Richard Kadrey

@richardkadrey.bsky.social

NYT bestselling author of the Sandman Slim series. Kadrey also plays music with the band A Demon in Fun City. he/him

Today's ambient writing music suggestion: The Air is on Fire by David Lynch and Dean Hurley. The album is a series of quiet, occasionally ominous, soundscapes. It’s like walking through an old house haunting itself with dreams and half-remembered songs.

the cloudy cover of The Air is on Fire

I don’t usually trash other people’s work, but I’ll make one exception. Evil Dead Burn is by far the worst movie I’ve seen this year and the nonsensical script easily makes it the weakest ED film. I think they were going for French extreme, but it just came out cruel and stupid.

the Evil Dead Burn poster

Today's ambient writing music suggestion: Cities In Fog by Jeff Greinke. You can buy it on Bandcamp or listen on most of the major streaming platforms. It's a gorgeous, haunting album that you'll go back to often.

the moody black and white cover of Cities In Fog by Jeff Greinke

This is still happening! The Wrong Dead Guy is just $1.99. It's like if Carl Hiaasen wrote a sort of fantasy/SF weird heist thing...There might even be a monster. I'm not sure. It's hard to remember. But it's just $1.99. You read it and tell me.

The cover of the wrong dead guy

Today's ambient writing music suggestion: Cities In Fog by Jeff Greinke. You can buy it on Bandcamp or listen on most of the major streaming platforms. It's a gorgeous, haunting album that you'll go back to often.

the moody black and white cover of Cities In Fog by Jeff Greinke

This is still happening! The Wrong Dead Guy is just $1.99. It's like if Carl Hiaasen wrote a sort of fantasy/SF weird heist thing...There might even be a monster. I'm not sure. It's hard to remember. But it's just $1.99. You read it and tell me.

The cover of the wrong dead guy

I'm doing notes and outlines by hand again, mostly with a Sharpie medium felt tip marker in a Moleskine notebook. I'm not in love with Moleskines, but it's what I had lying around. I'd forgotten how much I enjoy writing by hand.

a pen lying on an open notebook

I'm doing notes and outlines by hand again, mostly with a Sharpie medium felt tip marker in a Moleskine notebook. I'm not in love with Moleskines, but it's what I had lying around. I'd forgotten how much I enjoy writing by hand.

a pen lying on an open notebook

I know I'm late to this particular party, but until a couple of weeks ago I didn't know that Val Lewton even wrote novels. This is the first one I've managed to track down, but I'll be looking for more.

No Bed of her Own, a Val Lewton pulp novel