{"id":58712,"date":"2023-03-01T03:03:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T03:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=58712"},"modified":"2023-03-01T19:43:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T19:43:49","slug":"the-man-with-a-thousand-legs-1927","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/03\/01\/the-man-with-a-thousand-legs-1927\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man with a Thousand Legs (1927)"},"content":{"rendered":"

New on Librivox, a public domain reading of Frank Belknap Long’s “The Man with a Thousand Legs”<\/a> (Weird Tales<\/em>, August 1927<\/a> — warning: full-view header illustration is a plot-spoiler).<\/p>\n

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“… a completely unrepentant shocker from 1927 that calls itself ‘The Man with a Thousand Legs’ and lives 100 percent up to its title.” (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction<\/em>, 1973)<\/p>\n

“… that marvel of many viewpoints, ‘The Man with a Thousand Legs'” (Pulp Magazine Thrillers<\/em>, 1998)<\/p>\n

“… we must remember it was written in 1927, and is rather good SF for that period” (Luna Monthly<\/em>, 1972)<\/p>\n

A couple of years ago Dark Worlds Quarterly<\/a><\/em> had a long appreciation and summary of the tale. The tale’s fragmentary pieced-together structure and its opening illustration<\/a> (see that full heading after reading the tale) might seem at first glance to be bouncing off a reading of Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu”. Although to Weird Tales<\/em> readers it might have appeared that the February 1928 published “Cthulhu” was actually following Long, rather than other way around.<\/p>\n

As Dark Worlds<\/em> usefully points out there was a later slightly revised version of “The Man with a Thousand Legs” in Magazine Of Horror And Strange Stories<\/a><\/em> (August 1963), which removed a few touches that made it sound dated in the early 1960s. Later it was included in the Arkham House collection of Long’s stories, The Rim of the Unknown<\/em> (1972). Presumably that was the 1963 version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New on Librivox, a public domain reading of Frank Belknap Long’s “The Man with a Thousand Legs” (Weird Tales, August …<\/p>\n

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