This awesome anthology includes my short story “Brother Mine” & will be debuting today at the Merrimack Valley Halloween Book Festival! Honored to share the TOC with such a talented bunch. Much gratitude to Christopher Golden, James A. Moore & John McIlveen for putting together the book. It‘ll be out on Oct 14 & will also be available as a limited edition, signed by the contributors & editors. Check out an early review by Michael Patrick Hicks! ⬇️

Man, this really made my day. Such a great conversation, insightful and hilarious, and it's heart-warming how proud Stephen King is of Joe.
This meme popped into my head soon as I saw them in a single frame. 😄
Having a blast reading The Institute and so looking forward to Joe Hill's new collection, Full Throttle
https://youtu.be/3UjQPXQ7TKU

#HorrorCoverCrush
Day 2
Also one of my #MostAnticipated reads of this year, yet to be added to Litsy's database so tagging another awesome AN book.

Stoked to finally dive into this!

A little late but thought I'd join in!
Day 1
#HorrorCoverCrush

Current read!

Happy Birthday to my favorite Wordslinger. Like millions, I owe my love of reading and writing and so much more to Uncle Stevie.
Recently read this terrific piece about King‘s work steeling you for the pain the real world can dole out.
https://t.co/pv1awGgKHt?amp=1
Been so long since I had a chance to check in with everyone! Hope you‘re all well and enjoying your reads.
Art via https://bit.ly/2kyqNYI

Starting with my reread of IT!🎈Given my schedule, I think it's likely I'll still be reading this when the film is at the tail end of its run in theatres 😄 I've been moved to a morning shift presently so have to leave home at five am and reading in sips when I can. Missing all of you!

Thanks for the tag, @batsy! Haven't finished my current read yet but it's up there in my #top6reads. I've recently been attending a training program organised by a VFX studio where I'm due to start a new job in some months after clearing the assessment, & as exciting as it is, the travel has been hell, especially with the constant rain, so finding little time to Litsy. Hoping to be more frequent once I've settled into the routine.

So pumped about starting this!

A while ago, a story of mine appeared in the tagged anthology. For the past ten days I've been consumed with another Sherlock Holmes story for a submission call by the same publisher for a Holmes-Poe inspired anthology. Last night, I finally finished writing the first draft. I doubted I'd be able to since I thought it would be too hard, which it was at times. While it needs a LOT of tinkering, I'm not entirely displeased by the way its shaping up.

Recent bookmail!

Meant to share this yesterday but it slipped my mind. Best summary ever. 😂

"I couldn‘t believe things had always been so bad. The very fact that they had deteriorated so dramatically was proof that, once upon a time, they must have been very good, because isn‘t that the way these things work? You don‘t go from apathy to anger; if you want to find hate, the surest route‘s love."

Had stacked this long back after reading a post by @Reggie Few pages into this and so blown away.
#CurrentRead

Starting with this next.

Short version: My favorite book of 2019. A masterpiece.
Not-so-short version: NOS4A2 delivers all the chills and thrills you‘d expect, but it‘s more than a mere thrill-fest. Yes, it‘s about a young woman facing off against a vampiric being she encountered as a kid, but it‘s also about parenting & motherhood, & real world horrors, about people grappling with their flaws, & loss & love. Especially love. ⬇️

Me after reading "My life! For you!"
Loving the various nods.
#ConstantReaders

Thanks for the tag, @Eggs! 😊
1. Creepy stuff lover 👻
2. I do most of my reading in the pictured chair with my feet propped up on the bed.
3. Presently drawing a blank. 🤔
4. Anyone who'd like to play!
#WondrousWednesday

Being torn between gobbling up a book and savoring it is probably the best sort of indecision. Having a blast reading the tagged book.
Art by Simini Blocker

In The Silence, a family navigates a newly post-apocalyptic landscape, overrun by nightmarish winged creatures who hunt by sound; and terrified and terrifying people. Excellently paced, it takes you from the inciting event to the development of the crisis & societal devolution, in a way that‘s real-timey. What makes it pop from the dreck of disaster stories are the characters. The bond between Ally, a deaf teen, & her dad was the highlight for me.

