{"id":3624,"date":"2011-11-19T07:29:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T04:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=3624"},"modified":"2011-11-19T07:29:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-19T04:29:43","slug":"the-weird-a-compendium-of-strange-and-dark-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2011\/11\/19\/the-weird-a-compendium-of-strange-and-dark-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today in the UK both <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2\/c3f5cf48-1040-11e1-8010-00144feabdc0.html\">The Financial Times<\/a><\/em> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2011\/nov\/18\/beware-the-weird-anthology\"><em>Guardian<\/em> Books<\/a> notice the new wrist-breaker anthology <em>The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories<\/em>.  Amazon UK currently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Weird-Compendium-Strange-Dark-Stories\/dp\/1848876874\/\">has the book<\/a> used for as low as \u00a310.<\/p>\n<p>It weighs in at 4lbs, and 750,000 words.  So&#8230; can I get a Kindle version?  No, of course not.  What a waste of great publicity.  All those potential sales from newspaper reviews just flushed down the drain or diverted to Pirate Bay, because there&#8217;s no Kindle version.  Seriously, do we need a mass &#8220;one-star review&#8221; campaign on Amazon, to <em>force<\/em> publishers to give readers Kindle versions of new books?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the chronological anthology looks interesting (even if the only Lovecraft in it is &#8220;The Dunwich Horror&#8221;, often regarded as a failure), and <em>Weird Fiction Review<\/em> has <a href=\"http:\/\/weirdfictionreview.com\/2011\/11\/the-weird-a-compendium-of-strange-and-dark-stories-table-of-contents\/\">a handy table of contents<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in the UK both The Financial Times and Guardian Books notice the new wrist-breaker anthology The Weird: A Compendium &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2011\/11\/19\/the-weird-a-compendium-of-strange-and-dark-stories\/\">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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624","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=3624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}