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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Fantasy Fan January 1934, by Various

+

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+

+Title: The Fantasy Fan January 1934

+       The Fans' Own Magazine

+

+Author: Various

+

+Editor: Charles D. Hornig

+

+Release Date: August 18, 2014 [EBook #46615]

+

+Language: English

+

+Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

+

+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FANTASY FAN JANUARY 1934 ***

+

+

+

+

+Produced by Greg Weeks and the Online Distributed

+Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

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+

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+

+

+THE FANTASY FAN

+

+THE FANS' OWN MAGAZINE

+

+Editor: Charles D. Hornig

+(Managing Editor: Wonder Stories)

+

+Published                     10 cents a copy

+Monthly                       $1.00 per year

+

+137 West Grand Street, Elizabeth, New Jersey

+

+Volume 1        January, 1934       Number 5

+

+

+

+

+IT'S UP TO YOU!

+

+

+The time has come when we must ask you a very important question.

+Do you want _The Fantasy Fan_ to remain a monthly, or would you

+rather have a bi-monthly or a quarterly instead? Now, don't answer

+this question by sending in a written reply. The only way you can

+answer it is by mailing to us a dollar for a year's subscription.

+Since the inception of _The Fantasy Fan_ it has been running at a

+great loss. The cost of having the magazine printed is not small and

+the subscriptions do not pay for one quarter of the total cost. This

+fact may astound you, but it is the truth. _The Fantasy Fan_ is young

+and not many of the fans know of its existence, chiefly because of the

+lack of a good advertising mediums for the most part, and the refusal

+of Weird Tales, the only really good medium for advertising such a fan

+magazine, to accept our ad for the second time. Perhaps you do not

+find our magazine worth a dollar a year, and that weird fiction would

+get along just as well without a fan magazine. In this case, you need

+pay no attention to this editorial. But there are those of us who

+really like our magazine and would not like to see it go bi-monthly or

+quarterly and yet have not subscribed. Of course, those of our readers

+who have, have all done their part and are under no obligation. The

+editor has created a considerable sinking fund for the cost of

+publication, and although the sinking fund is practically exhausted,

+we are not sunk! As long as he has an income, the editor is willing to

+sacrifice a portion of it to keep _The Fantasy Fan_ alive--but he

+alone cannot keep it a monthly. You cannot lose by the deal. You will

+get full value for your money. Our magazine will not fail, but if it

+did, every subscriber on our list would get back his money for those

+numbers he would not receive. So if the success of our magazine means

+anything to you, subscribe at once--each dollar sent in will insure a

+shorter period between issues. If you have already subscribed, try to

+get some of your friends interested. Give subscriptions for your

+fantasy fan friends. If your subscription runs out in a month or

+two, renew it now, ahead of time. Please send only dollar bills or

+money orders--no checks or stamps. _Are you faithful to fantasy

+fiction?_--then let's see action. I'm doing my part--are you doing

+yours? The February number will be the regular monthly issue, and

+probably March, but future numbers will be bi-monthly unless you who

+have not sent in your subscriptions do so at once! If you could

+foresee the many rare treats we have in store for you, you would not

+hesitate a moment.

+

+Here's hoping we have many faithful readers.

+

+--The Editor

+

+

+

+

+INFORMATION

+

+

+Through the courtesy of Ralph Milne Farley, Donald A. Wollheim, David

+Stolaroff, Ted Lutwin, and several other of our readers, we are able

+to present this additional list of stories written by Edgar Rice

+Burroughs as an addenda to the list presented last month:

+

+    The Outlaw of Torm

+    The War Chief

+    The Mad King

+    The Girl From Hollywood

+    The Tarzan Twins

+    The Girl From Farris's

+    The Mucker

+    The Man Without a Soul

+    The Pirates of Venus

+    Lost on Venus

+    Tarzan and the Lion Man

+    Tarzan and the City of Gold

+    The Apache Devil

+    The Bandit of Hell's Bend

+    The Moon Men

+    The Red Hawk

+    HRH the Rider

+    Efficiency Expert

+

+All of the above stories are not fantasy fiction.

+

+                     *      *      *      *      *

+

+Come over to 'The Boiling Point' and join in the argument.

+

+

+

+

+SCIENCE FICTION IN ENGLISH MAGAZINES

+

+by Bob Tucker

+

+(Series Four)

+

+

+This month, the column is devoted entirely to a small English

+publication knows as "Boy's Magazine." The particular issue in

+discussion is one of late November, 1933.

+

+One of the two fantasy stories in this issue is "The Menace of the

+Monsters." The monsters, which are prehistoric nightmares of the past,

+invade England and proceed to raise everything they come upon,

+including a train, a couple of autos, etc. The story carried three pen

+and ink sketches which were very well executed. One portrayed a huge

+stegosaurus uprooting a train of cars, tossing it into the air, and

+spilling people out of it right and left.

+

+Another illustration showed a tyrannosaurus in a death battle with a

+giant sabre-tooth tiger ... 'tis something to gaze upon, take my word

+for it!

+

+The other science fiction story in the issue is named "The Ocean

+Crater" and resembles _Astounding's_ "Telegraph Plateau" somewhat, in

+the fact that a deep crater opens in the ocean and ships drop down

+into it. This story has two illustrations, one showing a ship falling

+into the "ocean-pit" and the other portraying the destruction of an

+airplane carrier via "electric-arrow" rays from an overhead enemy

+plane.

+

+Another story in the issue, "Chin Ling's Ghost" was supposed to be a

+supernatural tale.

+

+(We hope to be able to present another article in this series in an

+early issue.)

+

+

+

+

+THE BOILING POINT

+

+

+After five months, the Smith-Ackerman debate is still waxing hot.

+We open this month's column with another rebuttal from Ackerman:

+

+"Since the pros and cons on my Boiling Point article have changed

+around to discussions of character, I wish to state that I do not like

+H. P. Lovecraft's attitude. I was interested in his closing sentence

+in the second issue, and also in Mr. Derleth's. They were both

+interesting to analyze. But I resent Mr. Lovecraft's further uncalled

+for remarks. If I am not qualified to judge any weird tales, he is not

+qualified to call names. It seems to me of late that his palsy-walsy

+Clark Ashton Smith has been turning out an over-abundant amount of

+literature--but goodness! I don't think the man egotistic and

+attempting to draw attention to himself! The man likes to write, and

+so do I. Yet Mr. Lovecraft says of me 'peculiarly ridiculous', because

+I make absurd comments to focus people's eyes on me; and write

+voluminously for the same reason, I take it. But I don't keep a

+scrap-book. That's not vary consistent with the nature described,

+is it? And ask Mr. Hornig what my answer was when he proposed a

+'Forrest J. Ackerman' issue of _The Fantasy Fan_. What a puffing up

+I should have gotten had I been _that_ sort of person: You tell 'em

+Charles--what I said: 'No!' Not that I see what difference it makes

+who writes articles and how many of them there are in one issue, as

+long as they're good--which I hope mine are. But people _will_ talk.

+And so I am not obliging with an autobiography of myself for the

+'Famous Fantasy Fans' feature either.

+

+"Furthermore, Mr. Lovecraft, you seem to have forgotten something. I

+keep my letters from famous writers. You say I once wrote you a very

+childish attack on your work. But your answer to that letter was: 'I

+was very pleased to get your bright and candid letter this morning.'

+That is a different story.

+

+"I write these paragraphs in my behalf, because, being more of a weird

+fans' magazine, I can't expect many voices on my side from _The

+Fantasy Fan_ readers. If you will see the third paragraph in the

+letter of C. Ferry and B. Rogers in the December _Wonder Stories_,

+however, you will find that the gentlemen are three times over as

+vehement and acidic as I. You might call them unknowing supporters.

+

+"To Robert Nelson, who says I must be daft or an imbecile or a

+notoriety-seeking clown and knave (and does it in one breath), I can

+only answer that I thought it was a foregone conclusion that fantasy

+fans were 'daft' anyway, and that examination of the ratings of the

+members of my alma mater graduating class might prove differently

+about the second statement, and that I think I have cleared of the

+third already.

+

+"Richard E. Morse's letter has impressed me as the one that really

+'says something.' His thought had not occurred to me before, and it is

+worthwhile considering. _Weird Tales_ allows science fiction; why

+not _Wonder Stories_ weird tales? As the science fiction fan I am

+always eager to see stf in _Weird Tales_ and any other magazine. I see

+that the process can easily be reversed. So Mr. Morse 'has' me. The

+argument is settled.

+

+"Numerous Eyrie letters knock stf in _Weird_: I only did the same, but

+from the other side of the fence."

+

+H. P. Lovecraft also retaliates:

+

+"Glad you are giving the vociferous Master Ackerman a hearing--it's

+always well to let both sides of a debate have an equal chance. But I

+fear that Effjay the Terrible and his allies don't make out a very

+strong case. The tirade to which exception was taken was not merely an

+assertion that Smith's 'Dweller in Martian Depths' is unsuited for a

+science fiction magazine. It was a wholly gratuitous and intemperate

+attack on the story itself, written with a slap-dash extravagance and

+obviously sadistic gusto which plainly showed either a complete lack

+of analytical understanding and imaginative sensitiveness, or (as it

+was probable) a mere boyish desire to show off and attract notice.

+However, Ackerman is young, as proved by his tendency to regard

+ordinary civilized language as alien and incomprehensible. Now that

+he's had a good barrage from the general public, it would be just as

+well to leave him in peace. Five years from now he'll go beyond any of

+us in laughing at his explosions of today."

+

+William H. Dellenback also has something to say:

+

+"I am not a Weird Man; indeed, I have read _very_ few weird stories

+that I have considered really good. Therefore, this is not so much a

+defense of Smith (who, I believe, is absolutely wrong in trying to

+link weird fiction with science fiction), as a rebuttal to Ackerman.

+However, first let me say that I think you are making a mistake,

+Editor, in publishing, and readers, in writing, letters which make too

+personal remarks. Aside from the fact that they are not true, the

+Boiling Point is for arguing about principles and not for calling

+antagonists names.

+

+"But on with the dance--Forrest says that 'Dweller in Martian Depths'

+and 'The Light From Beyond' should not have been published in _Wonder

+Stories_. He also calls 'The Time Stream' doubtful material for a stf

+publication.

+

+"Point 1--In regard to Forrest's dislike of Smith's excessive

+vocabulary, I will say this is purely a matter of personal opinion.

+And I respect his opinion (which is more than do Messrs. Lovecraft,

+Barlow, and Nelson) even though I don't agree with him. As a change

+from the average run of stf stories, I enjoy Smith's wonderful

+language; I believe I have read very few stories as beautifully told

+as 'The Light From Beyond'. And though I don't like his weird stories,

+nevertheless, his manner of telling seems to me admirably fitted to

+weird fiction.

+

+"Point 2--I agree heartily with Mr. Crawford; science fiction would

+indeed be dull, if it consisted of nothing but the ideas Mr. Barlow

+lists. Fantasy is an integral part of stf; and while the three above

+mentioned stories were, for a large part, fantasy, they also contained

+the elements of strict stf.

+

+"Point 3--Finally, if no other explaining will suffice, I can only

+offer this last fact: Such stories provide variety, and there are many

+who will like them. So, if you don't, Forrest, just forget about it.

+Stf can not be composed of all interplanetar yarns, or all medical,

+or all of any other type."

+

+We hereby give notice that the Smith-Ackerman debate will be concluded

+in the February issue. It has just about run its course. If you have

+anything to say, you'd better say it now. It's your last chance. In

+next month's column, Clark Ashton Smith presents a rebuttal to the

+vociferous letter of D. Alexander's in our December issue. Mr. Smith

+is glad to know that Ackerman is being given an even break. We hope

+that this friendly argument has been well-taken by all concerned and

+will cause no hard feelings.

+

+

+

+

+The Ghoul

+

+by Clark Ashton Smith

+

+

+During the reign of the Caliph Vathek, a young man of good repute and

+family, named Noureddin Hassan, was haled before the Cadi Ahmed ben

+Becar at Bussorah. Now Noureddin was a comely youth, of open and

+gentle mien; and great was the astonishment of the Cadi and of all

+others present when they heard the charges that were preferred against

+him. He was accused of having slain seven people, one by one, on seven

+successive nights, and of having left the corpses in a cemetery near

+Bussorah, where they were found lying with their bodies and members

+devoured in a fearsome manner, as if by jackals. Of the people he was

+said to have slain three were women, two were travelling merchants,

+one was a mendicant, and one a grave-digger.

+

+Ahmed ben Becar was filled with the learning and wisdom of honorable

+years, and withal was possessed of much perspicacity. But he was

+deeply perplexed by the strangeness and atrocity of these crimes and

+by the mild demeanor and well-bred aspect of Noureddin Hassan, which

+he could in no wise reconcile with them. He heard in silence the

+testimony of witnesses who had seen Noureddin bearing on his shoulders

+the body of a woman at yester-eve in the cemetery; and others who on

+several occasions had observed him coming from the neighborhood at

+unseemly hours when only thieves and murderers would be abroad. Then,

+having considered all these, he questioned the youth closely.

+

+"Noureddin Hassan," he said, "thou hast been charged with crimes of

+exceeding foulness, which thy bearing and thy lineaments belie. Is

+there haply an explanation of these things by which thou canst wholly

+clear thyself, or in some measure mitigate the heinousness of thy

+deeds, if so it be that thou art guilty? I adjure thee to tell me the

+truth in this matter."

+

+Now Noureddin Hassan arose before the Cadi; and the heaviness of

+extreme shame and sorrow was visible on his countenance.

+

+"Alas, O Cadi," he replied, "for the charges that have been brought

+against me are indeed true. It was I and none other, who slew these

+people; nor can I offer any extenuation of my act."

+

+The Cadi was sorely grieved and astonished when he heard this answer.

+

+"I must perforce believe thee," he said sternly. "But thou hast

+confessed a thing which will make thy name hence forward an

+abomination in the ears and mouths of men. I command thee to tell me

+why these crimes were committed, and what offense these persons had

+given thee, or what injury they had done to thee; or if perchance thou

+slewest them for gain, like a common robber."

+

+"There was neither offense given nor injury wrought by any of them

+against me," replied Noureddin. "And I did not kill them for their

+money or belongings or apparel, since I had no need of such things,

+and, aside from that, have always been an honest man."

+

+"Then," cried Ahmed ben Becar, greatly puzzled, "what was thy reason

+if it was none of these?"

+

+Now the face of Noureddin Hassan grew heavier still with sorrow; and

+he bowed his head in a shamefaced manner that bespoke the utterness of

+profound remorse. And standing thus before the Cadi, he told this

+story:

+

+

+The reversals of fortune, O Cadi, are swift and grievous, and beyond

+the foreknowing or advertence of men. Alas! for less than a fortnight

+agone I was the happiest and most guiltless of mortals, with no

+thought of wrongdoing toward anyone. I was wedded to Amina, the

+daughter of the jewel-merchant Aboul Cogia; and I loved her deeply and

+was much beloved by her in turn; and moreover we were at this time

+anticipating the birth of our first child. I had inherited from my

+father a rich estate and many slaves; the cares of life were light

+upon my shoulders; and I had, it would seem, every reason to count

+myself among those whom Allah has blest with an earthly foretaste of

+Heaven.

+

+Judge, then, the excessive nature of my grief when Amina died in the

+same hour when she was to have been delivered. From that time, in the

+dire extremity of my lamentation, I was as one bereft of light and

+knowledge; I was deaf to all those who sought to condole with me, and

+blind to their friendly offices.

+

+After the burial of Amina my sorrow became a veritable madness, and I

+wandered by night to her grave in the cemetery near Bussorah and flung

+myself prostrate before the newly lettered tombstone, on the earth

+that been digged that very day. My senses deserted me, and I knew not

+how long I remained on the damp clay beneath the cypresses, while the

+horn of a decrescent moon arose in the heavens.

+

+Then, in my stupor of abandonment, I heard a terrible voice that bade

+me rise from the ground on which I was lying. And lifting my head a

+little, I saw a hideous demon of gigantic frame and stature, with eyes

+of scarlet fire beneath brows that were coarse as tangled rootlets,

+and fangs that overhung a cavernous mouth, and earth-black longer and

+sharper than those of the hyena. And the demon said to me:

+

+"I am a ghoul, and it is my office to devour the bodies of the dead. I

+have now come to claim the corpse that was interred today beneath the

+soil on which thou art lying in a fashion so unmannerly. Begone, for I

+have fasted since yester-night, and I am much anhungered."

+

+Now, at the sight of this demon, and the sound of his dreadful voice,

+and the still more dreadful meaning of his words, I was like to have

+swooned with terror on the cold clay. But I recovered myself in a

+manner, and besought him, saying:

+

+"Spare this grave, I implore thee; for she who lies buried therein it

+dearer to me than any living mortal; and I would not that her fair

+body should be the provender of an unclean demon such as thou."

+

+At this the ghoul was angered, and I thought that he would have done

+me some bodily violence. But again I besought him, swearing by Allah

+and Mohammed with many solemn oaths that I would grant him anything

+procurable and would do for him any favor that lay in the power of man

+if he would leave undespoiled the new-made grave of Amina. And the

+ghoul was somewhat mollified, and he said:

+

+"If thou wilt indeed perform for me a certain service, I shall do as

+thou askest." And I replied:

+

+"There is no service, whatsoever its nature, that I will not do for

+thee in this connection, and I pray thee to name thy desire."

