{"id":59900,"date":"2023-05-24T03:06:57","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T03:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=59900"},"modified":"2023-05-24T12:37:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T12:37:21","slug":"the-lurker-on-the-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/05\/24\/the-lurker-on-the-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lurker on the Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A nice scan of a supposed &#8220;H.P. Lovecraft&#8221; novel, newly popped up on honest Abe&#8217;s sales site. The cover demonstrates that, even as late as 1993-95, the average person could pick up a Derleth paperback at a news-stand book-spinner rack&#8230; and think it was by Lovecraft. In fact, just over 1,000 words by Lovecraft, with the rest of the novel by Derleth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/derleth-1993-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/derleth-1993.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"865\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-59901\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The British publisher Panther was rather more honest in 1973-75, admitting up-front on the cover that it was likely to be a Derleth stitch-a-thon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hplad_lurkerat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hplad_lurkerat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59902\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, for a book that supposedly shifted some 100,000+ copies in all, an Amazon UK search suggests it&#8217;s now thoroughly out-of-print and has no audiobook. Are the currently owners of Derleth&#8217;s estate missing a trick there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nice scan of a supposed &#8220;H.P. Lovecraft&#8221; novel, newly popped up on honest Abe&#8217;s sales site. The cover demonstrates &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/05\/24\/the-lurker-on-the-cover\/\">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-59900","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\/59900","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=59900"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59916,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59900\/revisions\/59916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}