@Cinfhen It finally arrived! 🙌🏼 Pumped to check this out seeing all the Litsy love. Really digging the bookmark. Thanks again for sending this my way 😊 💕

Thanks for the tag @Eggs 😊
1. Seize the Night: New Tales of Vampiric Terror
2. Savage Species
3. Tagged book.
4. Trying to be more organized instead of mood reading.
#ThursdaySurvey
@laurenslibrary
A tech meltdown and cold kept me away from Litsy. My computer died for good. Thankfully I‘d backed everything up. Spent yesterday setting up an old laptop and migrating data while sneezing up a storm 😵 The cold has subsided now but still feeling achey

Tor.com is offering a bundle download of 4 LGBTQ centric Sci-Fi and Fantasy novellas for free! Featured books include:
The Lamb Will Slaughter The Lion by Margaret Killjoy
Passing Strange by Ellen Klages
A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson
The Black Tides of Heaven by JY Yang

Follow the link to grab a copy before June 8
https://www.tor.com/2019/06/04/happy-pride-month-download-4-free-lgbtq-sci-fi-fa...

#ImaginaryPlaces reminded me of this meme 😆
#WanderingJune
@Cinfhen @BarbaraBB

So stoked to finally start with this. I wish I could manage my TBR better and didn't have to rely on the occasional prod from upcoming adaptations.

Kanae Minato is undoubtedly #BigInJapan, dubbed "The Queen of Iyamisu," a subgenre of mystery that's particularly grim and grisly. Can't wait for more of her works to be translated into English. If you have yet to read her, the tagged book is a great place to start.
#WanderingJune
@Cinfhen @BarbaraBB

This is the story of Bryony Adams; she‘s wonderful, kind, and radiant, and burdened by the prophecy that she will one day be murdered. MMY crafts a unique tone, reminiscent of Bryan Fuller‘s Pushing Daisies, only darker, and it reads like a collaboration between Hans Christian Andersen and Thomas Harris. Peopled with engaging characters, suspenseful, moving, tender and grim, a terrific modern-day fairy tale, beautifully written. All the stars.

Loved the show, especially the first four seasons, & I've been wanting to check out the books that inspired them. Someday soon!
#TheMoonSong
Huge thanks to the lovely @Cinfhen for being kind enough to invite me to co-host. 😊 Really appreciate everyone joining in. I had a blast & enjoyed seeing all the wonderful, creative posts for #MayMovieMagic & discovering some great new reads. Thanks also to @EadieB for sharing cool prompt related info. 🙌🏼

#IceDance (Featured in Edward Scissorhands) reminded me of this creepy scene from Snowblind. This was a really enjoyable read.
#MayMovieMagic
@Cinfhen

"Uneasy Does It"
The title of this introduction perfectly encapsulates the tone of the stories within this collection by Robert Aickman.
#CurrentlyReading
#Easy (Featured in Baby Driver)

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- It, Stephen King
#TheEnd (Featured in Apocalypse Now)
#MayMovieMagic
@Cinfhen

One of the few cases where the book and adaptation are equally good.

I've been down with a cold all day so only just posting now. So tired from sneezing my head off. 🤧
#YouGiveMeSomething (Featured in Made of Honor)
#MayMovieMagic
@Cinfhen

"Your lips were made for mine, Beck. You are the reason I have a mouth, a heart."

Last thing you want is for Joe Goldberg to find you bewitching.
#BewitchedBotheredAndBewildered (Featured in Pal Joey)
#MayMovieMagic
@Cinfhen

🎶I am right, I swear I'm right
Swear I knew it all along🎶

#Vindicated (Featured in Spider-Man 2)
#MayMovieMagic
@Cinfhen

I've been scrambling to meet deadlines on some short story submissions and had a good writing day today, which reminded me of this Neil Gaiman quote. 😊

"You did not have to understand miracles to believe in them, and in fact Mabel had come to suspect the opposite. To believe, perhaps you had to cease looking for explanations and instead hold the little thing in your hands as long as you were able before it slipped like water between your fingers."

