Epistles from Readercon 2014

Talking Lustmord with Mike Griffin and Lovecraft with John Langan, Snowpiercer and the attempted appropriation of Mary Shelley



with Sean Moreland and Ranylt Richildis and Nicole Cushing, Belgian white and teaching high school while writing with Paul Tremblay, bad power cords and good bad vampires with Michael Rowe and Gemma Files, Berberian Sound Studio



and Robert Aickman with Peter Straub, cats and moms with Ellen Datlow, La Jetée and the verticality of film with John Clute. And then one of those conversations that just keep unspooling, about writing, not collecting injustices, dead friends, living stories, getting lost, going wandering with Elizabeth Hand. Not an unpleasant warm-up day. Off to teach some teaching of ghost story writing today...