{"id":4150,"date":"2011-10-01T17:45:15","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T21:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=4150"},"modified":"2011-10-01T17:45:15","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T21:45:15","slug":"ive-got-the-lead-story-in-best-new-horror-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/01\/ive-got-the-lead-story-in-best-new-horror-22\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve got the lead story in Best New Horror 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just in case you didn&#8217;t read my short story<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/writing\/short-fiction\/what-will-come-after\/\"> &#8220;What Will Come After&#8221;<\/a> in  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/writing\/short-fiction\/what-will-come-after\/\">my collection<\/a> of the same name, you&#8217;ve got another chance, because it&#8217;s now the lead story in <em>Best New Horror 22<\/em> from the perceptive editor Stephen Jones. And if the thought of reading me isn&#8217;t enough of an impetus to get you to pick up a copy, you&#8217;d also get to read my betters, writers like Ramsey Campbell, Joe Lansdale, and Robert Shearman.<\/p>\n<p>This is my third appearance in one of Jones&#8217; annual roundups, as I was also reprinted in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/miscellaneous\/best-new-horror-4-1993\/\"><em>Best New Horror 4<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/writing\/short-fiction\/a-plague-on-both-your-houses\/\"><em>Best New Horror 8<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/BestNewHorror22Robinson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/BestNewHorror22Robinson-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"BestNewHorror22Robinson\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/BestNewHorror22Robinson-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/BestNewHorror22Robinson.jpg 368w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/>  <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/BestNewHorror22RunningPress.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/BestNewHorror22RunningPress-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"BestNewHorror22RunningPress\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/BestNewHorror22RunningPress-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/BestNewHorror22RunningPress.jpg 395w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Mammoth-Book-Best-Horror-Books\/dp\/1849016186\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1317505439&#038;sr=8-1\">UK edition<\/a> from Robinson (with cover art by Vincent Chong) is on the left, while the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mammoth-Book-Best-New-Horror\/dp\/0762442700\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1317505405&#038;sr=1-1\">U.S. edition<\/a> from Running Press (with cover art by Joe Roberts) is  on the right. <\/p>\n<p>I love both images equally, but I&#8217;ve got to admit that the freaky pumpkin is weirding me out  &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in case you didn&#8217;t read my short story &#8220;What Will Come After&#8221; in my collection of the same name, you&#8217;ve got another chance, because it&#8217;s now the lead story in Best New Horror 22 from the perceptive editor Stephen Jones. And if the thought of reading me isn&#8217;t enough of an impetus to get [&hellip;]<\/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":[67,29],"class_list":["post-4150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-horror","tag-my-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150","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=4150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}