{"id":44582,"date":"2021-01-25T05:33:43","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T02:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=44582"},"modified":"2021-01-25T05:33:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T02:33:43","slug":"the-book-of-iod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/01\/25\/the-book-of-iod\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book of Iod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Nocturnal Revelries<\/em> extracts Henry Kuttner\u2019s <em>The Book of Iod: The Eater of Souls and other Tales<\/em> from the vaults and <a href=\"https:\/\/nocturnalrevelries.com\/2021\/01\/17\/henry-kuttners-the-book-of-iod\/\">gives it a new review<\/a>. This was one of Robert M. Price&#8217;s usefully affordable &#8216;cycle&#8217; collections, made for wide distribution by RPG company Chaosium in the mid 1990s.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Not Derlethian formula and not&#8230; &#8220;hugely original, but they are least varied&#8221; [&#8230;] &#8220;Some of the stories are so shamelessly Lovecraftian that they almost read like rewritten versions of Lovecraft\u2019s work. &#8220;The Black Kiss&#8221; comes directly from &#8220;The Shadow over Innsmouth&#8221;. &#8220;The Salem Horror&#8221; is &#8220;The Dreams in the Witch House&#8221;. &#8220;Hydra&#8221;, &#8220;The Secret of Krallitz&#8221; and a few of the other tales also felt remarkably familiar. Still though, Kuttner was about 21 when he was writing these tales, and after he wrote them, he\u2019d send them to Lovecraft in the post. [&#8230;] Kuttner stopped writing Lovecraftian horror a few years after Lovecraft died, but he continued to write for another 20 years or so. I know Ray Bradbury thought very highly of his writing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With a little contrast adjustment, an eBay listing supplies the complete TOCs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/iod.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/iod.jpg?w=194\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-44584\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/toc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/toc.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"841\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-44592\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nocturnal Revelries extracts Henry Kuttner\u2019s The Book of Iod: The Eater of Souls and other Tales from the vaults and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/01\/25\/the-book-of-iod\/\">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":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odd-scratchings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44582","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=44582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}