{"id":15214,"date":"2014-07-02T19:51:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T23:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=15214"},"modified":"2014-07-02T19:51:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T23:51:33","slug":"in-which-my-imagination-is-neat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/02\/in-which-my-imagination-is-neat\/","title":{"rendered":"In which my imagination is neat"},"content":{"rendered":"

In today’s Washington Post<\/a>, Michael Dirda<\/a> recommended a grab bag of books from horror and specialty presses—and one of them was The Monkey\u2019s Other Paw<\/em><\/a>, a recent anthology which contained a story of mine.<\/p>\n

Here what he had to say.<\/p>\n

“The Monkey\u2019s Other Paw” (paperback, $13.95), edited by Luis Ortiz for Nonstop Press, offers stories in which 13 contemporary writers re-imagine or pay tribute to the work of various classic horror authors. Don Webb\u2019s \u201cThe Doom That Came to Devil\u2019s Reef\u201d opens quietly: \u201cAmong Lovecraft\u2019s papers at Brown University was a large manila envelope containing . . .\u201d and then reveals what may be the true origins of \u201cThe Shadow Over Innsmouth.\u201d Scott Edelman\u2019s \u201cA Most Extraordinary Man\u201d neatly imagines a sequel to Saki\u2019s most famous and witty shocker, \u201cThe Open Window.\u201d Set against the loneliness of New York City, and in homage to Dylan Thomas\u2019s \u201cThe Followers,\u201d Paul Di Filippo\u2019s \u201cGhostless\u201d focuses on a spectral matchmaking service for ghosts and mortals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nice to be name-checked—and positively—by a Pulitzer Prize winner!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In today’s Washington Post, Michael Dirda recommended a grab bag of books from horror and specialty presses—and one of them was The Monkey\u2019s Other Paw, a recent anthology which contained a story of mine. Here what he had to say. “The Monkey\u2019s Other Paw” (paperback, $13.95), edited by Luis Ortiz for Nonstop Press, offers stories […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[490,29],"class_list":["post-15214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-michael-dirda","tag-my-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=15214"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15220,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15214\/revisions\/15220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}