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Glitter on the Backtrail

Mongrels, ahead of the curve:

@SGJ72 did it first. Long live MONGRELS. https://t.co/o37xIpPsRD

— Nik Gorepon (@NikKorpon) December 23, 2018

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Fave Characters

Honored to have a werewolf on this list:

Bookish Musings: Top Ten Characters from Books I Read (and Games I Played) in 2018

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Universal Horror

Just in time for late Christmas: reprint over at Nightmare. Originally showed up in October Dreams II, then in Best Horror of the Year 8. And . . . I kind of have a memory of hearing someone do the audio for this, too—read it out loud. Can’t remember where or when, though. Just that it was good. Anyway, quite possibly by last publication of 2018:

Universal Horror

http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/universal-horror/…

The Last Final Girl OUT LOUD

Available now, wherever you get your audio novels. Narrated by Eric G. Dove, of . . . man, check it out: lot of stuff. And now a latterday slasher:

Audible, etc

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Werewolf Words

Best Christmas gift is a review:

5 of 5 stars to Mongrels by @SGJ72 https://t.co/Q7e9fDEOe6

— Nicholas Kaufmann (@TheKaufmann) December 23, 2018

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Merry Christmas to All

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The Rain in Spain

Will be falling on Mongrels, before too long. Screencapped this one out to nab birdland’s ‘the basic gist-of’ translation:

https://twitter.com/bibliocarfax/status/1076050806347104256…

Set the time machine for 2003

This arrived today and I’m pumped. I’m going into this one mostly blind – I think I may just dump my planned reads and jump on in. And yes, I took a pretty picture – I love this cover. And the synopsis has me all

Off-Kilter Slashers

I mean, pretty much there’s two kinds of slashers, yes? Not talking “Excellent” and “Trying to Cash In” here, but”Straightforward” and . . . “Playing with the Genre,” I guess you could say? Which, of course Scream didn’t start, as in, it wasn’t first-first—the Golden Age was more self-aware than we give it credit for—but it was the first to go wide with it, really. To kind of seed it into everythin…

Another B&N List I’m On

albeit it secretly, just hiding in a TOC . . .

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fantasy/our-20-picks-for-best-horror-of-the-year/ …