{"id":25028,"date":"2019-04-25T10:37:29","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T07:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=25028"},"modified":"2019-04-25T10:37:29","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T07:37:29","slug":"weird-tales-the-cthulhu-issue-in-high-quality-cbz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/04\/25\/weird-tales-the-cthulhu-issue-in-high-quality-cbz\/","title":{"rendered":"Weird Tales, the “Cthulhu” issue in high-quality CBZ"},"content":{"rendered":"

New on Archive.org, Weird Tales<\/em>, February 1928<\/a>. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu”, and “The Dream Snake” by Robert E. Howard. The .CBZ (‘Comic Book Zip’) is the best option re: quality, rather than the over-compressed PDF. It can be opened with any Comic Book Reader software or a PDF reader software that supports the format (such as SumatraPDF).<\/p>\n

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The following issue had no reader response, with the Eyrie covering the January issue. This includes a letter from Lovecraft…<\/p>\n

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The issue in which readers first responded to “Cthulhu”, presumably April 1928, is not yet online. [Update: it now is<\/a> but proves to have only the most vapid and very slight mentions of “Cthulhu”<\/em>]. But May 1928 is<\/a>, with responses from R.E. Howard and others. <\/p>\n

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For Wright to follow this with the cheap shocker “The Lurking Fear” might seem something of a clunky editorial decision. But probably he feared an adverse reader reaction among the bulk of his readers, and thus thought that a more conventional “shocker” might restore Lovecraft to good standing with them.<\/p>\n

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“Cthulhu” had also been trailed in the January 1928 issue, thus…<\/p>\n

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New on Archive.org, Weird Tales, February 1928. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu”, and “The Dream Snake” by Robert E. Howard. …<\/p>\n

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