{"id":653,"date":"2025-09-22T03:15:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T03:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/?p=653"},"modified":"2025-09-27T19:11:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T19:11:49","slug":"the-dunwich-harrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/?p=653","title":{"rendered":"The Dunwich Harrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(This story is not a riff on Trucks\/Maximum Overdrive, but rather on the 1974 TV movie Killdozer! which was itself based on a 1944 Theodore Sturgeon short story of the same name.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is a sequel to <a href=\"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/?p=649\">The Cooler Out of Space<\/a>, in which the last fragment of the Entity contained in the cooler temporarily escapes Bane and Finch, following the Miskatonic upstream until it arrives in Dunwich.<\/p>\n<p>There, it possesses and animates an abandoned field harrow, and literally cuts a bloody swath across the Upper Miskatonic Valley, until it is cornered and destroyed by the investigators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(This story is not a riff on Trucks\/Maximum Overdrive, but rather on the 1974 TV movie Killdozer! which was itself based on a 1944 Theodore Sturgeon short story of the same name.) This is a sequel to The Cooler Out of Space, in which the last fragment of the Entity contained in the cooler temporarily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atticus-bane","category-kennings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673,"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}