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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: The Fantasy Fan, Volume 1, Number 10, June 1934 - The Fan's Own Magazine - -Editor: Charles D. Hornig - -Release Date: March 22, 2021 [eBook #64901] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -Produced by: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FANTASY FAN, VOLUME 1, NUMBER -10, JUNE 1934 *** - - - - - THE FANTASY FAN - - THE FANS' OWN MAGAZINE - - Published - Monthly - - Editor: Charles D. Hornig - (Managing Editor: Wonder Stories) - - 10 cents a copy - $1.00 per year - - 137 West Grand Street, - Elizabeth, New Jersey - - Volume 1 - June, 1934 - Number 10 - - [Transcriber's Note: Extensive research did not uncover any - evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - - - - OUR READERS SAY - - -"The May FANTASY FAN was just what its cover implied--peachy. It -had just the right proportion of interesting items. Schwartz and -Weisinger's column was just what was needed--most of their items were -new and original. Just that!"--Lester Anderson - -"Lovecraft's article is getting to be interesting enough to read -through now, although I didn't think that it was very good during the -first few parts. The article on Wells was particularly good."--David -Stolaroff - -"The May issue is, I must say, one of the best yet. 'Weird Whisperings' -and 'Science Fiction in English Magazines' did I especially enjoy -and am looking forward to the latter's promised column on African -stf."--Daniel McPhail - -"I am glad to note that Lovecraft's monograph is appearing in larger -instalments. I hope that Baldwin will continue his 'Side Glances.' Glad -my article on M. R. James was approved by so many readers. Later on, -I hope to do some brief articles on other masters of the macabre and -fantastic."--Clark Ashton Smith - -"'Phantom Lights' outshines and stifles the reputation of 'Birkett's -Twelfth Corpse.' But 'Dragons' destroys the illusion of 'Shadows.' -Orchids to 'The Flower God,' the best Annal to date, and one of the -choice stories that has appeared thus far in THE FANTASY FAN."--Robert -Nelson - -"THE FANTASY FAN came yesterday and I enjoyed every page. The orange -stock paper improved the appearance greatly. The new type is excellent -also. The length of 'Our Readers Say' is just right. It should not be -too long."--Duane W. Rimel - -"I have just completed a reading of the May issue of THE FANTASY FAN. -Lovecraft and Smith still stand out as my favorites. Some of the other -articles proved quite interesting, particularly 'Weird Whisperings' and -the two poems 'Shadows' and 'Dragons' were very enjoyable. The colored -'cover' marks another step forward. Keep up the good work."--H. Koenig - -"The April issue of THE FANTASY FAN was fine! 'The Ancient Voice' -by Eando Binder was the best story that I have read in a good many -moons! And I don't mean maybe, either! Mr. Binder held me simply -spellbound from start to finish! Let's have many more like this superb -tale!"--Fred John Walsen - -"The strength and beauty of Robert E. Howard's 'Gods of the North' in -your March issue has influenced me to mark it for frequent re-reading. -No other of his stories has appealed to me quite so strongly. I -hope that you can induce him to write more stories in the same -vein."--Chester D. Cuthbert - -"Just received May FANTASY FAN and was agreeably surprised to see the -'cover.' That's one way of getting started on one. 'Weird Whisperings' -by those master newshawks was very fine. The high spots in the issue -were Barlow's Annals and 'Prose Pastels' by Smith. I never tire reading -either of these two authors. I enjoy all the poetry you print and -believe that you ought to have at least two pages of it."--F. Lee -Baldwin - -"I am enclosing a dollar this time for a full year's subscription. I -find the little mag most interesting. Another thing I like about the -book is that the Readers' Sayso includes letters from authors--which -proves that they, too, read stories."--Gertrude Hemken - -"I liked practically everything in the April issue of THE FANTASY FAN. -The letters in the lengthened 'Our Readers Say' were interesting, 'Side -Glances' was allright; you know I liked the feature story very much, -and I was interested in reading the views presented on the topic I -suggested, and the ads were good. So there!"--Forrest J. Ackerman - -"I enjoy articles by Bob Tucker, Hoy Ping Pong, and Eando Binder's -recent weird narration was fine."