+

+Then the ghoul said: "It is this, that thou shalt bring to me each

+night, for eight successive nights, the body of one whom thou hast

+slain with thine own hand. Do this, and I shall neither devour nor dig

+the body that lies interred hereunder."

+

+Now was I seized by utter horror and despair, since I had bound myself

+in all honor to grant the ghoul his hideous requirement. And I begged

+him to change the terms of the stipulation, saying to him:

+

+"Is it needful to thee, O eater of corpses, that the bodies should be

+those of people whom I myself have slain?"

+

+And the ghoul said: "Yea, for all others would be the natural

+provender of myself or of my kin in any event. I adjure thee by the

+promise thou hast given to meet me here tomorrow night, when darkness

+has wholly fallen or as soon thereafter as thou art able, bringing the

+first of the eight bodies."

+

+So saying, he strode off among the cypresses, and began to dig in

+another newly made grave at a little distance from that of Amina.

+

+I left the graveyard in even direr anguish than when I had come

+thinking, of that which I must do in fulfilment of my sworn promise,

+to preserve the body of Amina from the demon. I know not how I

+survived the ensuing day, torn as I was between sorrow for the dead

+and my horror of the coming night with its repugnant duty.

+

+When darkness had descended, I went forth by stealth to a lonely road

+near the cemetery; and waiting there amid the low-grown branches of

+the trees, I slew the first passer with a sword and carried his body

+to the spot appointed by the ghoul. And each night thereafter, for six

+more nights, I returned to the same vicinity and repeated this deed,

+slaying always the very first who came, whether man or woman, or

+merchant or beggar or grave-digger. And the ghoul awaited me on each

+occasion, and would begin to devour his provender in my presence, with

+small thanks and scant ceremony. Seven persons did I slay in all, till

+only one was wanting to complete the agreed number; and the person

+whom I slew yester-night was a woman, even as the witnesses have

+testified. All this I did with utmost repugnance and regret, and

+sustained only by the remembrance of my plighted word and the fate

+which would befall the corpse of Amina if I should break the bond.

+

+This, O Cadi, is all my story. Alas! for these lamentable crimes have

+availed me not, and I have failed in wholly keeping my bargain with

+the demon, who will doubtless this night consume the body of Amina in

+lien of the one corpse that is still lacking. I resign myself to thy

+judgement, O Ahmed ben Becar, and I beseech thee for no other mercy

+than that of death, wherewith to terminate my double grief and my

+twofold remorse.

+

+

+When Noureddin Hassan had ended his narrative, the amazement of all

+who had heard him was verily multiplied, since no man could remember

+hearing a stranger tale. And the Cadi pondered for a long time and

+then gave judgment, saying:

+

+"I must needs marvel at thy story, but the crimes thou hast committed

+are none the less heinous, and Iblis himself would stand aghast before

+them. However, some allowance must be made for the fact that thou

+hadst given thy word to the ghoul and wast bound as it were in honor

+to fulfill his demand, no matter how horrible its nature. And

+allowance must likewise be made for thy connubial grief which caused

+thee to forfend thy wife's body from the demon. Yet I cannot adjudge

+thee guiltless, though I know not the punishment which is merited in a

+case so utterly without parallel. Therefore, I set thee free, with

+this injunction, that thou shalt make atonement for thy crimes in the

+fashion that seemeth best to thee, and shalt render justice to thyself

+and to others in such degree as thou art able."

+

+"I thank thee for this mercy," replied Noureddin Hassan; and he then

+withdrew from the court amid the wonderment of all who were present.

+There was much debate when he had gone, and many were prone to

+question the wisdom of the Cadi's decision. Some there were who

+maintained that Noureddin should have been sentenced to death without

+delay for his abominable actions though others argued for the sanctity

+of his oath to the ghoul, and would have exculpated him altogether or

+in part. And tales were told and instances were cited regarding the

+habits of ghouls and the strange plight of men who had surprised such

+demons in their nocturnal delvings. And again the discussion returned

+to Noureddin, and the judgment of the Cadi was once more upheld or

+assailed with divers arguments. But amid all this, Ahmed Ben Becar was

+silent, saying only:

+

+"Wait, for this man will render justice to himself and to all other

+concerned, as far as the rendering thereof is possible."

+

+So indeed it happened, for on the morning of the next day another body

+was found in the cemetery near Bussorah lying half-devoured on the

+grave of Noureddin Hassan's wife, Amina. And the body was that of

+Noureddin, self-slain, who in this manner had not only fulfilled the

+injunction of the Cadi but had also kept his bargain with the ghoul by

+providing the required number of corpses.

+

+

+

+

+WE'LL BET YOU DIDN'T KNOW

+

+by Mortimer Weisinger

+

+

+That Penn State Froth, the official comic magazine for Penn

+University, recently burlesqued Amazing Stories.

+

+That Charles Willard Diffin composes his stuff on a dictaphone.

+

+That the A. in A. Hyatt Verrill's name stands for Alpheus.

+

+That Jack Williamson is the only writer who ever copped a cover for

+each part of a serial.

+

+That it's ironic that the letters in Verne's name, rearranged, spell

+'never.'

+

+That P. S. Miller is a descendant of Alexander Hamilton.

+

+That Wonder Stories is the only s-f mag on file in the New York Public

+Library.

+

+That the reason the first eleven issues of Amazing Stories were

+printed on heavy paper was because the publishers wanted to give the

+fans "a big package for their money."

+

+That, with the exception of his first story, Hamilton has never had a

+story refused by Weird Tales. And even the first was accepted after

+rewriting.

+

+That William Briggs MacHarg and Edwin Balmer (the creators of Luther

+Trant) are brothers-in-law.

+

+That Wonder Stories paid over seven cents a word for Charles Tanner's

+story "The Color of Space."

+

+That Forrest J. Ackerman used to correspond regularly with 115 fans.

+

+That Jack Williamson is a cowboy.

+

+That Charles Cloukey was fifteen years old when he sold his first

+story.

+

+That the mystery novel, "The 13th Murder," refers to Amazing Stories

+and Weird Tales as "detective and mystery fiction"--and they ring

+Saturn!

+

+That the story, "Warriors of Space," featured in the first issue of

+Science Wonder Stories, was a sequel to "The World in the Balance," in

+an old Argosy.

+

+That Hugo Gernsback conducted a contest in Science & Invention to

+obtain a name for his projected magazine--named Amazing Stories after

+the winner was announced.

+

+That P. Schuyler Miller had a B.S. and an M.S. degree before he was 21.

+

+

+

+

+MY SCIENCE FICTION COLLECTION

+

+by Forrest J. Ackerman

+

+Part Five

+

+

+More for my own satisfaction than anything else, is the second part of

+this last division of my collection; "stills." These are scenes from a

+score of fantasy pictures ranging in size from 5" × to 11" × 14", and

+in subjects from prehistoric monsters of 10,000,000 years ago to

+exploring interplanetary parties of the future. There are many scenes

+from "Metropolis" of the vast, shining electricity, of the inside

+furnishings of the buildings, of the costumes of the people of that

+time; and there are pictures of the machinery to run the city, the

+underground world, the robotrix, the televisors. From "King Kong" I

+have 9 stills: a brontosaurus, an allosaur about to eat a man, Kong on

+exhibition in New York, in the jungle with the girl, smashing in a

+building, atop the Empire State, etc.

+

+Secured from 'Frankenstein' are pictures of the monster, and his

+making in the laboratory. "Just Imagine" offers scenes of

+heaven-scraped New York in 1980, of the rocket for Mars, of the nifty

+little earthplanes. I have seven interesting pictures from "The Most

+Dangerous Game." Laboratories and the death ray of "The Mask of

+Fu-Manchu" are included. From Wells' "Island of Lost Souls" there are

+photos of the evoluted animals of a hundred thousand years hence;

+ape-men, the panther-woman, wolf-creatures, etc. "High Treason" offers

+numerous stills: television, the European city, war in 1940, a dance

+hall of seven years ahead, the English Channel sub-sea express, a

+broadcasted trial, and more. "The Mummy" is shown returning to life,

+prehistoric monsters from "The Mystery of Life" are present.

+Machinery, experiments, scientists--all from the stf-detective tale,

+"Doctor X." I also have several stills from "By Rocket to the Moon,"

+such as those showing the model rocket and its trip--also pictures of

+Mars, Saturn, the end of the world, and an ethership from "Our

+Heavenly Bodies" a scene from "The Lost World," "The Stellar Express,"

+and many others.

+

+[In part six, next month, Mr. Ackerman concludes his interesting

+article.]

+

+

+

+

+HOW TO COLLECT FANTASY FICTION

+

+by Julius Schwartz

+

+Part Five--Conclusion

+

+

+Fantasy booklets have appeared at lesser intervals. _Amazing Stories_

+put out Landell Bartlet's "Vanguard of Venus" in 1928. Gernsback has

+put out 18 science fiction booklets, of which only the last six are

+now in print. He likewise issued a reprint of Garret Smith's "Between

+Worlds". Mimeographed booklets were put out by Carl Swanson (Edmond

+Hamilton's "The Metal Giants", a reprint) and by the Fantasy Fiction

+Publications ("Guests of the Earth" by Hugh Langley). The Arra

+Printers have put out A. Merritt's "Thru the Dragon Glass," "The

+Cavemen of Venus," "The Price of Peace," and Dr. Keller's "Wolf Hollow

+Bubbles."

+

+This article wouldn't be complete without mention of the hard-covered

+fantasies. It's a hopeless task to try and muster even a tenth of all

+the fantasy books. The best way to go about it, however, is to "haunt"

+the second-hand book stores and scrutinize any book whose title sounds

+promising or inviting.

+

+There's one tantalizing feature connected with the collection of

+fantastic fiction: your collection will Never be complete! But this

+misfortune has one commendable merit. The collector's interest in

+Fantasy fiction will never wane.

+

+

+The End

+

+

+

+

+SUPERNATURAL HORROR IN LITERATURE

+

+Part Four

+

+by H. P. Lovecraft

+

+(copyright 1927, by W. Paul Cook)

+

+II The Dawn of the Horror Tale

+

+

+As may naturally be expected of a form so closely connected with

+primal emotion, the horror tale is as old as human thought and speech

+themselves.

+

+Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all

+races, and is crystalized in the most archaic ballads, chronicles, and

+sacred writings. It was, indeed, a prominent feature of the elaborate

+ceremonial magic, with its rituals for the evocation of demons and

+spectres which flourished from prehistoric times, and which reached

+its highest development in Egypt and the Semetic nations. Fragments

+like the Book of Enoch and the Claviculae of Solomon well illustrate

+the power of the weird over the ancient Eastern mind, and upon such

+things were based enduring systems and traditions, whose echoes extend

+obscurely even to the present time. Touches of this transcendental

+fear are seen in classic literature and there is evidence of its still

+greater emphasis in a balled literature which paralleled the classic

+stream, but vanished for lack of a written medium. The Middle Ages,

+steeped in fanciful darkness, gave it an enormous impulse toward

+expression; and East and West alike were busy preserving and

+amplifying the dark heritage, both of random folklore and of

+academically formulated magic and cabalism, which had descended to

+them. Witch, werewolf, vampire, and ghoul brooded ominously on the

+lips of bard and grandam, and needed but little encouragement to take

+the final step across the boundary that divides the chanted tale or

+song from the formal literary composition. In the Orient, the weird

+tale tended to assume a gorgeous colouring and sprightliness which

+almost transmuted it into sheer phantasy. In the West, where the

+mystical Teuton had cone down from his black Boreal forests and the

+Celt remembered strange sacrifices in Druidic groves, it assumed a

+terrible intensity and convincing seriousness of atmosphere which

+doubled the force of its half-told, half-hinted horrors.

+

+Much of the power of Western horror-lore was undoubtedly due to the

+hidden but often suspected presence of a hideous cult of nocturnal

+worshipers whose strange customs--descended from pre-Aryan and

+pre-agricultural times when a squat race of Mongoloids roved over

+Europe with their flocks and herds--were rooted in the most revolting

+fertility-rites of immemorial antiquity. This secret religion,

+stealthily handed down amongst peasants for thousands of years despite

+the outward reign of the Druidic, Graeco-Roman, and Christian faiths

+in the regions involved, was marked by wild "Witches' Sabbaths" in

+lonely woods and atop distant hills on Walpurgis Night and Hallowe'en,

+the traditional breeding-seasons of the goats and sheep and cattle;

+and became the source of vast riches of sorcery legend, besides

+provoking extensive witchcraft prosecutions of which the Salem affair

+forms the chief American example. Akin to it in essence, and perhaps

+connected with it in fact, was the frightful secret system of inverted

+theology or Satan-worship which produced such horrors as the famous

+"Black Mass"; whilst operating toward the same end we may note the

+activities of those whose aims were somewhat more scientific or

+philosophical--the astrologers, cabbalists, and alchemists of the

+Albertus Magnus or Raymond Lully type, with whom such rude ages

+invariably abound. The prevalence and depth of the medieval

+horror-spirit in Europe, intensified by the dark despair which

+waves of pestilence brought, may be fairly gauged by the grotesque

+carvings slyly introduced into much of the finest later Gothic

+ecclesiastical work of the time; the demoniac gargoyles of Notre

+Dame and Mont St. Michel being among the most famous specimens. And

+throughout the period, it must be remembered, there existed amongst

+educated and uneducated alike, a most unquestioning faith in every

+form of the supernatural; from the gentlest of Christian doctrines

+to the most monstrous morbidities of witchcraft and black magic.

+It was from no empty background that the Renaissance magicians and

+alchemists--Nostradamus, Trithemius, Dr. John Dee, Robert Fludd, and

+the like--were born.

+

+In this fertile soil were nourished types and characters of somber

+myth and legend which persist in weird literature to this day, more or

+less disguised or altered by modern technique. Many of then were taken

+from the earliest oral sources, and form part of mankind's permanent

+heritage. The shade which appears and demands the burial of its bones,

+the demon lover who comes to bear away his still living bride, the

+death-fiend or psychopomp riding the night-wind, the man-wolf, the

+sealed chamber, the deathless sorcerer--all those may be found in that

+curious body of mediaeval lore which the late Mr. Baring-Gould so

+effectively assembled in book form. Wherever the mystic Northern blood

+was strongest, the atmosphere of the popular tales became most

+intense; for in the Latin races there is a touch of basic rationality

+which denies to even their strangest superstitions many of the

+overtones of glamour so characteristic of our own forest-born and

+ice-fostered whisperings.

+

+(continued next month)

+

+

+

+

+The Sacred Bird

+

+Annals of the Jinns--4

+

+by R. H. Barlow

+

+

+There appeared one day in the market-place of Ulathia a most peculiar

+fowl which fell exhausted from the skies. Its plumage was of brilliant

+hue, and despite its confusion, a wise and knowing look was seen

+within the orange eyes. After resting a moment, it fluttered about the

+square, entering the various shops in a proprietary manner and finally

+settled in that of a sweetmeat dealer. Soon all the tradesfolk hurried

+across the cobble-stones to see this gaudy visitor and to feed it many

+tid-bits. Not in the least bothered by its admiring audience, it

+permitted its head to be scratched and petted as it ate.

+

+In time, the news spread through the thatched houses to the ears of

+the Imperial Council, all of which laid down their pens and came in a

+body to view it. It was discovered by them greedily eating a preserved

+orange-rind, a meal varied by occasional pecks at a nut. Having

+already devoured odds and ends of all sorts, it was no longer hungry,

+and even as they panted in, it fell asleep. When the crowd drew aside

+to admit the rotund Council, it complained loudly.

+

+"Gwarn arf 'n chase y'self!" commanded the half-awake bird. "Gwarn

+arf," it repeated, fluttering its wings and adjusting for a nice nap.

+It then uttered a rasping incoherency and dozed off placidly. The

+people drew back whispering excitedly. "A demon!" averred one. This

+brought a chorus of dissention among the others. "An angel.... Just a

+trick.... Who ever heard of a bird talking?... A magician in

+disguise.... What has happened?... Still thy tongue, neighbor...."

+

+... The head of the Council, a gray-beard notoriously superstitious,

+cleared his threat and a silence fell over all present. "My friends,"

+he gurgled happily, "My _dear_ friends and fellow citizens! This is an

+occasion of undoubted significance in the annals of our fair city,

+equalled only by that of, as you doubtless will realize, early in the

+reign of--rather; to continue; In other words, my dear friends," he

+began over, unable to sustain the sentence any longer, "To make it

+clear to all concerned, this is, I believe, and no one, I hope, would

+contradict me, I have occasion to think--" Here his voice lowered to a

+whisper and ended in a triumphant shout, "A _Messenger_ sent to guide

+us!" He leered cheerfully at the mob. "Therefore, let us convey it in

+state to the City Hall to rule us as it sees fit!"

+

+Which was forthwith done amid much celebration, and the chattering of

+the escaped parrot from that day guided the fortunes of the city of

+Ulathia, interpreted by the Ruler and his Council as they desired.

+

+                     *      *      *      *      *

+

+Another tale in this series will appear next month.

