{"id":12144,"date":"2014-07-22T07:14:18","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T04:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=12144"},"modified":"2014-07-22T07:14:18","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T04:14:18","slug":"12144","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/07\/22\/12144\/","title":{"rendered":"Two books from Lovecraft&#8217;s library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two books from Lovecraft&#8217;s personal library&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/abooknewengland03drakgoog\">A Book of New England Legends and Folk Lore<\/a><\/em>.  An excellent survey and collection of materials.  Including a picture of the Pickman-esque &#8220;Old Ruin&#8221; house at Boston&#8217;s North End&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/boston-north-end.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/boston-north-end.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"boston-north-end\" width=\"529\" height=\"431\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12145\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>See also &#8220;The Place of Noises&#8221; (p.427), on the Moodus Noises which have been suggested as one of Lovecraft&#8217;s inspirations for &#8220;The Whisperer in Darkness&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>By the same author, and also in Lovecraft&#8217;s personal library, the fine book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.hathitrust.org\/Record\/001873614\">Nooks and Corners of the New England coast<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/isles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/isles.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"isles\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12146\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two books from Lovecraft&#8217;s personal library&#8230; A Book of New England Legends and Folk Lore. An excellent survey and collection &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/07\/22\/12144\/\">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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12144","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=12144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}