{"id":33615,"date":"2019-11-23T05:56:02","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T02:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=33615"},"modified":"2019-11-23T05:56:02","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T02:56:02","slug":"a-visit-with-h-p-lovecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/11\/23\/a-visit-with-h-p-lovecraft\/","title":{"rendered":"A Visit with H. P. Lovecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Currently for sale at $100 via AbeBooks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abebooks.com\/servlet\/BookDetailsPL?bi=30498540235&amp;cm_mmc=aff-_-ir-_-PLA-_-v01\"><em>Science-Fantasy Correspondent<\/em> #2 (1937)<\/a>. Containing Bloch&#8217;s story &#8220;A Visit with H. P. Lovecraft&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/science_fantasy_correspondent_193701-02_v1_n2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/science_fantasy_correspondent_193701-02_v1_n2.jpg?w=216\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-33616\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joshi&#8217;s bibliography lists it as &#8220;fictional reminiscence&#8221; re: its reprint in the book <em>Lovecraft At Last<\/em>, and comments elsewhere reveal it to be a &#8220;hilarious&#8221; bit of humorous writing.  A little further digging reveals it to have been reprinted more recently in the appendix of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2qrB9wu\">H.P. Lovecraft: Letters to Robert Bloch and Others<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>An earlier and fuller sales listing for the original zine has found its way to the Amazon description, and this notes&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the story, Lovecraft is depicted as eating the writer of the story. Lovecraft comments separately &#8220;&#8230;I seldom eat people alive except for Sunday dinner. As a general thing, I prefer human flesh cooked; and I generally avoid authors as a diet, since they tend to be lean and tasteless.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Regrettably the story\/zine is not scanned and on Archive.org or in the Hevelin online collection.  I imagine a crowd-funder for a comics adaptation of it might do rather well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently for sale at $100 via AbeBooks, Science-Fantasy Correspondent #2 (1937). Containing Bloch&#8217;s story &#8220;A Visit with H. P. Lovecraft&#8221;. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/11\/23\/a-visit-with-h-p-lovecraft\/\">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":[8,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-odd-scratchings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33615","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=33615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}