+

+

+

+

+OUR READERS SAY

+

+

+S. M. White, one of our New Zealand readers is not altogether satisfied

+with science fiction in general:

+

+"_The Fantasy Fan_ is of great interest to me. I hope that it keeps on

+going. I have two objections to scientifiction--1. There is too much

+'blood and thunder.' 2. Not enough originality in plots. Thus too much

+spoils the flavor. But there are several themes on which few of your

+authors have touched. 1. A story with lots of science. 2. A story

+concerning that which comes after death (if anything). 3. A really

+humorous story. 4. None of the authors except H. G. Wells has tried to

+solve the problem of labor vs. capital. Stories often end up: "Workers

+of the world, you are free!" Free to what? Technocracy? NRA?

+Vanderbiltism? These four ought to keep writers busy."

+

+The hardest job of an editor is trying to please everyone. As this is

+an impossibility, all they can do is to please as many as they can.

+When a majority voice a suggestion, he must take it into serious

+consideration. We find that the underused plots you have mentioned

+have been used quite often, except that which is not for science

+fiction, but has been overdone in weird stories.

+

+"I keep forgetting that each month I am going to receive a copy of

+_The Fantasy Fan_ so that, when it does come, it is such a pleasant

+surprise. As a regular feature, I enjoy Bob Tucker's report on the

+English stf magazines best of all. 'How to Write a Stf Story' was _so_

+funny."--Forrest J. Ackerman

+

+"The November TFF is decidedly improving and I look forward to future

+issues with much interest. I wonder how many collectors there are that

+can discriminate between the trash that seems popular and the best in

+Fantasy?"--R. H. Barlow

+

+"The November issue of TFF was magnificent! What got the cake was 'How

+to Write a Stf Story' by Hoy Ping Pong. By the way, Editor, who is

+this Hoy Ping Pong? Anyway, regardless of who he is, he seems to be

+humorously inclined, so let's have more from him. No periodical is

+exactly good without a touch of humor."--Ted H. Lutwin

+

+There's no use in concealing the identity Hoy Ping Pong. It is none

+other than Bob Tucker, author of the English science fiction series,

+and more Hoy Ping Pong articles to come.

+

+"I liked the November issue very much and hope you'll publish more of

+Smith's poetry."--Robert E. Howard

+

+"I was certainly disappointed to hear that the _Necronomicon_, _Book

+of Eibon_, and the _Nameless Cults_ had no existence except in the

+fertile imaginations of Lovecraft, Smith, and Howard. That's not

+illusion of reality. Anyone could quote books and authors that never

+existed. To me, it is plain fabrication. According to Joseph McCabe,

+the monks of the middle ages were adepts at it. I must say, however,

+that it was quite a help in giving an illusion of reality to

+Lovecraft's stories, and Smith's. It won't be now, though, because the

+cat is out of the bag. But what about 'Yog Sothoth' and 'Sattaquo' and

+'Thule.' Surely, there must be a legend of some sort to account for

+them, or does their ancientness go no farther than 1924? Were they

+born about the same time as _Weird Tales_? I notice that the Illusion

+of reality has much more force at night than in the daytime."--Carl J.

+Smith

+

+It is only an A-1 author that can make you believe that a thing exists

+when it really doesn't. Perhaps the cat is out of the bag, at you say,

+but we don't believe that it detracts from Smith's, Lovecraft's, or

+Howard's stories one bit. However, weird fans will probably not be

+satisfied until the aforesaid "fabricators" write up the books _in

+toto_ that they have created in their minds. Smith is now working

+on a chapter of "The Book of Eibon."

+

+"I was pleased to receive your clever little 'Fantasy Fan' and

+consider it highly entertaining and useful and well worth the dollar I

+enclose for a year's subscription. From time to time I noticed in the

+reader's columns the uprise of little pamphlets, but never gave them

+serious thought. This one you have sent me startled me into

+appreciating that the fantasy fans are an energetic lot.

+

+"My eulogies and praises to the incomparable Clark Ashton Smith for

+his 'Kingdom of the Worm.' He has the magic of words that makes great

+writers. We like to honor the memory of Poe as the father of the short

+story and the fantastic type of fiction, but Smith surpasses him.

+

+"Enclosed you will find a little story of mine that I tender you

+gratis--let us say as a Christmas present, for use in TFF. I wrote it

+on the spur of the moment one day, as the idea popped into my mind and

+refused to depart."--Eando Binder

+

+We thank Mr. Binder, an author of note, for his excellent story. It

+will appear in an early issue of TFF. The theme used is a brand new

+one, and we believe will make a big hit with all lovers of weird

+fiction.

+

+"The November issue was a gem all the way through, and I am certainly

+learning a lot of facts about fantastic fiction that are quite new to

+me. It answers numerous questions that I have had in mind for a long

+time. I think the comments by the readers constitute a most absorbing

+part of your magazine, especially when they are by contributors and

+old fans that know the 'ropes' well. Understand that I am a

+comparative beginner in the absorbing game of chasing fantastic

+literature. It is quite noticeable that the trend is turning even more

+toward the fantastic than the pure science fiction, which, it would

+seen, has been on the wane for some time. I am not a science fiction

+crank, however, and have several good tales in my collection. They are

+not interplanetary, though, but ones approaching closer to the

+fantastic.

+

+"The poem by Clark Ashton Smith was enormous; yet, more than that. I

+do not think one could describe it. 'The Other Gods' by H. P.

+Lovecraft added just the right atmosphere to TFF. The mention of

+Ulthar in this story recalled a story by the same author named 'The

+Cats of Ulthar.'

+

+"As Mr. Ackerman's collection continues to pile up, it seems that in

+spite of mania to judge literature, he certainly does a thing up right

+when he starts.

+

+"The discovery that the now famous book 'Necronomicon' is entirely

+fictitious was a considerable shock. Too bad that such a volume is not

+available to all lovers of fiction pertaining to the black arts and

+kindred subjects. I had even thought seriously of sending to the State

+College Library in quest of a copy in English! I wondered at the time

+if it had yet been translated. Why not have Lovecraft write such a

+book? I am sure it would sell well. I enjoy reading the denouncement

+of Mr. Ackerman."--Duane W. Rime

+

+As Dr. Keller says, it doesn't matter whether a reader praises Forrest

+or condemns him, so long as they say _something_. We, also, were on

+the verge of sending someplace for the _Necronomicon_ in English.

+

+"Lovecraft's 'The Other Gods' and 'Supernatural Horror in Literature'

+are a treat for which I am sure every reader is grateful. 'True Ghost

+Stories' is very well presented and Barlow's 'Annals of the Jinns'

+very capably upholds fantastic lore. Smith's 'The Kingdom of the Worm'

+recalled to my mind Donald Wandrei's 'The Worm King', a poem which

+I read in _Weird Tales_ years ago. While different in essence of

+tone, these two carry the same eery quality. Although your various

+departments have not yet swung into full stride, great promise is

+indicated.

+

+"I have a suggestion for Mr. Tucker. If his English connection will

+supply him with sufficient information, a column or so on Arthur

+Machen and Algernon Blackwood might introduce two very worthy writers

+of weird tales to your readers."--Chester D. Cuthbert

+

+We have on hand for early publication, several articles on the works

+of the great writers of the past. Watch for them. To our readers: How

+did you like Mr. Cuthbert's story "The Sublime Vigil" in the February

+1934 issue of _Wonder Stories_? Watch his progress! We predict that in

+less than one year he will be one of your favorite authors.

+

+"Glad to see the December issue. All the stories art excellent and the

+departments are as interesting as usual."--H. P. Lovecraft

+

+"I have received the November TFF and would say that it is the most

+satisfactory issue so far. 'The Other Gods' is indeed a masterpiece of

+prose poetry, filled with imaginative overtones. Barlow's second

+Annals of the Jinns is memorably touched, and the sense of atmosphere

+conveyed is remarkable in view of its brevity. Hoy Ping Pong's article

+on how to write scientifiction is most amusing.

+

+"Re the origin of the word 'weird,' which you attributed to Edgar

+Allan Poe. I believe that Poe was perhaps the first to employ this

+adjective in the modern sense of eerie or uncanny or bizarre; but

+you will find it used in older writers, such as Shakespeare, with

+a special application to witchcraft or sorcery. The three Fates

+of classic mythology were spoken of as 'the weird sisters,' and

+the root-meaning of the word has reference to fate or destiny. As

+a noun, it is still sometimes used in the latter sense; and it also

+means a prediction of prophecy. The word itself is of Anglo-Saxon

+origin, and is related to the old German _wurt_ and Icelandic

+_urdhr_."--Clark Ashton Smith

+

+In my filler concerning the origin of the word "weird," you will

+remember that I said that its meaning the bizarre originated with

+Edgar Allen Poe. I had in mind the other meanings as I wrote it.

+Undoubtedly, if Edgar Allan Poe had not used it, the word would not be

+popular today.

+

+"I had intended to write since I received the first copy of TFF, but

+circumstances made it impossible. I wish to compliment you on the

+magazine. It is not perfect, of course--But it is different and that

+is a blessing indeed."--Louis C. Smith

+

+Send in your letter to "Our Readers Say," fans. We want your opinions,

+criticisms, and suggestions. Do you think that too much space is

+devoted to this department? If so, we'll cut it down.

+

+

+

+

+ADVERTISEMENTS

+

+

+FIRST PRINT of A. Merritt's "Moon Pool." The most valuable edition of

+any science fiction book. What am I offered? Ted Lutwin, 315 Henderson

+Street, Jersey City, N.J.

+

+

+CLARK ASHTON SMITH presents THE DOUBLE SHADOW AND OTHER FANTASIES--a

+booklet containing a half-dozen imaginative and atmospheric

+tales.--Stories of exotic beauty, glamor, terror, strangeness, irony

+and satire. Price; 25 cents each, (coin or stamps). Also a small

+remainder of EBONY AND CRYSTAL--a book of prose poems published at

+$7.00, reduced to $1.00 per copy. Everything sent postpaid. Clark

+Ashton Smith, Auburn, California.

+

+

+BACK NUMBERS OF THE FANTASY FAN--September, 20 cents; October,

+November, December, 10 cts. (Only a few Septembers left.)

+

+

+IF YOU HAVE any copies of _Weird Tales_ dated 1923-24-25-26-27, that

+you would like to part with, please communicate with the Editor.

+

+                     *      *      *      *      *

+

+Transcriber's Note: Minor typographical errors have been corrected

+without note. Irregularities and inconsistencies in the text have

+been retained as printed.

+

+

+

+

+

+

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+Title: The Fantasy Fan January 1934

+       The Fans' Own Magazine

+

+Author: Various

+

+Editor: Charles D. Hornig

+

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+

+

+<h1>

+THE FANTASY FAN

+</h1>

+<br>

+<p class="subtitle">THE FANS' OWN MAGAZINE</p>

+

+<br>

+<p class="ctr">

+<b>Editor</b>: Charles D. Hornig

+</p>

+

+<p class="ctrclose">

+(Managing Editor: Wonder Stories)

+</p>

+

+<br>

+<table summary="Cost" width="100%">

+<tr>

+<td>Published</td>

+<td class="right">10 cents a copy</td>

+</tr>

+

+<tr>

+<td>Monthly</td>

+<td class="right">$1.00 per year</td>

+</tr>

+</table>

+

+<p class="ctr">

+137 West Grand Street, Elizabeth, New Jersey

+</p>

+

+<table summary="Volume and Date" width="100%">

+<tr>

+<td class="btbb">Volume 1</td>

+<td class="centerbtbb">January, 1934</td>

+<td class="rightbtbb">Number 5</td>

+</tr>

+</table>

+

+<p class="ctrtoppad">

+IT'S UP TO YOU!

+</p>

+

+

+<p>

+The time has come when we must ask you a very important question. Do

+you want <i>The Fantasy Fan</i> to remain a monthly, or would you

+rather have a bi-monthly or a quarterly instead? Now, don't answer

+this question by sending in a written reply. The only way you can

+answer it is by mailing to us a dollar for a year's subscription.

+Since the inception of <i>The Fantasy Fan</i> it has been running at a

+great loss. The cost of having the magazine printed is not small and

+the subscriptions do not pay for one quarter of the total cost. This

+fact may astound you, but it is the truth. <i>The Fantasy Fan</i> is

+young and not many of the fans know of its existence, chiefly because

+of the lack of a good advertising mediums for the most part, and the

+refusal of Weird Tales, the only really good medium for advertising

+such a fan magazine, to accept our ad for the second time. Perhaps you

+do not find our magazine worth a dollar a year, and that weird fiction

+would get along just as well without a fan magazine. In this case, you

+need pay no attention to this editorial. But there are those of us who

+really like our magazine and would not like to see it go bi-monthly or

+quarterly and yet have not subscribed. Of course, those of our readers

+who have, have all done their part and are under no obligation. The

+editor has created a considerable sinking fund for the cost of

+publication, and although the sinking fund is practically exhausted,

+we are not sunk! As long as he has an income, the editor is willing to

+sacrifice a portion of it to keep <i>The Fantasy Fan</i> alive&#8212;but he

+alone cannot keep it a monthly. You cannot lose by the deal. You will

+get full value for your money. Our magazine will not fail, but if it

+did, every subscriber on our list would get back his money for those

+numbers he would not receive. So if the success of our magazine means

+anything to you, subscribe at once&#8212;each dollar sent in will insure a

+shorter period between issues. If you have already subscribed, try to

+get some of your friends interested. Give subscriptions for your

+fantasy fan friends. If your subscription runs out in a month or two,

+renew it now, ahead of time. Please send only dollar bills or money

+orders&#8212;no checks or stamps. <i>Are you faithful to fantasy

+fiction?</i>&#8212;then let's see action. I'm doing my part&#8212;are you doing

+yours? The February number will be the regular monthly issue, and

+probably March, but future numbers will be bi-monthly unless you who

+have not sent in your subscriptions do so at once! If you could foresee

+the many rare treats we have in store for you, you would not hesitate

+a moment.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+Here's hoping we have many faithful readers.

+</p>

+

+<p class="ralign">

+&#8212;The Editor

+</p>

+

+

+

+

+<p class="ctrtoppad">

+INFORMATION

+</p>

+

+

+<p>

+Through the courtesy of Ralph Milne Farley, Donald A. Wollheim, David

+Stolaroff, Ted Lutwin, and several other of our readers, we are able

+to present this additional list of stories written by Edgar Rice

+Burroughs as an addenda to the list presented last month:

+</p>

+

+<ul>

+<li>The Outlaw of Torm</li>

+<li>The War Chief</li>

+<li>The Mad King</li>

+<li>The Girl From Hollywood</li>

+<li>The Tarzan Twins</li>

+<li>The Girl From Farris's</li>

+<li>The Mucker</li>

+<li>The Man Without a Soul</li>

+<li>The Pirates of Venus</li>

+<li>Lost on Venus</li>

+<li>Tarzan and the Lion Man</li>

+<li>Tarzan and the City of Gold</li>

+<li>The Apache Devil</li>

+<li>The Bandit of Hell's Bend</li>

+<li>The Moon Men</li>

+<li>The Red Hawk</li>

+<li>HRH the Rider</li>

+<li>Efficiency Expert</li>

+</ul>

+

+<p>

+All of the above stories are not fantasy fiction.

+</p>

+

+<div class="figcenter"><img width="125" height="24" src="images/dots.jpg" alt="Decoration"></div>

+

+<p>

+Come over to 'The Boiling Point' and join in the argument.

+</p>

+

+

+

+

+<p class="ctrtoppad">

+SCIENCE FICTION IN ENGLISH MAGAZINES

+</p>

+

+<p class="ctrsmall">

+by Bob Tucker

+</p>

+

+<p class="ctr">

+(Series Four)

+</p>

+

+

+<p>

+This month, the column is devoted entirely to a small English

+publication knows as "Boy's Magazine." The particular issue in

+discussion is one of late November, 1933.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+One of the two fantasy stories in this issue is "The Menace of the

+Monsters." The monsters, which are prehistoric nightmares of the past,

+invade England and proceed to raise everything they come upon,

+including a train, a couple of autos, etc. The story carried three pen

+and ink sketches which were very well executed. One portrayed a huge

+stegosaurus uprooting a train of cars, tossing it into the air, and

+spilling people out of it right and left.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+Another illustration showed a tyrannosaurus in a death battle with a

+giant sabre-tooth tiger &#8230; 'tis something to gaze upon, take my word

+for it!

+</p>

+

+<p>

+The other science fiction story in the issue is named "The Ocean

+Crater" and resembles <i>Astounding's</i> "Telegraph Plateau"

+somewhat, in the fact that a deep crater opens in the ocean and ships

+drop down into it. This story has two illustrations, one showing a

+ship falling into the "ocean-pit" and the other portraying the

+destruction of an airplane carrier via "electric-arrow" rays from

+an overhead enemy plane.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+Another story in the issue, "Chin Ling's Ghost" was supposed to be a

+supernatural tale.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+(We hope to be able to present another article in this series in an

+early issue.)

+</p>

+

+

+

+

+<p class="ctrtoppad">

+THE BOILING POINT

+</p>

+

+

+<p>

+After five months, the Smith&#8211;Ackerman debate is still waxing hot.

