{"id":18998,"date":"2018-10-30T08:29:40","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T05:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=18998"},"modified":"2018-10-30T08:29:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T05:29:40","slug":"the-encyclopaedia-of-h-p-lovecraft-as-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/10\/30\/the-encyclopaedia-of-h-p-lovecraft-as-character\/","title":{"rendered":"The Encyclopaedia of H. P. Lovecraft as Character"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do we have enough &#8220;Lovecraft as character&#8221; appearances to do <em>The Encyclopaedia of H. P. Lovecraft as Character<\/em>, focussed only on the appearance of H.P. Lovecraft and his close circle as characters in stories, graphic novels, rock songs, games and more?  I think we do.  By now there must be at least a hundred such depictions of Lovecraft himself.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, my recent <em>Good Old Mac<\/em> biographical book on Everett McNeil, the keystone Lovecraft Circle member, found ten such instances of him alone. And I haven&#8217;t even read the various books which treat the Lovecraft circle to a detective novel outing (such as the recent novel by Joshi), in which he likely also appears as a character. Nor the various table-top RPGs.  McNeil had another depiction in one of the new graphic novels of Lovecraft&#8217;s life, <em>He Who Wrote in the Darkness<\/em>, and I would suspect he may also appears in the other new graphic novel <em>Some Notes on a Nonentity: The Life of H. P. Lovecraft<\/em> (though I haven&#8217;t yet seen that).  That&#8217;s just one often-overlooked member of the Circle, and yet there&#8217;s already material enough for an <em>Encyclopaedia<\/em> chapter.<\/p>\n<p>It might be organised by date and by cultural milieu:<\/p>\n<p>Lovecraft as &#8216;living character&#8217;; pre-1937.<br \/>\nThe War Years: 1938-1949.<br \/>\nThe Depths of the Cold War: 1950-1964.<br \/>\nThe Counter-culture: 1965-1975.<br \/>\nThe De-censorship Decades: 1976-1996.<br \/>\nGone Global: 1997-2007.<br \/>\nHaunting the New Puritans: 2008-2018.<br \/>\nLovecraft&#8217;s Circle as Characters.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the estimated cost of making it I won&#8217;t be the one to do such an <em>Encyclopaedia<\/em>, but if the idea tickles both your fancy and wallet then please feel free to give it a go. Bear in mind that acquiring all the works needed to comprehensively make such a book will require either a vast collection and\/or a <em>very<\/em> plump wallet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do we have enough &#8220;Lovecraft as character&#8221; appearances to do The Encyclopaedia of H. P. Lovecraft as Character, focussed only &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/10\/30\/the-encyclopaedia-of-h-p-lovecraft-as-character\/\">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":[11,12,18,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraft-as-character","category-lovecraftian-arts","category-new-books","category-odd-scratchings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18998","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=18998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}