{"id":34164,"date":"2020-01-13T05:06:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T02:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=34164"},"modified":"2020-01-13T05:06:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T02:06:43","slug":"tally-ho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/01\/13\/tally-ho\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Tally ho!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>MPorcius Fiction Log<\/em> takes another look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/mporcius.blogspot.com\/2019\/12\/weird-tales-winners-by-h-p-lovecraft.html\"><em>Weird Tales<\/em> Winners<\/a>, the subject of his longer blog post <a href=\"https:\/\/mporcius.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/three-weird-tales-winners-by-edmond.html\">back in 2017<\/a>.  Both posts being inspired by the fact that in the <em>World Fantasy Convention 1983 Souvenir Book<\/em> there was&#8230; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>an article in the program [book] by SF historian Sam Moskowitz entitled &#8220;The Most Popular Stories in Weird Tales: 1924 to 1940, with Statistics and Analytical Commentary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Moskowitz had acquired the set of tally-cards used by editor Farnsworth Wright to decide the most liked writers in <em>Weird Tales<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Where to find this article? Sadly only the <em>Pocket Programme<\/em> and <em>Progress Report<\/em> booklets are online for the World Fantasy Convention 1983, not the book itself.  But the Moskowitz article was reprinted more recently in Jim van Hise&#8217;s <em>Sword &amp; Fantasy<\/em> No. 13 (2017), which may prove an alternative route for those who want to obtain a copy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MPorcius Fiction Log takes another look at the Weird Tales Winners, the subject of his longer blog post back &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/01\/13\/tally-ho\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34164","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=34164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}