+We open this month's column with another rebuttal from Ackerman:

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"Since the pros and cons on my Boiling Point article have changed

+around to discussions of character, I wish to state that I do not like

+H. P. Lovecraft's attitude. I was interested in his closing sentence

+in the second issue, and also in Mr. Derleth's. They were both

+interesting to analyze. But I resent Mr. Lovecraft's further uncalled

+for remarks. If I am not qualified to judge any weird tales, he is not

+qualified to call names. It seems to me of late that his palsy-walsy

+Clark Ashton Smith has been turning out an over-abundant amount of

+literature&#8212;but goodness! I don't think the man egotistic and

+attempting to draw attention to himself! The man likes to write, and

+so do I. Yet Mr. Lovecraft says of me 'peculiarly ridiculous', because

+I make absurd comments to focus people's eyes on me; and write

+voluminously for the same reason, I take it. But I don't keep a

+scrap-book. That's not vary consistent with the nature described, is

+it? And ask Mr. Hornig what my answer was when he proposed a 'Forrest

+J. Ackerman' issue of <i>The Fantasy Fan</i>. What a puffing up I

+should have gotten had I been <i>that</i> sort of person: You tell 'em

+Charles&#8212;what I said: 'No!' Not that I see what difference it makes

+who writes articles and how many of them there are in one issue, as

+long as they're good&#8212;which I hope mine are. But people <i>will</i>

+talk. And so I am not obliging with an autobiography of myself for the

+'Famous Fantasy Fans' feature either.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"Furthermore, Mr. Lovecraft, you seem to have forgotten something. I

+keep my letters from famous writers. You say I once wrote you a very

+childish attack on your work. But your answer to that letter was: 'I

+was very pleased to get your bright and candid letter this morning.'

+That is a different story.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"I write these paragraphs in my behalf, because, being more of a weird

+fans' magazine, I can't expect many voices on my side from <i>The

+Fantasy Fan</i> readers. If you will see the third paragraph in the

+letter of C. Ferry and B. Rogers in the December <i>Wonder

+Stories</i>, however, you will find that the gentlemen are three times

+over as vehement and acidic as I. You might call them unknowing

+supporters.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"To Robert Nelson, who says I must be daft or an imbecile or a

+notoriety-seeking clown and knave (and does it in one breath), I can

+only answer that I thought it was a foregone conclusion that fantasy

+fans were 'daft' anyway, and that examination of the ratings of the

+members of my alma mater graduating class might prove differently

+about the second statement, and that I think I have cleared of the

+third already.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"Richard E. Morse's letter has impressed me as the one that really

+'says something.' His thought had not occurred to me before, and it is

+worthwhile considering. <i>Weird Tales</i> allows science fiction; why

+not <i>Wonder Stories</i> weird tales? As the science fiction fan I am

+always eager to see stf in <i>Weird Tales</i> and any other magazine.

+I see that the process can easily be reversed. So Mr. Morse 'has' me.

+The argument is settled.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"Numerous Eyrie letters knock stf in <i>Weird</i>: I only did the

+same, but from the other side of the fence."

+</p>

+

+<p>

+H. P. Lovecraft also retaliates:

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"Glad you are giving the vociferous Master Ackerman a hearing&#8212;it's

+always well to let both sides of a debate have an equal chance. But I

+fear that Effjay the Terrible and his allies don't make out a very

+strong case. The tirade to which exception was taken was not merely an

+assertion that Smith's 'Dweller in Martian Depths' is unsuited for a

+science fiction magazine. It was a wholly gratuitous and intemperate

+attack on the story itself, written with a slap-dash extravagance and

+obviously sadistic gusto which plainly showed either a complete lack

+of analytical understanding and imaginative sensitiveness, or (as it

+was probable) a mere boyish desire to show off and attract notice.

+However, Ackerman is young, as proved by his tendency to regard

+ordinary civilized language as alien and incomprehensible. Now that

+he's had a good barrage from the general public, it would be just as

+well to leave him in peace. Five years from now he'll go beyond any of

+us in laughing at his explosions of today."

+</p>

+

+<p>

+William H. Dellenback also has something to say:

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"I am not a Weird Man; indeed, I have read <i>very</i> few weird

+stories that I have considered really good. Therefore, this is not so

+much a defense of Smith (who, I believe, is absolutely wrong in trying

+to link weird fiction with science fiction), as a rebuttal to

+Ackerman. However, first let me say that I think you are making a

+mistake, Editor, in publishing, and readers, in writing, letters which

+make too personal remarks. Aside from the fact that they are not true,

+the Boiling Point is for arguing about principles and not for calling

+antagonists names.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"But on with the dance&#8212;Forrest says that 'Dweller in Martian Depths'

+and 'The Light From Beyond' should not have been published in

+<i>Wonder Stories</i>. He also calls 'The Time Stream' doubtful

+material for a stf publication.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"Point 1&#8212;In regard to Forrest's dislike of Smith's excessive

+vocabulary, I will say this is purely a matter of personal opinion.

+And I respect his opinion (which is more than do Messrs. Lovecraft,

+Barlow, and Nelson) even though I don't agree with him. As a change

+from the average run of stf stories, I enjoy Smith's wonderful

+language; I believe I have read very few stories as beautifully told

+as 'The Light From Beyond'. And though I don't like his weird stories,

+nevertheless, his manner of telling seems to me admirably fitted to

+weird fiction.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"Point 2&#8212;I agree heartily with Mr. Crawford; science fiction would

+indeed be dull, if it consisted of nothing but the ideas Mr. Barlow

+lists. Fantasy is an integral part of stf; and while the three above

+mentioned stories were, for a large part, fantasy, they also contained

+the elements of strict stf.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"Point 3&#8212;Finally, if no other explaining will suffice, I can only

+offer this last fact: Such stories provide variety, and there are many

+who will like them. So, if you don't, Forrest, just forget about it.

+Stf can not be composed of all interplanetar yarns, or all medical,

+or all of any other type."

+</p>

+

+<p>

+We hereby give notice that the Smith&#8211;Ackerman debate will be concluded

+in the February issue. It has just about run its course. If you have

+anything to say, you'd better say it now. It's your last chance. In

+next month's column, Clark Ashton Smith presents a rebuttal to the

+vociferous letter of D. Alexander's in our December issue. Mr. Smith

+is glad to know that Ackerman is being given an even break. We hope

+that this friendly argument has been well-taken by all concerned and

+will cause no hard feelings.

+</p>

+

+

+

+

+<p class="ctrtoppad">

+The Ghoul

+</p>

+

+<p class="ctrsmall">

+by Clark Ashton Smith

+</p>

+

+

+<p>

+During the reign of the Caliph Vathek, a young man of good repute and

+family, named Noureddin Hassan, was haled before the Cadi Ahmed ben

+Becar at Bussorah. Now Noureddin was a comely youth, of open and

+gentle mien; and great was the astonishment of the Cadi and of all

+others present when they heard the charges that were preferred against

+him. He was accused of having slain seven people, one by one, on seven

+successive nights, and of having left the corpses in a cemetery near

+Bussorah, where they were found lying with their bodies and members

+devoured in a fearsome manner, as if by jackals. Of the people he was

+said to have slain three were women, two were travelling merchants,

+one was a mendicant, and one a grave-digger.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+Ahmed ben Becar was filled with the learning and wisdom of honorable

+years, and withal was possessed of much perspicacity. But he was

+deeply perplexed by the strangeness and atrocity of these crimes and

+by the mild demeanor and well-bred aspect of Noureddin Hassan, which

+he could in no wise reconcile with them. He heard in silence the

+testimony of witnesses who had seen Noureddin bearing on his shoulders

+the body of a woman at yester-eve in the cemetery; and others who on

+several occasions had observed him coming from the neighborhood at

+unseemly hours when only thieves and murderers would be abroad. Then,

+having considered all these, he questioned the youth closely.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"Noureddin Hassan," he said, "thou hast been charged with crimes of

+exceeding foulness, which thy bearing and thy lineaments belie. Is

+there haply an explanation of these things by which thou canst wholly

+clear thyself, or in some measure mitigate the heinousness of thy

+deeds, if so it be that thou art guilty? I adjure thee to tell me the

+truth in this matter."

+</p>

+

+<p>

+Now Noureddin Hassan arose before the Cadi; and the heaviness of

+extreme shame and sorrow was visible on his countenance.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"Alas, O Cadi," he replied, "for the charges that have been brought

+against me are indeed true. It was I and none other, who slew these

+people; nor can I offer any extenuation of my act."

+</p>

+

+<p>

+The Cadi was sorely grieved and astonished when he heard this answer.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"I must perforce believe thee," he said sternly. "But thou hast

+confessed a thing which will make thy name hence forward an

+abomination in the ears and mouths of men. I command thee to tell me

+why these crimes were committed, and what offense these persons had

+given thee, or what injury they had done to thee; or if perchance thou

+slewest them for gain, like a common robber."

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"There was neither offense given nor injury wrought by any of them

+against me," replied Noureddin. "And I did not kill them for their

+money or belongings or apparel, since I had no need of such things,

+and, aside from that, have always been an honest man."

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"Then," cried Ahmed ben Becar, greatly puzzled, "what was thy reason

+if it was none of these?"

+</p>

+

+<p>

+Now the face of Noureddin Hassan grew heavier still with sorrow; and

+he bowed his head in a shamefaced manner that bespoke the utterness of

+profound remorse. And standing thus before the Cadi, he told this

+story:

+</p>

+

+<br>

+

+<p>

+The reversals of fortune, O Cadi, are swift and grievous, and beyond

+the foreknowing or advertence of men. Alas! for less than a fortnight

+agone I was the happiest and most guiltless of mortals, with no

+thought of wrongdoing toward anyone. I was wedded to Amina, the

+daughter of the jewel-merchant Aboul Cogia; and I loved her deeply and

+was much beloved by her in turn; and moreover we were at this time

+anticipating the birth of our first child. I had inherited from my

+father a rich estate and many slaves; the cares of life were light

+upon my shoulders; and I had, it would seem, every reason to count

+myself among those whom Allah has blest with an earthly foretaste of

+Heaven.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+Judge, then, the excessive nature of my grief when Amina died in the

+same hour when she was to have been delivered. From that time, in the

+dire extremity of my lamentation, I was as one bereft of light and

+knowledge; I was deaf to all those who sought to condole with me, and

+blind to their friendly offices.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+After the burial of Amina my sorrow became a veritable madness, and I

+wandered by night to her grave in the cemetery near Bussorah and flung

+myself prostrate before the newly lettered tombstone, on the earth

+that been digged that very day. My senses deserted me, and I knew not

+how long I remained on the damp clay beneath the cypresses, while the

+horn of a decrescent moon arose in the heavens.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+Then, in my stupor of abandonment, I heard a terrible voice that bade

+me rise from the ground on which I was lying. And lifting my head a

+little, I saw a hideous demon of gigantic frame and stature, with eyes

+of scarlet fire beneath brows that were coarse as tangled rootlets,

+and fangs that overhung a cavernous mouth, and earth-black longer and

+sharper than those of the hyena. And the demon said to me:

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"I am a ghoul, and it is my office to devour the bodies of the dead. I

+have now come to claim the corpse that was interred today beneath the

+soil on which thou art lying in a fashion so unmannerly. Begone, for I

+have fasted since yester-night, and I am much anhungered."

+</p>

+

+<p>

+Now, at the sight of this demon, and the sound of his dreadful voice,

+and the still more dreadful meaning of his words, I was like to have

+swooned with terror on the cold clay. But I recovered myself in a

+manner, and besought him, saying:

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"Spare this grave, I implore thee; for she who lies buried therein it

+dearer to me than any living mortal; and I would not that her fair

+body should be the provender of an unclean demon such as thou."

+</p>

+

+<p>

+At this the ghoul was angered, and I thought that he would have done

+me some bodily violence. But again I besought him, swearing by Allah

+and Mohammed with many solemn oaths that I would grant him anything

+procurable and would do for him any favor that lay in the power of man

+if he would leave undespoiled the new-made grave of Amina. And the

+ghoul was somewhat mollified, and he said:

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"If thou wilt indeed perform for me a certain service, I shall do as

+thou askest." And I replied:

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"There is no service, whatsoever its nature, that I will not do for

+thee in this connection, and I pray thee to name thy desire."

+</p>

+

+<p>

+Then the ghoul said: "It is this, that thou shalt bring to me each

+night, for eight successive nights, the body of one whom thou hast

+slain with thine own hand. Do this, and I shall neither devour nor dig

+the body that lies interred hereunder."

+</p>

+

+<p>

+Now was I seized by utter horror and despair, since I had bound myself

+in all honor to grant the ghoul his hideous requirement. And I begged

+him to change the terms of the stipulation, saying to him:

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"Is it needful to thee, O eater of corpses, that the bodies should be

+those of people whom I myself have slain?"

+</p>

+

+<p>

+And the ghoul said: "Yea, for all others would be the natural

+provender of myself or of my kin in any event. I adjure thee by the

+promise thou hast given to meet me here tomorrow night, when darkness

+has wholly fallen or as soon thereafter as thou art able, bringing the

+first of the eight bodies."

+</p>

+

+<p>

+So saying, he strode off among the cypresses, and began to dig in

+another newly made grave at a little distance from that of Amina.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+I left the graveyard in even direr anguish than when I had come

+thinking, of that which I must do in fulfilment of my sworn promise,

+to preserve the body of Amina from the demon. I know not how I

+survived the ensuing day, torn as I was between sorrow for the dead

+and my horror of the coming night with its repugnant duty.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+When darkness had descended, I went forth by stealth to a lonely road

+near the cemetery; and waiting there amid the low-grown branches of

+the trees, I slew the first passer with a sword and carried his body

+to the spot appointed by the ghoul. And each night thereafter, for six

+more nights, I returned to the same vicinity and repeated this deed,

+slaying always the very first who came, whether man or woman, or

+merchant or beggar or grave-digger. And the ghoul awaited me on each

+occasion, and would begin to devour his provender in my presence, with

+small thanks and scant ceremony. Seven persons did I slay in all, till

+only one was wanting to complete the agreed number; and the person

+whom I slew yester-night was a woman, even as the witnesses have

+testified. All this I did with utmost repugnance and regret, and

+sustained only by the remembrance of my plighted word and the fate

+which would befall the corpse of Amina if I should break the bond.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+This, O Cadi, is all my story. Alas! for these lamentable crimes have

+availed me not, and I have failed in wholly keeping my bargain with

+the demon, who will doubtless this night consume the body of Amina in

+lien of the one corpse that is still lacking. I resign myself to thy

+judgement, O Ahmed ben Becar, and I beseech thee for no other mercy

+than that of death, wherewith to terminate my double grief and my

+twofold remorse.

+</p>

+

+<br>

+

+<p>

+When Noureddin Hassan had ended his narrative, the amazement of all

+who had heard him was verily multiplied, since no man could remember

+hearing a stranger tale. And the Cadi pondered for a long time and

+then gave judgment, saying:

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"I must needs marvel at thy story, but the crimes thou hast committed

+are none the less heinous, and Iblis himself would stand aghast before

+them. However, some allowance must be made for the fact that thou

+hadst given thy word to the ghoul and wast bound as it were in honor

+to fulfill his demand, no matter how horrible its nature. And

+allowance must likewise be made for thy connubial grief which caused

+thee to forfend thy wife's body from the demon. Yet I cannot adjudge

+thee guiltless, though I know not the punishment which is merited in a

+case so utterly without parallel. Therefore, I set thee free, with

+this injunction, that thou shalt make atonement for thy crimes in the

+fashion that seemeth best to thee, and shalt render justice to thyself

+and to others in such degree as thou art able."

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"I thank thee for this mercy," replied Noureddin Hassan; and he then

+withdrew from the court amid the wonderment of all who were present.

+There was much debate when he had gone, and many were prone to

+question the wisdom of the Cadi's decision. Some there were who

+maintained that Noureddin should have been sentenced to death without

+delay for his abominable actions though others argued for the sanctity

+of his oath to the ghoul, and would have exculpated him altogether or

+in part. And tales were told and instances were cited regarding the

+habits of ghouls and the strange plight of men who had surprised such

+demons in their nocturnal delvings. And again the discussion returned

+to Noureddin, and the judgment of the Cadi was once more upheld or

+assailed with divers arguments. But amid all this, Ahmed Ben Becar was

+silent, saying only:

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"Wait, for this man will render justice to himself and to all other

+concerned, as far as the rendering thereof is possible."

+</p>

+

+<p>

+So indeed it happened, for on the morning of the next day another body

+was found in the cemetery near Bussorah lying half-devoured on the

+grave of Noureddin Hassan's wife, Amina. And the body was that of

+Noureddin, self-slain, who in this manner had not only fulfilled the

+injunction of the Cadi but had also kept his bargain with the ghoul by

+providing the required number of corpses.

+</p>

+

+

+

+

+<p class="ctrtoppad">

+WE'LL BET YOU DIDN'T KNOW

+</p>

+

+<p class="ctrsmall">

+by Mortimer Weisinger

+</p>

+

+

+<p>

+That Penn State Froth, the official comic magazine for Penn

+University, recently burlesqued Amazing Stories.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+That Charles Willard Diffin composes his stuff on a dictaphone.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+That the A. in A. Hyatt Verrill's name stands for Alpheus.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+That Jack Williamson is the only writer who ever copped a cover for

+each part of a serial.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+That it's ironic that the letters in Verne's name, rearranged, spell

+'never.'

+</p>

+

+<p>

+That P. S. Miller is a descendant of Alexander Hamilton.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+That Wonder Stories is the only s-f mag on file in the New York Public

+Library.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+That the reason the first eleven issues of Amazing Stories were

+printed on heavy paper was because the publishers wanted to give the

+fans "a big package for their money."

+</p>

+

+<p>

+That, with the exception of his first story, Hamilton has never had a

+story refused by Weird Tales. And even the first was accepted after

+rewriting.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+That William Briggs MacHarg and Edwin Balmer (the creators of Luther

+Trant) are brothers-in-law.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+That Wonder Stories paid over seven cents a word for Charles Tanner's

+story "The Color of Space."

+</p>

+

+<p>

+That Forrest J. Ackerman used to correspond regularly with 115 fans.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+That Jack Williamson is a cowboy.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+That Charles Cloukey was fifteen years old when he sold his first

+story.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+That the mystery novel, "The 13th Murder," refers to Amazing Stories

+and Weird Tales as "detective and mystery fiction"&#8212;and they ring

+Saturn!

+</p>

+

+<p>

+That the story, "Warriors of Space," featured in the first issue of

+Science Wonder Stories, was a sequel to "The World in the Balance," in

+an old Argosy.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+That Hugo Gernsback conducted a contest in Science &#38; Invention to

+obtain a name for his projected magazine&#8212;named Amazing Stories after

+the winner was announced.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+That P. Schuyler Miller had a B.S. and an M.S. degree before he was 21.

+</p>

+

+

+

+

+<p class="ctrtoppad">

+MY SCIENCE FICTION COLLECTION

+</p>

+

+<p class="ctrsmall">

+by Forrest J. Ackerman

+</p>

+

+<p class="ctr">

+Part Five

+</p>

+

+

+<p>

+More for my own satisfaction than anything else, is the second part of

+this last division of my collection; "stills." These are scenes from a

+score of fantasy pictures ranging in size from 5" &#215; to 11" &#215; 14", and

+in subjects from prehistoric monsters of 10,000,000 years ago to

+exploring interplanetary parties of the future. There are many scenes

+from "Metropolis" of the vast, shining electricity, of the inside

+furnishings of the buildings, of the costumes of the people of that

+time; and there are pictures of the machinery to run the city, the

+underground world, the robotrix, the televisors. From "King Kong" I

+have 9 stills: a brontosaurus, an allosaur about to eat a man, Kong on

+exhibition in New York, in the jungle with the girl, smashing in a

+building, atop the Empire State, etc.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+Secured from 'Frankenstein' are pictures of the monster, and his

+making in the laboratory. "Just Imagine" offers scenes of

+heaven-scraped New York in 1980, of the rocket for Mars, of the nifty

+little earthplanes. I have seven interesting pictures from "The Most

+Dangerous Game." Laboratories and the death ray of "The Mask of

+Fu-Manchu" are included. From Wells' "Island of Lost Souls" there are

+photos of the evoluted animals of a hundred thousand years hence;

+ape-men, the panther-woman, wolf-creatures, etc. "High Treason" offers

+numerous stills: television, the European city, war in 1940, a dance

+hall of seven years ahead, the English Channel sub-sea express, a

+broadcasted trial, and more. "The Mummy" is shown returning to life,

+prehistoric monsters from "The Mystery of Life" are present.

+Machinery, experiments, scientists&#8212;all from the stf-detective tale,

+"Doctor X." I also have several stills from "By Rocket to the Moon,"

+such as those showing the model rocket and its trip&#8212;also pictures of

+Mars, Saturn, the end of the world, and an ethership from "Our

+Heavenly Bodies" a scene from "The Lost World," "The Stellar Express,"

+and many others.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+[In part six, next month, Mr. Ackerman concludes his interesting

+article.]

+</p>

+

+

+

+

+<p class="ctrtoppad">

+HOW TO COLLECT FANTASY FICTION

+</p>

+

+<p class="ctrsmall">

+by Julius Schwartz

+</p>

+

+<p class="ctr">

+Part Five&#8212;Conclusion

+</p>

+

+

+<p>

+Fantasy booklets have appeared at lesser intervals. <i>Amazing

+Stories</i> put out Landell Bartlet's "Vanguard of Venus" in 1928.

+Gernsback has put out 18 science fiction booklets, of which only the

+last six are now in print. He likewise issued a reprint of Garret

+Smith's "Between Worlds". Mimeographed booklets were put out by Carl

+Swanson (Edmond Hamilton's "The Metal Giants", a reprint) and by the

+Fantasy Fiction Publications ("Guests of the Earth" by Hugh Langley).

+The Arra Printers have put out A. Merritt's "Thru the Dragon Glass,"

+"The Cavemen of Venus," "The Price of Peace," and Dr. Keller's "Wolf

+Hollow Bubbles."

+</p>

+

+<p>

+This article wouldn't be complete without mention of the hard-covered

+fantasies. It's a hopeless task to try and muster even a tenth of all

+the fantasy books. The best way to go about it, however, is to "haunt"

+the second-hand book stores and scrutinize any book whose title sounds

+promising or inviting.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+There's one tantalizing feature connected with the collection of

+fantastic fiction: your collection will Never be complete! But this

+misfortune has one commendable merit. The collector's interest in

+Fantasy fiction will never wane.

+</p>

+

+

+<p class="ctr">

+The End

+</p>

+

+

+

+

+<p class="ctrtoppad">

+SUPERNATURAL HORROR IN LITERATURE

+</p>

+

+<p class="ctr">

+Part Four

+</p>

+

+<p class="ctrsmall">

+by H. P. Lovecraft

+</p>

+

+<p class="ctr">

+(copyright 1927, by W. Paul Cook)

+</p>

+

+<p class="ctr">

+II The Dawn of the Horror Tale

+</p>

+

+

+<p>

+As may naturally be expected of a form so closely connected with

+primal emotion, the horror tale is as old as human thought and speech

+themselves.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all

+races, and is crystalized in the most archaic ballads, chronicles, and

+sacred writings. It was, indeed, a prominent feature of the elaborate

+ceremonial magic, with its rituals for the evocation of demons and

+spectres which flourished from prehistoric times, and which reached

+its highest development in Egypt and the Semetic nations. Fragments

+like the Book of Enoch and the Claviculae of Solomon well illustrate

+the power of the weird over the ancient Eastern mind, and upon such

+things were based enduring systems and traditions, whose echoes extend

+obscurely even to the present time. Touches of this transcendental

+fear are seen in classic literature and there is evidence of its still

+greater emphasis in a balled literature which paralleled the classic

+stream, but vanished for lack of a written medium. The Middle Ages,

+steeped in fanciful darkness, gave it an enormous impulse toward

+expression; and East and West alike were busy preserving and

+amplifying the dark heritage, both of random folklore and of

+academically formulated magic and cabalism, which had descended to

+them. Witch, werewolf, vampire, and ghoul brooded ominously on the

+lips of bard and grandam, and needed but little encouragement to take

+the final step across the boundary that divides the chanted tale or

+song from the formal literary composition. In the Orient, the weird

+tale tended to assume a gorgeous colouring and sprightliness which

+almost transmuted it into sheer phantasy. In the West, where the

+mystical Teuton had cone down from his black Boreal forests and the

+Celt remembered strange sacrifices in Druidic groves, it assumed a

+terrible intensity and convincing seriousness of atmosphere which

+doubled the force of its half-told, half-hinted horrors.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+Much of the power of Western horror-lore was undoubtedly due to the

+hidden but often suspected presence of a hideous cult of nocturnal

+worshipers whose strange customs&#8212;descended from pre-Aryan and

+pre-agricultural times when a squat race of Mongoloids roved over

+Europe with their flocks and herds&#8212;were rooted in the most revolting

+fertility-rites of immemorial antiquity. This secret religion,

+stealthily handed down amongst peasants for thousands of years despite

+the outward reign of the Druidic, Graeco-Roman, and Christian faiths

+in the regions involved, was marked by wild "Witches' Sabbaths" in

+lonely woods and atop distant hills on Walpurgis Night and Hallowe'en,

+the traditional breeding-seasons of the goats and sheep and cattle;

+and became the source of vast riches of sorcery legend, besides

+provoking extensive witchcraft prosecutions of which the Salem affair

+forms the chief American example. Akin to it in essence, and perhaps

+connected with it in fact, was the frightful secret system of inverted

+theology or Satan-worship which produced such horrors as the famous

+"Black Mass"; whilst operating toward the same end we may note the

+activities of those whose aims were somewhat more scientific or

+philosophical&#8212;the astrologers, cabbalists, and alchemists of the

+Albertus Magnus or Raymond Lully type, with whom such rude ages

+invariably abound. The prevalence and depth of the medieval

+horror-spirit in Europe, intensified by the dark despair which

+waves of pestilence brought, may be fairly gauged by the grotesque

+carvings slyly introduced into much of the finest later Gothic

+ecclesiastical work of the time; the demoniac gargoyles of Notre

+Dame and Mont St. Michel being among the most famous specimens. And

+throughout the period, it must be remembered, there existed amongst

+educated and uneducated alike, a most unquestioning faith in every

+form of the supernatural; from the gentlest of Christian doctrines

+to the most monstrous morbidities of witchcraft and black magic.

+It was from no empty background that the Renaissance magicians and

+alchemists&#8212;Nostradamus, Trithemius, Dr. John Dee, Robert Fludd, and

+the like&#8212;were born.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+In this fertile soil were nourished types and characters of somber

+myth and legend which persist in weird literature to this day, more or

+less disguised or altered by modern technique. Many of then were taken

+from the earliest oral sources, and form part of mankind's permanent

+heritage. The shade which appears and demands the burial of its bones,

+the demon lover who comes to bear away his still living bride, the

+death-fiend or psychopomp riding the night-wind, the man-wolf, the

+sealed chamber, the deathless sorcerer&#8212;all those may be found in that

+curious body of mediaeval lore which the late Mr. Baring-Gould so

+effectively assembled in book form. Wherever the mystic Northern blood

+was strongest, the atmosphere of the popular tales became most

+intense; for in the Latin races there is a touch of basic rationality

+which denies to even their strangest superstitions many of the

+overtones of glamour so characteristic of our own forest-born and

+ice-fostered whisperings.

+</p>

+

+<p class="ctr">

+(continued next month)

+</p>

+

+

+

+

+<p class="ctrtoppad">

+The Sacred Bird

+</p>

+

+<p class="ctr">

+Annals of the Jinns&#8212;4

+</p>

+

+<p class="ctrsmall">

+by R. H. Barlow

+</p>

+

+

+<p>

+There appeared one day in the market-place of Ulathia a most peculiar

+fowl which fell exhausted from the skies. Its plumage was of brilliant

+hue, and despite its confusion, a wise and knowing look was seen

+within the orange eyes. After resting a moment, it fluttered about the

+square, entering the various shops in a proprietary manner and finally

+settled in that of a sweetmeat dealer. Soon all the tradesfolk hurried

+across the cobble-stones to see this gaudy visitor and to feed it many

+tid-bits. Not in the least bothered by its admiring audience, it

+permitted its head to be scratched and petted as it ate.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+In time, the news spread through the thatched houses to the ears of

+the Imperial Council, all of which laid down their pens and came in a

+body to view it. It was discovered by them greedily eating a preserved

+orange-rind, a meal varied by occasional pecks at a nut. Having

+already devoured odds and ends of all sorts, it was no longer hungry,

+and even as they panted in, it fell asleep. When the crowd drew aside

+to admit the rotund Council, it complained loudly.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"Gwarn arf 'n chase y'self!" commanded the half-awake bird. "Gwarn

+arf," it repeated, fluttering its wings and adjusting for a nice nap.

+It then uttered a rasping incoherency and dozed off placidly. The

+people drew back whispering excitedly. "A demon!" averred one. This

+brought a chorus of dissention among the others. "An angel&#8230;. Just a

+trick&#8230;. Who ever heard of a bird talking?&#8230; A magician in

+disguise&#8230;. What has happened?&#8230; Still thy tongue, neighbor&#8230;."

+</p>

+

+<p>

+&#8230; The head of the Council, a gray-beard notoriously superstitious,

+cleared his threat and a silence fell over all present. "My friends,"

+he gurgled happily, "My <i>dear</i> friends and fellow citizens! This

+is an occasion of undoubted significance in the annals of our fair

+city, equalled only by that of, as you doubtless will realize, early

+in the reign of&#8212;rather; to continue; In other words, my dear

+friends," he began over, unable to sustain the sentence any longer,

+"To make it clear to all concerned, this is, I believe, and no one, I

+hope, would contradict me, I have occasion to think&#8212;" Here his voice

+lowered to a whisper and ended in a triumphant shout, "A

+<i>Messenger</i> sent to guide us!" He leered cheerfully at the mob.

+"Therefore, let us convey it in state to the City Hall to rule us as

+it sees fit!"

+</p>

+

+<p>

+Which was forthwith done amid much celebration, and the chattering of

+the escaped parrot from that day guided the fortunes of the city of

+Ulathia, interpreted by the Ruler and his Council as they desired.

+</p>

+

+<div class="figcenter"><img width="125" height="22" src="images/dots2.jpg" alt="Decoration"></div>

+

+<p>

+Another tale in this series will appear next month.

+</p>

+

+

+

+

+<p class="ctrtoppad">

+OUR READERS SAY

+</p>

+

+

+<p>

+S. M. White, one of our New Zealand readers is not altogether satisfied

+with science fiction in general:

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"<i>The Fantasy Fan</i> is of great interest to me. I hope that it

+keeps on going. I have two objections to scientifiction&#8212;1. There is

+too much 'blood and thunder.' 2. Not enough originality in plots. Thus

+too much spoils the flavor. But there are several themes on which few

+of your authors have touched. 1. A story with lots of science. 2. A

+story concerning that which comes after death (if anything). 3. A

+really humorous story. 4. None of the authors except H. G. Wells has

+tried to solve the problem of labor vs. capital. Stories often end up:

+"Workers of the world, you are free!" Free to what? Technocracy? NRA?

+Vanderbiltism? These four ought to keep writers busy."

+</p>

+

+<p>

+The hardest job of an editor is trying to please everyone. As this is

+an impossibility, all they can do is to please as many as they can.

+When a majority voice a suggestion, he must take it into serious

+consideration. We find that the underused plots you have mentioned

+have been used quite often, except that which is not for science

+fiction, but has been overdone in weird stories.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"I keep forgetting that each month I am going to receive a copy of

+<i>The Fantasy Fan</i> so that, when it does come, it is such a

+pleasant surprise. As a regular feature, I enjoy Bob Tucker's report

+on the English stf magazines best of all. 'How to Write a Stf Story'

+was <i>so</i> funny."&#8212;Forrest J. Ackerman

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"The November TFF is decidedly improving and I look forward to future

+issues with much interest. I wonder how many collectors there are that

+can discriminate between the trash that seems popular and the best in

+Fantasy?"&#8212;R. H. Barlow

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"The November issue of TFF was magnificent! What got the cake was 'How

+to Write a Stf Story' by Hoy Ping Pong. By the way, Editor, who is

+this Hoy Ping Pong? Anyway, regardless of who he is, he seems to be

+humorously inclined, so let's have more from him. No periodical is

+exactly good without a touch of humor."&#8212;Ted H. Lutwin

+</p>

+

+<p>

+There's no use in concealing the identity Hoy Ping Pong. It is none

+other than Bob Tucker, author of the English science fiction series,

+and more Hoy Ping Pong articles to come.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"I liked the November issue very much and hope you'll publish more of

+Smith's poetry."&#8212;Robert E. Howard

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"I was certainly disappointed to hear that the <i>Necronomicon</i>,

+<i>Book of Eibon</i>, and the <i>Nameless Cults</i> had no existence

+except in the fertile imaginations of Lovecraft, Smith, and Howard.

+That's not illusion of reality. Anyone could quote books and authors

+that never existed. To me, it is plain fabrication. According to

+Joseph McCabe, the monks of the middle ages were adepts at it. I must

+say, however, that it was quite a help in giving an illusion of

+reality to Lovecraft's stories, and Smith's. It won't be now, though,

+because the cat is out of the bag. But what about 'Yog Sothoth' and

+'Sattaquo' and 'Thule.' Surely, there must be a legend of some sort to

+account for them, or does their ancientness go no farther than 1924?

+Were they born about the same time as <i>Weird Tales</i>? I notice

+that the Illusion of reality has much more force at night than in the

+daytime."&#8212;Carl J. Smith

+</p>

+

+<p>

+It is only an A-1 author that can make you believe that a thing exists

+when it really doesn't. Perhaps the cat is out of the bag, at you say,

+but we don't believe that it detracts from Smith's, Lovecraft's, or

+Howard's stories one bit. However, weird fans will probably not be

+satisfied until the aforesaid "fabricators" write up the books <i>in

+toto</i> that they have created in their minds. Smith is now working

+on a chapter of "The Book of Eibon."

