{"id":833,"date":"2011-02-20T10:57:11","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T15:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/"},"modified":"2011-02-24T20:59:53","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T01:59:53","slug":"best-new-horror-4-1993","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/miscellaneous\/best-new-horror-4-1993\/","title":{"rendered":"Best New Horror 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the introduction to this 1993 reprinting of my short story &#8220;The Suicide Artist&#8221; (which originally appeared in the chapbook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/books\/suicide-art\/\"><em>Suicide Art<\/em><\/a>), editors Stephen Jones and Ramsey Campbell wrote that, &#8220;as always, we lead off <em>Best New Horror<\/em> with one of the most powerful stories in the volume.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always an honor to have a story reprinted in a year&#8217;s best anthology, but to be chosen to lead off the book &#8230; well &#8230; it&#8217;s humbling.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to read the story but can&#8217;t track down a copy of <em>Best New Horror 4<\/em>, you can always get your hands on my collection <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/books\/these-words-are-haunted\/\">These Words Are Haunted<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the introduction to this 1993 reprinting of my short story &#8220;The Suicide Artist&#8221; (which originally appeared in the chapbook Suicide Art), editors Stephen Jones and Ramsey Campbell wrote that, &#8220;as always, we lead off Best New Horror with one of the most powerful stories in the volume.&#8221; It&#8217;s always an honor to have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834,"parent":818,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-833","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/833","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=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/833\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}