{"id":974,"date":"2008-06-13T09:14:55","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T23:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/06\/13\/hiram-grange\/"},"modified":"2008-06-13T11:48:04","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T01:48:04","slug":"hiram-grange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/06\/13\/hiram-grange\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiram Grange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artist Malcolm McClinton has sent Backbrain a sneak preview of his cover art for the first in a graphic novel series featuring Hiram Grange, who is an agent for the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs &#8212; a secret organisation run by the Freemasons.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/hiram.jpg\" title=\"hiram grange village of the damned cover\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/hiram.jpg\" alt=\"hiram grange village of the damned cover\" height=\"664\" width=\"440\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This first book is called <em>Village of the Damned<\/em> and the series is coming out through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shroudmagazine.com\" target=\"_blank\">Shroud Publishing<\/a>. McClinton describes it as &#8220;visual, raw, grittily violent, more than a little seedy, with supernatural      monsters, hot chicks &#8230; and very very cool&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Publisher Timothy Deal describes Hiram Grange as an anti-hero &#8212; &#8220;an awkward and gangly unlikely hero who suffers addictions to absinthe, opium, and sex.  A man as flawed and complex as he is capable and deadly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our primary goal was to create a five-novella series for Hiram, each detailing a separate but connected supernatural adventure.  In each novella, Hiram investigates areas of confluence&#8211;geographic regions that are hotbeds of supernatural activity.  In an area of confluence, Hiram may encounter the undead, lycanthropes, vampires, or any number of otherworldly entities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The five books in the first &#8220;season&#8221; of the <em>Hiram Grange Chronicles<\/em> are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Book One:  Hiram Grange and the Village of the Damned, Tim Deal<\/li>\n<li>Book Two:  Hiram Grange and the Hitler Gene, Scott Carr<\/li>\n<li>Book Three: Hiram Grange and the Digital Eucharist, Robert Davies<\/li>\n<li>Book Four:  Hiram Grange and the Chosen One, Kevin Lucia<\/li>\n<li>Book Five:  Hiram Grange and the Nymphs of Krakow, Richard Wright<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u2022 Malcolm McClinton&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/hangedmanstudio.blogspot.com\/\">blog<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/shroudpublishing.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">More information<\/a> on Shroud Publishing and the Hiram Grange series<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist Malcolm McClinton has sent Backbrain a sneak preview of his cover art for the first in a graphic novel series featuring Hiram Grange, who is an agent for the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs &#8212; a secret organisation run by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/06\/13\/hiram-grange\/\">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":[13,26,3,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974"}],"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=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}