{"id":909,"date":"2010-12-02T01:15:59","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T01:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/?p=909"},"modified":"2019-07-08T23:11:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T23:11:55","slug":"the-lower-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/the-lower-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"THE LOWER ANIMALS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1865\" src=\"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/theloweranimals-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/theloweranimals-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/theloweranimals-768x1228.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/theloweranimals-640x1024.jpg 640w, https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/theloweranimals.jpg 1563w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/>In this prequel to the Bram Stoker Award-nominated novel <em>Malediction<\/em>, folklore professor Sam West and his young assistant Gillian Keffler discover that there may be more truth than fiction to the urban legend of a race of lizard people living beneath the streets of Los Angeles. &#8220;The Lower Animals&#8221; originally appeared in the Bram Stoker Award-nominated collection Monsters of L.A. under the title &#8220;The Urban Legend&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;&#8217;The Urban Legend&#8217; was simply brilliant. It took the legend of a race of lizard people living beneath the city and brought it to life through character and story. It was a brilliant example of this author&#8217;s work, work that I would love to read more of at some point in time.&#8221; &#8211; <em>Wordsmithonia<\/em><\/p>\n<a class=\"maxbutton-42 maxbutton maxbutton-loweranimals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lower-Animals-Lisa-Morton-ebook\/dp\/B00GX4TOKE\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+lower+animals+morton&amp;qid=1562627360&amp;s=gateway&amp;sr=8-1\"><span class='mb-text'>Buy Now at Amazon<\/span><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this prequel to the Bram Stoker Award-nominated novel Malediction, folklore professor Sam West and his young assistant Gillian Keffler discover that there may be more truth than fiction to the urban legend of a race of lizard people living beneath the streets of Los Angeles. &#8220;The Lower Animals&#8221; originally appeared in the Bram Stoker<a href=\"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/the-lower-animals\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;[ Read More ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909"}],"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=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2184,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/2184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}