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"I was pleased to receive your clever little 'Fantasy Fan' and

+consider it highly entertaining and useful and well worth the dollar I

+enclose for a year's subscription. From time to time I noticed in the

+reader's columns the uprise of little pamphlets, but never gave them

+serious thought. This one you have sent me startled me into

+appreciating that the fantasy fans are an energetic lot.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"My eulogies and praises to the incomparable Clark Ashton Smith for

+his 'Kingdom of the Worm.' He has the magic of words that makes great

+writers. We like to honor the memory of Poe as the father of the short

+story and the fantastic type of fiction, but Smith surpasses him.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"Enclosed you will find a little story of mine that I tender you

+gratis&#8212;let us say as a Christmas present, for use in TFF. I wrote it

+on the spur of the moment one day, as the idea popped into my mind and

+refused to depart."&#8212;Eando Binder

+</p>

+

+<p>

+We thank Mr. Binder, an author of note, for his excellent story. It

+will appear in an early issue of TFF. The theme used is a brand new

+one, and we believe will make a big hit with all lovers of weird

+fiction.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"The November issue was a gem all the way through, and I am certainly

+learning a lot of facts about fantastic fiction that are quite new to

+me. It answers numerous questions that I have had in mind for a long

+time. I think the comments by the readers constitute a most absorbing

+part of your magazine, especially when they are by contributors and

+old fans that know the 'ropes' well. Understand that I am a

+comparative beginner in the absorbing game of chasing fantastic

+literature. It is quite noticeable that the trend is turning even more

+toward the fantastic than the pure science fiction, which, it would

+seen, has been on the wane for some time. I am not a science fiction

+crank, however, and have several good tales in my collection. They are

+not interplanetary, though, but ones approaching closer to the

+fantastic.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"The poem by Clark Ashton Smith was enormous; yet, more than that. I

+do not think one could describe it. 'The Other Gods' by H. P.

+Lovecraft added just the right atmosphere to TFF. The mention of

+Ulthar in this story recalled a story by the same author named 'The

+Cats of Ulthar.'

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"As Mr. Ackerman's collection continues to pile up, it seems that in

+spite of mania to judge literature, he certainly does a thing up right

+when he starts.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"The discovery that the now famous book 'Necronomicon' is entirely

+fictitious was a considerable shock. Too bad that such a volume is not

+available to all lovers of fiction pertaining to the black arts and

+kindred subjects. I had even thought seriously of sending to the State

+College Library in quest of a copy in English! I wondered at the time

+if it had yet been translated. Why not have Lovecraft write such a

+book? I am sure it would sell well. I enjoy reading the denouncement

+of Mr. Ackerman."&#8212;Duane W. Rime

+</p>

+

+<p>

+As Dr. Keller says, it doesn't matter whether a reader praises Forrest

+or condemns him, so long as they say <i>something</i>. We, also, were

+on the verge of sending someplace for the <i>Necronomicon</i> in

+English.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"Lovecraft's 'The Other Gods' and 'Supernatural Horror in Literature'

+are a treat for which I am sure every reader is grateful. 'True Ghost

+Stories' is very well presented and Barlow's 'Annals of the Jinns'

+very capably upholds fantastic lore. Smith's 'The Kingdom of the Worm'

+recalled to my mind Donald Wandrei's 'The Worm King', a poem which I

+read in <i>Weird Tales</i> years ago. While different in essence of

+tone, these two carry the same eery quality. Although your various

+departments have not yet swung into full stride, great promise is

+indicated.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"I have a suggestion for Mr. Tucker. If his English connection will

+supply him with sufficient information, a column or so on Arthur

+Machen and Algernon Blackwood might introduce two very worthy writers

+of weird tales to your readers."&#8212;Chester D. Cuthbert

+</p>

+

+<p>

+We have on hand for early publication, several articles on the works

+of the great writers of the past. Watch for them. To our readers: How

+did you like Mr. Cuthbert's story "The Sublime Vigil" in the February

+1934 issue of <i>Wonder Stories</i>? Watch his progress! We predict

+that in less than one year he will be one of your favorite authors.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"Glad to see the December issue. All the stories art excellent and the

+departments are as interesting as usual."&#8212;H. P. Lovecraft

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"I have received the November TFF and would say that it is the most

+satisfactory issue so far. 'The Other Gods' is indeed a masterpiece of

+prose poetry, filled with imaginative overtones. Barlow's second

+Annals of the Jinns is memorably touched, and the sense of atmosphere

+conveyed is remarkable in view of its brevity. Hoy Ping Pong's article

+on how to write scientifiction is most amusing.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"Re the origin of the word 'weird,' which you attributed to Edgar

+Allan Poe. I believe that Poe was perhaps the first to employ this

+adjective in the modern sense of eerie or uncanny or bizarre; but

+you will find it used in older writers, such as Shakespeare, with

+a special application to witchcraft or sorcery. The three Fates

+of classic mythology were spoken of as 'the weird sisters,' and

+the root-meaning of the word has reference to fate or destiny. As

+a noun, it is still sometimes used in the latter sense; and it also

+means a prediction of prophecy. The word itself is of Anglo-Saxon

+origin, and is related to the old German <i>wurt</i> and Icelandic

+<i>urdhr</i>."&#8212;Clark Ashton Smith

+</p>

+

+<p>

+In my filler concerning the origin of the word "weird," you will

+remember that I said that its meaning the bizarre originated with

+Edgar Allen Poe. I had in mind the other meanings as I wrote it.

+Undoubtedly, if Edgar Allan Poe had not used it, the word would not be

+popular today.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+"I had intended to write since I received the first copy of TFF, but

+circumstances made it impossible. I wish to compliment you on the

+magazine. It is not perfect, of course&#8212;But it is different and that

+is a blessing indeed."&#8212;Louis C. Smith

+</p>

+

+<p>

+Send in your letter to "Our Readers Say," fans. We want your opinions,

+criticisms, and suggestions. Do you think that too much space is

+devoted to this department? If so, we'll cut it down.

+</p>

+

+<div class="figcenter"><img width="160" height="12" src="images/line1.jpg" alt="Decoration"></div>

+

+<p class="ctrtoppad">

+ADVERTISEMENTS

+</p>

+

+

+<p class="flushleft">

+FIRST PRINT of A. Merritt's "Moon Pool." The most valuable edition of

+any science fiction book. What am I offered? Ted Lutwin, 315 Henderson

+Street, Jersey City, N.J.

+</p>

+

+<hr>

+

+<p class="flushleft">

+CLARK ASHTON SMITH presents THE DOUBLE SHADOW AND OTHER FANTASIES&#8212;a

+booklet containing a half-dozen imaginative and atmospheric

+tales.&#8212;Stories of exotic beauty, glamor, terror, strangeness, irony

+and satire. Price; 25 cents each, (coin or stamps). Also a small

+remainder of EBONY AND CRYSTAL&#8212;a book of prose poems published at

+$7.00, reduced to $1.00 per copy. Everything sent postpaid. Clark

+Ashton Smith, Auburn, California.

+</p>

+

+<hr>

+

+<p class="flushleft">

+BACK NUMBERS OF THE FANTASY FAN&#8212;September, 20 cents; October,

+November, December, 10 cts. (Only a few Septembers left.)

+</p>

+

+<hr>

+

+<p class="flushleft">

+IF YOU HAVE any copies of <i>Weird Tales</i> dated 1923-24-25-26-27,

+that you would like to part with, please communicate with the Editor.

+</p>

+

+<div class="figcenter"><img width="160" height="12" src="images/line1.jpg" alt="Decoration"></div>

+

+<br><br>

+<div class="tn">

+<p class="ctr">

+Transcriber's Note:

+</p>

+

+<p>

+Minor typographical errors have been corrected

+without note.

+</p>

+

+<p>

+Irregularities and inconsistencies in the text have

+been retained as printed.

+</p>

+

+<div class="covernote">

+<p>

+The cover of this ebook was created by the transcriber and is hereby

+placed in the public domain.

+</p>

+</div>

+</div>

+

+

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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Fantasy Fan January 1934, by Various

+

+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most

+other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions

+whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of

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+

+Title: The Fantasy Fan January 1934

+       The Fans' Own Magazine

+

+Author: Various

+

+Editor: Charles D. Hornig

+

+Release Date: August 18, 2014 [EBook #46615]

+

+Language: English

+

+Character set encoding: ASCII

+

+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FANTASY FAN JANUARY 1934 ***

+

+

+

+

+Produced by Greg Weeks and the Online Distributed

+Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

+

+

+

+

+

+

+THE FANTASY FAN

+

+THE FANS' OWN MAGAZINE

+

+Editor: Charles D. Hornig

+(Managing Editor: Wonder Stories)

+

+Published                     10 cents a copy

+Monthly                       $1.00 per year

+

+137 West Grand Street, Elizabeth, New Jersey

+

+Volume 1        January, 1934       Number 5

+

+

+

+

+IT'S UP TO YOU!

+

+

+The time has come when we must ask you a very important question.

+Do you want _The Fantasy Fan_ to remain a monthly, or would you

+rather have a bi-monthly or a quarterly instead? Now, don't answer

+this question by sending in a written reply. The only way you can

+answer it is by mailing to us a dollar for a year's subscription.

+Since the inception of _The Fantasy Fan_ it has been running at a

+great loss. The cost of having the magazine printed is not small and

+the subscriptions do not pay for one quarter of the total cost. This

+fact may astound you, but it is the truth. _The Fantasy Fan_ is young

+and not many of the fans know of its existence, chiefly because of the

+lack of a good advertising mediums for the most part, and the refusal

+of Weird Tales, the only really good medium for advertising such a fan

+magazine, to accept our ad for the second time. Perhaps you do not

+find our magazine worth a dollar a year, and that weird fiction would

+get along just as well without a fan magazine. In this case, you need

+pay no attention to this editorial. But there are those of us who

+really like our magazine and would not like to see it go bi-monthly or

+quarterly and yet have not subscribed. Of course, those of our readers

+who have, have all done their part and are under no obligation. The

+editor has created a considerable sinking fund for the cost of

+publication, and although the sinking fund is practically exhausted,

+we are not sunk! As long as he has an income, the editor is willing to

+sacrifice a portion of it to keep _The Fantasy Fan_ alive--but he

+alone cannot keep it a monthly. You cannot lose by the deal. You will

+get full value for your money. Our magazine will not fail, but if it

+did, every subscriber on our list would get back his money for those

+numbers he would not receive. So if the success of our magazine means

+anything to you, subscribe at once--each dollar sent in will insure a

+shorter period between issues. If you have already subscribed, try to

+get some of your friends interested. Give subscriptions for your

+fantasy fan friends. If your subscription runs out in a month or

+two, renew it now, ahead of time. Please send only dollar bills or

+money orders--no checks or stamps. _Are you faithful to fantasy

+fiction?_--then let's see action. I'm doing my part--are you doing

+yours? The February number will be the regular monthly issue, and

+probably March, but future numbers will be bi-monthly unless you who

+have not sent in your subscriptions do so at once! If you could

+foresee the many rare treats we have in store for you, you would not

+hesitate a moment.

+

+Here's hoping we have many faithful readers.

+

+--The Editor

+

+

+

+

+INFORMATION

+

+

+Through the courtesy of Ralph Milne Farley, Donald A. Wollheim, David

+Stolaroff, Ted Lutwin, and several other of our readers, we are able

+to present this additional list of stories written by Edgar Rice

+Burroughs as an addenda to the list presented last month:

+

+    The Outlaw of Torm

+    The War Chief

+    The Mad King

+    The Girl From Hollywood

+    The Tarzan Twins

+    The Girl From Farris's

+    The Mucker

+    The Man Without a Soul

+    The Pirates of Venus

+    Lost on Venus

+    Tarzan and the Lion Man

+    Tarzan and the City of Gold

+    The Apache Devil

+    The Bandit of Hell's Bend

+    The Moon Men

+    The Red Hawk

+    HRH the Rider

+    Efficiency Expert

+

+All of the above stories are not fantasy fiction.

+

+                     *      *      *      *      *

+

+Come over to 'The Boiling Point' and join in the argument.

+

+

+

+

+SCIENCE FICTION IN ENGLISH MAGAZINES

+

+by Bob Tucker

+

+(Series Four)

+

+

+This month, the column is devoted entirely to a small English

+publication knows as "Boy's Magazine." The particular issue in

+discussion is one of late November, 1933.

+

+One of the two fantasy stories in this issue is "The Menace of the

+Monsters." The monsters, which are prehistoric nightmares of the past,

+invade England and proceed to raise everything they come upon,

+including a train, a couple of autos, etc. The story carried three pen

+and ink sketches which were very well executed. One portrayed a huge

+stegosaurus uprooting a train of cars, tossing it into the air, and

+spilling people out of it right and left.

+

+Another illustration showed a tyrannosaurus in a death battle with a

+giant sabre-tooth tiger ... 'tis something to gaze upon, take my word

+for it!

+

+The other science fiction story in the issue is named "The Ocean

+Crater" and resembles _Astounding's_ "Telegraph Plateau" somewhat, in

+the fact that a deep crater opens in the ocean and ships drop down

+into it. This story has two illustrations, one showing a ship falling

+into the "ocean-pit" and the other portraying the destruction of an

+airplane carrier via "electric-arrow" rays from an overhead enemy

+plane.

+

+Another story in the issue, "Chin Ling's Ghost" was supposed to be a

+supernatural tale.

+

+(We hope to be able to present another article in this series in an

+early issue.)

+

+

+

+

+THE BOILING POINT

+

+

+After five months, the Smith-Ackerman debate is still waxing hot.

+We open this month's column with another rebuttal from Ackerman:

+

+"Since the pros and cons on my Boiling Point article have changed

+around to discussions of character, I wish to state that I do not like

+H. P. Lovecraft's attitude. I was interested in his closing sentence

+in the second issue, and also in Mr. Derleth's. They were both

+interesting to analyze. But I resent Mr. Lovecraft's further uncalled

+for remarks. If I am not qualified to judge any weird tales, he is not

+qualified to call names. It seems to me of late that his palsy-walsy

+Clark Ashton Smith has been turning out an over-abundant amount of

+literature--but goodness! I don't think the man egotistic and

+attempting to draw attention to himself! The man likes to write, and

+so do I. Yet Mr. Lovecraft says of me 'peculiarly ridiculous', because

+I make absurd comments to focus people's eyes on me; and write

+voluminously for the same reason, I take it. But I don't keep a

+scrap-book. That's not vary consistent with the nature described,

+is it? And ask Mr. Hornig what my answer was when he proposed a

+'Forrest J. Ackerman' issue of _The Fantasy Fan_. What a puffing up

+I should have gotten had I been _that_ sort of person: You tell 'em

+Charles--what I said: 'No!' Not that I see what difference it makes

+who writes articles and how many of them there are in one issue, as

+long as they're good--which I hope mine are. But people _will_ talk.

+And so I am not obliging with an autobiography of myself for the

+'Famous Fantasy Fans' feature either.

+

+"Furthermore, Mr. Lovecraft, you seem to have forgotten something. I

+keep my letters from famous writers. You say I once wrote you a very

+childish attack on your work. But your answer to that letter was: 'I

+was very pleased to get your bright and candid letter this morning.'

+That is a different story.

+

+"I write these paragraphs in my behalf, because, being more of a weird

+fans' magazine, I can't expect many voices on my side from _The

+Fantasy Fan_ readers. If you will see the third paragraph in the

+letter of C. Ferry and B. Rogers in the December _Wonder Stories_,

+however, you will find that the gentlemen are three times over as

+vehement and acidic as I. You might call them unknowing supporters.

+

+"To Robert Nelson, who says I must be daft or an imbecile or a

+notoriety-seeking clown and knave (and does it in one breath), I can

+only answer that I thought it was a foregone conclusion that fantasy

+fans were 'daft' anyway, and that examination of the ratings of the

+members of my alma mater graduating class might prove differently

+about the second statement, and that I think I have cleared of the

+third already.

+

+"Richard E. Morse's letter has impressed me as the one that really

+'says something.' His thought had not occurred to me before, and it is

+worthwhile considering. _Weird Tales_ allows science fiction; why

+not _Wonder Stories_ weird tales? As the science fiction fan I am

+always eager to see stf in _Weird Tales_ and any other magazine. I see

+that the process can easily be reversed. So Mr. Morse 'has' me. The

+argument is settled.

+

+"Numerous Eyrie letters knock stf in _Weird_: I only did the same, but

+from the other side of the fence."

+

+H. P. Lovecraft also retaliates:

+

+"Glad you are giving the vociferous Master Ackerman a hearing--it's

+always well to let both sides of a debate have an equal chance. But I

+fear that Effjay the Terrible and his allies don't make out a very

+strong case. The tirade to which exception was taken was not merely an

+assertion that Smith's 'Dweller in Martian Depths' is unsuited for a

+science fiction magazine. It was a wholly gratuitous and intemperate

+attack on the story itself, written with a slap-dash extravagance and

+obviously sadistic gusto which plainly showed either a complete lack

+of analytical understanding and imaginative sensitiveness, or (as it

+was probable) a mere boyish desire to show off and attract notice.

+However, Ackerman is young, as proved by his tendency to regard

+ordinary civilized language as alien and incomprehensible. Now that

+he's had a good barrage from the general public, it would be just as

+well to leave him in peace. Five years from now he'll go beyond any of

+us in laughing at his explosions of today."

+

+William H. Dellenback also has something to say:

+

+"I am not a Weird Man; indeed, I have read _very_ few weird stories

+that I have considered really good. Therefore, this is not so much a

+defense of Smith (who, I believe, is absolutely wrong in trying to

+link weird fiction with science fiction), as a rebuttal to Ackerman.

+However, first let me say that I think you are making a mistake,

+Editor, in publishing, and readers, in writing, letters which make too

+personal remarks. Aside from the fact that they are not true, the

+Boiling Point is for arguing about principles and not for calling

+antagonists names.

+

+"But on with the dance--Forrest says that 'Dweller in Martian Depths'

+and 'The Light From Beyond' should not have been published in _Wonder

+Stories_. He also calls 'The Time Stream' doubtful material for a stf

+publication.

