{"id":31203,"date":"2019-09-08T05:36:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T02:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=31203"},"modified":"2022-04-24T21:59:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T21:59:59","slug":"a-new-howard-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/09\/08\/a-new-howard-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"A &#8216;new&#8217; Howard letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/howardhistory.com\/2019\/09\/06\/new-howard-letter\/\">\u201cNew\u201d R.E. Howard Letter<\/a>, which had been hiding in plain sight in &#8216;The Eyrie&#8217; in the <em>Weird Tales<\/em> issue for May 1926.<\/p>\n<p>Howard recommends Nordic stories to the editor and readers. He singles out the <em>Grettir the Outlaw<\/em> vampire story from Iceland, presumably in the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/grettiroutlawsto00bari\/page\/n5\">Sabine Baring-Gould translation<\/a> (1890) rather than William Morris (1869) &mdash; though Howard scholars may know otherwise. But possibly younger readers of <em>Weird Tales<\/em> may equally have found it via Allen French&#8217;s popular and streamlined retelling for children <em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/storyofgrettirst00fren\/page\/n5\">The Story Of Grettir The Strong<\/a><\/em> (1908) in their public library. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>It would probably be useful for scholars to have a &#8220;complete Eyrie and Souk&#8221; to 1945, compiled into a single PDF with good OCR, once all the <em>Weird Tales<\/em> scans and related titles are on Archive.org.  Or someone might produce an annotated and indexed ebook of such.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A \u201cNew\u201d R.E. Howard Letter, which had been hiding in plain sight in &#8216;The Eyrie&#8217; in the Weird Tales issue &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/09\/08\/a-new-howard-letter\/\">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":[8,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-reh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31203","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=31203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53799,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31203\/revisions\/53799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}