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?
File under: races I have a horse in
In this case, the horse is “Rising Star.” Uncanny Celebrates Reader Favorites of 2017!
The Last Bookstore, being the coolest bookstore
A little something for @SGJ72 at The Last Bookstore. pic.twitter.com/LWzEml3vdu — Jason Truitt (@JasonHGTruitt) January 22, 2018
Mapping the Interior on blue light special!
#DEAL! Get @SGJ72‘s Mapping the Interior for your #Kindle for just $1.99! #NowReading https://t.co/zia6XFuUPV pic.twitter.com/q4OsjJxkNx — HorrorTalk.com (@HorrorTalk) January 23, 2018
Tor.com and the Bram Stoker Awards prelim ballot
MAPPING THE INTERIOR by @SGJ72, AGENTS OF DREAMLAND by @auntbeast, and DOWN AMONG THE STICKS AND BONES by @seananmcguire all made the 2017 Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot!!https://t.co/UeywpiZE52 pic.twitter.com/M3bmUVCdAv — Tor·com Publishing (@TorDotComPub) January 19, 2018
Alis at the Cocteau
Anybody needs me tomorrow night, I’m in Santa Fe, wearing a whacky hat, most likely (because: any excuse): http://jeancocteaucinema.com/event/mad-hatters-and-march-hares/
Bram Stoker Award Preliminary Ballot
Honored to be in this category with these good writers. Also? Three Tor.coms: Congrats to all the writers in all the categories.
Poster Child
Okay, friend of mine, Emily Rapp, actually has a book called that, so I can’t be the real posterchild, but I can be one of the sliding images on the StokerCon 2018 site, anyway, which is pretty cool—and a surprise: just went there to check dates, see if I could make it, and there I
HorrorTalk
Hey, cool for Mongrels to still be making lists a year+ after: https://www.horrortalk.com/features/8094-steves-horror-favorites-of-2017.html?
Mapping the Interior
I very much approve of this level of staging: I did a little bio research on author, Stephen Graham Jones today. Do you look up author bios before you dive into their books? I highly recommend it. pic.twitter.com/KvyHY6yPdR — Sadie Reads Them All (@SadieLouWho) January 15, 2018
Aliens among us
We don’t need to look for aliens. They’re here already. And they’re more amazing than we ever guessed. Mind-Blowing Octopus color change 🐙 by IG@rubergnick pic.twitter.com/a5vVSMlBn2 — Nature is Amazing 🌿 (@AMAZlNGNATURE) January 14, 2018