{"id":6396,"date":"2009-12-22T17:29:46","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T22:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=6396"},"modified":"2009-12-22T17:29:46","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T22:29:46","slug":"twas-the-night-before-cthulhu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/twas-the-night-before-cthulhu\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Twas the Night Before Cthulhu&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ryun Patterson of the <em>Bookgasm<\/em> site\/blog (slogan: &#8220;reading material to get excited about&#8221;) has reviewed <em>&#8216;Twas the Night Before Christmas<\/em> as you&#8217;ve never seen it reviewed before. Excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Descriptions of human sacrifice and the power of blood magic are commonplace throughout history, but one &#8212; Clement Clarke Moore\u2019s \u2018TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS &#8212; takes place on the eve of a holiday that most consider a time of joy, happiness and generosity. This makes a poem that would be unsettling in any circumstances an intense, dark and enduring tale of supernatural horror.<\/p>\n<p>Set on the eve of the eponymous Christian feast day, the book begins innocently enough, with a desperately poor family bedding down for the night in their rodent-infested hovel&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Despite its age, \u2018TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS is a sure favorite for fans of supernatural horror, but because of its intensity and subject matter, it\u2019s a work best read safely away from the Yuletide season &#8212; it can inspire dreams that are far more unsettling than sugar plums.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read it all <a title=\"Bookgasm: 'Review' of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas'\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bookgasm.com\/reviews\/horror\/twas-the-night-before-christmas\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryun Patterson of the Bookgasm site\/blog (slogan: &#8220;reading material to get excited about&#8221;) has reviewed &#8216;Twas the Night Before Christmas as you&#8217;ve never seen it reviewed before. Excerpt: Descriptions of human sacrifice and the power of blood magic are commonplace throughout history, but one &#8212; Clement Clarke Moore\u2019s \u2018TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS &#8212; takes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37,266,713],"tags":[27,645,1554,1555],"class_list":{"0":"post-6396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-onlineworld","7":"category-book-reviews-writing_cat","8":"category-humor-writing_cat","9":"tag-christmas","10":"tag-satire","11":"tag-twas-the-night-before-christmas","12":"tag-bookgasm","13":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kZSG-1Fa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6396"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6401,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6396\/revisions\/6401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}