Stephen Graham Jones

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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Proud to be here as well:

https://bookriot.com/2018/02/22/contemporary-horror-novels/ …

Honored to be included, here. Thanks to Brandon Hobson for the inclusion:

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/76129-10-essential-native-american-novels.html

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Thanks to Paul Tremblay for the headsup.

Original ‘Friday the 13th’ Filming Location Offering Overnight Camping Experience!

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Truly, I get raked across the copyediting coals for exactly this so, so often. And? It’s not just Indian. In CJ Box’s books, there’s a lot of lip-pointing, a lot of chinning at stuff. Feels so right. Feels like the world I know. Which matters.

First Nations man breaks 100-metre Lip Point record

Thanks to Samuel Matz for the headsup on this.

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In a few thousands years, I figure the aliens that come to dig through humanity’s (many, many) relics will find a thin strata of light blue in these early-is 2000s:

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-2-years-of-hell/

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