{"id":37612,"date":"2020-04-29T05:02:37","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T02:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=37612"},"modified":"2020-04-29T05:02:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T02:02:37","slug":"new-book-fandom-in-the-uk-1939-1945","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/04\/29\/new-book-fandom-in-the-uk-1939-1945\/","title":{"rendered":"New book: Fandom in the UK, 1939-1945"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Hansen&#8217;s new and free ebook <em><a href=\"https:\/\/taff.org.uk\/ebooks.php?x=HomeFront\">HOMEFRONT: Fandom in the UK, 1939-1945<\/a><\/em> may interest those exploring the years immediately after the death of Lovecraft. 163,000 words of primary and memoir material from and about British fandom during the Second World War&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There was a scheme afoot to materialize Lovecraft [among the spiritualist mediums of wartime London]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, there&#8217;s a cue for a new Mythos and Lovecraft-as-character story. Just add some rival Blackshirt occultists, and a guest appearance by Churchill accompanied by his (apparently) wartime industrial-production consultant S. Fowler Wright.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/homefront.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/homefront.jpg?w=214\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-37619\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Hansen&#8217;s new and free ebook HOMEFRONT: Fandom in the UK, 1939-1945 may interest those exploring the years immediately after &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/04\/29\/new-book-fandom-in-the-uk-1939-1945\/\">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":[18,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37612","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=37612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}