{"id":1801,"date":"2012-04-01T22:16:54","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T02:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1801"},"modified":"2012-04-01T22:16:54","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T02:16:54","slug":"ramsey-campbells-the-grin-of-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1801","title":{"rendered":"Ramsey Campbell&#8217;s &#8216;The Grin of the Dark&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/The-Grin-of-the-Dark.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1802\" title=\"The Grin of the Dark\" src=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/The-Grin-of-the-Dark.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/The-Grin-of-the-Dark.jpeg 265w, http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/The-Grin-of-the-Dark-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This book shocked me. I had no idea how Cambpell would rope me in with mundane human drama of an academic struggling to publish his research, moving in with his girlfriend who has a seven-year old and excessively wealth parents who hate him. And in this context, an unspeakable evil will venture forth into our world, latched to the legend of an obscure silent-film star whose antics caused his movies to be banned. Campbell&#8217;s otherworldly view of the internet is just off enough for me to forgive its somewhat awkward role in the story&#8217;s conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>The true gift is the nameless, soul-destroying dread that Campbell conjures. This has nothing to do with how creepy clowns are, that&#8217;s just the icing on the cake. I&#8217;ve never been that frightened of clowns, nor did I seek them out. Now, I&#8217;m definitely frightened of clowns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book shocked me. I had no idea how Cambpell would rope me in with mundane human drama of an academic struggling to publish his research, moving in with his girlfriend who has a seven-year old and excessively wealth parents &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1801\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50],"tags":[1146,1148,332,1387,1388],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1803,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions\/1803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}