--J. Harvey Haggard - -"I devour your magazine like a dog does a bone, but I usually read -it first. The articles that appear beat anything ever written by -Shakespeare and makes the works of Poe, Wells, and Verne look -amateurish. Lovecraft, Smith, and Howard are the greatest writers -of all time, in any branch of literature. Of course, because of the -excitement my name would cause if it were printed in your magazine, -please do not publish this letter. Just be satisfied in knowing that -the greatest man in the world is one of your readers."--John de Rocka -Fella - -Sorry, Johnny, old kid, but your letter has already gone to press and -it's too late to take it out now. I didn't read your last two sentences -until too late. - - * * * * * - - - BOOKS OF THE WEIRD - - by J. Harvey Haggard - - -"Drums of Dambala" by H. Bedford-Jones is a crackerjack of a weird -novel in case any of the rest of the fans haven't read it. As related -by that master raconteur, we have zombies, ju-ju dances, and lots of -thrilling action on that dark island of ancient magic, Haiti. "The -Story of Superstition," a non-fiction book dealing with the origin of -such quaint modern customs as throwing rice and laying corner-stones, -is another absorbing book. After reading it, you'll wonder if man has -wholly escaped from his belief in the supernatural after all. "Magic -Island," by Seabrook, is another non-fiction book that will thrill -you as much as the most imaginative tale. The author relates his -experiences in Haiti, in which he goes native with the bushmen and -witnesses the sacred dance never before beheld by white men. - - * * * * * - - - From Beyond - - by H. P. Lovecraft - - -Horrible beyond conception was the change which had taken place in my -best friend, Crawford Tillinghast. I had not seen him since that day, -two months and a half before, when he had told me toward what goal -his physical and metaphysical researches were leading; when he had -answered my awed and almost frightened remonstrances by driving me -from his laboratory and his house in a burst of fanatical rage, I had -known that he now remained mostly shut in the attic laboratory with -that accursed electrical machine, eating little and excluding even the -servants, but I had not thought that a brief period of ten weeks could -so alter and disfigure any human creature. It is not pleasant to see a -stout man suddenly grown thin, and it is even worse when the baggy skin -becomes yellowed or greyed, the eyes sunken, circled, and uncannily -glowing, the forehead veined and corrugated, and the hands tremulous -and twitching. And if added to this there be a repellant unkemptness; -a wild disorder of dress, a bushiness of dark hair white at the roots, -and an unchecked growth of white beard on a face once clean-shaven, -the cumulative effect is quite shocking. But such was the aspect of -Crawford Tillinghast on the night his half coherent message brought me -to his door after my weeks of exile; such was the spectre that trembled -as it admitted me, candle in hand, and glanced furtively over its -shoulder as if fearful of unseen things in the ancient, lonely house -set back from Benevolent Street. - -That Crawford Tillinghast should ever have studied science and -philosophy was a mistake. These things should be left to the frigid and -impersonal investigator for they offer two equally tragic alternatives -to the man of feeling and action; despair, if he fail in his quest, -and terrors unutterable and unimaginable if he succeed. Tillinghast -had once been the prey of failure, solitary and melancholy; but now I -knew, with nauseating fears of my own, that he was the prey of success. -I had indeed warned him ten weeks before, when he burst forth with his -tale of what he felt himself about to discover. He had been flushed and -excited then, talking in a high and unnatural, though always pedantic, -voice. - -"What do we know," he had said, "of the world and the universe about -us? Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and our -notions of surrounding objects infinitely narrow. We see things only -as we are constructed to see them, and can gain no idea of their -absolute nature. With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the -boundlessly complex cosmos, yet other beings with a wider, stronger, -or different range of senses might not only see very differently the -things we see, but might see and study whole worlds of matter, energy, -and life which lie close at hand yet can never be detected with the -senses we have. I have always believed that such strange, inaccessible -worlds exist at our very elbows, _and now I believe I have found a way -to break down the barriers_. I am not joking. Within twenty-four hours -that machine near