{"id":20216,"date":"2010-02-06T14:47:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T20:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?wpsc-product=orchid-edited-by-dylan-williams"},"modified":"2010-02-06T14:47:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T20:47:06","slug":"orchid-edited-by-dylan-williams","status":"publish","type":"wpsc-product","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?wpsc-product=orchid-edited-by-dylan-williams","title":{"rendered":"Orchid edited by Dylan Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And to think that I was regretting saving this one for last. After that Bogus Dead book in the middle of the week I was pretty sure nothing else was going to touch it, then along comes this book. In my opinion. there are two ways to make a great anthology. You can either have a lot of pieces, fast and furious, and you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll come away with a good impression of the book as long as the majority of them are solid, or you can have a book with only a select few, long pieces. Orchid is comprised of seven long tales adaptations of gothic stories. The only one that didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do anything for me was Poe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Raven\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mostly just because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen so many adaptations of it at this point in my life that I just don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to see it again. A personal problem of mine, granted, but that doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t change the fact that everything else in here is creepy and good. Kevin Huizenga (the back says that he \u00e2\u20ac\u0153used to do a comic book named Supermonster\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Please don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tell me that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s done, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one of the best series out there and I only just found out about it!) has the longest piece, a disturbing tale about the power of visions. Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a list of the other names, and let me know if you need and more convincing: Lark Pien &amp; Jesse Reklaw, Ben Catmull, T. Edward Bak, David Lasky, and Dylan Williams. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only $8 and I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t recommend it more highly. Get this and Bogus dead and your anthology needs for the year should be pretty much met.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_wpsc_stock":"4","_wpsc_price":"8","_wpsc_special_price":"8","_wpsc_sku":"","footnotes":""},"product_tag":[],"wpsc_product_category":[4747,5658],"wpsc-variation":[],"class_list":["post-20216","wpsc-product","type-wpsc-product","status-publish","hentry","wpsc_product_category-comics","wpsc_product_category-dylan-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/wpsc-product\/20216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/wpsc-product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/wpsc-product"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/wpsc-product\/20216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_tag&post=20216"},{"taxonomy":"wpsc_product_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwpsc_product_category&post=20216"},{"taxonomy":"wpsc-variation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwpsc-variation&post=20216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}