[SF/F/H Link Post] The Best SF/F Books of 2015; Spooky Reads; Blade Runner Re-Purposed; Realistic Disney Villains

Interviews & Profiles

• My Bookish Ways interviews Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman.
• Bull Spec interviews Taylor Anderson.
• The New York Times interviews Stephen King.
• Bull Spec interviews Marko Kloos.
• Civilian Reader interviews Nathan Garrison.
• The Boskone Blog interviews Richard Anderson.
• The Book Editor Show interviews M. Todd Gallowglas.
• Buzzy Mag interviews John Ringo.

News

• Book View Cafe Blog announces The Reckoners by Doranna Durgin.
• Now available as an eBook: The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle, in a fine deluxe edition.

Crowd Funding

• Visions from Punktown: A comic book anthology.
• Support The Functional Nerds Podcast creating Podcasts.
• Dark Lore.
• Funtastical Bedtime Stories Anthology by Joshua Palmatier.

Articles

• A.C. Wise on Monster Mash – 4 Horror Anthologies.
• Alasdair Stuart on Fantasycon Follow Up: Your Audio Fiction Cheat Sheet.
• Andrew Liptak lists 6 Horror Collections from the Original Masters of the Unsettling.
• Angry Robot Books on Our Favourite Halloween Scares.
• Bibliotropic on Without Light or Guide by T. Frohock.
• Gail Z. Martin on Selling Your Soul.
• GamesRadar on Worst To Best: Frankenstein Movies. [via Divers and Sundry]
• Howard Andrew Jones on The Coming of Conan Re-Read: “The Vale of Lost Women”.
• Ian Sales on Writing and how to.
• James Nicoll’s reading project is A Year of Tanith Lee.
• Julie Czerneda on I Think I’ll Call It Bob.
• Juliet E. McKenna on Fantasycon 2015 – the good, the great and the startling.
• Kim Newman on Lesser-Known Spooky Picks from The British Film collection.
• LitReactor on 10 Spooky Horror Stories for Halloween Night.
• M.J. Kelly on 3 Ways The Martian Transcends A Boring Style.
• Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2015.
• Smart Girls love SciFi offers an SFR Reading List for the Afterlife.
• Sue Granquist on Pride, Prejudice, Zombies and Seth Grahame-Smith.
• Tip the Wink on Top 10 by Alan Moore.
• The Washington Post on Michael Dirda’s picks for Halloween chillers. [via Paul Di Filippo]

Art

• The art of horror – in pictures.
• Dragonborn Shapeshift by MariusBota.
• Halloween2015 by B03DI.
• Maintenance Bay, Paul Pepera.
• Aex, Yang Bilong.
• October Zombies set #1, steve lord.
• Kunkka and Tidehunter, Konstantin Turovec.
• Cinder, Lucas St. Martin.
• forgotten dragon, Johannes Schwitzky.
• Lost in Space, Lim Chin Yang.
• Landspeeder, Tysen Johnson.
• Task Force: Storm Breaker, Isaac Hannaford.
• Rise of the Pumpkins, Jason Nguyen.
• Hauntingly Realistic Renditions of Popular Disney Villains.

More Fun Stuff

• 50 Page Fridays: H.P. Lovecraft.
• Repurposed images from Blade Runner. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Infographic: Jason’s Body Count.
• Senegal’s Trash Transformed into Afrofuturist Haute Couture. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Harrison Ford Dressed As A Hot Dog To Talk to Jimmy Kimmel’s Princess Leia.
• Turner Classic Movies WEekend Horror lineup. [via Andrew Porter]
• Ansible 340, November 2015.
• Beware the Hairy Mango #299: “Bar Juice” by Matthew Sanborn Smith.
• Darth Vader vs. A “Hoverboard”.