the table will generate waves acting on unrecognized -sense-organs that exist in us as atrophied or rudimentary vestiges. -Those waves will open up to us many vistas unknown to man, and several -unknown to anything we consider organic life. We shall see that at -which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears -after midnight. We shall see these things, and other things which no -breathing creature has yet seen. We shall overleap time, space, and -dimensions, and without bodily motion peer to the bottom of creation." - -When Tillinghast said these things I remonstrated, for I knew him well -enough to be frightened rather than amused; but he was a fanatic, -and drove me from the house. Now he was no less a fanatic, but his -desire to speak had conquered his resentment, and he had written me -imperatively in a hand I could scarcely recognize. As I entered the -abode of the friend so suddenly metamorphosed to a shivering gargoyle, -I became infected with the terror which seemed stalking in all the -shadows. The words and beliefs expressed ten weeks before seemed bodied -forth in the darkness beyond the small circle of candle light, and I -sickened at the hollow, altered voice of my host. I wished the servants -were about, and did not like it when he said they had all left three -days previously. It seemed strange that old Gregory, at least, should -desert his master without telling as tried a friend as I. It was he -who had given me all the information I had of Tillinghast after I was -repulsed in rage. - -Yet I soon subordinated all my fears to my growing curiosity and -fascination. Just what Crawford Tillinghast now wished of me I could -only guess, but that he had some stupendous secret or discovery to -impart, I could not doubt. Before I had protested at his unnatural -pryings into the unthinkable; now that he had evidently succeeded to -some degree I almost shared his spirit, terrible though the cost of -victory appeared. Up through the dark emptiness of the house I followed -the bobbing candle in the hand of this shaking parody of man. The -electricity seemed to be turned off, and when I asked my guide he said -it was for a definite reason. - -"It would be too much.... I would not dare," he continued to mutter. -I especially noted his new habit of muttering, for it was not like -him to talk to himself. We entered the laboratory in the attic, and I -observed that detestable electrical machine, glowing with a sickly, -sinister violet luminosity. It was connected with a powerful chemical -battery, but seemed to be receiving no current; for I recalled that in -its experimental stage it had sputtered and purred when in action. In -reply to my question Tillinghast mumbled that this permanent glow was -not electrical in any sense that I could understand. - -He now seated me near the machine, so that it was on my right, and -turned a switch somewhere below the crowning cluster of glass bulbs. -The usual sputtering began, turned to a whine, and terminated in -a drone so soft as to suggest a return to silence. Meanwhile the -luminosity increased, waned again, then assumed a pale, outre colour or -blend of colours which I could neither place nor describe. Tillinghast -had been watching me, and noted my puzzled expression. - -"Do you know what that is?" he whispered, "_that is ultra-violet_." He -chuckled oddly at my surprise. "You thought ultra-violet was invisible, -and so it is--but you can see that and many other invisible things -_now_. - -"Listen to me! The waves from that thing are waking a thousand sleeping -senses in us; senses which we inherit from aeons of evolution from the -state of detached electrons to the state of organic humanity. I have -seen _truth_, and I intend to show it to you. Do you wonder how it -will seem? I will tell you." Here Tillinghast seated himself directly -opposite me, blowing out his candle and staring hideously into my eyes. -"Your existing sense-organs--ears first, I think--will pick up many -of the impressions, for they are closely connected with the dormant -organs. Then there will be others. You have heard of the pineal gland? -I laugh at the shallow endocrinologist, fellow-dupe and fellow-parvenu -of the Freudian. That gland is the great sense organ of organs--_I have -found out_. It is like sight in the end, and transmits visual pictures -to the brain. If you are normal, that is the way you ought to get most -of it.... I mean get most of the evidence _from beyond_." - -I looked about the immense attic room with the sloping south wall, -dimly lit by rays which the every-day eye cannot see. The far corners -were