Stephen Graham Jones's Blog, page 171

Library Journal

Cool starred review:

…

LitReactor’s 20 2020 Horror Novels

Fun to say it like that. And, really, it’s Max Booth III’s 20 2020 . . .

https://litreactor.com/columns/the-20-most-anticipated-horror-books-of-2020-0…

Best of 2019

Just like last year, I had this idea that doing a monthly post would make it a snap to figure out my best of the years: just scroll through, it’ll be obvious. I wish. Though it does make it easier to remember stuff from before summer, say. So, without further whatever, and by category, and including stuff I only FOUND in 2019, and just going plural for some instead of staging ties:

NOVELS



not in any order



HORROR MOVIE



easy choice, obvious choice, c’mon. this one’…

Alamo Bookclub

So excellent:

Did you know that Graveyard Shift, @houstonalamo’s weekly horror series, now has a monthly book club? Because it would have made too much sense to do it when he was actually here, we read @SGJ72’s MONGRELS this month. Can’t wait to read his new book with this group thus summer. pic.twitter.com/2ZObHF7F7t

— Robert Saucedo (@robsaucedo2500) December 28, 2019

…

Scifi and Scary Review

for The Only Good Indians. Thanks, Tracy:

https://www.scifiandscary.com/
the-only-good-indians-by-
stephen-graham-jones-book-review/…

All the Pretty Lists

No time to thumbnail/preview them (running out the door, in Houston, it’s raining instead of snowing and it’s December, feels like the world’s upside down, and I’m late to a thing to boot…), but here’s some recent ones I caught on Twitter that I’m super honored to have sneaked onto:

http://raforallhorror.blogspot.com/2019/12/beckys-top-20-horror-for-libraries-of.htmlhttps://nightworms.com/blogs/news/the-n…

The Truth About Yoda

Reprint of a thing I did . . . in 2017, maybe? Very cool of the very cool Transmotion to run it:

https://journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/transmotion/article/view/873/1660

…

Black Christmas 2019

This one just keeps getting made, doesn’t it? Anyway, being not just a not-fan of cult horror, but considering it kind of my custom-made nemesis, I was kind of blindsided by this one a bit. Will link a very even-handed review below, but, for anybody who likes the message here, maybe not the wrapper? I suggest one of the more amazing stories from last year, Kelly Robson’s “What Gentle Women Dare,” over at Uncanny, which just keeps on with the amazingnes…

Best Reads from Lately

This paste-in isn’t going to be as bulletpoint-neat as before, with quotation marks and titles. But that’s just because I skipped a month of posting these, so they kind of built up, became a job. Anyway, for some reason some embeds create headspace right after them, which is kind of unkillable. Sorry for the weirdlookingness, and the occasional bulletpoint for what would seem to be no reason, but really that’s the only way to keep them from trying, and fail…

Cover reveal for Night of the Mannequins

Revealing Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones

all the blurbs are there



…