stephen-graham-jones
Thanks, Gabino
Author appreciation tweets, day 3 of 10: @SGJ72. One of the most versatile writers in the game. A unique, powerful voice and a mellow, humble man who’s a pleasure to talk to. A master of horror, crime, bizarro, and everything in between. Oh, and Mongrels is a masterpiece. pic.twitter.com/VDEZx9n79j — Gabino Iglesias (@Gabino_Iglesias) May 24,
Kendra Winchester & Mongrels
Hey, I’m only, what, a half-year behind on this? That’s kind of on time, really. Thanks, Kendra Winchester: 
Till the Morning Comes
Wrote this for a Grateful Dead antho years back, then it was in The Ones that Got Away, and now it’s at the coolest of all places: Nightmare Magazine. Till the Morning Comes
Nine Tonight
Well, 9:00pm some night in February: so, so excited this is back on, and that the tickets I got for the original/cancelled show still work for this one. One of my main dreams has always been to see Seger live. Here’s hoping this Denver concert really happens: Here he is right before he would have
Same
the antiques shop around the corner flies the only flag i salute pic.twitter.com/gvNZe097cE — Rumpus Bumpus (@RumpusAndBumpus) May 17, 2018
Booksellers
They’re the best: Reasons to pick up a novella: literally pocket sized (for you or your friends). Also great reasons: *Quick-read style of a short story *But with novel depth *Great price *Great variety (check out some of our faves from @tordotcom in our SFF section)#bookshopshenanigans pic.twitter.com/mk7mhlXFRT — Bookshop Santa Cruz (@BookshopSC) May 17, 2018
Transmotion
Want to know more about #ShirleyJacksonAwards nominee Stephen Graham Jones? Check out my review in Transmotion of The Faster Redder Road: The Best UnAmerican Stories of SGJ by Theo Van Alst & The Critical Companion to SJG from @BillyJStratton https://t.co/o5MDhQZFMA @SGJ72 pic.twitter.com/UfVAuHsab8 — Nadhia Grewal (@GrewalNadhia) May 15, 2018
Order Sacred Smokes
You will be very happy you did, because THEN you get to read it. This blurb from @SGJ72…thanks, man. pic.twitter.com/luQ2Qoz8X5 — TVAyyyy (@TVAyyyy) May 14, 2018
Essential Reading
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/11/20/art-monstrous-men/ https://entropymag.org/on-junot-diaz-and-the-literati/
All my Jasons, Gather Round Me
For many of us out in the fansphere, this isn’t just the dream, this is the perfect nightmare. Which, yes, is kind of am empty statement. What I’m trying to say is: Could there possibly have been anything even halfway as cool as this? [Images] SIX Jason Actors Got Back into Their ‘Friday the 13th’
Shirley Jackson Awards
Wow, so cool—great ballot to be a finalist on. Luck to all: https://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/nominees/
Encino Man Cometh
Every time I see this, I get excited all over. Because? If a wooly rhino can be frozen in a frozen place for 39,000 years, then . . . so could a Denosivan. I mean, maybe a Neanderthal too, but Denosivans were in the more tundra-ey places, so I think they’re the better bet. In
Thanos #spoiler
He’s Adrian Veidt with a cosmic version of the Redeker Plan, yeah? It’s a good build for a bad guy. I miss his old “I want to kill half the universe as a gift for Death, whom I love love love”-angle from the comics, but I think this version plays better. Or, it doesn’t have
Exactly
not sure how to embed the thread, so here’s the top one anyway, which leads to the rest: I wanna talk about ~historical accuracy in worldbuilding for a bit, particularly in secondary world fantasy. Because it’s something that’s come up in discussions w/ friends lately and it won’t let my mind go. So. A mini-thread!