{"id":293,"date":"2011-02-03T15:02:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T22:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/?p=293"},"modified":"2011-02-03T15:02:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T22:02:00","slug":"new-for-trail-of-cthulhu-the-big-hoodoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/2011\/02\/new-for-trail-of-cthulhu-the-big-hoodoo\/","title":{"rendered":"New for Trail of Cthulhu: The Big Hoodoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just announced at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pelgranepress.com\/?p=3854\">Pelgrane<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Big Hoodoo<\/strong> is Lovecraftian noir in 1950s California with a ripped-from-history plot centered on the explosive death of real-world rocket scientist, science fiction fan, and occultist Jack Parsons in a garage laboratory in 1952. The investigators are iconic figures active in the science fiction scene at the time of Parsons\u2019 death, and their inquiries lead them from the mean streets of Pasadena to the edge of the Mojave Desert and the mountains of southern California as well as the beaches of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Play sci-fi great\u00a0<strong>Robert Heinlein<\/strong>, his ex-Navy engineer wife\u00a0<strong>Virginia<\/strong>, renowned editor and mystery writer<strong> Tony Boucher<\/strong>, or a young<strong> Philip K. Dick<\/strong> as they confront the lunatic fringe in La-La Land, and find themselves caught in a charlatan\u2019s web of chicanery, mendacity, and deceit\u2013laced with a strong strand of Mythos menace.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t read it yet so I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s genius, but from the description it sure deserves to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just announced at Pelgrane: The Big Hoodoo is Lovecraftian noir in 1950s California with a ripped-from-history plot centered on the explosive death of real-world rocket scientist, science fiction fan, and occultist Jack Parsons in a garage laboratory in 1952. The&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/2011\/02\/new-for-trail-of-cthulhu-the-big-hoodoo\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mythos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2OyM1-4J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}