{"id":11174,"date":"2011-10-12T00:01:46","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T04:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=11174"},"modified":"2011-10-11T14:26:01","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T18:26:01","slug":"let-us-speak-of-horror-novels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/10\/12\/let-us-speak-of-horror-novels\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Us Speak Of Horror Novels"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love me some horror.<\/p>\n

But I gotta be honest: I haven’t read much great horror recently. In part because it’s harder to find — like I mentioned yesterday<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, you don’t see it with its own section anymore.<\/p>\n

I want to read some kick-ass horror again.<\/p>\n

So, recommend a horror book. Or, if you prefer, the oeuvre of an entire horror author. (I for one will, any day of the week, recommend the horror stylings of Robert McCammon. Uh, SWAN SONG<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, anyone?)<\/p>\n

Here’s the key, though. I don’t want to hear only the recommendation. I want to know why<\/em>. I want to know why it’s scary and, beyond that, why it works for you as a great story. Let’s crack this nut a little wider. What makes for effective horror fiction? Talk about it. Open up your Hellmouth and belch out some diabolical troofs.<\/p>\n

And if you don’t read horror: why not?<\/p>\n

Get to it, little monsters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I want to read some kick-ass horror again. So, recommend a horror book. Or, if you prefer, the oeuvre of an entire horror author. Here’s the key, though. I don’t want to hear only the recommendation. I want to know why. I want to know why it’s scary and, beyond that, why it works for you as a great story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[71],"class_list":{"0":"post-11174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","7":"tag-fiction","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-2Ue","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11176,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11174\/revisions\/11176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}