{"id":25350,"date":"2019-05-16T05:36:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T02:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=25350"},"modified":"2019-05-16T05:36:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T02:36:24","slug":"lovecraft-portraits-in-1970s-zines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/05\/16\/lovecraft-portraits-in-1970s-zines\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovecraft portraits in 1970s zines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Popping up on eBay, pictures of two portraits of Lovecraft from the fan publications of the 1970s.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The now-superseded <em>Bibliotheca H. P. Lovecraft<\/em> has this very fine portrait in stipple and line by B.J. Frost. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/frost.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/frost.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"559\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25354\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/bibliotheca-h-p-lovecraft-1970s-frost.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/bibliotheca-h-p-lovecraft-1970s-frost.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"397\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25351\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No sign of this on Archive.org yet, from which a better and bigger scan might be extracted.  Who was B. J. Frost, I wonder?  In 1976 he produced <em>Book of the Werewolf<\/em> for Sphere paperbacks.  He went on to produce a series of overview books for the University of Wisconsin Press, <em>The Monster with a Thousand Faces: Guises of the Vampire in Myth and Literature<\/em>, <em>The Essential Guide to Werewolf Literature<\/em>, and <em>The Essential Guide to Mummy Literature<\/em>.  But I can&#8217;t find more about his art, other than that he once did a tribute portrait of Virgil Finlay.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The <em>World of H.P. Lovecraft<\/em> has a different but equally pleasing use of pen and ink, to devise a clever use of Lovecraft&#8217;s silhouette which combines it with &#8220;The Outsider&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/world-of-hp-lovecraft-7-13th-hour-books.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/world-of-hp-lovecraft-7-13th-hour-books.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"831\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25352\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popping up on eBay, pictures of two portraits of Lovecraft from the fan publications of the 1970s. The now-superseded Bibliotheca &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/05\/16\/lovecraft-portraits-in-1970s-zines\/\">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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25350","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=25350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}