Loved reading this one. ❄?❄
#WaitingForAMiracle (Featured in Natural Born Killers)
#MayMovieMagic
@Cinfhen

“It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.”
#SoClose (Featrued in Enchanted)

Starting with my reread of Good Omens. This was my first Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett after NG's awesome collection, Fragile Things, and it was such a blast. I've been wanting to revisit this, and what better time with the online premiere of the adaptation so close. Super excited!
#MayMovieMagic
@Cinfhen

"Fetch me that flower; the herb I shew'd thee once.
The juice of it on sleeping eye-lids laid
Will make or man or woman madly dote
Upon the next live creature that it sees."

Not exactly the best #OriginOfLove (Featured in Hedwig and the Angry Inch)
#MayMovieMagic
@Cinfhen
Art by Henry Howard

Who's your #1stCartoonCrush? Gail Simone kick-started the hastag on Twitter, and it sounds like a fun idea so sharing it here! Growing up, I crushed hard on Teela and Princess Jasmine 😁💙
#GailSimone

"She was sittin' on a bench, Mama
Thinking up a game to play
Seems I was holding a wrench, Mama
Then my mind just walked away."

- From Leon Payne's delightfully disturbing song sung by by Neil Gaiman with Amanda Palmer playing the ukulele.
Check out the video here!
https://youtu.be/Nm4VVLbqN9Q
#WhereIsMyMind (Featured in Fight Club)
#MayMovieMagic
@Cinfhen

"Bryony Adams was the type of girl who got murdered."
#TomorrowNeverKnows (Featured in Children of Men)
Kicking myself for not reading this sooner. It's so good!
#CurrentRead
#MayMovieMagic
@Cinfhen

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”

No detail, however little, escapes the observation of Sherlock Holmes.
#LittlestThings (Featured in Love, Rosie)
#MayMovieMagic
@Cinfhen

"He looked at the shiny puddles of gasoline. He took a package of paper matches from his breast pocket and looked at them, guilty and fascinated and excited."

Donald Merwin Elbert, aka the Trashcan Man, (one of my fave King characters) is #HookedOnAFeeling (Featured in Reservoir Dogs) when it comes to setting things on fire.
#MayMovieMagic
@Cinfhen

#LeTempsdelAmour (Featured in Moonrise Kingdom) reminded me of the tagged book. Also, using the prompt as an excuse to make this a Françoise Hardy appreciation post ?
"I feel happy and secure when I'm on my bed with a good book. I forget everything which is terrible in our world." - FH
#MayMovieMagic
@Cinfhen

"You never see a fault in anybody. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in your life."

#SweetDisposition (Featured in 500 Days of Summer)
#MayMovieMagic
@Cinfhen

Cuffed to bed posts, Jessie wishes someone would save her, but not only does she save herself but comes out of the traumatic experience stronger.
#SaveMe (Featured in Magnolia)
#MayMovieMagic
@Cinfhen

“I‘m the Turtle, son. I made the universe, but please don‘t blame me for it; I had a belly-ache.”

So pumped for IT: chapter 2 and can't wait to see how the filmmakers portray a #SpaceOddity (Featured in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty) Bill encounters in the form of Maturin, a cosmic turtle. I'm really hoping it'll be somewhat like Nolan's Interstellar on crack.
#MayMovieMagic
@Cinfhen

Happy Mother's Day to all the lovely moms of Litsy! 💕

“Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it.”
#ImmigrantSong (Featured in Thor: Ragnarok)
#MayMovieMagic
@Cinfhen

“Does it bother you that I'm not completely human?”
“You are the most human person I have ever met.”
#ModernLove (Featured in Frances Ha)
#MayMovieMagic
@Cinfhen