#and that he takes such absolute literary-fiction prowess and applies it to my beloved lowbrow monster chiller horror theatre business

[marypsue]

Honestly, Stephen Graham Jones' writing is just generally fantastic. I'm rereading My Heart Is A Chainsaw because it's good, and all of the levels just the cold open alone is operating on...how every seemingly throwaway line of dialogue actually has at least two meanings, how every sentence, every word, is as carefully and deliberately chosen and placed as the tiles in a mosaic...and the fact that while it's doing its metaphorical, literary heavy lifting, and foreshadowing every major plot point in the book, it also manages to conjure up an effective horror-movie atmosphere and deliver multiple fakeout jumpscares before abruptly and viscerally hitting you with the real thing...fuckin' masterful, man.