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Grab bag of links, lists, reviews
“Grab bag” doesn’t quite cut it, though. “Dump truck,” maybe? Anyway, what with writing a novel and going on book tour, I kept putting off slapping all these up here. But, I mean, this, this post, is the easy part. Filing all these with their respective books, that’s gonna take me more than a few
Grab bag of links & lists &etc
Stashing them here before the madness of travel and holiday and a new semester get me to forget completely: https://www.popmatters.com/bleed-into-me-stephen-graham-jones https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/202598.Horror_to_Look_Forward_to_in_2025 Most Anticipated Horror of 2025 – She Reads Chilling Reads Ahead: CinemaChords’ Top 10 Most Anticipated Horror Novels for 2025 – Cinema Chords https://sadiehartmann.substack.com/p/sadie-hartmanns-mother-horrors-must https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/best-horror-books-of-2024 The Best Horror Fiction of 2024 ‹ CrimeReads https://sadiehartmann.substack.com/p/sadie-hartmanns-mother-horrors-must
Elky fun
A Love Letter To THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS by Stephen Graham Jones https://www.audible.com/blog/top-100-horror-audible-essentials https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/Display-Shelf-Indigenous-Fiction Best Books for Native American Heritage Month 10 Horror Authors To Read If You Love Stephen King
So cool
Have gotten similar snapshots from friends moving through airports. Never not the best. Why we write, yes? To be in airports, on planes:
Few extra links & reviews
https://www.bottalk.com/2024/04/conan-lord-of-mount-review.html http://raforallhorror.blogspot.com/2019/12/beckys-top-20-horror-for-libraries-of.html https://shepherd.com/best-books/supernatural-terror-with-real-world-adversity
Few lists and reviews
Elky, Werewolfy, Mappy, but Chainsaw and Chainsaw-adjacent stuff (the trilogy) will be in a different post, as this one’s tall enough already: https://the-line-up.com/edgar-allan-poe-readalikes https://readinghabits.substack.com/p/the-best-books-that-are-currently https://www.vulture.com/article/books-like-true-detective-night-country.html The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones – Baddie Book Reviews http://mespassionsmesenvieslemondedemarie.blogspot.com/2023/12/un-bon-indien-est-un-indien-mort.html The Best Graphic Novels by Speculative Fiction Authors https://www.themarysue.com/best-comics-and-graphic-novels-of-2023/ https://www.instagram.com/p/C2U2MYDLypV/?igsh=MTYwbjF1eDFjN3dqOA%3D%3D http://www.paperbackwarrior.com/2024/01/night-of-mannequins.html https://www.comics-culture-project.fr/post/eerthdivers-tome-1 http://davidagranoff.blogspot.com/2023/12/graphic-novel-review-earthdivers-vol1.html Time Travel Is Bloody:
Elk Tracks
https://www.aarparrow.com/inside-dope/the-75-essential-books-for-gen-xers https://www.themarysue.com/the-10-best-folk-horror-books-to-read-in-a-haunted-wood/ https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/National-Native-American-Heritage-Month-10-Books-To-Add-To-the-Collection-and-Share-with-Readers Native American Literature: Tribes and Tribulations ‹ CrimeReads https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/25-best-scariest-horror-books-ever/ https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/2658-readers-top-66-horror-novels-of-the-past-3-years?ref=tophorror23_eb https://boredomtherapy.com/scariest-books-says-stephen-king https://academic.oup.com/isle/advance-article/doi/10.1093/isle/isad056/7255951?login=true
Vermillion, South Dakota
Great time, great people, cool bookstore (Outside a Dog). Couple pics by Doug Murano, then some shots from the crowd. But, first, the smallest, elkiest little corner of some amazing murals, downtown:
Elk spoor
https://ecency.com/hive-180164/@shortshots/book-review-the-only-good https://www.thrillercafe.it/gli-unici-indiani-buoni-stephen-graham-jones/ https://horrortree.com/epeolatry-book-review-the-only-good-indians-by-stephen-graham-jones/ Project MUSE – “It Has to Stop”: Refusing Colonial Narratives in The Only Good Indians https://www.papercutslive.com/post/50-books-you-should-read-to-become-a-better-writer
Andy the Mammoth Hunter, etc
Which is to say: that urban fantasy series I made up for The Only Good Indians. Or, thought I was making up:
Elk, Werewolves, Chainsaws, Muskrats, & More
https://rue-morgue.com/guest-post-author-ronald-kellys-ten-creature-feature-books-for-frightful-halloween-reading/ https://the-line-up.com/modern-horror-for-scaredy-cats https://dj-screenwriter.blogspot.com/2022/12/mongrels-by-stephen-graham-jones-last.html https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/stephen-graham-jones/my-heart-is-a-chainsaw/ https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/stephen-graham-jones-quotes
Few book-type links
https://the-line-up.com/horror-books-favorite-scream-queen https://the-line-up.com/horror-books-with-hope https://litreactor.com/columns/the-top-ten-shark-books-that-are-in-my-house-just-in-time-for-shark-week
The last of the 2022 links
To reviews, lists, and everything else: https://the-line-up.com/ghost-stories-for-winter https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/books-to-read-in-2023/ 40 Best Native American Authors to Read in 2022 | Reedsy Discovery https://litreactor.com/columns/books-were-looking-forward-to-in-2023 https://www.pastemagazine.com/books/lists/best-horror-books-of-2022/ https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/books/g28184649/best-scariest-horror-books-all-time/ https://clement-martin.fr/en/2022/11/07/werewolves-in-translation/ https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/books/g28184649/best-scariest-horror-books-all-time/ https://www.westword.com/arts/best-2022-colorado-books-gift-giving-15575912 https://www.scifipulse.net/in-review-earthdivers-3/ https://clement-martin.fr/en/2022/11/07/werewolves-in-translation/ http://thebookplank.blogspot.com/2015/03/short-fiction-friday-chapter-six.html
Elky lists, reviews, tweets
https://www.readersdigest.co.uk/culture/books/5-horror-books-you-should-read-this-halloween https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2022/10/27/usa-today-best-selling-horror-and-suspense-books/10454754002/ https://shepherd.com/best-books/horror-writers-who-arent-stephen-king https://www.lit-addiction.com/post/the-only-good-indians-the-hunters-become-the-hunted