{"id":42844,"date":"2020-10-04T18:57:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T15:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=42844"},"modified":"2020-10-04T18:57:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T15:57:42","slug":"more-on-lovecraft-in-harlem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/10\/04\/more-on-lovecraft-in-harlem\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Lovecraft in Harlem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dipping at random into my newly arrived book of <em>Letters to Donald and Howard Wandrei<\/em> has yielded up a new addition to my recent Harlem post at <em>Tentaclii<\/em>.  In a 1927 letter Lovecraft talks of the sights the lad must see in New York, and one of these was Harlem&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>sinister and fascinating &mdash; not a white face for blocks. Lenox Ave. subway to 125th St. &mdash; walk north.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This most likely indicates a route Lovecraft was familiar with. Possibly the one he took to visit Morton, who lived in a Harlem brownstone, or one that Morton took to give Lovecraft a taste of Harlem.  We know from Lovecraft&#8217;s day-by-day 1925 <em>Diary<\/em> that he made a trip into Harlem at least once.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update: There was at least one meeting of the Kalem Club in Harlem, at Morton&#8217;s place in the heat of August 1924, and this is attested by a Lovecraft letter in <em>Letters to Family<\/em> and a mention in Kirk&#8217;s Diary.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Also found was a new addition to the &#8216;Lovecraft as character&#8217; list, albeit not extant.  In a 1931 letter Lovecraft revealed that Frank Belknap Long was busy writing a novel with Lovecraft and his circle as lightly-veiled characters. This work has evidently not survived. Although Long&#8217;s \u201cThe Black Druid\u201d (1930) has, in which Lovecraft is the lightly-veiled &#8220;Stephen Benefield&#8221;.  Possibly the novel was an expansion of \u201cThe Black Druid\u201d?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dipping at random into my newly arrived book of Letters to Donald and Howard Wandrei has yielded up a new &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/10\/04\/more-on-lovecraft-in-harlem\/\">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":[8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-lovecraft-as-character"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42844","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=42844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}