{"id":3822,"date":"2016-02-17T20:17:52","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T03:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/?page_id=3822"},"modified":"2022-06-13T11:07:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T17:07:20","slug":"a-taste-for-monsters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/?page_id=3822","title":{"rendered":"A Taste for Monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Taste-for-Monsters-cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3880\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Taste-for-Monsters-cover-663x1024.jpg\" alt=\"taste-for-monsters-cover\" width=\"325\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Taste-for-Monsters-cover-663x1024.jpg 663w, http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Taste-for-Monsters-cover-194x300.jpg 194w, http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Taste-for-Monsters-cover.jpg 1650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>IT\u2019S LONDON 1888, and Jack the Ripper is terrorizing the people of the city. Evelyn, a young woman disfigured by her dangerous work in a matchstick factory, who has nowhere to go, does not know what to make of her new position as a maid to the Elephant Man in the London Hospital. Evelyn wants to be locked away from the world, like he is, shut in from the filth and dangers of the streets. But in Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man, she finds a gentle kindred who does not recoil from her and who understands her pain. When the murders begin, however, Joseph and Evelyn are haunted nightly by the ghosts of the Ripper\u2019s dead, setting Evelyn on a path to facing her fears and uncovering humanity\u2019s worst nightmares.<\/p>\n<p>A Taste for Monsters is a terrifying and haunting tale of the monstrosity of men and the salvation one may find in the unlikeliest places, from Edgar Award\u2013winning author Matthew J. Kirby.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>From Publishers Weekly (starred review)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Evelyn\u2014all grit, anger, and distrust\u2014is a complex and engaging character, the slums and slang of Victorian-era London are carefully delineated, and the eventual revelation of Leather Apron\u2019s identity and fate will leave readers gasping.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Publication Date: September 27, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis:<br \/>\nIT\u2019S LONDON 1888, and Jack the Ripper is terrorizing the people of the city. Evelyn, a young woman disfigured by her dangerous work in a matchstick factory, who has nowhere to go, does not know what to make of her new position as a maid to the Elephant Man in the London Hospital. Evelyn wants [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":470,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3822","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P1mtjQ-ZE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3822"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3974,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3822\/revisions\/3974"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}