And here we go . . .
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slashers
Best Reads from Lately
Stacked em too high last time. So, pulling the trigger early, this Saturday: Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’ | Harvard University | The Guardian We can’t keep making videogame stories for players who aren’t paying attention to
2025 Horror Films I’m Ready For
Also very interested in the I’ll Never Forget What You Did Last Summer. And I don’t think Victorian Psycho has a date yet, alas. Wanting to catch The Dead Thing as well, but it’s 2024, I believe?
My Favorite Slasher?
Stephen Graham Jones & The Slashers – Part One by Philip Gelatt Who’s your favorite slasher? Read on Substack https://etchstudio.substack.com/p/stephen-graham-jones-and-the-slashers?
Best of 2024
Craziest fullest year. Think I had eight weekends in a row where I was doing an event in a different city—well, I say “eight,” but . . . I actually ended up having to cancel the eighth, Miami. Was bummed, as the Rock Bottom Remainders were performing. But, knee was all sloshy with cortisone from,
Slasher Symposium
Or, rather, somebody recorded what we do when we all find each other in the lobby of a con: talk slashers!
Best reads from lately
Literacy crisis in college students: Essay from a professor on students who don’t read. Adrian Tchaikovsky, science fiction and fantasy author https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/thursday-february-22nd-scam-reaper https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/23/americas/worlds-biggest-snake-amazon-intl-scli-scn/index.html https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/162008/stunt-double Football Players Put Nuts in Allergic Teammate’s Locker Watch: Man spots wolverine running through field Meet the newest ‘walking’ fish—a bright red creature of the deep Colorado could bring back wolverines
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: