{"id":54539,"date":"2022-05-24T03:08:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T03:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=54539"},"modified":"2022-05-24T05:20:06","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T05:20:06","slug":"new-book-the-call-of-cthulhu-and-other-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/05\/24\/new-book-the-call-of-cthulhu-and-other-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"New book: The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leslie S. Klinger has a new collected edition of Lovecraft tales, <em>The Call of Cthulhu: And Other Stories<\/em>.  It&#8217;s billed as an &#8220;annotated primer&#8221; for Lovecraft, and is a cut-down version of his two-volume oversized <em>Annotated H.P. Lovecraft<\/em>. &#8220;Cut-down&#8221; here still means over 400 pages. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hplovecraft.com\/writings\/sources\/ccos.aspx\">selection and ordering<\/a> is sound, as an introduction for those new to Lovecraft.<\/p>\n<p>Beware of what you&#8217;re getting from Amazon, though. As their buttons will happily switch you through to a shovelware Kindle book with the same title but not by Klinger. It appears the new May 2022 Klinger book is only available in paperback.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully the cover is classy and doesn&#8217;t have Cthulhu focused on menacing puny humans, as if he&#8217;s just a big dumb Godzilla-like monster. I also like how the &#8216;mountain&#8217; aspect is conveyed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/klingercover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/klingercover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"274\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54540\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leslie S. Klinger has a new collected edition of Lovecraft tales, The Call of Cthulhu: And Other Stories. It&#8217;s billed &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/05\/24\/new-book-the-call-of-cthulhu-and-other-stories\/\">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-54539","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\/54539","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=54539"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54571,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54539\/revisions\/54571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}