{"id":34253,"date":"2020-01-01T10:33:26","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T07:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=34253"},"modified":"2020-01-01T10:33:26","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T07:33:26","slug":"december-on-tentaclii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/01\/01\/december-on-tentaclii\/","title":{"rendered":"December on Tentaclii"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Tis the bleak midwinter, and in the grate the faint embers of the yule-log flicker and wither. My Patreon also withers, having lost two patrons since I departed from the daily posting schedule. If you can help out with just $1 or $2 a month<\/a>, please, and so push it above the current $53… then then would be most encouraging for 2020. I still have hopes of $100 a month.<\/p>\n

My thanks to my December patrons, though, who’ve enabled me to fortuitously acquire another two books. These being Lovecraft’s letters to Moe and to Bloch, bagged when I spotted them at \u00a311-\u00a312 Amazon “Warehouse Deals” inc. free shipping. So, half-price, basically. Slightly imperfect, with cover scuffs and slight bumping, but I don’t mind that. They’re perfectly intact otherwise. Thank you, also, to the Lightning Source print-machine maintenance elves… your scuffs have now saved me a bundle on three books! The Moe and Bloch books been added to the reading pile for early summer 2020.<\/p>\n

I was able to hold back some snowy scenes from last summer’s very deep dive into Lovecraft’s College St… and these pictures became “Solstice special: College St. in the snow”. This proved to be a very popular post. I still have a few more such pictures, which may appear here when the the snows are chin-high this winter, plus another excellent no-snow picture that will appear here next May on the date that Lovecraft moved into No. 66 College St.<\/p>\n

It was a quiet month at Tentaclii Towers. No new print books to notice, but scholarship noted here in December included the publication of the journal Dead Reckonings<\/em> No. 26. I also made more additions to my “Open Lovecraft” page. <\/p>\n

In games, I noted that “Open Cthulhu” is now online, which bodes well for the future of indie Lovecraftian RPGs.<\/p>\n

It was good to see the release of Librivox\u2019s audiobook anthology Lovecraft\u2019s Influences and Favorites<\/em>, and this collection provides a core around which a wider set of audio readings might be assembled.<\/p>\n

Various bits of art were posted here, including a unique t-shirt ready .PNG for my Patreon patrons.<\/p>\n

After the new(?) audiobook H.P. Lovecraft \u2013 The Collaborations<\/em> from the HPLHS, the month’s big creative news was that the Game of Thrones<\/em> writers are adapting the graphic novel Lovecraft<\/em> (2003). It’s rumoured to be set to become a movie. I also undertook a quick survey of the big movies coming in 2020, and it seems set to be a far better screen-year than the lacklustre and disappointing 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘Tis the bleak midwinter, and in the grate the faint embers of the yule-log flicker and wither. My Patreon also …<\/p>\n

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