{"id":26279,"date":"2019-06-01T05:37:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T02:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=26279"},"modified":"2019-06-01T05:37:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T02:37:48","slug":"lovecrafts-bloody-fingerprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/06\/01\/lovecrafts-bloody-fingerprint\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovecraft’s bloody fingerprint"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newly up for sale, a short letter \/ postcard<\/a> from Lovecraft in his Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath<\/em> period<\/a>. The description is from bookseller James Cummins, and states…<\/p>\n

The first paragraph of this note was published in the Arkham House collected correspondence and in Joshi & Schultz [i.e. the Letters books]; the second paragraph has remained unpublished until now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

From this second “unpublished” paragraph we learn that writing a work of Kadath<\/em>‘s length proved to be slow-going, and was not (as some might have assumed) the rapid and enjoyable dashing-off of a free-wheeling draft. We also see how Lovecraft preferred to work on one tale at a time, and felt he had to get Kadath<\/em> out of the way in order to do something else. Lovecraft finishes by mentioning that he’s discovered a new artist of the weird, but doesn’t name him. Though there appears to be some miniscule writing inserted above, which might be the name?<\/p>\n

I also like Lovecraft’s description of a story as a “hair-raiser deluxe!”<\/p>\n

Perhaps just as interesting is what appears to be Lovecraft’s fingerprint in blood, which raises the possibility of chemical analysis of Lovecraft’s blood. I assume that advanced 21st century forensics could achieve something<\/em> with it, even at this great distance in time. Though perhaps not as much as some would like — such as resurrection via a cloned baby Lovecraft, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Newly up for sale, a short letter \/ postcard from Lovecraft in his Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath period. The description …<\/p>\n

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