{"id":41912,"date":"2020-09-03T05:14:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T02:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=41912"},"modified":"2022-04-24T21:58:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T21:58:42","slug":"howard-in-the-souk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/09\/03\/howard-in-the-souk\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard in The Souk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New on Archive.org, and seemingly for the first time there, a scan of the pulp <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/oriental-stories-v-02n-03-1932-summer-ifc-ibc\/page\/425\/mode\/2up\"><em>Oriental Stories<\/em> for Summer 1932<\/a>. It has extensive commentary in <em>The Souk<\/em> on the historicity of R.E. Howard&#8217;s depiction of wine in his then-recent story &#8220;Lord of Samarcand&#8221;. Howard responded in the January 1933 issue (not online), by which time the title had been re-named <em>The Magic Carpet Magazine<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/souk-1932.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/souk-1932.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"378\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-41914\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m unsure if Lovecraft would have read <em>Oriental Stories<\/em> in summer 1932, and anyway studies in the history of Near, Middle and Far East were not generally a subject he favoured with much attention. Although I recall he undertook a long bout of intensive reading on Abyssinia, which likely then informed <em>Dream-Quest<\/em> &mdash; but that&#8217;s Eastern Africa, now Ethiopia, so is a bit too far south and although adjacent to Arabia it has a different religious culture. Yet he certainly had a lifelong interest in alcohol and prohibition and would have perused the <em>Oriental Studies<\/em> notes with interest had he seen them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New on Archive.org, and seemingly for the first time there, a scan of the pulp Oriental Stories for Summer 1932. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/09\/03\/howard-in-the-souk\/\">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":[8,21,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-odd-scratchings","category-reh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41912","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=41912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53791,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41912\/revisions\/53791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}