Man, been nine months since Mongrels went live, and it’s still getting words. Like these, over at LARB:

“One of Them Now: Stephen Graham Jones’s Mongrels“

And, those nine months ago, of course, LA Times was already on the yellow book:

“The Wild Boy Wants his Fangs“

Honored. Thanks, Kristina Baudemann (LARB) and Steph Cha (LAT).

And, any post with Mongrels in it is a good-enough excuse to post a werewolf gif:

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Top row: Nnedi Okorafor, Kij Johnson, Steven J. Mariconda and Peter Straub
Bottom row: some dude, Ellen Datlow, Richard Stanley and John Jude Palencar

Artist: Michael Bukowski…

They are here. And I’ll be back. And, another video (interview) coming, from/with them.

Whilst Lady Gaga did her thing at the superbowl, I was hanging out here with Lovecraft eZine:

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Getting to a few of these kind of the year-after. But, man, they’re no less excellent for it:

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Six HUNDRED Philip K. Dick covers? Amazingcool. My head’s going all Scanners:

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This may turn out to be the absolute coolest thing I see all year. Not just these four in a single conversation, these four all talking WHEN they’re talking.

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Just noticing that the old pano of my office at Cutbank, it’s out of date—I’ve gone standing-desk. But there’s some Q&A there, still, that’s not here.

Anyway, to update, with TWO panoramics, as I can’t seem to spin slow/fast enough to do it with just one:

Yeah, I think I suck at keeping the phone at the same level/height. So it goes.

But that’s me standing over in the middle. Here’s what I usually see, rice bars and basket…

Just finished rereading my favorite book of 2016, Grady Hendrix’s My Best Friend’s Exorcism, and I realized I’m kind of getting a shelf together, of books I come back to again and again. Books I can’t stay away from. Books that just hold more and more magic for me, each time through. I’ve heard that’s one definition of ‘literary’: a text that will keep unfolding and unfolding, the longer you look into it. I’d also add …

And, there may even be some commentary about story:

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