{"id":34614,"date":"2020-01-16T12:59:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T09:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=34614"},"modified":"2020-01-16T12:59:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T09:59:10","slug":"witch-craft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/01\/16\/witch-craft\/","title":{"rendered":"Witch-craft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A look at the cover that Greenwood gave <em>The H.P. Lovecraft Companion<\/em> in 1977, a first &#8216;high pass&#8217; over Lovecraft&#8217;s work, written by a Sherlock Holmes fan and newspaper book-critic. The book is usually presented for sale without the dust-jacket, and when it is a nice copy it&#8217;s usually for sale at silly prices. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/comp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/comp.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"926\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-34616\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first section surveys Lovecraft&#8217;s style and opinions of other authors. Then follows a section with brief summaries of nearly 60 stories. There&#8217;s an A-Z of key places, characters and monsters found in the fiction. Then a survey of the pantheonic monsters. The final part briefly outlines Lovecraft&#8217;s pantheon and surveys what he was known to have read re: the occult and witchcraft.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s long since been superseded and the book is probably most interesting today for the choice of the cover picture which taps into &#8220;Witch House&#8221;, rather than into &#8220;Cthulhu&#8221; and tentacles as would be the case today.  Thus the subject matter and 17th century woodcut style would have framed Lovecraft&#8217;s &#8216;first glance&#8217; academic library reception within the mid-70s interest in the New England witch trials. The smiling wizard and the frowning witch also implicitly make an appeal to the then-emerging gender studies crowd in academia, which again links to &#8220;Witch House&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/zoom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/zoom.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"452\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-34618\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/md30541746690.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/md30541746690.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"440\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-34619\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A look at the cover that Greenwood gave The H.P. Lovecraft Companion in 1977, a first &#8216;high pass&#8217; over Lovecraft&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/01\/16\/witch-craft\/\">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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34614","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=34614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}