Author: SGJ

The Fly (babies)

Worst thing I’ve had to know for a long, long time:

https://twitter.com/TheScaryNature/status/1143326262414340097
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Camp Wedding

Okay, probably not a slasher, but it’s a summer camp, there’s lots OF slashing going on. I’m there:

August 20th
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Ladies of the Fright panel / podcast

Is now available to Patreoners. And I’d guess it’ll roll even more available after a while. It’s a recording of this panel, from StokerCon 2019:

photo by @HowtheWoodMoves

Podcast’s here:

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Fangoria!

Never thought I’d have the chance to slip into these pages with some fiction, since Fango was dead. But then it came back. And now it’s having it’s 40th Anniversary. And I’ve got a story, “Night Tag,” in THAT issue, out as of . . . either now, or July 1st. Either way, they’re already showing up:

https://twitter.com/jonNothin/status/1143718942365626370
thanks to Mark Riddick and Fangoria for the killer art
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Child’s Play 2019

Man, seems I was just talking about the Halloween sequel we never thought we’d get, and now I’m here after seeing the Child’s Play remake nobody expected. In short: it’s really good, all kinds of fun. Most interested in how they updated it from 1988. Back then, the cautionary tale—or, what opens the cycle of justice—is economic: buying suspicious items from even more suspicious dudes. Not meaning to say in 1988 we were all being herded to only proper …

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Who Knew

Scooting through eBay the other day, looking for a good cloth version of Crichton’s Eaters of the Dead—a novel I’ll never not be in love with (though my favorite film adaptation of Beowulf is Outlander, of course)—I remembered that I’ve had a few people in my inbox and around lately asking did I have any The Long Trial of Nolan Dugattis lying around. I don’t, just have my one that I hauled around for a while, read from. But, looks like I should have secret…

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Twitter Comic

A comic strip/book thread. Pretty cool. Haven’t seen it presented this way before. And: it’s a cool story.

https://twitter.com/sexytuna/status/1136989142364168192
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ReaderCon

My events, which also includes hosting the Shirley Jacksons on Sunday. Either at 11am or noon, it seems.

have high hopes that kaffeeklatsch doesn’t smell like my mortal enemy, coffee
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Captain, My Captain

I’ve always been torn about who my favorite Star Trek captain might be—like Weird Al says, it’s a hard decision:

impossible to decide

But now, with this, I don’t know, there’s another contender:

As you can tell from my recent swing through Texas, ketchup only is the way to go (didn’t really want the cheese, but he kept asking, so I got a single slice):

and it was good, that single slice, sure. dude was right
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