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January 31, 2018

Werewolves are Real

Coolest Mongrels write-up of them all, maybe: https://sites.google.com/view/werewol...


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Published on January 31, 2018 07:56

January 29, 2018

Why Horror Seduces

Man, seems forever now that when interviewers ask me why we keep telling each other stories, I always say it’s because we evolved to need horror, because we expect teeth in the night, we’re hardwired for it, horror just lets us feel human, but now, finally, thank you, someone smart’s saying that, and with empirical …


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Published on January 29, 2018 10:21

Photo by Ellen Datlow

Figure everybody needs a Slash-hat, Ozzy-specs kind of author photo. Not that anyone will ever be letting me use this one:


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Published on January 29, 2018 10:12

Talking horror to the high school crowd

Was an honor Friday to speak to . . . I don’t know, four sets of about fifty or sixty kids at a time, I guess (I say ‘kids,’ yeah, but some of them tower over me, and I’m a bit not-short myself). Peak to Peak Charter School, over in Lafayette. Got to talk Stephen …


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Published on January 29, 2018 10:11

And the slasher radar pings again . . .

Psychotic film review: unhinged Eighties slasher cuts through a modern subculture


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Published on January 29, 2018 07:04

January 27, 2018

Happiness is a dog and a book

For added spookiness, I recommend reading this book while a pug watches you. Bonus points if he’s pretending to sleep, but isn’t. pic.twitter.com/a1F0oSGhc3 — paperbacksandpugs (@paperbacksnpugs) January 26, 2018


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Published on January 27, 2018 15:23

January 25, 2018

The Endless

Looks to be halfway between, say . . . The Void and Coherence, maybe? Either way, I’m game. Thanks to Matt Pridham for the headsup.


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Published on January 25, 2018 13:58

Mongrels on Tor.com

Supercool write-up. Always good to be sharing space with Victor LaValle: Lovecraftian Horror and The Alchemy of the New  


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Published on January 25, 2018 08:38

I mean — yeah

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Published on January 25, 2018 04:13