{"id":22119,"date":"2022-10-31T13:52:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T13:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=22119"},"modified":"2022-10-31T13:52:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T13:52:36","slug":"the-needful-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2022\/10\/31\/the-needful-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Needful Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/needful1-big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/needful1.jpg\" alt=\"needful1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Very fitting this one turning up today of all days, especially when the story takes place in the month of October. This time last year I was still working on the interior illustrations. It&#8217;s a heavyweight volume, bulked out to 730 pages by Richard Christian Matheson&#8217;s afterword and the sturdy slipcase; I designed the cover lettering but the rest of the book design is by Michael Smith. I also signed the main run of 1000 copies, with a smaller run (40 copies, I think) being signed by author and artist. Demand from collectors sold out the book very quickly but if you&#8217;re really needful you can find them on Abebooks and eBay for the inevitable high prices.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/needful2.jpg\" alt=\"needful2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Still to come is a post about the illustrations but before I can do that I need to create a new page for the main website. In the meantime, here&#8217;s a picture of Mr Gaunt making Polly Chalmers an offer she can&#8217;t refuse.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/needful3.jpg\" alt=\"needful3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2022\/06\/02\/all-the-things\/\">All the Things<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2022\/04\/25\/needful-things\/\">Needful Things<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very fitting this one turning up today of all days, especially when the story takes place in the month of October. This time last year I was still working on the interior illustrations. It&#8217;s a heavyweight volume, bulked out to 730 pages by Richard Christian Matheson&#8217;s afterword and the sturdy slipcase; I designed the cover &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2022\/10\/31\/the-needful-thing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Needful Thing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":"New blog post: The Needful Thing","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":[2,42,22,23],"tags":[12505,10258,12506,668],"class_list":["post-22119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-horror","category-work","tag-michael-smith","tag-ps-publishing","tag-richard-christian-matheson","tag-stephen-king"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5KL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}