{"id":161,"date":"2010-10-22T18:11:22","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T17:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=161"},"modified":"2010-10-22T18:15:26","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T17:15:26","slug":"scarefest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"Scarefest!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just got time for a few quick pics from yesterday’s Spooktacular Scarefest<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Here I am doing my best to horrify a great group at Hillside High School, Bootle<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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From the Spooktacular itself, here’s one I took of the stage while we were setting up. Check out the smoke and flames!<\/p>\n

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Here’s a team photo (l-r) <\/strong><\/a> of performing authors David Gatward<\/strong><\/a>, Jon Mayhew<\/strong><\/a>, Joseph Delaney<\/strong><\/a>, Tommy <\/strong><\/a>Donbavand<\/a><\/strong> and some black-clad bald guy<\/strong><\/a> – together with (on the right) bookselling legend, human dynamo and mastermind behind the Fest, the magnificent Tony <\/strong>of Pritchard’s, Formby<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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I had a blast<\/strong>. The audience<\/strong> was wonderfully welcoming <\/strong>and supportive<\/strong>. My fellow authors<\/strong> all put on terrific performances<\/strong>. But the prize for the most frightening thing about the Scarefest – in fact, I believe, the most horrifying thing in literature right now<\/strong> – must surely go to Dave Gatward’s tights<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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They’ve traumatized me. It seems only fair to let them traumatize you. ;p<\/p>\n

More terror to come tomorrow (Sat 23rd) at The Crystal Palace Children’s Book Festival<\/strong><\/a>. See you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just got time for a few quick pics from yesterday’s Spooktacular Scarefest. Here I am doing my best to horrify a great group at Hillside High School, Bootle: From the Spooktacular itself, here’s one I took of the stage while we were setting up. Check out the smoke and flames! Here’s a team photo (l-r) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}