{"id":63301,"date":"2024-02-27T03:28:06","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T03:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=63301"},"modified":"2024-02-26T13:54:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T13:54:57","slug":"completely-weird-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2024\/02\/27\/completely-weird-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Completely Weird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now on eBay, a <a href=\"https:\/\/picclick.co.uk\/RARE-Complete-Set-of-Weird-Tales-Pulp-364511424705.html\">&#8220;COMPLETE SET of <em>Weird Tales<\/em>&#8220;<\/a>. Yours for a mere \u00a3118,310 (about $150,000).<\/p>\n<p>Some nice cover scans are to be found on the listing, including this one which I don&#8217;t recall seeing before&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/whisperingthingwtapril23.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/whisperingthingwtapril23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"779\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-63302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/whisperingthingwtapril23.jpg 1084w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/whisperingthingwtapril23-528x779.jpg 528w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/whisperingthingwtapril23-768x1134.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/whisperingthingwtapril23-1041x1536.jpg 1041w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Archive.org can only provide one abysmal and one very-poor cover scan for this issue. Despite the alluring cover, this was an issue from before the &#8216;golden age of <em>WT&#8217;<\/em> run started. Lovecraft would not appear in his own right until February 1924, and even then it was the over-the-top self-parody &#8220;The Hound&#8221;. But March 1924 saw his &#8220;The Rats in the Walls&#8221; and the bumper May\u2013June\u2013July 1924 issue had his &#8220;Hypnos&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now on eBay, a &#8220;COMPLETE SET of Weird Tales&#8220;. Yours for a mere \u00a3118,310 (about $150,000). Some nice cover scans &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2024\/02\/27\/completely-weird-2\/\">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":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odd-scratchings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63301","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=63301"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63308,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63301\/revisions\/63308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}