{"id":7140,"date":"2013-05-22T19:44:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T16:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=7140"},"modified":"2013-05-22T19:44:15","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T16:44:15","slug":"basil-copper-1924-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2013\/05\/22\/basil-copper-1924-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Basil Copper (1924-2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Guardian<\/em> newspaper has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2013\/apr\/14\/basil-copper\">obituary on the death of Basil Copper<\/a>, the British author of the Lovecraftian mythos novel <em>The Great White Space<\/em> (1974) and much else. This novel seems regarded by some as a favorite of early Derleth-era mythos fiction and which was republished a few weeks ago <a href=\"http:\/\/valancourtbooks.com\/catalogue\/twentiethcentury\/the-great-white-space-1974.html\">as an official budget-price Kindle ebook<\/a> (warning: plot spoilers early in the blurb) from Valencourt Books. If you can find them, key recent books on Basil Copper are: the bio-bibliography <em>Basil Copper: a life in books<\/em> (2008) published as a 300-copy limited edition; and a fine two-volume collection <em>Darkness, Mist &amp; Shadow: the collected macabre tales of Basil Copper<\/em> (2010) which is now out-of-print.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian newspaper has an obituary on the death of Basil Copper, the British author of the Lovecraftian mythos novel &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2013\/05\/22\/basil-copper-1924-2013\/\">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":[12,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts","category-new-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7140","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=7140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}