Christopher O'Riley just finished re-reading (i’d the privilege of reading an earlier version) Stephen Graham Jones’ now published perfect novel of the undead, The Gospel of Z. most of them strive for the anthropomorphic and lose entirely the meditative, intensely personal and shockingly intimate shades of potential in this genre; resurrection over reanimation. SGJ nails it, as …
just finished reading the latest and greatest from Ken Bruen, Purgatory, in his Jack Taylor series. Ken is the master of the noir koan. No one writes with more acid humour cut to the bone, no one approaches him in his cynicism. I’ve read all of him (hey, i did miss one, the prior to …
just finished reading Volume Five of the Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, title taken from the story that eventually became Total Recall. I went through all PKD’s sci-fi novels (and a couple of his domestics) this summer, so it was inevitable I go through all the shorts. …
proud that the last book i finished reading in 2013 was Stephen Graham Jones‘ collection, Zombie Sharks with Metal Teeth. horror haiku/fireside scary story-length tales, for the most part, but of a scope and breadth of subject and genre to take your breath away: a tony noir w/space lobsters, rodents w/super brains, TV trivia and …
just finished reading Stephen Graham Jones‘ triptych of novellas, Three Miles Past, the meat, the most delicious and horrifying nexus of code and prose: fear/the unknown; the crust/shell two incarnations of my new favorite fictional serial killer, SGJ’s William Colton Hughes (though he, in the appended Story Notes, only credits WCH for the first of …
just finished re-reading, now in published form, Stephen Graham Jones‘ Best Serial Killer Novel Ever: The Least of My Scars. appropriate to the Season, i read some of the home stretch listening to Classic Christmas music, Andy Williams, Elvis, Frank, Dino, so it seemed like i was listening to the Leatherface Christmas Album after a …