{"id":4052,"date":"2014-09-18T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/?p=4052"},"modified":"2014-09-22T15:14:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T19:14:20","slug":"bits-of-pulp-sex-cthulhu-and-a-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/2014\/09\/18\/bits-of-pulp-sex-cthulhu-and-a-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Bits of pulp: sex, cthulhu, and a death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/files\/2014\/09\/sex-and-the-cthulhu-mythos.jpg?resize=200%2C303&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Sex and the Cthulhu Mythos\" width=\"200\" height=\"303\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4054\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/files\/2014\/09\/sex-and-the-cthulhu-mythos.jpg?w=200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/files\/2014\/09\/sex-and-the-cthulhu-mythos.jpg?resize=198%2C300&amp;ssl=1 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>After a post-PulpFest recovery, I&#8217;m trying to get back in the routine of posting here at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/\">Yellowed Perils<\/a><\/strong>. So please keep an eye on the blog on Tuesdays and Thursdays. (<strong>Michael<\/strong> is posting Mondays, Wednesdays or Fridays over at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/\">The Pulp Super-Fan<\/a><\/strong> blog.)<\/p>\n<p>So, on with the pulpy bits&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEX AND THE SINGLE CTHULHU<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-unpublishable.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bobby Derie<\/a><\/strong> has a new book out for <strong>H.P. Lovecraft<\/strong> enthusiasts. It&#8217;s &#8220;Sex and the Cthulhu Mythos&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hippocampuspress.com\/h.p-lovecraft\/about-hp-lovecraft\/sex-and-the-cthulhu-mythos\" target=\"_blank\">Hippocampus Press<\/a>), which looks at &#8220;the role of love, sex, and gender in Lovecraftian literature.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you want to learn more, Derie was written an <a href=\"http:\/\/weirdfictionreview.com\/2014\/09\/a-brief-history-of-sex-in-weird-fiction\/\" target=\"_blank\">overview of the theme<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/weirdfictionreview.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Weird Fiction Review<\/a>, which is related to <strong>S.T. Joshi<\/strong>&#8216;s journal, <em>The Weird Fiction Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>DARRELL ZWERLING, RIP<\/strong>: I posted over on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/azdoccon\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona Doc Con<\/a>&#8216;s Facebook page Tuesday a quick link noting the passing of actor <strong>Darrell Zwerling<\/strong>. He played <strong>Ham<\/strong> &mdash; or <strong>Brig. Gen. Theodore Marley Brooks<\/strong> &mdash; in <strong>George Pal<\/strong>&#8216;s campy 1974 movie, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/the-links\/docsavage\/doc-on-film\/\">Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4056\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4056\" style=\"width: 75px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/files\/2014\/09\/darrell-zwerling.jpg?resize=75%2C125&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Darrell Zwerling\" width=\"75\" height=\"125\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4056\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4056\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darrell Zwerling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Zwerling didn&#8217;t have a long screen acting career, from 1968 through 1991. In addition to the <strong>Doc Savage<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/the-links\/docsavage\/\"><\/a> movie role, he acted in the films &#8220;Chinatown,&#8221; &#8220;High Anxiety,&#8221; &#8220;Grease&#8221; and &#8220;&#8230;And Justice for All,&#8221; and made numerous guest appearances through the 1970s and &#8217;80s on TV programs including &#8220;Mary Tyler Moore,&#8221; &#8220;Starsky and Hutch,&#8221; &#8220;Simon &amp; Simon&#8221; and &#8220;Murder, She Wrote.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He was born in Pittsburgh in 1929 and died in Hollywood in April, though his death wasn&#8217;t announced until Sept. 16. He was around 85 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a post-PulpFest recovery, I&#8217;m trying to get back in the routine of posting here at Yellowed Perils. So please keep an eye on the blog on Tuesdays and Thursdays. (Michael is posting Mondays, Wednesdays or Fridays over at The Pulp Super-Fan blog.) So, on with the pulpy bits&#8230; SEX AND THE SINGLE CTHULHU: Bobby [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_has_post_settings":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Yellowed Perils' bits of pulp: Sex, cthulhu, and a death. #pulpmags http:\/\/wp.me\/p2qgXO-13m","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[3,4,6,7,18,9,11],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-4052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pulpbits","category-books","category-movies-tv-radio","category-news","category-obituaries","category-people","category-pulps"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2qgXO-13m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4052"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4084,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052\/revisions\/4084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4052"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=4052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}