{"id":52401,"date":"2025-08-30T13:51:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T20:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=52401"},"modified":"2025-08-30T13:51:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T20:51:25","slug":"120-murders-edited-by-nick-mamatas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/08\/30\/120-murders-edited-by-nick-mamatas\/","title":{"rendered":"120 Murders edited by Nick Mamatas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:124,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/aa179741-6167-4e1a-875c-dba2b34d9059&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>Book 49 of 2025: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/aa179741-6167-4e1a-875c-dba2b34d9059\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anthology of dark, noir-ish fiction inspired by the music (and memories) of the &#8217;90s alternative scene. My favorites were Veronica Schanoes&#8217;s &#8220;Wendy, Growing Up&#8221;, Alex Jennings&#8217;s &#8220;We&#8217;ve Been Had&#8221;, Brian Francis Slattery&#8217;s &#8220;Never Let Me Down&#8221;, Silvia Moreno-Garcia&#8217;s &#8220;Superstition&#8221;, and Cyan Katz&#8217;s &#8220;The Show Must Go On&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Two additional notes: This is the debut publication for Cyan, whom I&#8217;ve known since we were both running around in the 90&#8217;s alternative scene in Anchorage, Alaska, and I&#8217;m thrilled for them; and I&#8217;m sorely tempted to make a playlist\/&#8221;mixtape&#8221; of the inspirational tracks for all the stories in this anthology.<\/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\/2025\/08\/IMG_4757.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding 120 Murders.\" title=\"IMG_4757.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"749\" height=\"562\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#x1f4da; 49\/2025: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: Favorites by Veronica Schanoes, Alex Jennings, Brian Francis Slattery, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and Cyan Katz.<\/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":[5846,3429,6936,6933,6935,6934],"class_list":["post-52401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","tag-alex-jennings","tag-brian-francis-slattery","tag-cyan-katz","tag-nick-mamatas","tag-silvia-moreno-garcia","tag-veronica-schanoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52401","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=52401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52402,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52401\/revisions\/52402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}