{"id":774184,"date":"2026-07-02T11:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T11:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/774184\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T11:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T11:44:10","slug":"masked-men-to-morphine-addiction-the-original-tv-little-house-on-the-prairie-was-a-true-american-horror-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/774184\/","title":{"rendered":"Masked men to morphine addiction: The original TV Little House on the Prairie was a true American horror story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">As Erwin points out, though, &#8220;Sylvia is not this weird, outlier episode that&#8217;s a one-off&#8221;. She describes the show as being part of the subgenre of &#8220;Frontier Gothic&#8221;, which originated in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries and maps Gothic conventions on to stories of US expansion and frontier life. &#8220;The show also does body horror, in season two, where Caroline Ingalls gets her leg infected after a scratch, and takes a knife to it,&#8221; she adds. &#8220;All the tropes are there, all the conventions are there.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Erwin points out, though, &#8220;Sylvia is not this weird, outlier episode that&#8217;s a one-off&#8221;. She describes the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-774184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}