{"id":47308,"date":"2021-04-28T05:09:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T02:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=47308"},"modified":"2022-04-18T14:16:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T14:16:01","slug":"new-on-archive-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/04\/28\/new-on-archive-org\/","title":{"rendered":"New on Archive.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few snippets from items newly arrived on Archive.org&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. <\/strong>Lovecraft, as understood by a book reviewer for a journal for high school English teachers, January 1946. He reviews the then-new <em>HPL<\/em> by Derleth, and <em>Supernatural Literature<\/em>. This is not to be found in the collection of early Lovecraft criticism, <em>A Weird Writer In Our Midst<\/em>. The reviewer makes the interesting observation that it was only with a long radio dramatization of &#8220;The Dunwich Horror&#8221; that Lovecraft really &#8220;arrived&#8221; in the national consciousness. <\/p>\n<p>Henry I. Christ was, incidentally, a real person and not Derleth using an especially grandiose pen-name.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> Also new is <em>Venus on the half-shell and others<\/em>, collecting various pseudonymous and pen-name tales by Philip Jose Farmer. The introduction briefly itemizes a few of his planned stories in this vein that were never written or completed by Farmer. His interminable <em>Riverworld<\/em> series managed to put me off him for life, after a few books&#8230; but I wouldn&#8217;t have minded reading his take on &#8220;The Feaster from The Stars&#8221;. &#8220;Unfinished&#8221; suggests it exists somewhere as a draft and\/or notes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/feaster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/feaster.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"277\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-47310\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few snippets from items newly arrived on Archive.org&#8230; 1. Lovecraft, as understood by a book reviewer for a journal &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/04\/28\/new-on-archive-org\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47308","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=47308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53643,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47308\/revisions\/53643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}