{"id":78836,"date":"2024-01-19T22:02:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T22:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/?post_type=product&#038;p=78836"},"modified":"2024-01-19T22:02:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T22:02:22","slug":"blood-splatters-quickly-the-collected-stories-of-edward-d-wood-jr-limited-edition","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/catalog\/blood-splatters-quickly-the-collected-stories-of-edward-d-wood-jr-limited-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood Splatters Quickly: The Collected Stories of Edward D. Wood, Jr. (limited edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the purest expression of Wood\u2019s th\u00e9ma\u2014pink angora sweaters, over-the-top violence and the fraught relationships between the sexes\u2014can be found in his unadulterated short stories, many of which (including \u201cBlood Splatters Quickly\u201d) appeared in short-lived \u201cgirly\u201d magazines published throughout the 1970s. The 32 stories included here have been verified by Bob Blackburn, a trusted associate of Kathy Wood, Ed\u2019s widow. In the forty years or more since those initial appearances in adult magazines, none of these stories has been available to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Wood died in 1978, but the legacy of the director of \u201cPlan 9 from Outer Space,\u201d \u201cGlen or Glenda,\u201d \u201cJail Bait\u201d and so many other beloved screen classics has only grown in importance. Wood speaks\u2014not least for himself\u2014as one of America\u2019s \u201coutsiders\u201d caught up in the struggle to find acceptance inside\u2014and never more directly than in the material in this book.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>This is the limited edition of about 100 copies in a pink cashmere sweater that fits over the top of the book. (Based on Ed Wood Jr.&#8217;s favorite garment).  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the purest expression of Wood\u2019s th\u00e9ma\u2014pink angora sweaters, over-the-top violence and the fraught relationships between the sexes\u2014can be found in his unadulterated short stories, many of which (including \u201cBlood Splatters Quickly\u201d) appeared in short-lived \u201cgirly\u201d magazines published throughout the 1970s. The 32 stories included here have been verified by Bob Blackburn, a trusted associate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":78837,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[105,75],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-78836","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-fiction","product_cat-rare-used-op","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/78836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=78836"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=78836"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=78836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}