{"id":5725,"date":"2012-09-02T14:33:24","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T11:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=5725"},"modified":"2012-09-02T14:33:24","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T11:33:24","slug":"on-lovecrafts-shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2012\/09\/02\/on-lovecrafts-shadow\/","title":{"rendered":"On Lovecraft&#8217;s shadow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff VanderMeer has <a href=\"http:\/\/weirdfictionreview.com\/2012\/09\/moving-past-lovecraft\/\">a lengthy new post<\/a> arguing against the shadow that Lovecraft&#8217;s towering presence casts across contemporary weird fiction. There are a few good points made, especially on how interest in Lovecraft can help rekindle interest in neglected weird writers.<\/p>\n<p>But it seems to me that VanderMeer&#8217;s article is a little stuck in the &#8216;scarcity mindset&#8217; of the old print culture, and also the 20th century vanguardist idea of &#8216;forward progress&#8217; in taste and techniques. In the age of the abundant Web, the Kindle\/POD ecosystem, and our new hybridizing remix cultures, I&#8217;d say there&#8217;s ample space to develop audiences and vehicles for all sorts of varieties of &#8216;the weird&#8217; in fiction &mdash; and beyond.  If one&#8217;s favorite magazine no longer appears to cater for one&#8217;s precise political or aesthetic tastes, then start another that does. <\/p>\n<p>Personally I&#8217;m looking forward to the liberation of short stories from their old prisons in magazines and forest-devouring mega-anthologies, via an Instapaper or Spotify -like re-bundling and delivery service.  Perhaps that will come via a service that offers a free quality &#8216;audio book reading&#8217; to authors and rights holders, on condition that the resulting audio story is distributed via the new service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff VanderMeer has a lengthy new post arguing against the shadow that Lovecraft&#8217;s towering presence casts across contemporary weird fiction. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2012\/09\/02\/on-lovecrafts-shadow\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5725","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=5725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}