{"id":330,"date":"2011-02-13T22:54:38","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T03:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/"},"modified":"2011-02-21T13:39:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T18:39:21","slug":"the-man-who-would-be-vampire","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/short-fiction\/the-man-who-would-be-vampire\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man Who Would Be Vampire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back, this short story, published in a 1988 issue of the horror magazine <em>Eldritch Tales<\/em>, seemed a holdover of the many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/comic-books\/\">comic-book stories<\/a> I was writing for DC Comics in the same decade. My stories for <em>House of Mystery<\/em>, <em>House of Secrets<\/em>, etc. were short shockers with twist endings, a way for a reader to while away a few minutes. But few of them now seem memorable to me.<\/p>\n<p>An old man forces a vampire to feast upon him, supposedly to be made immortal &#8230; but actually in order to exact revenge in a manner you weren&#8217;t supposed to see coming.<\/p>\n<p>It seemed like a competent enough piece when I wrote it, but this by-the-numbers sort of story was what I was trying to break away from by writing my next story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/short-fiction\/the-day-he-bought-his-last-hot-dog-at-coney-island\/\">&#8220;The Day He Bought His Last Hot Dog at Coney Island.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back, this short story, published in a 1988 issue of the horror magazine Eldritch Tales, seemed a holdover of the many comic-book stories I was writing for DC Comics in the same decade. My stories for House of Mystery, House of Secrets, etc. were short shockers with twist endings, a way for a reader [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331,"parent":13,"menu_order":17,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-330","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/330\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}