Author: SGJ

Werewolves are Real

Coolest Mongrels write-up of them all, maybe:

https://sites.google.com/view/werewolves-are-real/home

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Why Horror Seduces

Man, seems forever now that when interviewers ask me why we keep telling each other scary stories, I always say it’s because we evolved to need horror, because we expect teeth in the night, we’re hardwired for it, horror just lets us feel human, but now, finally, thank you, someone smart’s saying that, and with empirical data to back it up. Would snap a pic of my copy, but as soon as I was done with it, I forced it on a friend. It’s what you do with the good boo…

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Photo by Ellen Datlow

Figure everybody needs a Slash-hat, Ozzy-specs kind of author photo. Not that I’ll ever get use this one on a book jacket:

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Talking horror to the high school crowd

Was an honor Friday to speak to . . . I don’t know, four sets of about fifty or sixty kids at a time, I guess (I say ‘kids,’ yeah, but some of them tower over me, and I’m a bit not-short myself). Peak to Peak Charter School, over in Lafayette. Got to talk Stephen King’s “The Man in the Black Suit,” my “The Spindly Man” (check the Kate Baker read-aloud), and just general writing and writing-life stuff. Always a good time:

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Happiness is a dog and a book

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The Endless

Looks to be halfway between, say . . . The Void and Coherence, maybe? Either way, I’m game. Thanks to Matt Pridham for the headsup.

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Mongrels on Tor.com

Supercool write-up. Always good to be sharing space with Victor LaValle:

Lovecraftian Horror and The Alchemy of the New

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I mean — yeah

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