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Winter is Coming

but the app window for my horror workshop at the Stanley closes on Halloween. Click here to go there.

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Mongrels words

Thank you, Mindi Snyder:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2040915430
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The Main Staples of Horror

For real horror, you need:

an empty rocking chair, rocking
a crackle-faced porcelain doll
the close-up of an eyeball
a spread-fingered hand on the other side of a window
a tree swing, creaking back and forth
and a cat flying out of every closet:







doesn’t hurt to have a mysterious shape walking past a doorway, either:





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Pumpkins & Werewolves

I finished MONGRELS and I’m still thinking about it. So much enjoyed my buddy read of it with @gowsy33 and we both believe that @SGJ72 must really be a werewolf to know all that he knows…

Halloween 2018

Isn’t that mask just so expressive? It’s supposed to make Michael Myers faceless, but really it kind of gives him a soul. A dark, evil, tortured soul. Anyway, I think it’s going to be a touch before I get to actually talking about this latest version, BUT:

if you haven’t seen it yetAND you don’t like spoilersAND you can’t help but finish every post you start reading, then:maybe don’t start this one yet?

Which is to say, spoilers wil…

PSA

My name is Stephen Graham Jones, and I support this tweet:

PSA: #mappingtheinterior by @SGJ72 is gorgeous and blowing my mind. You should all read it! PSA over!

Hey, I’m (in) 2 of 5 of these

Pretty cool B&N Halloweenie list:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fantasy/5-new-horror-books-for-dark-october-nights/…

Defy Your Demons

Last night’s even at FRCC, I never saw the flyer till I got there. Next week’s panel, here’s the flyer, a whole six days early:

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It’s Just a Campfire Story

It’s just a campfire story, it’s just a campfire story 

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Turkish Mongrels

Need need NEED to figure out how to get my hands on this one. Not so I can read it. Just so I can hold it. I mean, foreign stuff usually wends its way to me through the publishers, but that can take forever, too. Ready to not-read this one now:

Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones.

Turkish edition.#horror #dehşet pic.twitter.com/kOB49RPetY

— Paperback Horror (@HorrorPaperback) October 16, 2018

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