{"id":14300,"date":"2015-01-30T19:48:20","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T16:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=14300"},"modified":"2015-01-30T19:48:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T16:48:20","slug":"the-mysterious-mearle-prout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2015\/01\/30\/the-mysterious-mearle-prout\/","title":{"rendered":"The mysterious Mearle Prout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took a quick look at the mysterious <em>Weird Tales<\/em> author of 1933-1937&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>MEARLE PROUT<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The only genealogical candidate I could find was a Mearle Wilson Prout (1911-1964) from Texas.  He was exactly the right age to have written the Prout stories, from circa age 21 to 25. <em>Update: &#8220;Stillwater, Oklahoma&#8221; is his address in a letter to <em>Weird Tales<\/em> in 1937. Genealogy date adds: &#8220;Home in 1940: Medford, Grant, Oklahoma&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/mreadz.com\/new\/index.php?id=9826&amp;pages=63\">&#8220;The House of the Worm&#8221;<\/a>, debut short story, <em>Weird Tales<\/em> for October 1933.<\/p>\n<p>* &#8220;Masquerade&#8221;, short story, <em>Weird Tales<\/em> for February 1937. (Translated into French as &#8220;Le Carnaval de l&#8217;horreur&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Weird_Tales\/Volume_31\/Issue_3\/Guarded\">&#8220;Guarded&#8221;<\/a>, short story, <em>Weird Tales<\/em> for March 1938.<\/p>\n<p>* Letter in <em>Weird Tales<\/em> for May, Aug 1937.<\/p>\n<p>* Letter in &#8220;Discussions&#8221; column in <em>Amazing Stories<\/em> &#8220;while [the title was] under Gernsback&#8217;s control&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took a quick look at the mysterious Weird Tales author of 1933-1937&#8230; MEARLE PROUT. The only genealogical candidate I &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2015\/01\/30\/the-mysterious-mearle-prout\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14300","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\/14300","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=14300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}