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The Night Cyclist

Coming soon to a . . . well, to a Tor.com near you: Art by Keith Negley. Acquisition/Editing by Ellen Datlow

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Werewolves Out in the World, Part XIV

This week’s Mongrels roundup, brought to you by the waning battery of my ever-unreliant iPhone, and with a catch-up list provided by last week’s roundup, stairstep-style: One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten Eleven Twelve Thirteen And? To start out, we get to go back to the dogs. Always the dogs. Thanks, Chip:   And then for a coffee break, a mere thirty minutes before lunch:     And, I think Mongrels got to be WITH a John Foster book a cycle or two ago. Now it’s good be with him and Paul, here:     And, two laptop-screens-as-bookstands in a row? When it’s something I’d never even thought of? Very cool:     Thrilled to be going to Rome. Feel like I’m in a Patricia Highsmith novel.  And, nobody spells a howl like Craig Wallwork:     Were I more of a cheater, I’d have advanced this to be up by Chip’s dog-pic:     Joey and Jillian, thanks. Luck in . . . Indiana, I think it is? Glad Mongrels is going along:     And, what an excellent Twitter handle, yes?     Putting this one in mostly so I can say: I’m pretty much ALWAYS thinking of Near Dark . . .     Indra’s book is out pretty much momentarily, here. I read it so long ago now that the cover’s changed since I was in the story. Also? You never really get out of this story. Fun werewolfy stuff. There may or may not be someone in there  . . . → → →

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Sequencing a Collection

Of flash fiction, anyway. Just stumbled on this—I forget who it was for (maybe Christopher Rosales, the editor? maybe myself-only?), but I know what it was for: States of Grace. The little pocket-sized book I still can hardly believe I was lucky enough to get published. Not e-, not even on Amazon, I don’t think. And right after it was all set in stone, I started kicking out more of these short-shorts, of course. Because they’re maybe my favorite form of all. I should do a part 2 to States someday. Or an expanded edition. Anyway, just wanted to stash these here, casewise I ever need them again:

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Flatliners

Thanks to Xach Fromson for the headsup on this: [ link ] Was just tweeting about it a few weeks ago, with even the same pic: Y’know, all these years and films later, Flatliners is still one of the scarier moviegoing nights I’ve had pic.twitter.com/2SdAHdGjXF — Stephen Graham Jones (@SGJ72) June 23, 2016 Thinking now I should maybe tweet about . . . I don’t know: Intruder? Popcorn? Some of the ones that usually don’t get remake/re-imagining consideration so much?  

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Mongrels in Other People’s Pens

Some cool stuff showing up now and again. Here’s three — first couple from Jordan Dyke: Then me, mid-transformation, from Joe Sherry: And Anne Barnetson: And? Chances are I’ve forgot something, someone, some perfect thing. Let me know, I’ll sneak it onto this page.

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The Elvis Room Lives

So cool, watching The Elvis Room come alive these past few months, thanks to one Andrew Schwarz. I’ve seen rough cuts, and hope to see it on a big screen somewhere in its film-fest run (starting with Fantasia). Thanks to Andrew Schwarz for making it happen. Here’s some stills: Pictured, that’s: Keir Gilchrist, Corbin Bernson, Bailey Noble, Spencer Locke. Also pictured: the Manor Hotel. Not pictured in that last still: me, down that hall to Bailey Locke’s back, wearing headphones and listening to all this happen. Was cool.

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File Under: Mongrels, Origin Stories

Or, I can’t deny that I read this like eighty-nine times in the wide-open years before ever setting werewolf pen to werewolf paper:

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Werewolves out in the World, Part XIII

If you’re just coming to this at #13, here, then, welp, there’s some clicking-back, if you’re interested—lots of masks and pets and Mongrels: One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten Eleven Twelve First and favorite—this doesn’t even really involve Mongrels, except insofar as Scooby-Doo is so deep in my heart it could never be extracted, and my heart’s also where Mongrels comes from: That’s at the top of this thread on fb (also, click the image for the stolen-out pic of just Velma). Sorry, I forget who alerted me to its existence (thinking it might have been Jerome Stueart?). I know who did this, though: That’s Libby and Darren right there, yes? And,  man, if only Brautigan had: And, I think I like these annotations after the images instead of before, so this is just a placeholder while I shift gears . . . Cool to be listed with John Foster, too. Think we were Shirley Jackson Award finalists together once, yes? I need to get to Mr. White. Everybody says it’s great. It is a pretty book, yep. I’ve always been lucky with covers. Same way William Munny was lucky with what he was lucky with. Y’all may not all know this, but Matthew Summers is some kind of evil genius. Thus the lair: He might even have some thugs and/or henchmen arrayed around the place. And I’m completely messing up my before/after thing, here. Let’s just keep going, to . . . A few nights ago in Seattle, when Duane at University  . . . → → →

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Werewolves out in the World, Part XII

You usually get either three, seven, ten, or twelve installments of a thing, don’t you? Here we are already at twelve somehow. Also almost at twelve? The clock I’m under right now. A scheduled lunch. So, instead of stacking a big series of wolfy images up as links to the previous iterations of this—I actually just said “iteration” in the same paragraph as “installment,” which I’d never realized a personal goal until right this very instant—how about we go quick and dirty this time, with just a list? You can click on the exact number you want to see (“Every Good Boy Does Fine” has eight syllables, or, believe me, that’s what I’d have used) To begin:   A moon pic! Of course! How did I never think of that? And, the Mongrels fun continues at BookRiot:     Which is to say: thank you, BookRiot. Here’s the link that directs to, which is for some reason previewing, but who am I to argue: Horror: It’s Not All White Dudes   I mean, especially when there’s a cool/wicked bird, who am I to argue. And, I’m always forgetting to get instagrammy with this. Maybe because I don’t really have access/an account, so always have to sneak in through other people’s links?     Dig that spiral phone cord. It’s a carryover from the era Mongrels prowls. And this—I mean, really, what could be cooler: Full image of that here. And, two things I dig, with this next one: “bestseller” in the bookstore name, and that dude being  . . . → → →

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Cabin in the Werewolf Woods

In a movie where each scene is cooler and more iconic than the last, this one maybe rises to the top:   Hey there, Little Red Riding Hood. It’s #WerewolfWednesday, so give your Big Bad Wolf a kiss. pic.twitter.com/0CFGg3PhDp — Lykanos Wulfheart (@Lykanos_Wulf) June 23, 2016

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