{"id":23741,"date":"2015-12-02T12:16:24","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T20:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=23741"},"modified":"2015-12-02T12:16:24","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T20:16:24","slug":"an-early-look-at-vins-new-novel-the-miskatonic-manuscript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/02\/an-early-look-at-vins-new-novel-the-miskatonic-manuscript\/","title":{"rendered":"An early look at Vin&#8217;s new novel: The Miskatonic Manuscript"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2015\/12\/02\/an-early-look-at-vins-new-novel-the-miskatonic-manuscript\/vin_miskatonicmanuscript_120215\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23742\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Vin_MiskatonicManuscript_120215-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Vin_MiskatonicManuscript_120215\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-23742\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>The Miskatonic Manuscript<\/i> by Vin Surprynowicz isn&#8217;t officially out yet. Release date is December 11, but I just received a beautiful hardcover review copy.<\/p>\n<p>The teaser on the dust jacket says in part:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What if Rhode Island horror writer H.P. Lovecraft didn\u2019t just imagine the \u201cresonator\u201d in his 1920 short story \u201cFrom Beyond\u201d? What if Henry Annesley actually built the machine that allowed him to see into the Sixth Dimension -\u2013 and allowed creatures from The Other Side to invade us here? &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[And] \u201cWhat if they fought a War on Drugs . . . and someone fought back?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good questions &#8212; especially that second one.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second in the adventures of rare book dealers Matthew Hunter and Chatal Stevens, who you may have enjoyed in <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00RNI9UVW\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B00RNI9UVW&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=livifree07-20&#038;linkId=YXCM4YWPLCIGQ53S\" target=\"_blank\"><i>The Testament of James<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Having just returned a very good book (one of Terry Pratchett&#8217;s final novels, <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0062009516\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0062009516&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=livifree07-20&#038;linkId=BHGCJSGMBXE7MROI\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Dodger<\/i><\/a>) to the library this morning, I&#8217;ll get right on this and have a review soon.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and the censorship on the sexy lady&#8217;s backside (which is more visible when you click to embiggenate) is mine. Didn&#8217;t figure The Duffys would want nekkid butts on their website. But the classic Boris Vallejo art (and Carl Bussjaeger cover design) is on full display <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vinsuprynowicz.com\/?p=2514\" target=\"_blank\">over at Vin&#8217;s (and sometimes The Brunette&#8217;s) blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Back with a full review closer to the eleventh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Miskatonic Manuscript by Vin Surprynowicz isn&#8217;t officially out yet. Release date is December 11, but I just received a beautiful hardcover review copy. The teaser on the dust jacket says in part: What if Rhode Island horror writer H.P. Lovecraft didn\u2019t just imagine the \u201cresonator\u201d in his 1920 short story \u201cFrom Beyond\u201d? What if Henry Annesley actually built the machine that allowed him to see into the Sixth Dimension -\u2013 and allowed creatures from The Other Side to invade us here? &#8230; [And] \u201cWhat if they fought a War on Drugs . . . and someone fought back?\u201d Good&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/02\/an-early-look-at-vins-new-novel-the-miskatonic-manuscript\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An early look at Vin&#8217;s new novel: The Miskatonic Manuscript<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-war-on-some-drugs","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}