Couldn’t have been a better time. And, it started on Thursday, really: en route to Telluride with my wife Nancy (the luxury of driving, since I’m in Colorado . . . ), we swung by Paonia Books so I could do an event with Paolo Bacigalupi:
Taya Jae was our wonderful moderator. And? Someone gave us a datura plant (“witch’s cross,” it was/is called), so: can’t complain, right? Can maybe die, I suppose.
Then it was crash-landing at the Horror Summit with Jeremy Robert Johnson, Paul Tremblay, and Sara Langan Friday afternoon:
After which it was time to read a story I wrote the night before in Paonia, round about 11pm—wanted to be scared, reading (as in: not sure of the story, no time to work on it):
SUCH a cool chair for indoor creepy campfire tales—that no one sat in 😆@sgj.bsky.social told a story he wrote like five minutes ago, @paultremblay.bsky.social made us all anxious to watch horror movies (inconvenient), and @danielkraus.com somehow broke our hearts with a non-fiction piece.
Thanks to Lorin for being in the front row all those winding miles from Denver. Sara read as well.
Next morning, it was being part of the second horror summit, this time with Daniel Kraus, JRJ modding again (seriously, he can run a public conversation better than anyone I know):
This is as true as anything that’s ever been said about @sgj.bsky.social — @jrjisprobable.bsky.social nailed it 😂
After which we all signed and signed and signed some more. Couple cool snapshots from it:
Work has me behind in sharing what a blast Telluride Horror Festival was. It really is my favorite of festivals. Great films and my favorite authors! @sgj.bsky.social @gradyhendrix.bsky.social @paultremblay.bsky.social @jrjisprobable.bsky.social Great fesival gear, @igreggreene.bsky.social
Then it was up the gondola for the snapshot we take every year at the top of this black-diamond run, rain or shine or whatever:
Paul Tremblay, Sara Langan, some dude, Daniel Kraus, and . . . not sure the other person (who’s the coolest) wants to be in this caption?
And, did I forget my bag on the gondola, have to ride up and over to Mountain Village to collect it from lost & found? Who knows.
Immediately after was the pig roast (I had a salmon burger), which included this coolness:
Then it was a fast rush over to Bryan Fuller’s Dust Bunny!
that’s him on stage after the screening, Meredith Borders asking the questions—she was great to hang out with all weekend, too—here’s part of her recap. and, as for Dust Bunny:
And, at the same time, Grady Hendrix was cooking through his Witchcraft show:
(which I was lucky enough to have seen in Denver, couple-three months back. but, here’s part 2 of Meredith’s write-up, from which I stole that picture)
I am loving everything about Telluride, and @sgj.bsky.social just makes it even cooler 🤘
word from a shuttle driver who’s been in Telluride for 46 years is that that waterfall way behind us has NEVER been flowing like that
And then, for Indigenous People’s Day, it was creeping back up a wet 70 (was a wicked wreck all around us, but we skated through somehow—I think everyone else was mostly okay, too. well, except the cars and trucks involved):
