{"id":15697,"date":"2018-08-26T14:44:35","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T11:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=15697"},"modified":"2018-08-26T14:44:35","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T11:44:35","slug":"full-weird-tales-scans-continue-to-flow-onto-archive-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/08\/26\/full-weird-tales-scans-continue-to-flow-onto-archive-org\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Weird Tales scans continue to flow onto Archive.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scans of full copies of vintage <em>Weird Tales<\/em> are continuing to be archived on <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/\">Archive.org<\/a>.  Regrettably my WordPress blog refuses to post a link that goes to these uploads sorted by texts-only \/ upload date.  Because it gets freaked out by [] square brackets in the URL, and presumably thinks it&#8217;s under attack from script-kiddies.  Here&#8217;s how to manually filter out the irrelevant &#8216;relevance&#8217; fluff and sort at Archive.org&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/how-to-sort.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"321\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-15709\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once that&#8217;s done you&#8217;ll see there have been ten new uploads in August 2018, and all from the &#8216;prime Lovecraft&#8217; period.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/weird.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"395\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-15698\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fairly dismal cover paintings during this period, by the looks of it, and one can see how the magazine might have struggled to attract new readers on the crowded news-stands.<\/p>\n<p>The latest upload, Feb 1926, printed &#8220;The Cats of Ulthar&#8221;.  This was the first public appearance, it having previously been published only in the amateur journal <em>Tryout<\/em> in 1920.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/ulthar.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"392\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-15699\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scans of full copies of vintage Weird Tales are continuing to be archived on Archive.org. Regrettably my WordPress blog refuses &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/08\/26\/full-weird-tales-scans-continue-to-flow-onto-archive-org\/\">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":[8,12,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-lovecraftian-arts","category-odd-scratchings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15697","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=15697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}