{"id":1296,"date":"2010-08-31T07:01:12","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T04:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2010-08-31T07:01:12","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T04:01:12","slug":"the-mound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2010\/08\/31\/the-mound\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gongnardia has a <a href=\"http:\/\/grognardia.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/pulp-fantasy-library-mound.html\">new review\/appreciation of <em>The Mound<\/em><\/a>, Lovecraft&#8217;s 29,000-word novella which was ghost-written for his revision client Zealia Bishop, who apparently never paid him for it. His work for Zealia Bishop was built around the barest of plot ideas and outlines &mdash; &#8220;slim plot synopses&#8221;, as they are referred to in the notes to <em>Lord of a Visible World: an autobiography in letters<\/em>. Undertaken late 1929, the tale has a modern man discovering the manuscript of a 16th century conquistador explorer in the Old West (Oklahoma).  A vast underground civilization of extraterrestrial beings is encountered, and in the process a large sweep of geological &#8216;deep&#8217; time is described.  This makes <em>The Mound<\/em> (written 1929-30) an interesting &#8220;trial run&#8221; for Lovecraft&#8217;s own novella <em>At the Mountains of Madness<\/em> (written Feb\/Mar 1931).  This is one I don&#8217;t seem to remember reading as a youth, and it&#8217;s not one I&#8217;ve so far encountered in my current re-reading of Lovecraft.<\/p>\n<p>The story doesn&#8217;t seem to have been done as an audio book, either free or commercially.  But it is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/The_Mound\">online here<\/a>.  The full and complete manuscript version only appeared as a critical edition in print in 1989, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/0870540408?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=httwwwdloginf-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=0870540408\"><em>The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.co.uk\/e\/ir?t=httwwwdloginf-21&amp;l=as2&amp;o=2&amp;a=0870540408\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0!important;\" \/> from Arkham Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gongnardia has a new review\/appreciation of The Mound, Lovecraft&#8217;s 29,000-word novella which was ghost-written for his revision client Zealia Bishop, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2010\/08\/31\/the-mound\/\">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-1296","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\/1296","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=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}