{"id":63707,"date":"2024-03-31T21:08:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T21:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=63707"},"modified":"2024-04-15T12:20:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T12:20:43","slug":"c-s-lewis-likely-read-lovecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2024\/03\/31\/c-s-lewis-likely-read-lovecraft\/","title":{"rendered":"C.S. Lewis likely read Lovecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On ploughing through the Tolkien fan-journal <em>Mallorn<\/em>, from #53-64 (current) I discovered that January 1934 was the likely date when C.S. Lewis (the <em>Narnia<\/em> books, and he was also the midwife for <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em>) started paying regular attention to American pulp magazines. This appears to mean <em>Astounding<\/em> magazine, which would mean that he read the magazine&#8217;s chopped-about versions of Lovecraft&#8217;s &#8220;At the Mountains of Madness&#8221; and &#8220;The Shadow Out of Time&#8221;. He may also have read Lovecraft in better form in at least one British book collection, but we can&#8217;t be sure. The problem being that his books became jumbled up with those of his SF-loving live-in girlfriend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On ploughing through the Tolkien fan-journal Mallorn, from #53-64 (current) I discovered that January 1934 was the likely date when &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2024\/03\/31\/c-s-lewis-likely-read-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":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63707","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=63707"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63836,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63707\/revisions\/63836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}