{"id":8041,"date":"2024-08-04T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fifties-horror.de\/?p=8041"},"modified":"2024-08-04T17:21:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T15:21:00","slug":"tipping-the-scales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fifties-horror.de\/?p=8041","title":{"rendered":"Tipping the Scales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>(Unpublished story, attributed to Reginald L. Carver, ca. 1971?)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the <strong>third and last <\/strong>of the horror gems unearthed by fellow horror fiend Jasper Bark.<br>(<em>See previous blog posts \u201eThe Strange Case of Reginald Leonard Carver\u201c, &#8222;Killer Caboose&#8220; and \u201eSign of the Crimes\u201c!<\/em>)<br><br>This strange story (this one is in black and white) features \u201e<strong>The Keeper of the Tome<\/strong>\u201c as host character, an outrageously gory story typical for the young 1970s. We guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fifties-horror.de\/filecollection\/2024\/08\/Tipping-the-Scales_page_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1673\" src=\"https:\/\/fifties-horror.de\/filecollection\/2024\/08\/Tipping-the-Scales_page_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8042\" srcset=\"http:\/\/fifties-horror.de\/filecollection\/2024\/08\/Tipping-the-Scales_page_1.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/fifties-horror.de\/filecollection\/2024\/08\/Tipping-the-Scales_page_1-215x300.jpg 215w, http:\/\/fifties-horror.de\/filecollection\/2024\/08\/Tipping-the-Scales_page_1-734x1024.jpg 734w, http:\/\/fifties-horror.de\/filecollection\/2024\/08\/Tipping-the-Scales_page_1-768x1071.jpg 768w, http:\/\/fifties-horror.de\/filecollection\/2024\/08\/Tipping-the-Scales_page_1-1102x1536.jpg 1102w, http:\/\/fifties-horror.de\/filecollection\/2024\/08\/Tipping-the-Scales_page_1-624x870.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" 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Carver, ca. 1971?) Here is the third and last of the horror gems unearthed by fellow horror fiend Jasper Bark.(See previous blog posts \u201eThe Strange Case of Reginald Leonard Carver\u201c, &#8222;Killer Caboose&#8220; and \u201eSign of the Crimes\u201c!) This strange story (this one is in black and white) features \u201eThe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fifties-horror.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8041"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fifties-horror.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fifties-horror.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fifties-horror.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fifties-horror.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fifties-horror.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8047,"href":"http:\/\/fifties-horror.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8041\/revisions\/8047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fifties-horror.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fifties-horror.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fifties-horror.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}