{"id":10051,"date":"2014-02-05T15:04:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T12:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=10051"},"modified":"2022-08-31T08:43:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T08:43:34","slug":"lovecraftian-ashton-smith-stories-in-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/02\/05\/lovecraftian-ashton-smith-stories-in-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovecraftian Ashton Smith stories in audio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New audio discussion and partial readings of pulpy Clark Ashton Smith stories, now on <a href=\"http:\/\/thedoubleshadow.com\/\">The Double Shadow podcast<\/a>, with more promised&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thedoubleshadow.com\/episode-36-hunters-from-beyond\/\">&#8220;Hunters from Beyond&#8221;<\/a> (<em>Strange Tales<\/em>, October 1932).  Smith is said to have admitted this story was inspired by &#8220;Pickman&#8217;s Model&#8221;, see: <em>An H.P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia<\/em> p.247.  Story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eldritchdark.com\/writings\/short-stories\/93\">full-text<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thedoubleshadow.com\/episode-38-seedling-of-mars\/\">&#8220;Seedling of Mars&#8221;<\/a> (<em>Wonder Stories Quarterly<\/em>, Fall 1931 as &#8220;The Planet-Entity&#8221;, illustrated by Frank R. Paul).  Story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eldritchdark.com\/writings\/short-stories\/190\/seedling-of-mars\">full-text<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>E.M. Johnston had a credit because Smith was basing his tale on a short prize-winning synopsis submitted by Johnston.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Seedlings of Mars&#8221; seems to be set to be followed in the coming weeks by the other Mars stories, in sequence: &#8220;The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis&#8221; (commonly said to be Smith&#8217;s most Lovecraftian story); &#8220;Dweller in the Gulf (in the Martian Depths)&#8221; (said to be rather Lovecraftian in terms of copious amounts of slime and decay); and &#8220;Vulthoom&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New audio discussion and partial readings of pulpy Clark Ashton Smith stories, now on The Double Shadow podcast, with more &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/02\/05\/lovecraftian-ashton-smith-stories-in-audio\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts","category-podcasts-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56277,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10051\/revisions\/56277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}