{"id":4728,"date":"2009-10-30T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=4728"},"modified":"2009-10-09T15:49:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T21:49:00","slug":"horror-week-at-dpl-creepy-capote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/horror-week-at-dpl-creepy-capote\/","title":{"rendered":"Horror Week at DPL &#8211; Creepy Capote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Horror Week at Davenport Library wraps up today with this terrifying suggestion from Lynn. Read at your own risk!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|68605\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4729\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Handcarved-coffins.jpg?resize=177%2C257&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Handcarved coffins\" width=\"177\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/strong>&#8220;Handcarved Coffins&#8221; (in the book <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|68605\" target=\"_blank\">Music for Chameleons<\/a>)<\/em><\/strong> is a piece of novelistic journalism; Capote&#8217;s spare and economical style makes the\u00a0ever-increasing\u00a0 suspense immediate.<\/p>\n<p>A state cop relates the stories of a series of horrific murders to Capote. The first\u00a0are killed by rabid rattlesnakes\u00a0that attack a couple as they open their car doors. The next\u00a0die\u00a0in a fire, trapped in their basement.\u00a0The victims are sent a small, balsa coffin with a candid photograph of themselves. As the murders mount up, the\u00a0recipients \u00a0are more aware of their fate and suffer unique torture as they wonder how and when they will die.<\/p>\n<p>The murders are impossible to anticipate and guard against, and, seemingly, have no connection to each other. Their very randomness and the generic\u00a0small midwestern town setting \u00a0give the murders a sense of universality &#8211; (this could happen to ME).\u00a0 The fact that the victims seem entirely innocent makes the evil more purely heinous. Because this is supposed to be a piece of reportage, Capote never switches perspective to the psychopath, as is so common now. This is a piece of simple, classic horror. And it may be true.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Now it&#8217;s your turn &#8211; what&#8217;s your favorite scary book or movie? Leave a comment!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horror Week at Davenport Library wraps up today with this terrifying suggestion from Lynn. Read at your own risk! &#8220;Handcarved Coffins&#8221; (in the book Music for Chameleons) is a piece of novelistic journalism; Capote&#8217;s spare and economical style makes the\u00a0ever-increasing\u00a0 suspense immediate. A state cop relates the stories of a<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/horror-week-at-dpl-creepy-capote\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[253,863,866,268,867,873],"class_list":["post-4728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-halloween","tag-horror","tag-horror-week","tag-murder","tag-scary","tag-serial-killer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-1eg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4728"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4743,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728\/revisions\/4743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}