Author: SGJ

Description from the old defunct gone-forever MacAdam/Cage website:

On Halloween night, following an unnerving phone call from his diabetic mother, Hale and six of his med school classmates return to the house where his sister disappeared years ago. While there is no sign of his mother, something is waiting for them there, and has been waiting a long time. Written as a literary film treatment littered with footnotes and experimental nuances, Demon Theory is even pa…

The Fast Red Road—A Plainsong is a gleeful, two-fisted plundering of the myth and pop- culture surrounding the American Indian. It is a novel fueled on pot fumes and blues, a surreal pseudo-Western, in which imitation is the sincerest form of subversion. Indians, cowboys, and outlaws are as changeable as their outfits; horses are traded for Trans-Ams, and men are as likely to strike poses from Gunsmoke as they are from Custer’s last stand. Pidgin, the half-blood pr…

• Halloween
• Venison
• Captivity Narrative 109
• To Run Without Falling
• Episode 43: Incest
• Nobody Knows This
• Bile
• Filius Nervosus
• Last Success
• Conquistadors
• These are the Names I Know
• The Fear of Jumping
• Bleed Into Me
• Carbon
• Every Night Was Halloween
• Discovering America

2005 Interview with Native America Calling:

The constant threat or fact of violence in these stories combined with Jones’s idiosyncratic, staccato prose makes for gripping and visceral reading

Nazareth, Texas

Deputy Sheriff Jim Doe plunges into a renegade manhunt after the town’s sheriff is gunned down. But unbeknownst to him, the suspect—an American Indian—holds chilling connections to the disappearance of Doe’s sister years before. And the closer Doe gets to the fugitive’s trail, the more he realizes that his own involvement in the case is hardly coincidental. A descendant of the Blackfeet Nation himself, Doe keeps getting m…

[ rigged this together forever and a day ago, but it mostly still holds ]

born in 72, grew up on Elvis, even have some memories of being four years old and my mother holding me up above the crowd at one of his concerts, how there was just a sea of popping flashbulbs, this shiny guy way up front. grew up all over Texas, mostly West Texas, mostly in a place too small to even have a post office. learned farming and ranching from both sides of my family, who told me not to do what they did, to use my …

This is a guest post by Caleb J. Ross as part of his Stranger Will Tour for Strange blog tour. He will be guest-posting beginning with the release of his novel Stranger Will in March 2011 to the release of his second novel, I Didn’t Mean to Be Kevin in November 2011. If you have connections to a lit blog of any type, professional journal or personal site, please contact him. To be a groupie and follow this tour, subscribe to the Caleb J Ross blog RSS feed. Follow him on Twitter: @calebjr…

Link here. Three books in their rEprint series: All the Beautiful Sinners (which I’m going to burn back through), The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti, and Seven Spanish Angels. Two reprints and an original — or, one that was supposed to have hit in 2005, but, well, things happened. And now it’s 2011. And I still love that book.…

New story up at/with Stymie: “Rocket Man.” First line: The dead aren’t exactly known for their baseball skills. So, yeah, I had to do some research for this one, to make the baseball parts of it real. Zombies, though — they’re always real. Just a matter of keeping them on the page.…

lucky/honored to have my name up here:

SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION
Occultation, Laird Barron (Night Shade)
The Ones That Got Away, Stephen Graham Jones (Prime Books)
The Third Bear, Jeff Vandermeer (Tachyon)
What I Didn’t See, Karen Joy Fowler (Small Beer Press)
What Will Come After, Scott Edelman (PS Publishing)

full list of finalists here.

and, yep, I’m hitting Stoker Weekend for the ceremony. and to be a fanboy. but first World Horror. and tomorrow, HorrorFest and …