all shadows, and the whole place took on a hazy unreality which -obscured its nature and invited the imagination to symbolism and -phantasm. During the interval that Tillinghast was silent I fancied -myself in some vast and incredible temple of long-dead gods; some -vague edifice of innumerable black stone columns reaching up from a -floor of damp slabs to a cloudy height beyond the range of my vision. -The picture was very vivid for a while, but gradually gave way to a -more horrible conception; that of utter, absolute solitude in infinite, -sightless, soundless space. There seemed to be a void, and nothing -more, and I felt a childish fear which prompted me to draw from my -hip pocket the revolver I always carried after dark since the night I -was held up in East Providence. Then, from the farthermost regions of -remoteness, the _sound_ softly glided into existence. It was infinitely -faint, subtly vibrant, and unmistakably musical, but held a quality -of surpassing wildness which made its impact feel like a delicate -torture of my whole body. I felt sensations like those one feels when -accidentally scratching ground glass. Simultaneously there developed -something like a cold draught, which apparently swept past me from the -direction of the distant sound. As I waited breathlessly I perceived -that both sound and wind were increasing; the effect being to give me -an odd notion of myself as tied to a pair of rails in the path of a -gigantic approaching locomotive. I began to speak to Tillinghast, and -as I did so all the unusual impressions abruptly vanished. I saw only -the man, the glowing machine, and the dim apartment. Tillinghast was -grinning repulsively at the revolver which I had almost unconsciously -drawn, but from his expression I was sure he had seen and heard as much -as I, if not a great deal more. I whispered what I had experienced and -he bade me remain as quiet and receptive as possible. - -"Don't move," he cautioned, "for in these rays _we are able to be seen -as well as to see_. I told you the servants left, but I didn't tell you -_how_. It was that thick-witted housekeeper--she turned on the lights -downstairs after I had warned her not to, and the wires picked up -sympathetic vibrations. It must have been frightful--I could hear the -screams up here in spite of all I was seeing and hearing from another -direction, and later it was rather awful to find those empty heaps of -clothes around the house. Mrs. Updike's clothes were close to the front -hall switch--that's how I know she did it. It got them all. But so -long as we don't move we're fairly safe. Remember we're dealing with a -hideous world in which we are practically helpless.... _Keep still!_" - -The combined shock of the revelation and of the abrupt command gave -me a kind of paralysis, and in my terror my mind again opened to the -impressions coming from what Tillinghast called "_beyond_." I was now -in a vortex of sound and motion, with confused pictures before my eyes. -I saw the blurred outlines of the room, but from some point in space -there seemed to be pouring a seething column of unrecognizable shapes -or clouds, penetrating the solid roof at a point ahead and to the right -of me. Then I glimpsed the temple-like effect again, but this time the -pillars reached up into an aerial ocean of light, which sent down one -blinding beam along the path of the cloudy column I had seen before. -After that the scene was almost wholly kaleidoscopic, and in the jumble -of sights, sounds, and unidentified sense-impressions I felt that I was -about to dissolve or in some way lose the solid form. One definite -flash I shall always remember. I seemed for an instant to behold a -patch of strange night sky filled with shining, revolving spheres, -and as it receded I saw that the glowing suns formed a constellation -or galaxy of settled shape; this shape being the distorted face of -Crawford Tillinghast. At another time I felt huge animate things -brushing past me and occasionally _walking or drifting through my -supposedly solid body_, and thought I saw Tillinghast look at them as -though his better trained senses could catch them visually. I recalled -what he had said of the pineal gland, and wondered what he saw with -this preternatural eye. - -Suddenly I myself became possessed of a kind of augmented sight. Over -and above the luminous and shadowy chaos arose a picture which, though -vague, held the elements of consistency and permanence. It was indeed -somewhat familiar, for the unusual part was superimposed upon the usual -terrestrial scene much as a cinema view may be thrown upon the