Author: SGJ

Got an elk book in that roundup over at The Millions:

Honored to be one of Paste’s 25, here:

. . . is the Roof of Hell. Which is the title to a story I’ve got in the January 2020 Nightmare Magazine.

Man, who knew. This and Dugatti and Del Rio are all at a premium, lately. Guess I should have stocked up:

Or, a missed opportunity? What got me thinking about this was that fish we see Luke carrying in The Last Jedi, that he evidently speared with that super-long spear. That fish that, for a planet that kicks up Thala-sirens (those Suessian things he milks) and frog nuns that look straight out of a live-action Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band—

—is a pretty normal fish:

And by ‘normal’ I mean ‘in keeping with the Earth-fish I know,’ yeah. But? This could of co…

( which is IN 2020, but about this December we just had . . . )

Cool starred review:

Fun to say it like that. And, really, it’s Max Booth III’s 20 2020 . . .

Just like last year, I had this idea that doing a monthly post would make it a snap to figure out my best of the years: just scroll through, it’ll be obvious. I wish. Though it does make it easier to remember stuff from before summer, say. So, without further whatever, and by category, and including stuff I only FOUND in 2019, and just going plural for some instead of staging ties:

NOVELS

HORROR MOVIE

So excellent: