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Theo Van Alst in Boulder

Was a great event last night for Theo and Sacred Smokes—for us, really. Packed house, good words, and a lot of laughing. 

pics by  Billy Stratton  (none from me because my phone kept playing Bob Seger without me telling it to)

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12 Native Authors

It’s a better title than Agatha Christie foisted on us, yes? (which—I do love that novel. without it, do we even have the slasher?)

12 Native American Authors to Read During Native American Heritage Month

https://www.bookish.com/articles/native-american-heritage-month-books/…

Crimereads

Gabino Iglesias, slipping a werewolf in mongst the gunfire and car chases:

The 10 Weirdest Crime Novels You Probably Haven’t Read

https://crimereads.com/the-10-weirdest-crime-novels-you-probably-havent-read/…

Feeling all Turkish in here

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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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