{"id":905,"date":"2020-07-22T09:35:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T13:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/?post_type=sw_canon&#038;p=905"},"modified":"2020-07-22T09:35:57","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T13:35:57","slug":"shambleau-and-others","status":"publish","type":"sw_canon","link":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/canon\/shambleau-and-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Shambleau and&nbsp;Others"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Shambleau and Others<\/em> contains four Northwest Smith stories originally published in <em>Weird Tales<\/em> in the 1930s: &#8220;Shambleau&#8221;, &#8220;Black Thirst&#8221;, &#8220;The Tree of Life&#8221;, &#8220;Scarlet Dream&#8221; (the collection also includes &#8220;Black God\u2019s Kiss&#8221;, &#8220;Black God\u2019s Shadow&#8221; and &#8220;Jirel Meets Magic&#8221;, three Jirel of Joiry stories)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>&#8220;Shambleau&#8221; (Weird Tales, November 1933). On Mars, Northwest rescues a strange, beautiful girl from the Lakkdarol mob. They become very close &#8211; but in fact, she is not a girl, nor a human being at all, and the mob had a good reason to try to kill her\u201d\u00a6<\/li><li>&#8220;Black Thirst&#8221; (Weird Tales, April 1934). A Minga woman invites Northwest into the forbidden Venusian fortress where she lives. It turns out to be even more dangerous than expected.<\/li><li>&#8220;The Tree of Life&#8221; (Weird Tales, October 1936). In the ruins of Illar, Northwest finds out more about the Martian drylanders&#8217; past.<\/li><li>&#8220;Scarlet Dream&#8221; (Weird Tales, May 1934). An oddly-patterned shawl that Northwest picks up in Lakkdarol gives him unpleasant dreams.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard the stories of Northwest Smith? A dark haired man with &#8220;space bronzed&#8221; skin and pale eyes, who wears brown spacer&#8217;s leathers and carries a raygun at his side &#8211; he is a smuggler and outlaw adventuring through the solar system with his Venusian sidekick, Yarol in their small and unspectacular but surprisingly fast and agile ship, the Maid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":906,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[198],"tags":[81,86],"media":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sw_canon\/905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sw_canon"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/sw_canon"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sw_canon\/905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"media","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}