painted -curtain of a theater. I saw the attic laboratory, the electrical -machine, and the unsightly form of Tillinghast opposite me; but of all -the space unoccupied by familiar objects not one particle was vacant. -Indescribable shapes both alive and otherwise were mixed in disgusting -disarray, and close to every known thing were whole worlds of alien, -unknown entities. It likewise seemed that all the known things entered -into the composition of other unknown things, and vice versa. Foremost -among the living objects were inky, jellyish monstrosities which -flabbily quivered in harmony with the vibrations from the machine. -They were present in loathsome profusion, and I saw to my horror that -they _over-lapped_; that they were semi fluid and capable of passing -through one another and through what we know as solids. These things -were never still, but seemed ever floating about with some malignant -purpose. Sometimes they appeared to devour one another, the attacker -launching itself at its victim and instantaneously obliterating the -latter from sight. Shudderingly I felt that I knew what had obliterated -the unfortunate servants, and could not exclude the things from my mind -as I strove to observe other properties of the newly visible world that -lies unseen around us. But Tillinghast had been watching me, and was -speaking. - -"You see them? You see them? You see the things that float and flop -about you and through you every moment of your life? You see the -creatures that form what men call the pure air and the blue sky? Have I -not succeeded in breaking down the barrier; have I not shown you worlds -that no other living men have seen?" I heard his scream through the -horrible chaos, and looked at the wild face thrust so offensively close -to mine. His eyes were pits of flame, and they glared at me with what I -now saw was overwhelming hatred. The machine droned detestably. - -"You think those floundering things wiped out the servants? Fool, they -are harmless! But the servants _are_ gone, aren't they? You tried to -stop me; you discouraged me when I needed every drop of encouragement I -could get; you were afraid of the cosmic truth, you damned coward, but -now I've got you! What swept up the servants? What made them scream so -loud?... Don't know, eh! You'll know soon enough. Look at me--listen to -what I say--do you suppose there are really any such things as time -and magnitude. Do you fancy there are such things as form or matter. I -tell you, I have struck depths that your little brain can't picture. -I have seen beyond the bounds of infinity and drawn down demons from -the stars.... I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to -world to sow death and madness.... Space belongs to me, do you hear? -Things are hunting me now--the things that devour and dissolve--but -I know how to elude them. It is you they will get, as they got the -servants.... Stirring, dear sir? I told you it was dangerous to move, -I have saved you so far by telling you to keep still--saved you to see -more sights and to listen to me. If you had moved, they would have been -at you long ago. Don't worry, they won't _hurt_ you. They didn't hurt -the servants--it was the _seeing_ that made the poor devils scream so. -My pets are not pretty, for they come out of places where aesthetic -standards are--_very different_. Disintegration is quite painless, I -assure you--_but I want you to see them_. I almost saw them, but I knew -how to stop. You are not curious? I always knew you were no scientist. -Trembling, eh. Trembling with anxiety to see the ultimate things I have -discovered. Why don't you move, then? Tired? Well, don't worry, my -friend, _for they are coming_.... Look, look, curse you, look ... it's -just over your left shoulder...." - -What remains to be told is very brief, and may be familiar to you from -the newspaper accounts. The police heard a shot in the old Tillinghast -house and found us there--Tillinghast dead and me unconscious. They -arrested me because the revolver was in my hand, but released me in -three hours, after they found that it was apoplexy which had finished -Tillinghast and saw that my shot had been directed at the noxious -machine which now lay hopelessly shattered on the laboratory floor. I -did not tell very much of what I had seen, for I feared the coroner -would be skeptical; but from the evasive outline I did give, the doctor -told me that I had undoubtedly been hypnotised by the vindictive and -homicidal madman. - -I wish I could believe that doctor. It would help my shaky nerves if -I could dismiss what I now have to think of the