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30 Haunted-up Houses

Honored to have Mapping the Interior included here:

https://bookriot.com/2019/07/10/best-haunted-house-books/amp/…

Do It Casual

Or don’t do it at all:

The only 10x engineer pic.twitter.com/hSOhP1gvzL

— Helen 侯-Sandí (@helenhousandi) July 13, 2019

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Crawl

What are all the crocagator movies? Alligator, Primeval, Lake Placid. I keep hearing about Rogue, but can’t place it, though I’m fairly certain I saw it in the theater. Much like this afternoon’s Crawl.

So, in short: it’s nothing but fun. Anybody see Hurricane Heist? It’s got that feel. Just, with monsters. So, with no hesitation, yeah, I recommend this one.

Doesn’t mean there’s nothing I’d dial a little bit this way or t…

ReaderCon 2019!

I’ve been there before, some three or four times, and it’s always been nothing but a ball, but being a GoH (thanks, Rose Fox!), that was completely different. Not only was my schedule super-super packed:

my lanyard wasn’t actually long enough for my 47-year-old eyes to see this, though . . .

But I of course had a handler, a chaperone, Nightwing Whiteshade, who . . . rememberer years and years back, when I used to say I’d wear pirate shirts more if I had mor…

Hey, not Key and Peele, but Peele and Us

My phone and podcasts were fried in a gym the other day, so I dialed back to 2016, to Jordan Peele before Get Out hit, and took over the world. Very cool episode, as they all are, but what’s especially cool is, at about the 48-, 49-minute mark, Peele, maybe not even thinking he’d ever get to make Us real, says what feels to me a lot like the seed of that story: the mom being the mom, but also not the mom. I would snip it out, post it here, but that feels . . . not bootleggy, but like …

LARB interview

Well, interview at LA Review of Books, but BY Billy J. Stratton:

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/writing-in-the-shadow-of-v-adventures-in-speculative-fiction-with-stephen-graham-jones/…

Another Tor.com Novella!

Title . . . . Night of the Mannequins. Slasher through and through.

Announcing Night of the Mannequins, a New Horror Novella from Stephen Graham Jones

couple slasher paragraphs from me there

For a long time I’ve been wondering what’s left to do in slasherland, what territory hasn’t already been gone over fifty times, and better than I could ever do it. Night of the Mannequins is in what feels like that unexplored space. Couldn’t be more excited, both …

Jaws forever

Jaws – Teaser Trailer (1975) pic.twitter.com/QjTIcsskj4

— Horror Ads

Coolest Bookmark Ever?

Yep:

Starting today! I’m reading the three adult horror books from the #summerscares reading list, and MONGRELS by @SGJ72 is up first!

Gorgeous

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