{"id":1111,"date":"2016-10-01T19:44:38","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T14:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.gregoryfrost.com\/?p=1111"},"modified":"2016-10-01T19:44:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T14:44:38","slug":"ripping-yarns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/?p=1111","title":{"rendered":"Ripping Yarns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2019Tis the season, it seems, for the return of Jack the Ripper, that figure cloaked in fog and mystery that never seems to stray far from our imaginations. A lot of writers of every stripe have written stories about him, including Harlan Ellison, Robert Bloch, my pal Tim Sullivan, and me for that matter\u00a0(&#8220;From Hell Again,&#8221; a story originally penned for an earlier Ripper anthology edited by Gardner Dozois and Susan Casper). We are all in among other good company in the just-released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebigthrill.org\/2016\/09\/trend-report-jack-the-ripper-strikes-again\/\">BIG BOOK of JACK THE RIPPER, edited by Otto Penzler, and reviewed a bit on the International Thriller Writers&#8217; The Big Thrill site.<\/a>\u00a0(And when Mr. Penzler says &#8220;big&#8221; he means 1000+ pages\u2014this is <em>the<\/em> definitive gathering of stories and non-fiction pieces).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1112\" src=\"http:\/\/new.gregoryfrost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/penzler-book-e1475249248838-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"Otto Penzler: The Big Book of Jack the Ripper\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/penzler-book-e1475249248838-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/penzler-book-e1475249248838-115x150.jpg 115w, https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/penzler-book-e1475249248838.jpg 268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been Grand Guignol ya.<\/p>\n<p>-gf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2019Tis the season, it seems, for the return of Jack the Ripper, that figure cloaked in fog and mystery that never seems to stray far from our imaginations. A lot of writers of every stripe have written stories about him, including Harlan Ellison, Robert Bloch, my pal Tim Sullivan, and\u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/?p=1111\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,198,2,7],"tags":[8,226,267,36,264,265,268,266],"class_list":["post-1111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthology","category-fantasy","category-fantasy-fiction","category-words","tag-anthology","tag-fantasy-fiction","tag-harlan-ellison","tag-horror","tag-jack-the-ripper","tag-otto-penzler","tag-robert-bloch","tag-tim-sullivan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1114,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions\/1114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}