Stumbled onto this Vamp poster on Twitter, which got me thinking of The Howling novel cover, and now I’m just wishing there were covers as good for any version of The Mummy. There’s wonderful amazing stuff in places like this or this or this, but, man, for me, it’s when the art and the title combine to ‘evoke’ the movie in a way you didn’t even realize was missing:

And, if there’s monsters and blood, all the better. Obviously.

And, as …

Every year when I cobble together some best-of-the-year list from half-remembered this and that, I always end up remembering stuff from the last few months instead of the whole year, and feeling like that’s all unfair. So, in an effort to work around that, and trusting that I actually come back and LOOK at this in five months, but mostly because I’m just now thinking of it, here’s my favorites so far:

Comic Book:

Everything here is just working so well: the wo…

[ I keep forgetting to do these the day-of. So, at least this one’s the week-of . . . ]

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It’s Becky Spratford, star librarian, laying down all the horror:

https://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2018/06/best-of/best-genre/fear-not-genre-spotlight-horror/…

Five Indigenous Speculative Fiction Authors You Should Be Reading

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Though, I’m not super sure that’s an exact-proper use of ‘redux.’ Anyway, if you click the pic, or the link below, you can then click a link in that cool post—it’s star librarian and horror champion Becky Spratford—and then click BACK to here. It’ll make sense once you see:

http://raforall.blogspot.com/2018/06/author-stephen-graham-jones-captures.html…

[ late with this one, oops—been in California since the end of May, and am evidently not thinking much . . . ]

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Ken Greenhall’s Elizabeth, which is a-a-a-a-amazing.

https://www.ladiesofthefright.com/podcast/2018/5/29/lotf-11-elizabeth-discussion-with-guest-host-stephen-graham-jones…

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