{"id":54043,"date":"2022-05-03T03:41:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T03:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=54043"},"modified":"2022-05-03T00:01:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T00:01:41","slug":"the-dark-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/05\/03\/the-dark-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dark Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/librivox.org\/short-poetry-collection-227-by-various\/\">short-poetry collection<\/a> from Libivox, a public-domain reading of the poem &#8220;The Dark Pool&#8221; by <em>Weird Tales<\/em> editor Farnsworth Wright, published as by &#8216;Francis Hard&#8217; in the April 1925 edition &mdash; along with the Lovecraft\/Eddy collaboration &#8220;Deaf, Dumb and Blind&#8221; and &#8220;The Wind That Tramps The World&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/wright-pool.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/wright-pool.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"832\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-54044\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/wright-pool.jpg 647w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/wright-pool-528x832.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Did the editor pop other poems in, when there was a page to fill? No. This seems to be his only one during the Lovecraft years. But he did have two in the magazine in early 1923, before his editorship&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>* &#8220;The Closing Hand&#8221; in <em>Weird Tales<\/em> (March 1923).<\/p>\n<p>* &#8220;The Snake Fiend&#8221; in <em>Weird Tales<\/em> (April 1923).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Dark Pool&#8221; runs to two minutes in a fine and well-paced reading.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, over in Canada&#8230; Lovecraft&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/nowtoronto.com\/events\/concert-or-performance-two-weird-tales\">&#8220;At The Mountains of Madness&#8221;<\/a> in an hour, on stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest short-poetry collection from Libivox, a public-domain reading of the poem &#8220;The Dark Pool&#8221; by Weird Tales editor &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/05\/03\/the-dark-pool\/\">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":[12,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts","category-podcasts-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54043","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=54043"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54064,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54043\/revisions\/54064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}