+

+"Point 1--In regard to Forrest's dislike of Smith's excessive

+vocabulary, I will say this is purely a matter of personal opinion.

+And I respect his opinion (which is more than do Messrs. Lovecraft,

+Barlow, and Nelson) even though I don't agree with him. As a change

+from the average run of stf stories, I enjoy Smith's wonderful

+language; I believe I have read very few stories as beautifully told

+as 'The Light From Beyond'. And though I don't like his weird stories,

+nevertheless, his manner of telling seems to me admirably fitted to

+weird fiction.

+

+"Point 2--I agree heartily with Mr. Crawford; science fiction would

+indeed be dull, if it consisted of nothing but the ideas Mr. Barlow

+lists. Fantasy is an integral part of stf; and while the three above

+mentioned stories were, for a large part, fantasy, they also contained

+the elements of strict stf.

+

+"Point 3--Finally, if no other explaining will suffice, I can only

+offer this last fact: Such stories provide variety, and there are many

+who will like them. So, if you don't, Forrest, just forget about it.

+Stf can not be composed of all interplanetar yarns, or all medical,

+or all of any other type."

+

+We hereby give notice that the Smith-Ackerman debate will be concluded

+in the February issue. It has just about run its course. If you have

+anything to say, you'd better say it now. It's your last chance. In

+next month's column, Clark Ashton Smith presents a rebuttal to the

+vociferous letter of D. Alexander's in our December issue. Mr. Smith

+is glad to know that Ackerman is being given an even break. We hope

+that this friendly argument has been well-taken by all concerned and

+will cause no hard feelings.

+

+

+

+

+The Ghoul

+

+by Clark Ashton Smith

+

+

+During the reign of the Caliph Vathek, a young man of good repute and

+family, named Noureddin Hassan, was haled before the Cadi Ahmed ben

+Becar at Bussorah. Now Noureddin was a comely youth, of open and

+gentle mien; and great was the astonishment of the Cadi and of all

+others present when they heard the charges that were preferred against

+him. He was accused of having slain seven people, one by one, on seven

+successive nights, and of having left the corpses in a cemetery near

+Bussorah, where they were found lying with their bodies and members

+devoured in a fearsome manner, as if by jackals. Of the people he was

+said to have slain three were women, two were travelling merchants,

+one was a mendicant, and one a grave-digger.

+

+Ahmed ben Becar was filled with the learning and wisdom of honorable

+years, and withal was possessed of much perspicacity. But he was

+deeply perplexed by the strangeness and atrocity of these crimes and

+by the mild demeanor and well-bred aspect of Noureddin Hassan, which

+he could in no wise reconcile with them. He heard in silence the

+testimony of witnesses who had seen Noureddin bearing on his shoulders

+the body of a woman at yester-eve in the cemetery; and others who on

+several occasions had observed him coming from the neighborhood at

+unseemly hours when only thieves and murderers would be abroad. Then,

+having considered all these, he questioned the youth closely.

+

+"Noureddin Hassan," he said, "thou hast been charged with crimes of

+exceeding foulness, which thy bearing and thy lineaments belie. Is

+there haply an explanation of these things by which thou canst wholly

+clear thyself, or in some measure mitigate the heinousness of thy

+deeds, if so it be that thou art guilty? I adjure thee to tell me the

+truth in this matter."

+

+Now Noureddin Hassan arose before the Cadi; and the heaviness of

+extreme shame and sorrow was visible on his countenance.

+

+"Alas, O Cadi," he replied, "for the charges that have been brought

+against me are indeed true. It was I and none other, who slew these

+people; nor can I offer any extenuation of my act."

+

+The Cadi was sorely grieved and astonished when he heard this answer.

+

+"I must perforce believe thee," he said sternly. "But thou hast

+confessed a thing which will make thy name hence forward an

+abomination in the ears and mouths of men. I command thee to tell me

+why these crimes were committed, and what offense these persons had

+given thee, or what injury they had done to thee; or if perchance thou

+slewest them for gain, like a common robber."

+

+"There was neither offense given nor injury wrought by any of them

+against me," replied Noureddin. "And I did not kill them for their

+money or belongings or apparel, since I had no need of such things,

+and, aside from that, have always been an honest man."

+

+"Then," cried Ahmed ben Becar, greatly puzzled, "what was thy reason

+if it was none of these?"

+

+Now the face of Noureddin Hassan grew heavier still with sorrow; and

+he bowed his head in a shamefaced manner that bespoke the utterness of

+profound remorse. And standing thus before the Cadi, he told this

+story:

+

+

+The reversals of fortune, O Cadi, are swift and grievous, and beyond

+the foreknowing or advertence of men. Alas! for less than a fortnight

+agone I was the happiest and most guiltless of mortals, with no

+thought of wrongdoing toward anyone. I was wedded to Amina, the

+daughter of the jewel-merchant Aboul Cogia; and I loved her deeply and

+was much beloved by her in turn; and moreover we were at this time

+anticipating the birth of our first child. I had inherited from my

+father a rich estate and many slaves; the cares of life were light

+upon my shoulders; and I had, it would seem, every reason to count

+myself among those whom Allah has blest with an earthly foretaste of

+Heaven.

+

+Judge, then, the excessive nature of my grief when Amina died in the

+same hour when she was to have been delivered. From that time, in the

+dire extremity of my lamentation, I was as one bereft of light and

+knowledge; I was deaf to all those who sought to condole with me, and

+blind to their friendly offices.

+

+After the burial of Amina my sorrow became a veritable madness, and I

+wandered by night to her grave in the cemetery near Bussorah and flung

+myself prostrate before the newly lettered tombstone, on the earth

+that been digged that very day. My senses deserted me, and I knew not

+how long I remained on the damp clay beneath the cypresses, while the

+horn of a decrescent moon arose in the heavens.

+

+Then, in my stupor of abandonment, I heard a terrible voice that bade

+me rise from the ground on which I was lying. And lifting my head a

+little, I saw a hideous demon of gigantic frame and stature, with eyes

+of scarlet fire beneath brows that were coarse as tangled rootlets,

+and fangs that overhung a cavernous mouth, and earth-black longer and

+sharper than those of the hyena. And the demon said to me:

+

+"I am a ghoul, and it is my office to devour the bodies of the dead. I

+have now come to claim the corpse that was interred today beneath the

+soil on which thou art lying in a fashion so unmannerly. Begone, for I

+have fasted since yester-night, and I am much anhungered."

+

+Now, at the sight of this demon, and the sound of his dreadful voice,

+and the still more dreadful meaning of his words, I was like to have

+swooned with terror on the cold clay. But I recovered myself in a

+manner, and besought him, saying:

+

+"Spare this grave, I implore thee; for she who lies buried therein it

+dearer to me than any living mortal; and I would not that her fair

+body should be the provender of an unclean demon such as thou."

+

+At this the ghoul was angered, and I thought that he would have done

+me some bodily violence. But again I besought him, swearing by Allah

+and Mohammed with many solemn oaths that I would grant him anything

+procurable and would do for him any favor that lay in the power of man

+if he would leave undespoiled the new-made grave of Amina. And the

+ghoul was somewhat mollified, and he said:

+

+"If thou wilt indeed perform for me a certain service, I shall do as

+thou askest." And I replied:

+

+"There is no service, whatsoever its nature, that I will not do for

+thee in this connection, and I pray thee to name thy desire."

+

+Then the ghoul said: "It is this, that thou shalt bring to me each

+night, for eight successive nights, the body of one whom thou hast

+slain with thine own hand. Do this, and I shall neither devour nor dig

+the body that lies interred hereunder."

+

+Now was I seized by utter horror and despair, since I had bound myself

+in all honor to grant the ghoul his hideous requirement. And I begged

+him to change the terms of the stipulation, saying to him:

+

+"Is it needful to thee, O eater of corpses, that the bodies should be

+those of people whom I myself have slain?"

+

+And the ghoul said: "Yea, for all others would be the natural

+provender of myself or of my kin in any event. I adjure thee by the

+promise thou hast given to meet me here tomorrow night, when darkness

+has wholly fallen or as soon thereafter as thou art able, bringing the

+first of the eight bodies."

+

+So saying, he strode off among the cypresses, and began to dig in

+another newly made grave at a little distance from that of Amina.

+

+I left the graveyard in even direr anguish than when I had come

+thinking, of that which I must do in fulfilment of my sworn promise,

+to preserve the body of Amina from the demon. I know not how I

+survived the ensuing day, torn as I was between sorrow for the dead

+and my horror of the coming night with its repugnant duty.

+

+When darkness had descended, I went forth by stealth to a lonely road

+near the cemetery; and waiting there amid the low-grown branches of

+the trees, I slew the first passer with a sword and carried his body

+to the spot appointed by the ghoul. And each night thereafter, for six

+more nights, I returned to the same vicinity and repeated this deed,

+slaying always the very first who came, whether man or woman, or

+merchant or beggar or grave-digger. And the ghoul awaited me on each

+occasion, and would begin to devour his provender in my presence, with

+small thanks and scant ceremony. Seven persons did I slay in all, till

+only one was wanting to complete the agreed number; and the person

+whom I slew yester-night was a woman, even as the witnesses have

+testified. All this I did with utmost repugnance and regret, and

+sustained only by the remembrance of my plighted word and the fate

+which would befall the corpse of Amina if I should break the bond.

+

+This, O Cadi, is all my story. Alas! for these lamentable crimes have

+availed me not, and I have failed in wholly keeping my bargain with

+the demon, who will doubtless this night consume the body of Amina in

+lien of the one corpse that is still lacking. I resign myself to thy

+judgement, O Ahmed ben Becar, and I beseech thee for no other mercy

+than that of death, wherewith to terminate my double grief and my

+twofold remorse.

+

+

+When Noureddin Hassan had ended his narrative, the amazement of all

+who had heard him was verily multiplied, since no man could remember

+hearing a stranger tale. And the Cadi pondered for a long time and

+then gave judgment, saying:

+

+"I must needs marvel at thy story, but the crimes thou hast committed

+are none the less heinous, and Iblis himself would stand aghast before

+them. However, some allowance must be made for the fact that thou

+hadst given thy word to the ghoul and wast bound as it were in honor

+to fulfill his demand, no matter how horrible its nature. And

+allowance must likewise be made for thy connubial grief which caused

+thee to forfend thy wife's body from the demon. Yet I cannot adjudge

+thee guiltless, though I know not the punishment which is merited in a

+case so utterly without parallel. Therefore, I set thee free, with

+this injunction, that thou shalt make atonement for thy crimes in the

+fashion that seemeth best to thee, and shalt render justice to thyself

+and to others in such degree as thou art able."

+

+"I thank thee for this mercy," replied Noureddin Hassan; and he then

+withdrew from the court amid the wonderment of all who were present.

+There was much debate when he had gone, and many were prone to

+question the wisdom of the Cadi's decision. Some there were who

+maintained that Noureddin should have been sentenced to death without

+delay for his abominable actions though others argued for the sanctity

+of his oath to the ghoul, and would have exculpated him altogether or

+in part. And tales were told and instances were cited regarding the

+habits of ghouls and the strange plight of men who had surprised such

+demons in their nocturnal delvings. And again the discussion returned

+to Noureddin, and the judgment of the Cadi was once more upheld or

+assailed with divers arguments. But amid all this, Ahmed Ben Becar was

+silent, saying only:

+

+"Wait, for this man will render justice to himself and to all other

+concerned, as far as the rendering thereof is possible."

+

+So indeed it happened, for on the morning of the next day another body

+was found in the cemetery near Bussorah lying half-devoured on the

+grave of Noureddin Hassan's wife, Amina. And the body was that of

+Noureddin, self-slain, who in this manner had not only fulfilled the

+injunction of the Cadi but had also kept his bargain with the ghoul by

+providing the required number of corpses.

+

+

+

+

+WE'LL BET YOU DIDN'T KNOW

+

+by Mortimer Weisinger

+

+

+That Penn State Froth, the official comic magazine for Penn

+University, recently burlesqued Amazing Stories.

+

+That Charles Willard Diffin composes his stuff on a dictaphone.

+

+That the A. in A. Hyatt Verrill's name stands for Alpheus.

+

+That Jack Williamson is the only writer who ever copped a cover for

+each part of a serial.

+

+That it's ironic that the letters in Verne's name, rearranged, spell

+'never.'

+

+That P. S. Miller is a descendant of Alexander Hamilton.

+

+That Wonder Stories is the only s-f mag on file in the New York Public

+Library.

+

+That the reason the first eleven issues of Amazing Stories were

+printed on heavy paper was because the publishers wanted to give the

+fans "a big package for their money."

+

+That, with the exception of his first story, Hamilton has never had a

+story refused by Weird Tales. And even the first was accepted after

+rewriting.

+

+That William Briggs MacHarg and Edwin Balmer (the creators of Luther

+Trant) are brothers-in-law.

+

+That Wonder Stories paid over seven cents a word for Charles Tanner's

+story "The Color of Space."

+

+That Forrest J. Ackerman used to correspond regularly with 115 fans.

+

+That Jack Williamson is a cowboy.

+

+That Charles Cloukey was fifteen years old when he sold his first

+story.

+

+That the mystery novel, "The 13th Murder," refers to Amazing Stories

+and Weird Tales as "detective and mystery fiction"--and they ring

+Saturn!

+

+That the story, "Warriors of Space," featured in the first issue of

+Science Wonder Stories, was a sequel to "The World in the Balance," in

+an old Argosy.

+

+That Hugo Gernsback conducted a contest in Science & Invention to

+obtain a name for his projected magazine--named Amazing Stories after

+the winner was announced.

+

+That P. Schuyler Miller had a B.S. and an M.S. degree before he was 21.

+

+

+

+

+MY SCIENCE FICTION COLLECTION

+

+by Forrest J. Ackerman

+

+Part Five

+

+

+More for my own satisfaction than anything else, is the second part of

+this last division of my collection; "stills." These are scenes from a

+score of fantasy pictures ranging in size from 5" x to 11" x 14", and

+in subjects from prehistoric monsters of 10,000,000 years ago to

+exploring interplanetary parties of the future. There are many scenes

+from "Metropolis" of the vast, shining electricity, of the inside

+furnishings of the buildings, of the costumes of the people of that

+time; and there are pictures of the machinery to run the city, the

+underground world, the robotrix, the televisors. From "King Kong" I

+have 9 stills: a brontosaurus, an allosaur about to eat a man, Kong on

+exhibition in New York, in the jungle with the girl, smashing in a

+building, atop the Empire State, etc.

+

+Secured from 'Frankenstein' are pictures of the monster, and his

+making in the laboratory. "Just Imagine" offers scenes of

+heaven-scraped New York in 1980, of the rocket for Mars, of the nifty

+little earthplanes. I have seven interesting pictures from "The Most

+Dangerous Game." Laboratories and the death ray of "The Mask of

+Fu-Manchu" are included. From Wells' "Island of Lost Souls" there are

+photos of the evoluted animals of a hundred thousand years hence;

+ape-men, the panther-woman, wolf-creatures, etc. "High Treason" offers

+numerous stills: television, the European city, war in 1940, a dance

+hall of seven years ahead, the English Channel sub-sea express, a

+broadcasted trial, and more. "The Mummy" is shown returning to life,

+prehistoric monsters from "The Mystery of Life" are present.

+Machinery, experiments, scientists--all from the stf-detective tale,

+"Doctor X." I also have several stills from "By Rocket to the Moon,"

+such as those showing the model rocket and its trip--also pictures of

+Mars, Saturn, the end of the world, and an ethership from "Our

+Heavenly Bodies" a scene from "The Lost World," "The Stellar Express,"

+and many others.

+

+[In part six, next month, Mr. Ackerman concludes his interesting

+article.]

+

+

+

+

+HOW TO COLLECT FANTASY FICTION

+

+by Julius Schwartz

+

+Part Five--Conclusion

+

+

+Fantasy booklets have appeared at lesser intervals. _Amazing Stories_

+put out Landell Bartlet's "Vanguard of Venus" in 1928. Gernsback has

+put out 18 science fiction booklets, of which only the last six are

+now in print. He likewise issued a reprint of Garret Smith's "Between

+Worlds". Mimeographed booklets were put out by Carl Swanson (Edmond

+Hamilton's "The Metal Giants", a reprint) and by the Fantasy Fiction

+Publications ("Guests of the Earth" by Hugh Langley). The Arra

+Printers have put out A. Merritt's "Thru the Dragon Glass," "The

+Cavemen of Venus," "The Price of Peace," and Dr. Keller's "Wolf Hollow

+Bubbles."

+

+This article wouldn't be complete without mention of the hard-covered

+fantasies. It's a hopeless task to try and muster even a tenth of all

+the fantasy books. The best way to go about it, however, is to "haunt"

+the second-hand book stores and scrutinize any book whose title sounds

+promising or inviting.

+

+There's one tantalizing feature connected with the collection of

+fantastic fiction: your collection will Never be complete! But this

+misfortune has one commendable merit. The collector's interest in

+Fantasy fiction will never wane.

+

+

+The End

+

+

+

+

+SUPERNATURAL HORROR IN LITERATURE

+

+Part Four

+

+by H. P. Lovecraft

+

+(copyright 1927, by W. Paul Cook)

+

+II The Dawn of the Horror Tale

+

+

+As may naturally be expected of a form so closely connected with

+primal emotion, the horror tale is as old as human thought and speech

+themselves.

