{"id":23525,"date":"2019-03-07T06:11:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T03:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=23525"},"modified":"2019-03-07T06:11:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T03:11:02","slug":"the-spine-chillers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/03\/07\/the-spine-chillers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spine Chillers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British comedy writer Ben Clark&#8217;s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2C1L3qY\">The Spine Chillers<\/a><\/em> is a short graphic novel that treats readers to yet another fictional Lovecraft. Only just released, it&#8217;s getting good reviews which say it&#8217;s a laugh-out-loud comedy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/attic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/attic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"724\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23526\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The set-up is that H.P. Lovecraft lives in a grotty boarding-house with Edgar Allen Poe and Ambrose Bierce. <em>Something<\/em> is hiding in the attic.  Arthur Conan Doyle (<em>Sherlock Holmes<\/em>) turns up to investigate. Sadly the art is in child-o-vision. Which won&#8217;t entice many to part with a hefty \u00a314 for it in paper, but apparently the writing is brilliant.  One suspects that it&#8217;s a little bit more of a pitch for a TV series or movie than it is a graphic novel.  Still, it&#8217;s another in the small crop of recent graphic novels featuring Lovecraft as a character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British comedy writer Ben Clark&#8217;s The Spine Chillers is a short graphic novel that treats readers to yet another fictional &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/03\/07\/the-spine-chillers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts","category-new-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}