{"id":16238,"date":"2020-10-06T15:33:02","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T19:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/?p=16238"},"modified":"2020-10-06T15:33:02","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T19:33:02","slug":"halloween-countdown-day-6-a-thing-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/?p=16238","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Countdown: Day 6 &#8211; A thing like this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/img\/201004\/1006.jpg\" width=\"579\" height=\"475\" title=\"Diseased abomination escapes military facility.\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>When I opened the door into the elm-arched blackness a gust of insufferably foetid wind almost flung me prostrate. I choked in nausea, and for a second scarcely saw the dwarfed, humped figure on the steps. The summons had been Edward\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, but who was this foul, stunted parody? Where had Edward had time to go? His ring had sounded only a second before the door opened.<\/p>\n<p>The caller had on one of Edward\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s overcoats\u00e2\u20ac\u201dits bottom almost touching the ground, and its sleeves rolled back yet still covering the hands. On the head was a slouch hat pulled low, while a black silk muffler concealed the face. As I stepped unsteadily forward, the figure made a semi-liquid sound like that I had heard over the telephone\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00e2\u20ac\u0153glub . . . glub . . .\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; H.P. Lovecraft, &#8220;The Thing on the Doorstep&#8221; (1933)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended listening:<\/strong> Finitribe &#8211; Monster in the House (from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Finitribe-Monster-In-The-House\/master\/77455\">a 1990 single<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_svekiF9PPc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I know I run the risk of alienating some folks by leaning hard on real life political horrors this time round, but I don&#8217;t give a flying fuck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I opened the door into the elm-arched blackness a gust of insufferably foetid wind almost flung me prostrate. I choked in nausea, and for a second scarcely saw the dwarfed, humped figure on the steps. The summons had been Edward\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, but who was this foul, stunted parody? Where had Edward had time to go? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[668,15],"tags":[426],"class_list":["post-16238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-countdown","category-music","tag-illness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16239,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16238\/revisions\/16239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}