Stephen Graham Jones's Blog, page 208

Halloween looms

Welcome to new follower @SGJ72! Pro-tip: you don't have to wait til October to read Stephen Graham Jones' novels because #EverydayisHalloween. pic.twitter.com/a5pyCfgiBu

— AhoyComicMags (@AhoyComicMags) August 22, 2018

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Horror Comics Wrap-Up

Or, intro? Anyway, I had 750 words to sum up horror comics for NPR, since they kept coming up when we were curating the 100 Horror list. Was cool, trying to make everything fit. 

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50 Horror Reads

All horror, all staged in such cool ways by none other than Mother Horror herself:

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100 Best Horror

All kinds of cool, getting to help with this poll for NPR:

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Mongrels review

Good one, thanks:

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Goats and Crabs

Hey, it’s that runaway goat I was writing about it in “Exodus” (check #5 there, say), lo those many years ago:

https://nypost.com/2018/08/09/rogue-goat-may-have-helped-dozens-of-farm-animals-escape/

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Scary Bike Rides

Of all the stories I’ve done, this is the one that still gets to me on the trail. Really? Other day I’m riding this corridor in Boulder with a tall fence on one side, a concrete wall on the other, so: no exits. It goes about . . . three quarters of a mile. I’m cruising along, no hands, when I suddenly feel not alone. I sneak a look behind. Sure enough, there’s a guy on an older bike, a bag tied to it, and he’s the kind of close that says I looked back right when …

Nuh Uh

Watching Jeepers Creepers last night, had to capture this (will embed the tweet so as to let Twitter host the file):

I can watch these kinds of cerebral interchanges for hours and hours. I never can quite win them, though pic.twitter.com/dEFPvJsh1t

— Stephen Graham Jones (@SGJ72) August 8, 2018

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Some Gospel Here

When @Benjamin_Percy is constructing a comic story, he approaches it like a math problem. pic.twitter.com/eR2Ac717x2

— SYFY (@SYFY) August 6, 2018

this ‘breakdancing in a straitjacket’ he’s talking about via Terrance Hayes is a much better way of saying what I’m always trying to say—also with dancing: give me a whole warehouse to do my dance, you’ll get bored, but masking-tape off a little square, make me do my dance in those conf…

Best of the Best

Sounds like a boxing movie. Anyway, cool starred Publisher’s Weekly review—nice words for “Chapter Six.” Click there, or, I mean, it’s so short, here:

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