A girl is twisted in terror in the poster for the movie "I Was a Teenage Werewolf"

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Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones is not your typical werewolf book. Werewolves have been twisted, molded, and (in my opinion) maligned in popular fiction and movies. Vampires have archetypal antecedents to draw on—Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Nosferatu, for […]
A man sits at a desk in front of a typewriter and holds his head in his hands

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Genre in fiction can be a slippery beast. Sometimes I don’t know what to say when people ask me in what genre I write. I usually say that I am broadly writing in the fantasy genre. Sometimes I […]
Tiles laid out on a Scrabble board

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And now for vampire lingo… Vampires are obsessed with eternal life and their elitism, in that they have attained immortal life, and they believe that this is because they somehow deserve it. After all, not everyone who’s bitten […]
Vampire clutches his chest, reacting to the rising sun

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Killing a vampire might seem like a contradiction, since vampires are already dead, but in this case, we’ll be talking about taking the vampire off the board for good.   Legends abound regarding how to kill a vampire. […]