{"id":62479,"date":"2023-12-13T02:23:49","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T02:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=62479"},"modified":"2023-12-12T10:36:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T10:36:31","slug":"popular-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/12\/13\/popular-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Popping up on Archive.org, a scan of <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/the-popular-magazine-v-11-n-03-1908-07\"><em>The Popular Magazine<\/em> for July 1908<\/a>.  Let&#8217;s take a look at what might have appealed to Lovecraft. Joshi has him regularly reading&#8230; &#8220;Street &#038; Smith\u2019s <em>Popular Magazine<\/em> around 1905\u201310&#8243;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/popmag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/popmag.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"499\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cover: finishing from the deck of a crowded passenger boat. Hmmm, somewhat lacking in fish-monsters.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the contents, things get more interesting the further toward the back one goes. There one finds items such as&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>THE WHITE MAN&#8217;S GIFT. A tale of stirring adventure on the Patagonian pampas.<\/p>\n<p>THE WHITE VEIL OF MYSTERY. Tells of the coming of two ships to a strange rock in the ocean. <\/p>\n<p>TALES OF THE LOST LEGION. A Series.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Otherwise, conventional historical sea adventures, modern business tricks, mining and gold in the west, prehistoric adventure.<\/p>\n<p>Even the above three pale when looked at more closely. For instance &#8220;White Veil&#8221; has nothing of &#8220;the bells of faery&#8221; about it. &#8220;The Lost Legion&#8221; is not about Ancient Romans and not set in northern England, but is a &#8216;lost race&#8217; tale in America.<\/p>\n<p>There are also a number of half-page fillers, such as this which brings to mind &#8220;The Dunwich Horror&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>THE two heaviest boys in the world live on a farm in Texas, and, although their united ages do not exceed fourteen years, their combined weights total 360 pounds. The elder boy\u2014William Ashcroft \u2014 looks a veritable mountain of flesh &#8230; At five years of age he was as large as a full-grown man.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Otherwise it&#8217;s difficult to see what Lovecraft saw in it, based on this one issue, though it did sometimes carry more unusual material. <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/popularmagazinev009n03190709\/page\/n7\/mode\/2up\">September 1907<\/a>, also on Archive.org, seems equally lacking in any <em>Weird Tales<\/em> type material. My guess is he picked it up for the sequel to Haggard&#8217;s famous <em>She<\/em>  in early 1905, and soon after bagged a discounted three-year subscription. It certainly was good value, 224 pages a month for 15 cents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popping up on Archive.org, a scan of The Popular Magazine for July 1908. Let&#8217;s take a look at what might &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/12\/13\/popular-magazine\/\">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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62479","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=62479"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62484,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62479\/revisions\/62484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}