{"id":28327,"date":"2019-07-18T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T02:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=28327"},"modified":"2019-07-18T05:00:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T02:00:21","slug":"new-book-h-p-lovecraft-selected-essays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/07\/18\/new-book-h-p-lovecraft-selected-essays\/","title":{"rendered":"New book: H. P. Lovecraft: Selected Essays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/necropress.com\/h-p-lovecraft-selected-essays\/\">H. P. Lovecraft: Selected Essays<\/a><\/em>. Due for shipping 1st August 2019 from Necronomicon Press and pre-ordering now.  &#8220;His best and most representative essays&#8221; in 300 pages.  Assembled by S.T. Joshi, but there&#8217;s no mention of annotations or expanded annotations by him. The <em>Collected Essays<\/em> set from 2005 does have annotations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/essays-front-cover-web__06514.1561323595.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/essays-front-cover-web__06514.1561323595.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"791\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28328\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think the cover art is meant to look distorted, and its strange stretching upwards is meant to convey &#8216;weirdness&#8217;?  Because if I try to fix it in Photoshop, the type is squished and stretched in turn and the background elements don&#8217;t look right.<\/p>\n<p>Also new and shipping on the same date, a 66-page booklet, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/necropress.com\/joan-stanley-ex-libris-miskatonici-a-catalogue-of-selected-items-from-the-special-collections-in-the-miskatonic-university-library\/\">Ex Libris Miskatonici: A Catalogue of Selected Items from the Special Collections in the Miskatonic University Library<\/a><\/em>. A guide to the Library&#8217;s special collections and details of each of the key books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H. P. Lovecraft: Selected Essays. Due for shipping 1st August 2019 from Necronomicon Press and pre-ordering now. &#8220;His best and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/07\/18\/new-book-h-p-lovecraft-selected-essays\/\">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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28327","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=28327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}