Some Midwinter Paneling
With the ALA tomorrow:
Mapping the Interior and This is Horror Awards
wow, cool ballot to be on: This Is Horror Awards 2017: Vote Now!
Another best Mongrels review
Ink portrait of Stephen Graham Jones, after reading the brilliant “Mongrels”. I know, I know, full moons are rubbish. Sorry, @SGJ72 pic.twitter.com/1BUkF0cg67 — Evan Cagle (@cagle_evan) February 8, 2018
Bookwolves
MONGRELS by Stephen Graham Jones was a hit with my 10th graders! It’s a curriculum keeper! Thanks, @SGJ72 ! pic.twitter.com/Th0gCSESNk — L Z Marie (@LZMarieAuthor) February 15, 2017
Bram Stoker Awards® Final Ballot
Wow, honored for Mapping the Interior to have made it onto this. Good group of writers/books to be listed with: http://horror.org/2017-bram-stoker-awards-final-ballot/
Comic Booking
Solid advice from Jason Starr. (good novelist, too) And, since I don’t have time right now to search up how to embed eleven tweets (“Moment?” “Storify?”) when they’re not self-grouped with some hashtag—like I’d know then, either—I just screencapped them out. So, they are, all upside down.
Sherlock #13
Season 4, episode 3, “The Final Problem.” It’s up there with X-Files‘ 3.20 / “Jose Chung’s ‘From Outer Space,” now. So amazing. Five or six pics that I think sum it up:
Frankenme
Hey, just got off the phone with CBS. Fun stuff. Anyway, got to talk Frankenstein with them. Saying this kind of stuff: ( or, check that video here, in the article ) And, some of the same stuff, this time for the radio: ( or, click ) And, no, I’m not actually the editor Stephen Jones, who did
Locus Recommended Reading List
Way cool to have crept onto this. http://locusmag.com/2018/02/2017-locus-recommended-reading-list/Â
Werewolves are Real
Coolest Mongrels write-up of them all, maybe: https://sites.google.com/view/werewolves-are-real/home
Why Horror Seduces
Man, seems forever now that when interviewers ask me why we keep telling each other scary stories, I always say it’s because we evolved to need horror, because we expect teeth in the night, we’re hardwired for it, horror just lets us feel human, but now, finally, thank you, someone smart’s saying that, and with
Photo by Ellen Datlow
Figure everybody needs a Slash-hat, Ozzy-specs kind of author photo. Not that I’ll ever get use this one on a book jacket:
Talking horror to the high school crowd
Was an honor Friday to speak to . . . I don’t know, four sets of about fifty or sixty kids at a time, I guess (I say ‘kids,’ yeah, but some of them tower over me, and I’m a bit not-short myself). Peak to Peak Charter School, over in Lafayette. Got to talk Stephen
And the slasher radar pings again . . .
Psychotic film review: unhinged Eighties slasher cuts through a modern subculture
Happiness is a dog and a book
For added spookiness, I recommend reading this book while a pug watches you. Bonus points if he’s pretending to sleep, but isn’t. pic.twitter.com/a1F0oSGhc3 — paperbacksandpugs (@paperbacksnpugs) January 26, 2018
The Endless
Looks to be halfway between, say . . . The Void and Coherence, maybe? Either way, I’m game. Thanks to Matt Pridham for the headsup.
Mongrels on Tor.com
Supercool write-up. Always good to be sharing space with Victor LaValle: https://www.tor.com/2018/01/25/lovecraftian-horror-and-the-alchemy-of-the-new/
LeGuin, Ketchum
LeGuin’s Hainish Cycle is one of the places my imagination sparked in what felt like a story way for the first time. I’ll never forget them, nor The Lathe of Heaven, The Left Hand of Darkness, and “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” is forever in me. Here’s Margaret Atwood, bidding her farewell: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/24/ursula-k-le-guin-margaret-atwood-tribute
My Hero write-up
Over at Unnerving: https://www.unnervingmagazine.com/single-post/2018/01/22/Review-of-My-Hero-by-Stephen-Graham-Jones
Mad Hatters at the Cocteau
Good time this weekend in snowy Santa Fe. That’s me in the slash hat. What you can’t see? There’s slashers all on the hatband: Guess Ghostface is kind of criminally tilted (sorry, Billy and Stu), and the jewel of them all is the werewolf, but slashers on a Slash hat is the real joke. Werewolves?