{"id":55981,"date":"2022-08-02T05:17:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T05:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=55981"},"modified":"2022-08-02T14:52:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T14:52:10","slug":"weirdmongers-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/08\/02\/weirdmongers-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"Weirdmonger&#8217;s Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stjoshi.org\/news2022.html\">S.T. Joshi&#8217;s blog<\/a> has updated. He&#8217;s undertaking the finishing of his forthcoming volume&#8230; &#8220;<em>The Horror Fiction Index<\/em> &#8230; a comprehensive listing of single-author story collections, beginning in 1808&#8243; listing bibliographic basics including tables-of-contents. Apparently much of the work on the volume was done some years ago, but then put aside.  It sounds like it&#8217;s now mostly done and runs to 3,000 titles, but he&#8217;s now seeking help identifying reliable tables-of-contents for a number of books, which are listed.<\/p>\n<p>I picked one, intrigued by the title, and can now provide the TOC for <em>The Weirdmonger&#8217;s Tales<\/em> direct from page scans&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>D. F. LEWIS. <em>The Weirdmonger\u2019s Tales<\/em>. Driffield, UK: Wyrd Press, 1994.  64-page chapbook with illustrations.<\/p>\n<p>Preface (introduction).<br \/>\nThe Meaning of Des.<br \/>\nA Long Tail.<br \/>\nNumbskull.<br \/>\nYorick.<br \/>\nGender on Mars.<br \/>\nBeggarman, Thief.<br \/>\nIf Only In A Dream.<br \/>\nSpilt Milk.<br \/>\nSpam.<br \/>\nPrattling Stones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S.T. Joshi&#8217;s blog has updated. He&#8217;s undertaking the finishing of his forthcoming volume&#8230; &#8220;The Horror Fiction Index &#8230; a comprehensive &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/08\/02\/weirdmongers-tales\/\">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":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55981","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=55981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55983,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55981\/revisions\/55983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}