Goodbye to a Column
for the moment. and, I suspect I’ve done a post like this already. but? I never saw this (below). just stumbled on it when looking up the title for one of these:
IG and Me
Or, if it’s a better (see: “worse”) pun . . . “InstaGraham?” Anyway, my account there’s going to be solely publisher-run, now. Which doesn’t really mean I’ve ever been running it. I did learn how to do one thing on it, but I can never remember to check in there, so will just keep out
Best of the Year, 2025
Here’s hoping I kept good enough notes for this to be representative, not a victim of recency bias or all the other biases I’m sure I’m prone to. Though, the one about “it’s pretty boring if there’s no blood” is a pretty good and proper bias, I have to think, and one I can’t apologize
New site coming
Hopefully within the first couple weeks of 2026? Current version’s developed some slowdowns, so, working with someone who actually knows what’s going on under the hood. So, should be cleaner and faster soon, here. After I move to California . . .
Many BHH links & etc
Best Books of 2025 The Best Horror Books of 2025 for When You Really Want a Good Scare The Best Horror Books of 2025 – B&N Reads https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#reset=true&view=covers&year=2025 (really https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#year=2025&book=246) https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/11/19/best-scifi-fantasy-novels-2025 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/books/notable-books.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/24/books/book-recommendations-notables.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share) Every Book on Obama’s 2025 Reading List https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/display/199702383/2890165557 Booklist’s Editors’ Choice: Adult Books, 2025 Booklist Editors’ Choice: Adult Audio, 2025 14 Best
Mannequins Tour!
I’m teaching the Stegner Fellows at Stanford in the Spring, so, when Nightfire releases Night of the Mannequins in February, I’m doing a few stops west of the Rockies. https://us.macmillan.com/tours/stephen-graham-jones-night-of-the-mannequins Also: ECCC! (was supposed to have been there in 2020, thrilled to finally be there now)
The Expanded States of Grace!
Out today from Open Road. More flash than it used to have: Or, talking flash, this is my sort-of definition of it:
And the Goodreads Choice Award in Horror Goes to . . .
Grady Hendrix! Honored to be in this heady mix, though:
Hadn’t thought of it like this
I mean, in spite of wondering and wondering and not being able to figure out why all the intolerance we’re seeing, experiencing, trying to live through, are going to have to live down somehow:
Best Reads from Lately
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/11/17/wolf-tool-use-animals https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/business/last-penny-minted https://www.wired.com/story/a-disease-carrying-mosquito-has-landed-in-the-rocky-mountains-where-it-historically-couldnt-survive https://www.wired.com/story/can-a-hydroelectric-dam-really-make-the-days-longer Neanderthals and early humans ‘likely to have kissed’, say scientists | Neanderthals | The Guardian https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattcraig/2025/11/19/how-mark-wahlberg-became-the-king-of-streaming https://www.extremetech.com/science/scientists-successfully-extract-40000-year-old-rna-from-woolly-mammoth Superman edition found in mum’s attic is most valuable comic ever at $9.12m ”Star Trek: The Next Generation” readies for last episode https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/graphics/see-how-egyptians-built-giza-pyramids They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Christianity
Belle of the Ball
In a future where people can travel back in time and do anything they want without consequences, one disgruntled young man decides to visit his parents two years earlier. Go to it