{"id":15475,"date":"2018-08-26T07:49:50","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T04:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=15475"},"modified":"2018-08-26T07:49:50","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T04:49:50","slug":"paul-cook-in-the-public-domain-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/08\/26\/paul-cook-in-the-public-domain-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Cook in the public domain, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A range of texts drop out of copyright each year.  At the start of 2019, for the UK it will be the turn of books whose authors died in 1948.  One such will presumably be W. Paul Cook.  Cook was an amateur journalist, printer and bookman, and a good friend of H.P. Lovecraft.  He was later the author of the important long memoir <em>In Memoriam: Howard Phillips Lovecraft<\/em>. This text can be found in full in the handsome volume <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2PCJ6X5\">Lovecraft Remembered<\/a><\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/hpl-remembered.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"753\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-15476\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although it appears that <em>Lovecraft Remembered<\/em> is now yet another Lovecraft volume being listed at very expensive &#8216;only for the rich book collector&#8217; prices.<\/p>\n<p>Given that the text appears to be coming out of copyright in the UK and Europe, an abridged version of <em>In Memoriam<\/em> might make for an interesting graphic novel adaptation project for someone.<\/p>\n<p>Last year (start of 2018) the public domain also welcomed: Alfred North Whitehead (a British philosopher whose 1920s works influenced Lovecraft); M. P. Shiel (Lovecraft thought his \u201cThe House of Sounds\u201d&#8230; \u201cthe most haunting thing I have read in a decade\u201d when he read Shiel circa 1923); and of course Arthur Machen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A range of texts drop out of copyright each year. At the start of 2019, for the UK it will &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/08\/26\/paul-cook-in-the-public-domain-2019\/\">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":[18,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books","category-odd-scratchings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15475","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=15475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}