+

+Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all

+races, and is crystalized in the most archaic ballads, chronicles, and

+sacred writings. It was, indeed, a prominent feature of the elaborate

+ceremonial magic, with its rituals for the evocation of demons and

+spectres which flourished from prehistoric times, and which reached

+its highest development in Egypt and the Semetic nations. Fragments

+like the Book of Enoch and the Claviculae of Solomon well illustrate

+the power of the weird over the ancient Eastern mind, and upon such

+things were based enduring systems and traditions, whose echoes extend

+obscurely even to the present time. Touches of this transcendental

+fear are seen in classic literature and there is evidence of its still

+greater emphasis in a balled literature which paralleled the classic

+stream, but vanished for lack of a written medium. The Middle Ages,

+steeped in fanciful darkness, gave it an enormous impulse toward

+expression; and East and West alike were busy preserving and

+amplifying the dark heritage, both of random folklore and of

+academically formulated magic and cabalism, which had descended to

+them. Witch, werewolf, vampire, and ghoul brooded ominously on the

+lips of bard and grandam, and needed but little encouragement to take

+the final step across the boundary that divides the chanted tale or

+song from the formal literary composition. In the Orient, the weird

+tale tended to assume a gorgeous colouring and sprightliness which

+almost transmuted it into sheer phantasy. In the West, where the

+mystical Teuton had cone down from his black Boreal forests and the

+Celt remembered strange sacrifices in Druidic groves, it assumed a

+terrible intensity and convincing seriousness of atmosphere which

+doubled the force of its half-told, half-hinted horrors.

+

+Much of the power of Western horror-lore was undoubtedly due to the

+hidden but often suspected presence of a hideous cult of nocturnal

+worshipers whose strange customs--descended from pre-Aryan and

+pre-agricultural times when a squat race of Mongoloids roved over

+Europe with their flocks and herds--were rooted in the most revolting

+fertility-rites of immemorial antiquity. This secret religion,

+stealthily handed down amongst peasants for thousands of years despite

+the outward reign of the Druidic, Graeco-Roman, and Christian faiths

+in the regions involved, was marked by wild "Witches' Sabbaths" in

+lonely woods and atop distant hills on Walpurgis Night and Hallowe'en,

+the traditional breeding-seasons of the goats and sheep and cattle;

+and became the source of vast riches of sorcery legend, besides

+provoking extensive witchcraft prosecutions of which the Salem affair

+forms the chief American example. Akin to it in essence, and perhaps

+connected with it in fact, was the frightful secret system of inverted

+theology or Satan-worship which produced such horrors as the famous

+"Black Mass"; whilst operating toward the same end we may note the

+activities of those whose aims were somewhat more scientific or

+philosophical--the astrologers, cabbalists, and alchemists of the

+Albertus Magnus or Raymond Lully type, with whom such rude ages

+invariably abound. The prevalence and depth of the medieval

+horror-spirit in Europe, intensified by the dark despair which

+waves of pestilence brought, may be fairly gauged by the grotesque

+carvings slyly introduced into much of the finest later Gothic

+ecclesiastical work of the time; the demoniac gargoyles of Notre

+Dame and Mont St. Michel being among the most famous specimens. And

+throughout the period, it must be remembered, there existed amongst

+educated and uneducated alike, a most unquestioning faith in every

+form of the supernatural; from the gentlest of Christian doctrines

+to the most monstrous morbidities of witchcraft and black magic.

+It was from no empty background that the Renaissance magicians and

+alchemists--Nostradamus, Trithemius, Dr. John Dee, Robert Fludd, and

+the like--were born.

+

+In this fertile soil were nourished types and characters of somber

+myth and legend which persist in weird literature to this day, more or

+less disguised or altered by modern technique. Many of then were taken

+from the earliest oral sources, and form part of mankind's permanent

+heritage. The shade which appears and demands the burial of its bones,

+the demon lover who comes to bear away his still living bride, the

+death-fiend or psychopomp riding the night-wind, the man-wolf, the

+sealed chamber, the deathless sorcerer--all those may be found in that

+curious body of mediaeval lore which the late Mr. Baring-Gould so

+effectively assembled in book form. Wherever the mystic Northern blood

+was strongest, the atmosphere of the popular tales became most

+intense; for in the Latin races there is a touch of basic rationality

+which denies to even their strangest superstitions many of the

+overtones of glamour so characteristic of our own forest-born and

+ice-fostered whisperings.

+

+(continued next month)

+

+

+

+

+The Sacred Bird

+

+Annals of the Jinns--4

+

+by R. H. Barlow

+

+

+There appeared one day in the market-place of Ulathia a most peculiar

+fowl which fell exhausted from the skies. Its plumage was of brilliant

+hue, and despite its confusion, a wise and knowing look was seen

+within the orange eyes. After resting a moment, it fluttered about the

+square, entering the various shops in a proprietary manner and finally

+settled in that of a sweetmeat dealer. Soon all the tradesfolk hurried

+across the cobble-stones to see this gaudy visitor and to feed it many

+tid-bits. Not in the least bothered by its admiring audience, it

+permitted its head to be scratched and petted as it ate.

+

+In time, the news spread through the thatched houses to the ears of

+the Imperial Council, all of which laid down their pens and came in a

+body to view it. It was discovered by them greedily eating a preserved

+orange-rind, a meal varied by occasional pecks at a nut. Having

+already devoured odds and ends of all sorts, it was no longer hungry,

+and even as they panted in, it fell asleep. When the crowd drew aside

+to admit the rotund Council, it complained loudly.

+

+"Gwarn arf 'n chase y'self!" commanded the half-awake bird. "Gwarn

+arf," it repeated, fluttering its wings and adjusting for a nice nap.

+It then uttered a rasping incoherency and dozed off placidly. The

+people drew back whispering excitedly. "A demon!" averred one. This

+brought a chorus of dissention among the others. "An angel.... Just a

+trick.... Who ever heard of a bird talking?... A magician in

+disguise.... What has happened?... Still thy tongue, neighbor...."

+

+... The head of the Council, a gray-beard notoriously superstitious,

+cleared his threat and a silence fell over all present. "My friends,"

+he gurgled happily, "My _dear_ friends and fellow citizens! This is an

+occasion of undoubted significance in the annals of our fair city,

+equalled only by that of, as you doubtless will realize, early in the

+reign of--rather; to continue; In other words, my dear friends," he

+began over, unable to sustain the sentence any longer, "To make it

+clear to all concerned, this is, I believe, and no one, I hope, would

+contradict me, I have occasion to think--" Here his voice lowered to a

+whisper and ended in a triumphant shout, "A _Messenger_ sent to guide

+us!" He leered cheerfully at the mob. "Therefore, let us convey it in

+state to the City Hall to rule us as it sees fit!"

+

+Which was forthwith done amid much celebration, and the chattering of

+the escaped parrot from that day guided the fortunes of the city of

+Ulathia, interpreted by the Ruler and his Council as they desired.

+

+                     *      *      *      *      *

+

+Another tale in this series will appear next month.

+

+

+

+

+OUR READERS SAY

+

+

+S. M. White, one of our New Zealand readers is not altogether satisfied

+with science fiction in general:

+

+"_The Fantasy Fan_ is of great interest to me. I hope that it keeps on

+going. I have two objections to scientifiction--1. There is too much

+'blood and thunder.' 2. Not enough originality in plots. Thus too much

+spoils the flavor. But there are several themes on which few of your

+authors have touched. 1. A story with lots of science. 2. A story

+concerning that which comes after death (if anything). 3. A really

+humorous story. 4. None of the authors except H. G. Wells has tried to

+solve the problem of labor vs. capital. Stories often end up: "Workers

+of the world, you are free!" Free to what? Technocracy? NRA?

+Vanderbiltism? These four ought to keep writers busy."

+

+The hardest job of an editor is trying to please everyone. As this is

+an impossibility, all they can do is to please as many as they can.

+When a majority voice a suggestion, he must take it into serious

+consideration. We find that the underused plots you have mentioned

+have been used quite often, except that which is not for science

+fiction, but has been overdone in weird stories.

+

+"I keep forgetting that each month I am going to receive a copy of

+_The Fantasy Fan_ so that, when it does come, it is such a pleasant

+surprise. As a regular feature, I enjoy Bob Tucker's report on the

+English stf magazines best of all. 'How to Write a Stf Story' was _so_

+funny."--Forrest J. Ackerman

+

+"The November TFF is decidedly improving and I look forward to future

+issues with much interest. I wonder how many collectors there are that

+can discriminate between the trash that seems popular and the best in

+Fantasy?"--R. H. Barlow

+

+"The November issue of TFF was magnificent! What got the cake was 'How

+to Write a Stf Story' by Hoy Ping Pong. By the way, Editor, who is

+this Hoy Ping Pong? Anyway, regardless of who he is, he seems to be

+humorously inclined, so let's have more from him. No periodical is

+exactly good without a touch of humor."--Ted H. Lutwin

+

+There's no use in concealing the identity Hoy Ping Pong. It is none

+other than Bob Tucker, author of the English science fiction series,

+and more Hoy Ping Pong articles to come.

+

+"I liked the November issue very much and hope you'll publish more of

+Smith's poetry."--Robert E. Howard

+

+"I was certainly disappointed to hear that the _Necronomicon_, _Book

+of Eibon_, and the _Nameless Cults_ had no existence except in the

+fertile imaginations of Lovecraft, Smith, and Howard. That's not

+illusion of reality. Anyone could quote books and authors that never

+existed. To me, it is plain fabrication. According to Joseph McCabe,

+the monks of the middle ages were adepts at it. I must say, however,

+that it was quite a help in giving an illusion of reality to

+Lovecraft's stories, and Smith's. It won't be now, though, because the

+cat is out of the bag. But what about 'Yog Sothoth' and 'Sattaquo' and

+'Thule.' Surely, there must be a legend of some sort to account for

+them, or does their ancientness go no farther than 1924? Were they

+born about the same time as _Weird Tales_? I notice that the Illusion

+of reality has much more force at night than in the daytime."--Carl J.

+Smith

+

+It is only an A-1 author that can make you believe that a thing exists

+when it really doesn't. Perhaps the cat is out of the bag, at you say,

+but we don't believe that it detracts from Smith's, Lovecraft's, or

+Howard's stories one bit. However, weird fans will probably not be

+satisfied until the aforesaid "fabricators" write up the books _in

+toto_ that they have created in their minds. Smith is now working

+on a chapter of "The Book of Eibon."

+

+"I was pleased to receive your clever little 'Fantasy Fan' and

+consider it highly entertaining and useful and well worth the dollar I

+enclose for a year's subscription. From time to time I noticed in the

+reader's columns the uprise of little pamphlets, but never gave them

+serious thought. This one you have sent me startled me into

+appreciating that the fantasy fans are an energetic lot.

+

+"My eulogies and praises to the incomparable Clark Ashton Smith for

+his 'Kingdom of the Worm.' He has the magic of words that makes great

+writers. We like to honor the memory of Poe as the father of the short

+story and the fantastic type of fiction, but Smith surpasses him.

+

+"Enclosed you will find a little story of mine that I tender you

+gratis--let us say as a Christmas present, for use in TFF. I wrote it

+on the spur of the moment one day, as the idea popped into my mind and

+refused to depart."--Eando Binder

+

+We thank Mr. Binder, an author of note, for his excellent story. It

+will appear in an early issue of TFF. The theme used is a brand new

+one, and we believe will make a big hit with all lovers of weird

+fiction.

+

+"The November issue was a gem all the way through, and I am certainly

+learning a lot of facts about fantastic fiction that are quite new to

+me. It answers numerous questions that I have had in mind for a long

+time. I think the comments by the readers constitute a most absorbing

+part of your magazine, especially when they are by contributors and

+old fans that know the 'ropes' well. Understand that I am a

+comparative beginner in the absorbing game of chasing fantastic

+literature. It is quite noticeable that the trend is turning even more

+toward the fantastic than the pure science fiction, which, it would

+seen, has been on the wane for some time. I am not a science fiction

+crank, however, and have several good tales in my collection. They are

+not interplanetary, though, but ones approaching closer to the

+fantastic.

+

+"The poem by Clark Ashton Smith was enormous; yet, more than that. I

+do not think one could describe it. 'The Other Gods' by H. P.

+Lovecraft added just the right atmosphere to TFF. The mention of

+Ulthar in this story recalled a story by the same author named 'The

+Cats of Ulthar.'

+

+"As Mr. Ackerman's collection continues to pile up, it seems that in

+spite of mania to judge literature, he certainly does a thing up right

+when he starts.

+

+"The discovery that the now famous book 'Necronomicon' is entirely

+fictitious was a considerable shock. Too bad that such a volume is not

+available to all lovers of fiction pertaining to the black arts and

+kindred subjects. I had even thought seriously of sending to the State

+College Library in quest of a copy in English! I wondered at the time

+if it had yet been translated. Why not have Lovecraft write such a

+book? I am sure it would sell well. I enjoy reading the denouncement

+of Mr. Ackerman."--Duane W. Rime

+

+As Dr. Keller says, it doesn't matter whether a reader praises Forrest

+or condemns him, so long as they say _something_. We, also, were on

+the verge of sending someplace for the _Necronomicon_ in English.

+

+"Lovecraft's 'The Other Gods' and 'Supernatural Horror in Literature'

+are a treat for which I am sure every reader is grateful. 'True Ghost

+Stories' is very well presented and Barlow's 'Annals of the Jinns'

+very capably upholds fantastic lore. Smith's 'The Kingdom of the Worm'

+recalled to my mind Donald Wandrei's 'The Worm King', a poem which

+I read in _Weird Tales_ years ago. While different in essence of

+tone, these two carry the same eery quality. Although your various

+departments have not yet swung into full stride, great promise is

+indicated.

+

+"I have a suggestion for Mr. Tucker. If his English connection will

+supply him with sufficient information, a column or so on Arthur

+Machen and Algernon Blackwood might introduce two very worthy writers

+of weird tales to your readers."--Chester D. Cuthbert

+

+We have on hand for early publication, several articles on the works

+of the great writers of the past. Watch for them. To our readers: How

+did you like Mr. Cuthbert's story "The Sublime Vigil" in the February

+1934 issue of _Wonder Stories_? Watch his progress! We predict that in

+less than one year he will be one of your favorite authors.

+

+"Glad to see the December issue. All the stories art excellent and the

+departments are as interesting as usual."--H. P. Lovecraft

+

+"I have received the November TFF and would say that it is the most

+satisfactory issue so far. 'The Other Gods' is indeed a masterpiece of

+prose poetry, filled with imaginative overtones. Barlow's second

+Annals of the Jinns is memorably touched, and the sense of atmosphere

+conveyed is remarkable in view of its brevity. Hoy Ping Pong's article

+on how to write scientifiction is most amusing.

+

+"Re the origin of the word 'weird,' which you attributed to Edgar

+Allan Poe. I believe that Poe was perhaps the first to employ this

+adjective in the modern sense of eerie or uncanny or bizarre; but

+you will find it used in older writers, such as Shakespeare, with

+a special application to witchcraft or sorcery. The three Fates

+of classic mythology were spoken of as 'the weird sisters,' and

+the root-meaning of the word has reference to fate or destiny. As

+a noun, it is still sometimes used in the latter sense; and it also

+means a prediction of prophecy. The word itself is of Anglo-Saxon

+origin, and is related to the old German _wurt_ and Icelandic

+_urdhr_."--Clark Ashton Smith

+

+In my filler concerning the origin of the word "weird," you will

+remember that I said that its meaning the bizarre originated with

+Edgar Allen Poe. I had in mind the other meanings as I wrote it.

+Undoubtedly, if Edgar Allan Poe had not used it, the word would not be

+popular today.

+

+"I had intended to write since I received the first copy of TFF, but

+circumstances made it impossible. I wish to compliment you on the

+magazine. It is not perfect, of course--But it is different and that

+is a blessing indeed."--Louis C. Smith

+

+Send in your letter to "Our Readers Say," fans. We want your opinions,

+criticisms, and suggestions. Do you think that too much space is

+devoted to this department? If so, we'll cut it down.

+

+

+

+

+ADVERTISEMENTS

+

+

+FIRST PRINT of A. Merritt's "Moon Pool." The most valuable edition of

+any science fiction book. What am I offered? Ted Lutwin, 315 Henderson

+Street, Jersey City, N.J.

+

+

+CLARK ASHTON SMITH presents THE DOUBLE SHADOW AND OTHER FANTASIES--a

+booklet containing a half-dozen imaginative and atmospheric

+tales.--Stories of exotic beauty, glamor, terror, strangeness, irony

+and satire. Price; 25 cents each, (coin or stamps). Also a small

+remainder of EBONY AND CRYSTAL--a book of prose poems published at

+$7.00, reduced to $1.00 per copy. Everything sent postpaid. Clark

+Ashton Smith, Auburn, California.

+

+

+BACK NUMBERS OF THE FANTASY FAN--September, 20 cents; October,

+November, December, 10 cts. (Only a few Septembers left.)

+

+

+IF YOU HAVE any copies of _Weird Tales_ dated 1923-24-25-26-27, that

+you would like to part with, please communicate with the Editor.

+

+                     *      *      *      *      *

+

+Transcriber's Note: Minor typographical errors have been corrected

+without note. Irregularities and inconsistencies in the text have

+been retained as printed.

+

+

+

+

+

+

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