{"id":19,"date":"2012-11-30T17:08:17","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T01:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.littlestshoggoth.com\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2012-12-03T17:25:34","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T01:25:34","slug":"about-the-book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.littlestshoggoth.com\/?page_id=19","title":{"rendered":"About the Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the Mythos creatures roaming around lost R&#8217;lyeh, Squammy the shoggoth is the smallest, least frightening of them all. Tired of being teased and picked on, he sets off for the world of man to prove he&#8217;s got what it takes to be a real monster.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Littlest Shoggoth<\/em> is a heartwarming tale of holiday horror. With its non-Euclidean verse and sanity-blastingly cute illustrations by award-winning writer and cartoonist, Stan!, it is the perfect addition to any collection of seasonal stories . . . or occult tomes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>REVIEWS FOR THE LITTLEST SHOGGOTH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cute, evil, vicious, and brilliant. God help us, every one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">John Kovalic, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dorktower.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dork Tower<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s nothing I don&#8217;t like about this book. Pure, concentrated awesome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Wil Wheaton, <a href=\"http:\/\/WilWheaton.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">WilWheaton.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The perfect holiday tale for any fan of the Cthulhu Mythos.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Matt Forbeck, author of the <a href=\"http:\/\/kck.st\/RLHPdc\" target=\"_blank\">Monster Academy<\/a> trilogy<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It combines delightful art, can-do optimism, and inevitable doom as only Stan! can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Kenneth Hite, <a href=\"http:\/\/atomicovermind.com\/main\/books\/the-101-series\/cthulhu10\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cthulhu 101<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stan! is a genius when it comes to Cthulhu.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Wolfgang Baur, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koboldquarterly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kobold Quarterly<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A beautifully bizarre holiday tale.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Brad Guigar, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evil-comic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Evil, Inc.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The stars are right to read <em>The Littlest Shoggoth<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">John Tynes, <a href=\"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Unspeakable Oath<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the Mythos creatures roaming around lost R&#8217;lyeh, Squammy the shoggoth is the smallest, least frightening of them all. Tired of being teased and picked on, he sets off for the world of man to prove he&#8217;s got what it takes to be a real monster. The Littlest Shoggoth is a heartwarming tale of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlestshoggoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlestshoggoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlestshoggoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlestshoggoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlestshoggoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlestshoggoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlestshoggoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlestshoggoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}