Stephen Graham Jones's Blog, page 192

Move over, octopus

There’s a cooler, smarter animal slithering around:

Rats pretending to be a snake to avoid predators pic.twitter.com/cZhQQXYuow

— Caine. (@cainebraswell) January 14, 2019

thanks to @TVAyyyy for the headsup…

NotLD

Duane Jones, Ben, AND this gif are all supercool:

Duane Jones as Ben in NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968)
“Now, get the hell down in the cellar. You can be boss down there. I’’m boss up here.”#zombie #retrohorror pic.twitter.com/wYxXxXwyNU

— Retro Horror (@el_zombo) January 14, 2019

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The Magic of Comics

I love finding panels and pages and tricks and storytelling that only works on the comic book page, then throwing it up on the screen for my students. Panels and pages like these:

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Four Tor.com novellas, one ebook

Including Mapping the Interior. Honored:

https://publishing.tor.com/torcompublishingeditorialspotlight3-ellendatlow/9781250232311/ …

Movies I Missed in 2018

I mean, saw a handful of these, but I need to see them all:

https://www.joblo.com/movie-news/best-movies-of-2018-that-you-may-have-missed…

For Your Saturday Morning Viewing Pleasure

Fucking brilliant

Escape Room

Never done one, dug the movie, it kicked these up in my head:

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Pumpjacks

Man, West Texas on The Simpsons, after, what? Thirty years? Worth the wait:

grew up riding these. somehow kept all my legs

Now I just need to composite this ancient-old “Simpsons yourself” trick into that pasture and it’ll be like I’m a real guest star:

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BookFreezer

My name is Stephen Graham Jones, and I support this kind of bookwolf stuff:

The Books in the Freezer Book Club is kicking off next month with @SGJ72 coming-of-age werewolf story, Mongrels! Join in on the fun. Listen to our new episode to find out how:https://t.co/LNsc0u1BSM pic.twitter.com/49DgbAyxKY

— Books In The Freezer Podcast (@BooksFreezerpod) January 8, 2019

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Making a list and checking it twice

I assume: Cedar Hollow’s year-end best-of. Honored to have a certain yellow book included:

https://www.cedarhollowhorrorreviews.com/2019/01/favorite-novels-and-novellas-2018.html …