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The Ghosts of October

October was packed full of good times. I don’t think this is all of them, but it’s all of them I can dig up goods for—or, that I can remember to dig up pics and links for.

Started out giving a zombie lecture to an auditorium of people at CU:

zombie shots: Teresa Nugent

Then I was at the Lighthouse in Denver for Atlas Obscura’s way-cool, properly spooked-up event:

pic: Josh Schlossberg

Then it was GoH’ing at MileHiCon, where I got to give a little mini-tal…

The Haunting of Hill House

Mike Flanagan’s Netflix series, I mean, not Shirley Jackson’s 1959 novel*—though? I do kind of wonder if a whole generation will find a re-issue of The Haunting of Hill House, maybe even with a cover from this television series, and consider it this weird old-timey novelization that doesn’t have Theo being a sister, that puts Hugh Crain way in the past instead of at the head of the current family, all that. I mean, the rain of stones will remain, the novel&…

World Fantasy 2020 SLC!

Proud honored thrilled to be a guest of honor then and there:

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Video Palace

How about instead of an actual write-up for Shudder’s Video Palace podcast series—limited series, I guess—I’ll just do a cloud-gallery of associated stuff. Wish I could make it swirl:

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Best couple of stories I’ve read lately

“J.J. FTW” at Yale Review“Greased Lightning” at Pidgeonholes

Well, I mean, aside from pretty much ever story in Cat Valente’s The Future is Blue. Especially and forever “Planet Lion.” That story’s right up there with Peter Watts’ “The Things,” for me. 

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Unnerving Podcast Interview

New #Halloween special #podcast featuring an interview with @SGJ72, and fiction from @ArmandAuthor and @AmongTheZombies, as well as @theJessMcHugh, plus some appearance by my pals @christaqua and @Brent_M_Kelley #horror #weird https://t.co/6sMBlDWiia pic.twitter.com/oqhRPyq58d

— Unnerving Magazine (@UnnervingMag) October 31, 2018

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Neanderthals in Five Minutes

https://relay.nationalgeographic.com/proxy/distribution/public/amp/science/2018/10/news-neanderthal-teeth-nursing-seasons-stress…

Colorado.edu

Hey, I’m on CU’s front page. Cool:

( screencapped it since it’s probably gone by the time you click )…

KCOL

Did this from a hotel room in Alabama. Good discussion:

https://600kcol.iheart.com/featured/kcol-morning-s-with-jimmy-lakey/content/2018-11-01-stephen-graham-jones-talks-to-jimmy-10-30-2018/…

Lightspeed

Got a new story in the new Lightspeed. It’s about the coolest mag going. Proud to be included:

http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/issues/nov-2018-issue-102/…