It’s a better title than Agatha Christie foisted on us, yes? (which—I do love that novel. without it, do we even have the slasher?)
Gabino Iglesias, slipping a werewolf in mongst the gunfire and car chases:
October was packed full of good times. I don’t think this is all of them, but it’s all of them I can dig up goods for—or, that I can remember to dig up pics and links for.
Started out giving a zombie lecture to an auditorium of people at CU:
Then I was at the Lighthouse in Denver for Atlas Obscura’s way-cool, properly spooked-up event:
Then it was GoH’ing at MileHiCon, where I got to give a little mini-tal…
Mike Flanagan’s Netflix series, I mean, not Shirley Jackson’s 1959 novel*—though? I do kind of wonder if a whole generation will find a re-issue of The Haunting of Hill House, maybe even with a cover from this television series, and consider it this weird old-timey novelization that doesn’t have Theo being a sister, that puts Hugh Crain way in the past instead of at the head of the current family, all that. I mean, the rain of stones will remain, the novel&…
Proud honored thrilled to be special guesting it then and there:
How about instead of an actual write-up for Shudder’s Video Palace podcast series—limited series, I guess—I’ll just do a cloud-gallery of associated stuff. Wish I could make it swirl:
- “J.J. FTW” at Yale Review
- “Greased Lightning” at Pidgeonholes
Well, I mean, aside from pretty much ever story in Cat Valente’s The Future is Blue. Especially and forever “Planet Lion.” That story’s right up there with Peter Watts’ “The Things,” for me.
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