Bloody Flicks

Which is what Mongrels would be, I imagine. All werewolf stories walk through blood. Cool write-up from Paul Downey:

https://bloody-flicks.co.uk/2018/07/08/mongrels-by-stephen-graham-jones-review/

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Monster Covers

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.

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Best of 2018 — halfway through

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:

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Everything here is just working so well: the wo…

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Best of 2018 so far—the July roundup

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

The Qwillery BookCon 2018: Quirk Books SpotlightSpirit of Steamboat: A Walt Longmire Story Audiobook | Craig Johnson | Audible.com | Audible.co.uk Any Other Name Audiobook | Craig Johnson | Audible.comNew Solo Poster Strikes a Familiar Pose - IGN Wildling (2018) - Posters — The Movie Database (TMDb)Leigh Whannell's Upgrade Starring Logan Marshall-Green Gets Poster and NSFW Trailer - Dread Central    Amazon.com: I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer ...Comic Book Review: Descender, Vol. 2 TP - Bounding Into Comics  Werewolves on the Moon: Versus Vampires #2 :: Profile :: Dark Horse Comics

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Tripleshot Review

Matthew Vaugh on It Came from Del Rio, The Ones that Got Away, and Growing Up Dead in Texas—and this is from . . . 2012, maybe? Just showed up on Twitter, anyway. Or showed up again, not sure. Either way, very kind, much appreciated:

My triple Stephen Graham Jones Review

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Summer of 84

Man, just like with Ready Player One, Wolf in White Van, and a lot of others from the past . . . four, five years? this one’s also kind of “of my age group.” Meaning: I was twelve in 1984. So of course I’ll see this—I mean, I think I’d be there just for the content—but, too, I wonder what role nostalgia is playing in it. Pynchon in V says that we all have a certain homesickness (maybe that was his word? been a while) for the decade we were born in. Dude̵…

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Fear Not

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/

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Noir at the Bar

Was a good time last night. My first time at the Mercury Cafe, too (Boulder people don’t get to Denver too often—it’s weird, I know, but neither do Denver people trek out here to Boulder much either). Meaning, I didn’t know what door to use, meaning: of course I ended up circulating at a wedding for a few minutes before finally asking the photographer where the horror reading part of all this was going to be.

One redirect later, I found my people:

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Coolest thing THIS week

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