{"id":28226,"date":"2019-07-11T05:43:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T02:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=28226"},"modified":"2019-07-11T05:43:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T02:43:20","slug":"audio-the-horror-in-the-burying-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/07\/11\/audio-the-horror-in-the-burying-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Audio: The Horror in the Burying-Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D4mGazmMehc\">&#8220;The Horror in the Burying-Ground&#8221; by H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald<\/a> (c. 1933-34). Newly recorded as a free 35 minute audio story, narrated by Ian Gordon, who always does a good reading.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Lovecraft Encyclopedia<\/em> suggests that, given the dating, Lovecraft was having some fun with the story and was not taking it overly seriously&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>this is evidently the last of the tales he ghostwrote for her. Much of the story is narrated in a backwoods patois [and was likely meant,] if not as an actual [self]parody, at least as an instance of graveyard humor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nevertheless it found its way to <em>Weird Tales<\/em> and was <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/WeirdTalesV29N05193705\/page\/n85\">published May 1937<\/a> under Heald&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/heald.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/heald.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-28227\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>One wonders if the illustration&#8217;s somewhat Lovecraft-like head, looking over the shoulder of and spooking a vaguely Heald-like face, was meant to convey anything to <em>Weird Tales<\/em> insiders?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Horror in the Burying-Ground&#8221; by H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald (c. 1933-34). Newly recorded as a free 35 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/07\/11\/audio-the-horror-in-the-burying-ground\/\">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-28226","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\/28226","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=28226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}