air and the sky about -and above me. I never feel alone or comfortable, and a hideous sense -of pursuit sometimes comes chillingly on me when I am weary. What -prevents me from believing the doctor is this one simple fact--that the -police never found the bodies of those servants whom they say Crawford -Tillinghast murdered. - - * * * * * - - - WEIRD WHISPERINGS - - by Schwartz & Weisinger - - -Otis Adelbert Kline died from an operation two years ago!... That is, -the doctors declared that he was dead.... Fortunately, an adrenalin -injection saved him.... Seabury Quinn's next Jules de Grandin novelette -will attempt to justify incest between brother and sister.... Quinn, -who gets most of his plots while shaving, is also working on a -book-length novel, "a sort of lost world affair".... When A. Merritt -finished reading "Thirsty Blades" by Kline and Price, he said, "I -wish I had written that story".... _Ten Story Book_ edited by Harry -Stephen Keeler, once put out an all weird issue.... Robert E. Howard -occasionally does boxing yarns for _Sport Stories_. - -Farnsworth Wright says the best stories he's printed in _Weird Tales_ -are (not in the order listed): "The Stranger from Kurdistan" by Price, -"The Phantom Farmhouse" by Quinn, "The Outsider" by Lovecraft, "The -Werewolf of Ponkert" by Munn, "The Shadow Kingdom" by Howard, "The -Canal" by Worrell, "The Wind that Tramps the World" by Owen.... Eli -Colter's full name is Elizabeth Colter.... Victor Rousseau's is Victor -Rousseau Emanuel.... Murray Leinster's is Will Fitzgerald Jenkins.... -Ralph Milne Farley's is Roger Sherman Hoar.... Farnsworth Wright -has had several stories and poems published under the nom-de-plume -of Francis Hard.... Desmond Hall, associate editor of _Astounding -Stories_, admits having had a story published in _Weird Tales_ under a -pseudonym, but won't divulge which one. - -"The Vengeance of Fi Fong," another tale of brain transplantation by -Bassett Morgan, will soon appear in _Weird Tales_.... Also scheduled -for early appearances are "Old Sledge" by Paul Ernst and "Distortion -out of Space" by Francis Flagg.... Otis Adelbert Kline's _Weird -Tales_ story of some years back, "The Bird People," was based on the -_Amazing Stories_ Cover Contest.... Jack Williamson wrote "Born of the -Sun" after an argument with Edmond Hamilton, in which the former has -maintained that no idea was too impossible to make convincing in a -story.... Arthur J. Burks began his career in _Weird Tales_ under the -name of Estil Critchie because, he explains, "I was ashamed of being -associated with the stigma of being known as a writer".... An interview -with Burks, by your scribes, appeared in the April issue of _Author & -Composer_. - -E. Hoffmann Price has moved to Oklahoma where he is using his executive -ability and mechanical skill as partner in a garage business.... He -will soon take to the road in his 1928 Ford Juggernaut and will visit -Robert E. Howard in Cross Plains, Texas, and Clark Ashton Smith in -Auburn, California.... Farnsworth Wright once gave an account of his -pet peeve: "My pet peeve is stories that get the character in a very -interesting dilemma and lead the reader to expect an ingenious solution -of the story only to have the story end with the statement, 'then he -woke up and found it was a dream.' Readers have a right to expect the -author will offer an interesting denouement, but instead he says 'April -Fool'." - - * * * * * - - - The Little Box - - by R. H. Barlow - - Annals of the Jinns--7 - -On the planet called Loth, in the Seventh City, there lived a -semi-savage known as Hsuth. He had been captured in his youth by the -fearless raiders of Phargo, but popular demand later caused the release -of all the beings that once formed an interesting collection of the -larger animals. So it was that one might have had for a neighbor -anything from one of the reddish parrot-people from the far-away -isle of Hin to a pale blue octopus-thing from the dried sea-bed of -Innia. Hsuth, it is to be stated, was neither, being merely one of the -common-place brown tailed men from Leek. He was, as are most savages, -very inquisitive, and one day after returning from the ridna-zat works -(wherein were manufactured first class ornaments to be worn in the -nose) he espied a small black box in the window of a money-lender--a -box whose curious carvings and tightly closed lid brought up many -questions. When the dealer refused to open it for him his curiosity was -doubly whetted, so that he purchased it (after unavoidable delay and -expected haggling) thereby parting with the earnings of a week. - -Returning