{"id":10106,"date":"2014-02-09T14:32:11","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T11:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=10106"},"modified":"2014-02-09T14:32:11","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T11:32:11","slug":"jerusalems-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/02\/09\/jerusalems-lot\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Jerusalem&#8217;s Lot&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the recent Robert M. Price podcast, and its musings on the most Lovecraftian of Stephen King&#8217;s stories, I listened to the free 90-minute professional audio reading of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tA0r26zbAP8\">&#8220;Jerusalem&#8217;s Lot&#8221;<\/a>.  It, and some King I tried in the past, doesn&#8217;t make me inclined to plough through the rest of King. It seems to confirm various sentiments I&#8217;ve heard to the effect that most of his work is turgid, ersatz, simple, without any real style, hugely over-padded and generally fit only for the more uncritical end of the post-1970s modern horror readership. But I was pleased to find it at least <em>tries<\/em> to be a neat remix of a number of Lovecraft stories, while sustaining a Lovecraftian feel, tone, and setting throughout.  Five marks out of ten for trying, at least.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/jerulot.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/jerulot.gif\" alt=\"jerulot\" width=\"432\" height=\"709\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10107\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What it fails to port over from Lovecraft: his close attention to period architectural details; his skill with the dialect of remote rustic types; the deft interweaving of his own autobiographical detail; the use of his deep chorographic topophilia to bring veracity and psychological depth to descriptions of the New England landscape.  King&#8217;s addition of small touches of &#8216;the cosmic&#8217; also feel forced and are just tacked on as afterthoughts.  If this is really the most cogently Lovecraftian story he can muster, then the rest must be mediocre at best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the recent Robert M. Price podcast, and its musings on the most Lovecraftian of Stephen King&#8217;s stories, I listened &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/02\/09\/jerusalems-lot\/\">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-10106","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\/10106","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=10106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}