Author: SGJ
One of Ellen Datlow’s new anthologies*. This one’s all film-adjacent horror:
- Das Gesicht by Dale Bailey &
Well, not even super sure what ‘tell-all’ exactly means. But I wanted to use an exclamation point, because this one was fun:
…Got one in here. Amazing deals for a good cause:
…Honored to have Mapping the Interior included here:
https://bookriot.com/2019/07/10/best-haunted-house-books/amp/…
Or don’t do it at all:
…What are all the crocagator movies? Alligator, Primeval, Lake Placid. I keep hearing about Rogue, but can’t place it, though I’m fairly certain I saw it in the theater. Much like this afternoon’s Crawl.
So, in short: it’s nothing but fun. Anybody see Hurricane Heist? It’s got that feel. Just, with monsters. So, with no hesitation, yeah, I recommend this one.
Doesn’t mean there’s nothing I’d dial a little bit this way or t…
I’ve been there before, some three or four times, and it’s always been nothing but a ball, but being a GoH (thanks, Rose Fox!), that was completely different. Not only was my schedule super-super packed:
But I of course had a handler, a chaperone, Nightwing Whiteshade, who . . . rememberer years and years back, when I used to say I’d wear pirate shirts more if I had mor…
My phone and podcasts were fried in a gym the other day, so I dialed back to 2016, to Jordan Peele before Get Out hit, and took over the world. Very cool episode, as they all are, but what’s especially cool is, at about the 48-, 49-minute mark, Peele, maybe not even thinking he’d ever get to make Us real, says what feels to me a lot like the seed of that story: the mom being the mom, but also not the mom. I would snip it out, post it here, but that feels . . . not bootleggy, but like …
Well, interview at LA Review of Books, but BY Billy J. Stratton:
…Title . . . . Night of the Mannequins. Slasher through and through.
For a long time I’ve been wondering what’s left to do in slasherland, what territory hasn’t already been gone over fifty times, and better than I could ever do it. Night of the Mannequins is in what feels like that unexplored space. Couldn’t be more excited, both …