{"id":45565,"date":"2021-02-25T12:12:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T09:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=45565"},"modified":"2021-02-25T12:12:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T09:12:20","slug":"new-book-lovecraft-the-great-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/02\/25\/new-book-lovecraft-the-great-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"New book: Lovecraft: The Great Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John D. Haefele, August Derleth specialist and author of <em>A Look Behind the Derleth Mythos<\/em>, has now published a book surveying H.P. Lovecraft&#8217;s tales. <em>Lovecraft: The Great Tales<\/em> is a 760-page doorstopper that (so the blurb has it) &#8220;defies critical orthodoxy&#8221;. The book is available now, and a perusal of Amazon UK suggests it&#8217;s currently paperback-only at \u00a319 (listed at $25 in the USA). No ebook at present. From a mini-review in <em>Publisher&#8217;s Weekly<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He provides some surprising interpretations, such as that \u201cThe Haunter of the Dark,\u201d which features a lead named Robert Blake, was not inspired by Robert Bloch\u2019s \u201cThe Shambler from the Stars,\u201d as is commonly believed. Haefele even offers a radical take on the twist ending of one of the major long tales, \u201cThe Whisperer in Darkness,\u201d suggesting that the alien imposter is in fact Lovecraft himself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John D. Haefele, August Derleth specialist and author of A Look Behind the Derleth Mythos, has now published a book &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/02\/25\/new-book-lovecraft-the-great-tales\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45565","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=45565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}