home with his prize he managed to slip past a street-brawl -and get inside his house--a three-towered affair resembling an -ill-fitted layer cake, each successive story being smaller than the one -upon which it reposed. - -Bolting the door he then tried to force the lid open. But it resented -this move on his part, and showed it by pinching his finger violently. -This caused him to fling it against the wall. It came to the floor -with a dull thud and the top fell off after a moment's silence. A -squeaky voice issued from the interior. "--press the control marked A -and the machine will come to him no matter where it is. I am making -three boxes similar to this and hope that someone will gain some -benefit, for I haven't. Anyone finding this is directed to press the -control marked A and the machine will come to him no matter where it -is iammakingthree-e-e-E-EEE Yah psuhutthush!" declared the little box. -As Hsuth did not understand what was said, it is to be feared the -directions were lost upon him, yet some demon directed his finger to -the control marked A. Perhaps it was because all the other buttons were -hopelessly jammed into the wood. - -Nothing happened, and Hsuth disappointedly threw the box through the -window where it landed upon the head of a prominent citizen, causing -that worthy unwonted irritation. - -And Hsuth forgot about the box and the fraudulent control marked A, -not knowing that ten million miles away the machine was battering -ceaselessly at its bonds, striving to escape and answer the -long-awaited call--which it never quite managed to do. - -But the Leerians gathered round with frightened eyes to watch the -reanimation of the god of the forefathers on that far continent, and -offered up sacrifices in the form of decrepit inhabitants and those who -would have had them doubt their deity. - - * * * * * - - - PROSE PASTELS - - by Clark Ashton Smith - - _III. The Muse of Hyperborea_ - -Too far away is her wan and mortal face, and too remote are the snows -of her lethal breast, for mine eyes to behold them ever. But at whiles -her whisper comes to me, like a chill unearthly wind that is faint from -traversing the gulfs between the worlds, and has flown over ultimate -horizons of ice-bound deserts. And she speaks to me in a tongue I have -never heard but have always known; and she tells of deathly things and -of things beautiful beyond the ecstatic desires of love. Her speech is -not of good or evil, nor of anything that is desired or conceived or -believed by the termites of earth; and the air she breathes, and the -lands wherein she roams, would blast like the utter cold of sidereal -space; and her eyes would blind the vision of men like suns; and her -kiss, if one should ever attain it, would wither and slay like the kiss -of lightning. - -But, hearing her far, infrequent whisper, I behold a vision of vast -auroras, on continents that are wider than the world, and seas too -great for the enterprise of human keels. And at times I stammer forth -the strange tidings that she brings: though none will welcome them, -and none will believe or listen. And in some dawn of the desperate -years, I shall go forth and follow where she calls, to seek the high -and beautific doom of her snow-pale distances, to perish amid her -indesecrate horizons. - - * * * * * - -Tell your friends about TFF - - * * * * * - - - SUPERNATURAL HORROR IN LITERATURE - - Part Nine - - by H. P. Lovecraft - - (copyright 1927 by W. Paul Cook) - - IV. The Apex of Gothic Romance - -Horror in literature attains a new malignity in the work of Matthew -Gregory Lewis, (1773-1818) whose novel "The Monk" (1795) achieved -marvelous popularity and earned him the nickname of "Monk" Lewis. This -young author, educated in Germany and saturated with a body of wild -Teuton lore unknown to Mrs. Radcliffe, turned to terror in forms more -violent than his gentle predecessor had ever dared to think of, and -produced as a result a masterpiece of active nightmare whose general -Gothic cast is spiced with added stores of ghoulishness. The story -is one of a Spanish monk, Ambrosio, who from a state of over-proud -virtue is tempted to the very nadir of evil by a fiend in the guise -of the maiden Matilda; and who is finally, when awaiting death at -the Inquisition's hands, induced to purchase escape at the price of -his soul from the devil, because he deems both body and soul already -lost. Forthwith the mocking Fiend snatches him to a lonely place, -tells him he has sold his soul in vain since both pardon and a chance -for salvation were approaching at the moment of his hideous bargain, -and completes