{"id":10206,"date":"2010-01-16T07:03:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T15:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=10206"},"modified":"2010-01-21T16:28:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T00:28:06","slug":"a-valentine-from-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/a-valentine-from-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"A Valentine From Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/heart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10207\" title=\"heart\" src=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/heart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/heart.jpg 200w, http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/heart-99x150.jpg 99w, http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/heart-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A while back I read\u00a0<strong>Heart-Shaped Box<\/strong> by Joe Hill. Joe is an important new voice in horror, having won a Bram Stoker award for his short story collection <strong>20th Century Ghosts<\/strong>. This is his first novel, and it is a doozy. The villain is a former CIA interrogator who learned hypnosis and mind control tricks while in Vietnam, and now that he\u2019s dead, he can really get into your head. The action is fast-paced and never lets up, and Slasher fans will appreciate the role the protagonist\u2019s dogs play in this story. If it reads a bit like Stephen King, that is natural, as Joe is Stephen King&#8217;s son, and grew up listening to his father&#8217;s stories.<br \/>\nSee review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/03\/18\/magazine\/18hill.t.html\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I read\u00a0Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill. Joe is an important new voice in horror, having won a Bram Stoker award for his short story collection 20th Century Ghosts. This is his first novel, and it is a doozy. The villain is a former CIA interrogator who learned hypnosis and mind control tricks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror","category-other-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10206"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10500,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10206\/revisions\/10500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}