{"id":26225,"date":"2022-10-26T14:37:41","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T21:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=26225"},"modified":"2022-11-12T14:40:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T22:40:21","slug":"%f0%9f%93%9a-the-howling-man-by-charles-beaumont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/10\/26\/%f0%9f%93%9a-the-howling-man-by-charles-beaumont\/","title":{"rendered":"&#x1f4da; The Howling Man by Charles Beaumont"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1438,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/b37f8073-7f0f-4f99-8ca7-cb8b4742a825&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>48\/2022 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/b37f8073-7f0f-4f99-8ca7-cb8b4742a825\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Overall not a bad collection of short stories, and I can see why the book got the high-profile list of authors to do introductions and provide their memories of Beaumont. However, many of the stories haven&#8217;t aged well; they may have been &#8220;dated but still worthwhile&#8221; when the collection was published in the late &#8217;80s, but forty years further on, they&#8217;re just &#8220;dated and cringeworthy&#8221;. Don&#8217;t regret reading it, but definitely won&#8217;t be keeping it in my collection, either.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/cb_thm-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Michael holding The Howling Man\" title=\"cb_thm.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t regret reading it, but definitely won&#8217;t be keeping it in my collection, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2049],"tags":[4174],"class_list":["post-26225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","tag-charles-beaumont"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}