{"id":16,"date":"2010-07-22T02:30:14","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T23:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=16"},"modified":"2010-07-22T02:30:14","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T23:30:14","slug":"tales-of-lovecraftian-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2010\/07\/22\/tales-of-lovecraftian-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales of Lovecraftian\u00a0Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just published: my book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/product\/paperback\/tales-of-lovecraftian-cats\/11917698\">Tales of Lovecraftian Cats<\/a><\/em> (2010).  I experimentally used old and obscure public domain horror \/ fantasy stories as scaffolding to write new Lovecraftian stories.  All the stories feature Lovecraft&#8217;s favorite animal &mdash; the cat.  <\/p>\n<p>In this experiment I take my cue from Lovecraft &mdash; who was 50 years ahead of the curve on transformative fan works and collaborative mythos-building &mdash; since he once wrote in a letter of 1933&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Someone ought to go over the cheap magazines and pick out story-germs which have been ruined by popular treatment; then getting the authors\u2019 permission and <em><strong>actually writing the stories<\/strong><\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My book includes two new prequels to &#8220;The Horror at Red Hook&#8221;, and a new Randolph Carter story, as well as my translation and modern adaptation of the first English novel, <em>Beware the Cat<\/em> (1584).  There&#8217;s a limited edition hardback (please contact me), and an affordable paperback edition available from the link above. <\/p>\n<p>A free sample is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.d-log.info\/PREVIEW_lulu_word_6x9.pdf\">here<\/a> (PDF link). I&#8217;ve made sure to embed the fonts used, but you never can tell with Adobe &mdash; please comment if you don&#8217;t see an elegant layout.  It probably means that the fonts didn&#8217;t embed properly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just published: my book Tales of Lovecraftian Cats (2010). I experimentally used old and obscure public domain horror \/ fantasy &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2010\/07\/22\/tales-of-lovecraftian-cats\/\">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":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housekeeping","category-lovecraftian-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","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=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}