{"id":48980,"date":"2021-08-07T03:58:16","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T00:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=48980"},"modified":"2022-07-07T21:21:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T21:21:36","slug":"lovecraft-studies-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/08\/07\/lovecraft-studies-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovecraft Studies #8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Need something to tide you over until the new <em>Lovecraft Annual<\/em> appears? New on Archive.org is <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/lovecraft-studies-8\/mode\/2up\"><em>Lovecraft Studies<\/em> #8<\/a> (Spring 1984). Not previously available online as a scan, it seems. <\/p>\n<p>Contents:<\/p>\n<p>* &#8220;Demythologizing Cthulhu&#8221; by Robert M. Price. (Asking how seriously did Lovecraft take his creations, and how did he demythologise them as time went on?)<\/p>\n<p>* &#8220;The Dunwich Chimera and Others&#8221; by Will Murray. (Possible undetected influence of classical myth on Lovecraft&#8217;s creations?)<\/p>\n<p>* &#8220;Cthulhu&#8217;s Scald: Lovecraft and the Nordic Tradition&#8221; by Jason Eckhart. (Possible undetected influence of Nordic myth on Lovecraft&#8217;s creations?) <\/p>\n<p>* &#8220;Lovecraft in the Foreign Press, 1971-1982&#8221; by S. T. Joshi.<\/p>\n<p>Short reviews: <\/p>\n<p>H.P. Lovecraft, <em>Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre<\/em> (Ballantine).<\/p>\n<p>H.P. Lovecraft, <em>Uncollected Prose and Poetry<\/em> (Necronomicon Press).<\/p>\n<p>Cover by Jason Eckhart.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/coverls8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/coverls8.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"327\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-48981\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Need something to tide you over until the new Lovecraft Annual appears? New on Archive.org is Lovecraft Studies #8 (Spring &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/08\/07\/lovecraft-studies-8\/\">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":[12,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48980","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=48980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55728,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48980\/revisions\/55728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}