“’The fish rots from the head.’ Fish rotted all over, cell corruption being nonhierarchical and not caste-driven, but point taken.” – Jeff VanderMeer, ‘Authority’ Second week of October—how spooked are […]
Sub-Genre Slam! Two Ways Of Looking At Hauntings Edition
“‘This house is haunted,’ Claire says. ‘I know if is,’ the babysitter says. ‘I used to live here.’” – Kelly Link, “The Specialist’s Hat” First of all, Brendan and I […]
Friday Links: Annihilation Edition
“The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what was a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?” – Jeff VanderMeer, ‘Annihilation’ […]
Sub-Genre Slam! Two Ways Of Looking At Monsters Edition
“In infinite variety, living things appear, and change, and reach the land, leaving a record of their coming, of their struggle to survive, and of their eventual end.” – opening […]
TEASER: Behind With Knife
“The morning they found the body…the bus was quiet.” – Brendan Johnson and Chris Corlew, ‘Behind With Knife’ In the two years since Brendan and I launched Lazy & Entitled, […]
11 Monster Books You Should Read
“If you’re not a beautiful monster, then you’re a villager.” – Stephen Graham Jones, ‘Mongrels’ Not sure what’s come over me, but the urge has struck me to write some […]
Friday Links: Haunted Coast Edition
“He held his hands up…So much for visiting a quaint southern mansion and lecturing to an elderly historical society.”- Theodore C. Van Alst Jr, ‘Pour One For The Devil’ One […]
Ekphrasis: Vampires Edition
“A strangeness. A ripple of unease…A sense that there was a reason to watch one’s back when shadows grew long.” – Isabel Cañas, ‘Vampires of El Norte’ Hey look, it’s […]
Ekphrasis: Sea Monsters Edition
“To know the ocean, I have always felt, is to recognize the teeth it keeps half hidden.” – Julia Armfield, ‘Our Wives Under The Sea’ Hey look, it’s the first […]
Ekphrasis: Werewolves Edition
“That’s how it is with werewolves. You have something, then you just have the story of it.” – Stephen Graham Jones, ‘Mongrels’ Hey look, it’s the first crop of ekphrasis […]