Eric Schaller

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Absolution by Jeff VanderMeer: Review by Ian Mond Absolution, Jeff VanderMeer (MCD 978-0-37461-659-6, $30.00, 464pp, hc) October 2024. While I try not to pick favourites, I have been looking forward to this month’s column (and not just because Oct…

Ian Mond's review of Absolution over at Locus. locusmag.com/2024/11/abso...

What a cracking review of issue 11 of ParSec Magazine! Especially pleasing to see @ruthejbooth.bsky.social's brilliant immigration parable The Invitation getting the plaudits it deserves.

I don’t know about you, but I’m afraid to throw out, bury, burn, or dismember dolls, all because of horror movies.

I drew this cartoon of my brother and me (as their ratty avatars) back when I was in grad school in Wisconsin and he was in grad school in Arizona. It was a gift for my mom and she had it on her office wall in Connecticut for years. Recently unearthed, and I’ve put it up on my office wall at work.

Image: A bedroom at night, a face is lit up by the glow of a phone screen displaying cat memes. On the book-cluttered bedside table, three books look on angrily. The lead book waves a large knife and says: "Nobody needs to get hurt... Let's just put the phone down, nice and slowly..." Caption: Bedside reading pile turns nasty

My cartoon for this week’s Guardian books…

Nyt two page spread for my novel Absolution includes the review with surreal graphic, sidebar of NK Jemisin's original review of Authority, and a profile piece with me, including black and white photo of me out in the marsh.

Wow. Full two-page spread for Absolution and my profile in the New York Times Book Review today. Amazing.

Why this US horror fiction writer just spent three nights with an elephant-sized piece of flesh that smells like death Professor G. Eric Schaller, a horror fiction writer and molecular biologist, was one of a team of scientists on a mission to find out more about the putrid scent of titan arum – the corpse flower.

Best heading yet about my lab’s recent research publication on the corpse flower!

YouTube video by The Road to Cormac McCarthy Lecture on Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian: Part 1

My six-part lecture series on Cormac McCarthy’s BLOOD MERIDIAN is available for free on YouTube and starts here:
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Love this. There are lots of ways progressive people can build community outside of the legislative world. (Marginalized folks have been doing it for centuries.) Fewer policy wonks, more mutual aid.

How Concerned Citizens Ran a Neo-Nazi Out of Rural Maine Before he promoted lies about Haitians eating pets in Ohio, Christopher Pohlhaus tried to build a fascist compound in America's whitest state. His neighbors had other plans.

Mira Ptacin for Atavist on the rural Maine residents who ran their Neo-Nazi out of town. magazine.atavist.com/the-crash-of...

begin | Carceral AI

New - and ever more crucial report - on carceral AI, a growing class of algorithmic and data-driven practices designed to police, incarcerate, surveil, and control people.

Recommendations, report, and beautiful artwork too!
www.carceral-ai.com Spearheaded by @dashapruss.bsky.social

Body Horror, Beauty Horror The Substance ends with voices calling out: So beautiful! We love you! You’re irreplaceable! These words are what everyone who seeks fame and attention wants to hear and can never hear enough of. Narc...

Some thoughts on the new film The Substance, the 2022 Norwegian film Sick of Myself, beauty, bodies, horror...

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