As a person who spends a lot of time reading for my classes, I often feel like I'm playing catch-up on all the cool books being published-& I don't just mean those by @stephengrahamjones.com😀 Getting around to Beowulf is a reminder that it's never too late-stories tend to find us when they need to.

Wrapping up my dystopian class-or is it just the daily news cycle at this point?-w/ @agustinabazterrica.bsky.social’s tour-de-force Tender Is the Flesh. Nothing says "happy Summer" like a biting 👀 critique of consumer culture. Here, too, is my review on it: hollywoodprogressive.com/literature/t...

so well said...

Coming in softcover-Fall 2026! The Fictions of Stephen Graham Jones: A Critical Companion is the 1st book-length study of @stephengrahamjones.com work. 456 pages of insights, 70+ photos, SGJ Foreword, Afterword by @paultremblay.bsky.social, SGJ interview w/ yours truly! A must for horror fans.🧟‍♂️

The best apocalypse tales do more than warn-they force us to reassess our place in the food chain. @jrjisprobable.bsky.social's Extinction Journals nails it, reminding that "you're the only one who will ever truly know you were even alive." Read it. If you end up wanting a new suit after, it worked!

Oh man, "there is no future, and England's dreaming..."

Posting a little late, but loved DaCosta’s 28 Years Later! It doesn't just give us zombies; it gives us the banality of evil. Jack O’Connell channels the ghost of Jimmy Savile in a role that is also a terrifying reflection for our own time. My review: hollywoodprogressive.com/literature/d...

Hmm, sure, call it a cult. But as far as I know Pynchon's books have a body count of zero. My Gravity's Rainbow undergrad class was among the best I've ever taught. The students loved it, too—or so the letter I received through the W.A.S.T.E. postal system assured me. #KeepCoolButCare

In the name of Michael's devil eyes--the FINAL "Slasher Nation" column from the master himself, @sgj.bsky.social just arrived from @fangoria.bsky.social! While all wicked things must come to an end, can't wait for what thrills & chills he'll be conjuring in his next bloody chapter! #Horror #Slasher

Last night's @nin.com show was a brutal history lesson. We were the kids in Doc Martens raging against the machine's surveillance state; all that's changed is now we pay a monthly subscription. Reznor's still feeding the perfect drug for our downward spiral. hollywoodprogressive.com/literature/r...

Stoked to see words from my first piece w/ @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social on @sgj.bsky.social's Mapping the Interior blurbed on the back of the new @torbooks.bsky.social 🔥ed! Just as cool-seeing his previous indie classics getting their own swanky new skins #horror lareviewofbooks.org/article/in-t...

Down to the wire & just finished the final interview w/ @sgj.bsky.social bsky.social for my book on his horror canon. Some stories have teeth. This one bites back. Can't wait to share the blood, sweat & fears behind a life shaped by monsters. @fangoria.bsky.social @sagapressbooks.bsky.social

My review of @sgj.bsky.social's 'The Buffalo Hunter Hunter,' is up at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. It confronts the haunting specter of American genocide through the vampire tale, charting the depths of trauma & vengeance in the wake of the Marias Massacre. lareviewofbooks.org/article/how-...

And talking about not talking about fight club . . . More are breaking those rules as I'm honored to be on @sgj.bsky.social latest "Best Reads" list at his official website via my article on Fight Club! It's a treasure trove, check it out at WWW.DemonTheory.net. www.demontheory.net/best-reads-f...

I def broke the first rule of fight club in this one! @chuckpalahniuk.bsky.social's critique of consumerism is hitting hard in 2025! My latest examines its enduring relevance within our new "Society of the Spectacle." hollywoodprogressive.com/literature/r... #FightClub #SocietyOfTheSpectacle #NIN

@greatdismal.bsky.social Neuromancer predicted our AI reality decades ago—the problem is not sentient machines, but human exploitation of tech. My latest article considers why our fear is better directed at the corporate powers controlling AI, rather than the tech itself. #AI #cyberpunk #posthuman

Saw this wild self-own circulating around the matrix today, which is also an excellent example of the absence of irony. 🥸

Lovin' the latest SlasherNation column by @sgj.bsky.social in @fangoria.com! The question Jones asks is not an easy one: "If not exactly justice, though, then what is it slashers are after? Jason, Leatherface, Jigsaw, Freddy & of course, Billy, they're all there, but you'll have to read to find out.

As @sgj.bsky.social's tour for @sagapressbooks.bsky.social #TheBuffaloHunterHunter kicks into high gear w/ books flying off the shelves, it seems time to add a song to the soundtrack in honor of Good Stab's success. After all, the future seems very bright indeed! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qrr...

From this day onward, March 18th will forevermore be known as Buffalo Hunter Hunter day! @sgj.bsky.social's latest offers a powerful & haunting tale of loss & survival, the entanglements of memory, history & truth. At the same time, it's a reminder that books & stories never exist in isolation!

Oh, and the hits just keep coming...

@sgj.bsky.social shared some cool insights w/ @paperbackbish.bsky.social at The Buffalo Hunter Hunter launch. Jones at his best: taut dialogue & brooding descriptions of the land, to heart-wrenching details of colonial violence, w/ an avenging vampire roaming Blackfeet territory to settle scores.

When the world seems to be burning around us, stories remind us that there's always a tomorrow. @sgj.bsky.social's The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, which lies after but also in & between Ledfeather & Good Indians, is confirmation in the best of ways. Such an honor to be there in the acknowledgements, too!

Wow, @sstpublications.bsky.social does it again with this amazing signed and numbered Special Edition of @sgj.bsky.social's reinvention of the slasher story, I Was a Teenage Slasher! #schting!

Excellent food and even better company, plus saw a real live copy of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter coming to bookstores across the universe on March 18! This one goes to 11, it's nothing short of epic!

When Spike Jonze made 'Her,' we thought AI romance was sci-fi. Now we're all basically dating our apps 🤖💕 My piece on 'Her' addresses our AI situationship-and why we should think twice before giving ChatGPT our hearts (and data) #AI #DigitalPrivacy #FilmCrit hollywoodprogressive.com/film/tradema...

Based on 2 decades of experience in Higher Ed, this article really hits the nail on the head. My response to the elitist instructor the article leads with: If, as a teacher, you can't convey the material in a clear enough way so that your best students get As, YOU are the one who failed, not them!

Hey, it’s live. My first time to be in a tin-type! Such a complicated process. But fun. And, few people quoted in here— @paultremblay.bsky.social’s one. @todgoldberg.bsky.social’s another.

More slasher talk from @etchfilm.bsky.social and this dude—talking slasher stuff is less about asking me questions, more about just turning the camera on me when I’m standing alone in a corner:

On oligarchies and working people, Matewan and American history.

Another on Lynch, this one on the surreal Mulholland Drive. Def one of my favs to writer, diving into the glitz, glamour and shattered dreams of Hollywood, with Day of the Locust and the wider implications of nepotism!

I wrote some words, updated from a previous piece, reflecting on David Lynch's enduring influence. No writer or filmmaker has impacted me more, and I know that is true for so, so many of us weirdos and misfits. Long live the profoundly honest, terrifying, sublime and twisted stories he gave us...