{"id":3594,"date":"2011-11-16T06:34:10","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T03:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=3594"},"modified":"2011-11-16T06:34:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T03:34:10","slug":"new-york-times-obit-for-les-daniels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2011\/11\/16\/new-york-times-obit-for-les-daniels\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times obit. for Les Daniels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/15\/books\/les-daniels-historian-of-comic-books-dies-at-68.html\">obituary for Les Daniels<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Les_Daniels\">horror author<\/a> of Providence, and &#8220;one of the earliest historians of comic books&#8221; with books such as <em>Comix: A History of Comic Books In America<\/em> (1971).  <\/p>\n<p>Also&#8230; &#8220;The subject of his master\u2019s thesis was the horror author H.P. Lovecraft&#8221; and he <a href=\"http:\/\/chrisperridas.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/lovecrafts-legacy-1990-lex-daniels.html\">wrote on Lovecraft<\/a> for the local Providence press.  It seems S.T. Joshi has a section on the Daniels vampire novels, in the book <em>The Evolution of the Weird Tale<\/em>. Joshi also suggests, in one interview, that Daniels&#8217;s <em>Living in Fear: A History of Horror in the Mass Media<\/em> (1975)&#8230; &#8220;is probably the best we have, but of course it is very much out of date&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times obituary for Les Daniels &mdash; horror author of Providence, and &#8220;one of the earliest historians of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2011\/11\/16\/new-york-times-obit-for-les-daniels\/\">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":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3594","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=3594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}