Author: SGJ

Which is going to be a movie/TV-heavy list, for the first time ever. Not because my tastes or habits changed—fiction on the page is still and always where it’s at for me—but because, since I’m now judging for the World Fantasy Awards for 2018, it would feel a bit . . . weird and unclassy, I guess, to be saying what my favorite books of the year are.

However, I can slap a couple of novels up here that in no way could get submitted for a World Fantasy Award. So:

Novels

Laird…

Mapping the genome:

Every time I go to stand up or lift something and I feel all creaky and broken, I think back to all this, and remember how much I prefer groany creaks and leftover breaks to stitches and recovery and PT:

I keep these handy/on my phone, so that I won’t get lured into a pickup game of ball, or a hackysack circle—What can go wrong, right?—and so I won’t lift furniture or jump off this ledge because i…

Mongrels, ahead of the curve:

Honored to have a werewolf on this list:

Just in time for late Christmas: reprint over at Nightmare. Originally showed up in October Dreams II, then in Best Horror of the Year 8. And . . . I kind of have a memory of hearing someone do the audio for this, too—read it out loud. Can’t remember where or when, though. Just that it was good. Anyway, quite possibly by last publication of 2018:

Available now, wherever you get your audio novels. Narrated by Eric G. Dove, of . . . man, check it out: lot of stuff. And now a latterday slasher:

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Best Christmas gift is a review: