{"id":3029,"date":"2020-12-09T07:57:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3029"},"modified":"2020-11-08T19:26:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T03:26:41","slug":"534-the-october-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/534-the-october-game\/","title":{"rendered":"534 &#8211; The October Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"786\" height=\"664\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/october-game.png\" alt=\"A panel from &quot;October Game&quot; in Shock SuspenStories #9, March 1953\" class=\"wp-image-3030\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/october-game.png 786w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/october-game-300x253.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/october-game-768x649.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 786px) 100vw, 786px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from &#8220;October Game&#8221; in Shock SuspenStories #9, March 1953<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ray Bradbury&#8217;s story-telling prowess makes another very memorable appearance with &#8220;The October Game&#8221; in Shock SuspenStories #9 (March 1953).  I love it a lot because it&#8217;s dark and scary in ways that are completely different from other bits of horror schlock that EC comes up with because it&#8217;s about the real and true horror within and it sticks with you.  I won&#8217;t get into it here too much, but you can read the <a href=\"https:\/\/marswillsendnomore.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/31\/ec-comics-ray-bradbury-the-october-game\/\">comic book version here<\/a> and the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidglensmith.com\/lonestar\/1302\/PDFs\/Bradbury-October.pdf\"> short story version of it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Bradbury&#8217;s story-telling prowess makes another very memorable appearance with &#8220;The October Game&#8221; in Shock SuspenStories #9 (March 1953). I love it a lot because it&#8217;s dark and scary in ways that are completely different from other bits of horror schlock that EC comes up with because it&#8217;s about the real and true horror within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[525,350,397,447,518],"class_list":["post-3029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-525","tag-ec","tag-horror-comics","tag-psychology","tag-ray-bradbury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3029"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3033,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029\/revisions\/3033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}