Thanks, Gree!
Frolic Press's special edition of Fritz Leiber's horror classic Conjure Wife—with apparatus by the great @ramseycampbell.bsky.social—is out just 9 days!
info and purchase links are here: frolicpress.ink/Conjure-Wife/
—and here:
travisdjohnson.net/books/conjur...
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The monster trips on its own intestines. It apologizes. You realize, mid-swing, that you are also stitched together—have always been. The cigarette falls.
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Homicidal humans, I suppose. Generally, I think that things that move very slowly are more frightening.
I don't think I've ever written about a fast monster.
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I wouldn't say I have a favorite. The protagonist of my novel in progress has aspects of the gunslinger and swordswoman archetypes, which are more known from western and fantasy genres (of course there's a lot of overlap between those genres and horror).
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Hello! Travis again. I write strange stories. I'm going to go with the very predictable choice of the original Evil Dead.
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Good day, #HorrorWritersChat! Spring is just around the corner, and at this time, I'm happy to be hosting tonight's event once again!
I hope you won't mind that this is going to be a self-indulgent one tonight! Because it involves a subject I specialise in and love.
The catharsis of Action Horror.
—and others TBA
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All new tales!
cover illustration by MIHee Kim Magee.
cover design primarily by R. Rasmussen
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2027
J.R. Andrews, Zak Cowell, Suzy Eynon, Ivy Grimes, Rebecca Harrison, Travis D. Johnson, Cliff Jones Jr., Massimo Magee, T.J. Price, Rhiannon Rasmussen
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There's a listening party for the new EP by Sheffield composer David Newman aka Autistici, which includes a collaboration with datewithdeath aka me!
It's free, and I'll be there if anybody wants to chat and listen!
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Love,
Travis
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Thank you, Ell!
Thank you! :)
Thank you, Eryn! I have lots to shout about. My collection of strange stories is out next month, my new album of strange music is out now, the edition of Frtitz Leiber's 'Conjure Wife' that I edited is out on the 20th.
Much more!
Links for the curious: linktr.ee/travisdjohns...
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It played dead, as they do. But when I kneeled close, I saw its eyes were open. Watching. And its lips moved in something almost like counting. It had been there, I realized, every morning. Waiting for me to kneel.
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I'm from rural Florida and was a keen outdoorsman in my younger days, so the only non-human animals that frighten me are feral Eurasian swine. I've been treed by a pack of them. Terrifying. Could make for a good story.
Henry Kuttner's "The Graveyard Rats" is very scary.
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Best really depends on the story, I think. A mule is a major character in my novel in progress. My new book of short stories uses snails as an image—but the snails are also the stars.
I always loved the talking severed dog's head in @kkoja.bsky.social 's "Impermanent Mercies".
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Hello! I'm Travis. I have been told that my brand is Southern Gothic fabulism and Gothic ecology.
Most of what I write is set in set forests.
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Also, that's wonderful that 'When Darkness Loves Us' is your go-to rec!
Thank you for sharing!
A curated list of 55 books spanning the 12th to 21st centuries.
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Working on this big painting as 2024 wraps up!
proof copy of BLOOD GARLANDS
Tremendous thanks to @ivygrimes.bsky.social for the blurb!
The book will be available April 21, wherever books are sold!
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The Song in the Well
Another gorgeous tiny piece of fiction by Rebecca Harrison! You can read it in just a couple of minutes, but you’ll read it again!
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That's because he's father of the bride.
Thank you, Mary! Last time I shared the interview I conducted with the great @ivygrimes.bsky.social
This time I'll share her interview of me:
ivygrimes.substack.com/p/interview-...
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I won't claim to have subverted character tropes in any terribly meaningful way. My main character is a small, mixed-raced woman in what's essentially a fantasy-horror-western set in the Deep South. I think what I'm doing is unique, but I can point to clear antecedents.
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The horrors of ecological destruction, poverty, and labor exploitation, because I grew up poor and rural.
Also the horrors of racism, which intersect with the above. I'm white, and have not directly experienced racism. But I have borne witness.
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The protagonist of my novel in progress is of Black and Florida Cracker ancestry. She's a hunter in post-Civil War frontier Florida. She kills a lot of people. Helps other people. Her progress is an odyssey from cow country to the city and also a sort of philosophical progress.
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Hello. I'm Travis. I write strange stories.
Favourite LGBT character: I'm going to say Basil Hallward from 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'; this is controversial, but I read his relationship with Dorian as implicitly homosexual.
Black? I'll go with Ben from NotLD.
Tough choices!
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I actually slept a full 7 hours last night!
Will I make it through #HorrorWritersChat?
Rhiannon Rasmussen is confirmed as a contributor!
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