{"id":53185,"date":"2022-03-22T03:37:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T03:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurn.org\/tentaclii\/?p=53185"},"modified":"2022-03-22T03:37:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T03:37:18","slug":"lovecraft-in-the-backpack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/03\/22\/lovecraft-in-the-backpack\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovecraft in the backpack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A peep inside the 1945 Armed Services overseas paperback edition of <em>The Dunwich Horror and Other Weird Tales<\/em>. This could have been what the soldiers and airmen were reading as they waited for D-Day. It was incredibly damp in England (more so than usual in a British summer) in the run-up to the invasion of Europe, and indoor pursuits such as reading were thus highly likely. After that, the men were probably rather too busy for reading. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/Dunwich-long.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/Dunwich-long.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"484\" height=\"1744\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53195\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wonder if the thinking was that such reading would prepare the men for the horrors of battle with the Nazis? Wells&#8217;s <em>The Island of Dr Moreau<\/em> was also on the slate, in the list in the back.<\/p>\n<p>Is there a publication history of this item that can reveal the facts? Perhaps in one of the Derleth biographies?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Dunwich Horror&#8221; was also <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/SuspenseTheDunwichHorror1111945\">on the radio in 1945<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A peep inside the 1945 Armed Services overseas paperback edition of The Dunwich Horror and Other Weird Tales. This could &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/03\/22\/lovecraft-in-the-backpack\/\">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-53185","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\/53185","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=53185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}