{"id":110,"date":"2010-07-02T14:13:52","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T13:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=110"},"modified":"2010-07-05T13:38:12","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T12:38:12","slug":"its-the-pits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"It’s THE PITS!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I did my stuff at St Ivo School, Cambridgeshire<\/strong>. The above headline is no comment on the school or the wonderful welcome I received there: I’m referring to one of the most astonishing pieces of art inspired by my stories that it’s yet been my privilege to see. Feast yer eyes on THIS:<\/p>\n

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Yes, it’s a recreation of The Gladiator Pits<\/strong> from The Black Tattoo<\/strong><\/a>! Close examination of the above pic will reveal fabulous and amazingly life-like clay models of various Hell denizens including Gloag Shargle<\/strong>, Ripitith Gunch<\/strong>, Jocasta<\/strong>, Lord Slint<\/strong> and several Chinj<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

These monsterpieces were spawned as the result of a competition amongst St Ivo’s Year 7. Choosing one winner and one runner-up out of all this awesomeness was almost impossible, but I gave first prize to Izzy<\/strong> for her deliciously sinister vision of The Scourge<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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The runner-up prize I awarded to Anna<\/strong>, for her endearingly vile Leo the Unspeakable<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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That’s some beautifully rendered mandible slime, I think you’ll agree. And the single bloodshot eye is a lovely touch.<\/p>\n

I gave three talks, to a total of three hundred students.<\/p>\n

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The signing at lunchtime seemed pretty popular, and I was delighted to see that my new mutant baby, Crawlers<\/strong><\/a>, was the favourite of my three books sales-wise.<\/p>\n

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A huge and gleeful thank you<\/strong> to everyone I met at St Ivo for a thoroughly brilliant day<\/strong>. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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