{"id":1428,"date":"2013-06-11T07:36:52","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T07:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2019-07-08T19:55:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T19:55:02","slug":"the-art-of-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/the-art-of-horror\/","title":{"rendered":"THE ART OF HORROR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"excerpttext\"><i><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1882\" src=\"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/theartofhorror.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"247\" \/>A celebration of frightfully fearful images, compiled by some of the biggest and most respected names working in the genre. From early engravings, via dust jackets, book illustrations, pulp magazines, movie posters, comic books and original paintings, to today&#8217;s artists working entirely in the digital realm, there are over 500 images presented in <\/i>The Art of Horror<i>, from the shockingly lurid to the hauntingly beautiful. Vampires, werewolves, zombies, ghosts, devils, serial killers, alien invaders, and many more: every aspect of the genre is represented in all its gory glory. Multiple award-winning editor Stephen Jones and his stellar team of over 100 contributors\u2014both writers and artists\u2014have sourced visuals from archives and their own private collections, ensuring an unprecedented selection (including many rarities and a number of previously unpublished pieces) which, alongside the authoritative text, builds into a unique and fascinating history of horror. With an exclusive Foreword by Neil Gaiman, the award-winning author of <\/i>The Sandman<i> comic book series, and the novels <\/i>American Gods<i>, <\/i>The Graveyard Book<i>, and <\/i>The Ocean at the End of the Lane<i>. <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I penned the Halloween chapter for this gorgeous book, which won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Non-fiction and was nominated for the 2016 Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"bookinfo-sj\">Edited by Stephen Jones <\/span> <span class=\"bookinfo\"><br \/>\nForeword by Neil Gaiman<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"col col_shortcode\"><a class=\"maxbutton-28 maxbutton maxbutton-artofhorror\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Art-Horror-Illustrated-History\/dp\/1495009130\/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=art+of+horror+jones&amp;qid=1562613077&amp;s=gateway&amp;sr=8-3\"><span class='mb-text'>Buy Now<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(a) Elephant Book Company Limited\/Applause Theatre &amp; Cinema Books\/Hal Leonard, USA\u00a0\u2022\u00a0hc\u00a0\u2022\u00a0$40.00<br \/>\nISBN 978-1-4950-0913-6<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-979 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/bsawinner.png\" alt=\"bsawinner\" width=\"150\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/bsawinner.png 150w, https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/bsawinner-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/bsawinner-80x80.png 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A celebration of frightfully fearful images, compiled by some of the biggest and most respected names working in the genre. From early engravings, via dust jackets, book illustrations, pulp magazines, movie posters, comic books and original paintings, to today&#8217;s artists working entirely in the digital realm, there are over 500 images presented in The Art<a href=\"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/the-art-of-horror\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;[ Read More ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2154,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions\/2154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}