{"id":25944,"date":"2019-05-22T05:33:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T02:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=25944"},"modified":"2019-05-22T05:33:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T02:33:15","slug":"herbert-west-reanimator-a-two-hour-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/05\/22\/herbert-west-reanimator-a-two-hour-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Herbert West: Reanimator &#8211;  a two-hour reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sffaudio.com\/the-sffaudio-podcast-526-audiobook-herbert-west-reanimator-by-h-p-lovecraft\/\">The SFFaudio Podcast #526<\/a> is a full two-hour unabridged audiobook reading of &#8220;Herbert West: Reanimator&#8221; by H.P. Lovecraft, read by Jim Moon.  Apparently it&#8217;s a re-run of a <em>Hypnogoria<\/em> podcast that I can&#8217;t immediately find and may no longer be available.  &#8220;Herbert West&#8221; was of course the serial &#8216;shocker&#8217; that Lovecraft wrote for <em>Home Brew<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Looking for the <em>Hypnogoria<\/em> original of this audio reading, I was pleased to discover <a href=\"http:\/\/hypnogoria.libsyn.com\/microgoria-65-shiver-and-shake-and-the-creepy-creations-of-ken-reid\">Hypnogoria: Microgoria #65 &#8211; <em>Shiver and Shake<\/em> and the Creepy Creations of Ken Reid<\/a>.  33 minutes of podcast surveying a British master of fun cartoon monster-creation.<\/p>\n<p>Ken Reid has a series of handsome book re-issues, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2EmhOAe\">Creepy Creations Vol 1.<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2LVWWWZ\">Faceache Vol 1: The First Hundred Scrunges<\/a><\/em>, and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2LX4k4r\">Ken Reid&#8217;s World Wide Weirdies Vol. 1<\/a><\/em>.  His work will be fondly remembered by those of a certain generation.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/scrunge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/scrunge.jpg?w=228\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-25945\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wonder if anyone still has that old cardboard &#8220;dial-a-monster&#8221; picture-frame from that time, which one could get through the mail and I for one had a copy of (long lost, now).  It was an early generative work, as millions of unique combinations were possible, there being circular dials which would swing a variety of eyes, hair, chins, noses etc into the picture-frame portrait.  They were designed so they would all more or less seamlessly blend together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s The SFFaudio Podcast #526 is a full two-hour unabridged audiobook reading of &#8220;Herbert West: Reanimator&#8221; by H.P. Lovecraft, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/05\/22\/herbert-west-reanimator-a-two-hour-reading\/\">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":[12,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts","category-podcasts-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25944","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=25944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}