{"id":43414,"date":"2020-11-09T05:16:35","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T02:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=43414"},"modified":"2020-11-09T05:16:35","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T02:16:35","slug":"blochs-the-ghost-writer-1940","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/11\/09\/blochs-the-ghost-writer-1940\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloch&#8217;s &#8220;The Ghost-Writer&#8221; (1940)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Horror Babble<\/em> is starting on the weird stories of Robert Bloch. Four stories have been read so far, and made freely available on YouTube, with the fourth being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2t5l34Hr8CE\">&#8220;The Ghost-Writer&#8221;<\/a> (1940). The tale of&#8230; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>an ambitious weird fiction writer, whose insatiable desire for success leads to his doom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/ghost.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/ghost.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"822\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-43416\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Judging by a quick look at it in <em>Weird Tales<\/em>, though it obviously has traces of the Lovecraft-Bloch relationship, it doesn&#8217;t count as a &#8220;Lovecraft as a character&#8221; story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horror Babble is starting on the weird stories of Robert Bloch. Four stories have been read so far, and made &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/11\/09\/blochs-the-ghost-writer-1940\/\">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":[11,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraft-as-character","category-podcasts-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43414","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=43414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}