{"id":369,"date":"2018-10-16T18:57:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T16:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogg.nord.no\/frankenreads\/?p=369"},"modified":"2021-12-23T12:01:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T11:01:36","slug":"but-here-were-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/frankenreads\/2018\/10\/16\/but-here-were-books\/","title":{"rendered":"“But here were books…”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Akademika bookstore is getting ready for Frankenweek<\/a> by beginning to set out books for their Halloween horror pop-up store. They’ve got plenty of scary stories to tell in the dark on the shelves: <\/p>\n

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(photos by Audun Bj\u00f8lgerud)<\/p>\n

Check out the hardcover Lovecraft! They’ve also got a graphic novel adaptation of Frankenstein<\/em>, and the 2018 Man Booker International Prize-shortlisted Frankenstein in Baghdad<\/em> by Ahmed Saadawi, which uses Shelley’s Frankenstein<\/em> and the conventions of so-called “genre fiction” for inspiration, but deals with an entirely different kind of horror. Sounds like a must-read for those of us thinking about how far Frankenstein<\/em>‘s cultural reach extends. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Akademika bookstore is getting ready for Frankenweek by beginning to set out books for their Halloween horror pop-up store. They’ve got plenty of scary stories to tell in the dark on the shelves: [robo-gallery id=”374″] (photos by Audun Bj\u00f8lgerud) Check out the hardcover Lovecraft! They’ve also got a graphic novel adaptation of Frankenstein, and the … Continue reading “But here were books…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[7],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ukategorisert"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/padC0F-5X","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":434,"url":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/frankenreads\/2018\/10\/24\/historic-film-evening-for-frankenreads-and-bodo-filmklubb\/","url_meta":{"origin":369,"position":0},"title":"Historic Film Evening for Frankenreads and Bod\u00f8 Filmklubb","author":"Jessica","date":"24\/10\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Last night marked a historic event for the Nord University English Department and Bod\u00f8 filmklubb. 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