Author: SGJ

Amazing-cool. So honored. Couldn’t be there this time around, but could follow along online, and with people texting.

It starts here:

Then a zoom in on the night’s proceedings:

Then Rena Mason and Victor LaValle presenting for Mapping‘s category, long fiction:

And here’s Paul Tremblay accepting, with Mackenzie Kiera behind the camera:

Here’s a full list of everyone who got a Bram Stoker Award this year. 

And, finally, the actual award, wh

haven’t seen one yet, but I keep hearing about these:

Just had to show off my @nocturnalreads scarf inspired by #mongrels @SGJ72 #motherhorror #WEREWOLF pic.twitter.com/Zc4jyojV0L

— Sadie Reads Them All (@SadieLouWho) March 1, 2018

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This makes me rethink and rethink and then reconsider:

https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-pop-culture-obsessed-with-battles-between-good-and-evil

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This may be the coolest ep of Shockwaves yet. Just listening to John Landis. Man.

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Well, Annihilation. But I like saying it like a monster truck, or a wrestler. Just caught it at the cineplex. It’s a good time. Here’s some un-spoilerfree bullet points on/about it, since I don’t really have any kind of thesis to build a proper write-up around:

• the skull-faced anteater bear does what the bear did in The Revenant: steals the show in the best way. And? It talks like the flowers in The Ruins do. Which is always a bonus.
• this adaptation—and, note,

Stephen Graham Jones is one of the great writers of his generation, and is not read and celebrated nearly as often as he deserves.#FF him on Twitter as well: @SGJ72 pic.twitter.com/Rs3tf2kEfU

— Arinn Dembo (@Erinys) February 26, 2018

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Thanks to Michael David Wilson for wrapping them up over at LitReactor. Especially “I figure if I don’t scare myself, if I don’t feel that dread of what’s coming up next, I probably won’t scare you.”

https://litreactor.com/columns/celebrating-dallas-mayr-the-wisdom-of-jack-ketchum-1946-2018 …

Thought I was just writing fiction in Sterling City, what with the giant chrome-eyed caterpillars and all, but, oops:

Here’s how Sterling City starts out:

So, you know, watch out for the jumbo-size caterpillars and all. In a few million years.…

I dial up John Carpenter every chance I get. Whether he’s tolerating the person asking questions or not—and of course he’s good with Garris—there’s always something to learn:

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