{"id":61786,"date":"2023-10-04T02:28:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T02:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=61786"},"modified":"2023-10-04T01:45:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T01:45:01","slug":"david-mccallums-lovecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/10\/04\/david-mccallums-lovecraft\/","title":{"rendered":"David McCallum&#8217;s Lovecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1970s TV star David McCallum has passed away. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/David_McCallum_UNCLE.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/David_McCallum_UNCLE-528x662.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"662\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-61787\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/David_McCallum_UNCLE-528x662.png 528w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/David_McCallum_UNCLE-768x962.png 768w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/David_McCallum_UNCLE-1226x1536.png 1226w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/David_McCallum_UNCLE.png 1277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A formative but almost-forgotten part of my youth. I remember him in the TV show <em>Sapphire and Steel<\/em> (time-travelling super-agents, &#8216;gothic horror meets TV sci-fi&#8217;) and in <em>The Man from U.N.C.L.E.<\/em> spy-thriller movies as shown on TV. <\/p>\n<p><em>Sapphire and Steel<\/em> is a British sci-fi show which I (and most others) had forgotten, but I vaguely recall enjoying it a lot&#8230; and I may well revisit it now.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, David McCallum also recorded vinyl L.P. records of Lovecraft tales, for the Caedmon label. As you might expect, these are now on Archive.org&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/caedmon-hp-lovecraft-rats-in-the-walls\">&#8220;The Rats in the Walls&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/dunwich-horror-read-by-david-mccallum\">&#8220;The Dunwich Horror&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/haunter-of-the-dark-read-by-david-mc-callum\">&#8220;The Haunter of the Dark&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ratsmc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ratsmc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"524\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-61788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ratsmc.jpg 580w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ratsmc-528x524.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1970s TV star David McCallum has passed away. A formative but almost-forgotten part of my youth. I remember him in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/10\/04\/david-mccallums-lovecraft\/\">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-61786","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\/61786","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=61786"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61818,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61786\/revisions\/61818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}