{"id":4523,"date":"2024-10-02T08:56:38","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T07:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/?p=4523"},"modified":"2024-11-19T09:20:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T09:20:00","slug":"the-dead-of-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/02\/the-dead-of-night\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dead of Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bought for \u00a31 at the local hospital\u2019s League of Friends bookshop. Onions is one of the great twentieth-century ghost story writers. This volume does include <em>The Beckoning Fair One<\/em> which Robert Aickmam described as \u201cone of the (possibly) six great masterpieces in the field&#8221;. There\u2019s an intense, manic quality to Onions\u2019 writing that is incredibly effective.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve read about half the stories in this collection before and will undoubtedly take a look at the ones unfamiliar to me. (Regretfully, my reading has drifted away from ghost stories recently!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bought for \u00a31 at the local hospital\u2019s League of Friends bookshop. Onions is one of the great twentieth-century ghost story writers. This volume does include The Beckoning Fair One which Robert Aickmam described as \u201cone of the (possibly) six great masterpieces in the field&#8221;. There\u2019s an intense, manic quality to Onions\u2019 writing that is incredibly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-microblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4523"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4766,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523\/revisions\/4766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}