{"id":10,"date":"2007-07-26T13:12:21","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T03:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/07\/26\/scream-ann-scream-for-your-life\/"},"modified":"2007-08-03T11:30:41","modified_gmt":"2007-08-03T01:30:41","slug":"scream-ann-scream-for-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/07\/26\/scream-ann-scream-for-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Scream, Ann, scream for your life!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An casual visit to a remainder store yesterday resulted in some Kingly finds. One was a copy of Russell Blackford&#8217;s <em>Kong Reborn<\/em>, a sequel to the original <em>King Kong<\/em> film. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.users.bigpond.com\/russellblackford\/\">Blackford<\/a> is an excellent genre writer and I was glad to find this book, which has hitherto eluded my grasp.<\/p>\n<p>The other find was also Kong-related: a newish edition of Delos W. Lovelace&#8217;s novelisation of the 1933 film, first published in 1932 and thus one of the first examples of a film tie-in novel. I already have a copy of the novel, which was closely based on Edgar Wallace and Merian C. Cooper&#8217;s original story. In fact I&#8217;ve had <em>that<\/em> copy since the 1960s. So why buy another, you may ask? Well, it only cost me $2 and I loved the cover &#8212; a superbly rendered image of the Ape King. <\/p>\n<p><center><a href='http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/lovelace-kongcover.jpg' title='Kong novel cover'><img src='http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/lovelace-kongcover.jpg' alt='Kong novel cover' \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The book contains other rather spectacular full-colour illustrations by various artists, including Kong fighting the giant snake in his cave, painted in typically muscular fashion by Frank Frazetta. The above cover illustration is by Jon Foster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An casual visit to a remainder store yesterday resulted in some Kingly finds. One was a copy of Russell Blackford&#8217;s Kong Reborn, a sequel to the original King Kong film. Blackford is an excellent genre writer and I was glad &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/07\/26\/scream-ann-scream-for-your-life\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,12,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}