Author: SGJ

Stephen Graham Jones: The Animal Just Under The Skin

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Story called “Alis” in the obvious one, and a story about this demon Asmodeus in the other:

And, a certain homo naledi story off mine lucked into this:

https://featuredfutures.wordpress.com/2017/12/10/webs-best-science-fiction-1-2017-stories/

And, here’s a cool write-up of “Universal Horror”:

https://nicklasalla.blogspot.com/2017/12/its-at-the-front-door-review-of-universal-horror-stephen-graham-jones.ht…

I mean, first, yeah, loved it, clapped at the end, c’mon: of course.  Best part? All the younguns in the audience laughing and talking to the screen. New hope indeed.

Second, couple of good links:

• http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2017/12/18/the-last-jedi-a-mirror-slowly-cracking/
• https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/a-list-of-some-of-the-times-the-last-jedi-told-the-olde-1821396631?

You can maybe tell which book this one’s on, over at Unnerving:

http://www.unnervingmagazine.com/single-post/2017/12/06/Review-of-Last-Final-Girl-by-Stephen-Graham-Jones  

And then here’s a twofer over at Transmotion, for which Theo Van Alst and Billy J. Stratton actually deserve the credit:

https://journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/transmotion/article/view/434/1144

Speaking of them/Transmotion, this is in that same issue: …

New interview up:

https://superstitionreview.asu.edu/issue20/interviews/stephenjones…

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Check it out:

So cool. I mean, I know: my critical faculties are supposed to be rendered helpless from the surprise of seeing the yellow book drawn like this, but? That’s not why I like this comic book. Why I like this comic book is that it’s good comic-booking. Pablo D’Stair knows the medium, knows the mode, and, even better—even rarer—the dude can draw. I knew he could write, and I suspect he can do about eighty other things as well (if our minds are hamsters on …

This is what writing is: you throw a lot of stupid stuff at a wall, then see what sticks. And you never really understand it enough to do it like that again, and, meanwhile, people say it means this and that, and for reasons you can’t figure out, the story lasts, even though it was just something you thought might make someone smile:

http://www.vulture.com/2017/10/david-s-pumpkins-oral-history.html 

As for where I think the humor in this is? The effort to intellectua…

I know, I know: this ever really HAPPENED? Apparently so. This isn’t some Mandela Effect thing, and we’re nowhere near April. Not sure how I never knew about this, but glad I do know. And, yeah, the song here’s maybe a little guitar-shy, but still, the video’s nothing but fun:

I found it in this excellent little write-up:

http://horrorfreaknews.com/banned-twisted-sisteralice-cooper-video-1985-featured-zombie-fx-tom-savini/21955…

This is a key sub-thing in a novel I just wrote:

The Venus of Brassempouy is one of the earliest representations of the human face. It was sculpted in mammoth ivory about 25,000 years ago in southwest France. Since its discovery in 1894, there has been much debate about the sex and whether he/she is hooded or braided #IceAgeArt pic.twitter.com/OkrVRbZm1k

— The Ice Age (@Jamie_Woodward_) November 19, 2017

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