the sardonic betrayal by rebuking him for his unnatural -crimes, and casting his body down a precipice whilst his soul is -borne off forever to perdition. The novel contains some appalling -descriptions such as the incantation in the vaults beneath the convent -cemetery, the burning of the convent, and the final end of the wretched -abbot. In the sub-plot where the Marquis de las Cisternas meets the -spectre of his erring ancestress, The Bleeding Nun, there are many -enormously potent strokes, notably the visit of the animated corpse to -the Marquis's bedside, and the cabalistic ritual whereby the Wandering -Jew helps him to fathom and banish his dead tormentor. Nevertheless, -"The Monk" drags sadly when read as a whole. It is too long and too -diffuse, much of its potency is marred by flippancy and by an awkwardly -excessive reaction against those canons of decorum which Lewis at first -despised as prudish. One great thing may be said of the author; that -he never ruined his ghostly visions with a natural explanation. He -succeeded in breaking up the Radcliffian tradition and expanding the -field of the Gothic novel. Lewis wrote much more than "The Monk." His -drama, "The Castle Spectre," was produced in 1798, and he later found -time to pen other fiction in ballad form--"Tales of Terror," (1799) -"Tales of Wonder," (1801) and a succession of translations from Germany. - -Gothic romances, both English and German, now appeared in multitudinous -and mediocre profusion. Most of them were merely ridiculous in the -light of mature taste, and Miss Austen's famous satire "Northanger -Abbey" was by no means an unmerited rebuke to a school which had -sunk far toward absurdity. This particular school was petering out, -but before its final subordination there arose its last and greatest -figure in the person of Charles Robert Maturin, (1782-1824) an obscure -and eccentric Irish clergyman. Out of an ample body of miscellaneous -writing which includes one confused Radcliffian imitation called "The -Fatal Revenge; or, The Family of Montorio," (1807) Maturin at length -evolved the vivid horror-masterpiece of "Melmoth, the Wanderer," (1820) -in which the Gothic tale climbed to altitudes of sheer spiritual fright -which it had never known before. - -"Melmoth" is the tale of an Irish gentleman who, in the seventeenth -century, obtained a preternaturally extended life from the Devil at -the price of his soul. If he can persuade another to take the bargain -off his hands, and assume his existing state, he can be saved; but -this he can never manage to effect, no matter how assiduously he -haunts those whom despair has made reckless and frantic. The framework -of the story is very clumsy; involving tedious length, digressive -episodes, narratives within narratives, and laboured dovetailing -and coincidences; but at various points in the endless rambling, -there is felt a pulse of power undiscoverable in any previous work -of this kind--a kinship to the essential truth of human nature, an -understanding of the profoundest sources of actual cosmic fear, and a -white heat of sympathetic passion on the writer's part, which makes -the book a true document of aesthetic self-expression rather than a -mere clever compound of artifice. No unbiased reader can doubt that -with "Melmoth" an enormous stride in the evolution of the horror-tale -is represented. Fear is taken out of the realm of the conventional and -exalted into a hideous cloud over mankind's very destiny. Maturin's -shudders, the work of one capable of shuddering himself, are of the -sort that convince. Mrs. Radcliffe and Lewis are fair game for the -parodist, but it would be difficult to find a false note in the -feverishly intensified action and high atmospheric tension of the -Irishman whose less sophisticated emotions and strain of Celtic -mysticism gave him the finest possible natural equipment for his task. -Without a doubt, Maturin is a man of authentic genius, and he was so -recognized by Balzac, who grouped "Melmoth" with Moliere's "Don Juan," -Goethe's "Faust," and Byron's "Manfred" as the supreme allegorical -figures of modern European literature, and wrote a whimsical piece -called "Melmoth Reconciled," in which the Wanderer succeeds in passing -his infernal bargain on to a Parisian bank defaulter, who in turn -hands it along a chain of victims, until a gambler dies with it in -his possession, and by his damnation ends the curse. Scott, Rossetti, -Thackeray and Baudelaire are other titans who gave Maturin their -unqualified admiration, and there is much significance in the fact that -Oscar Wilde, after his disgrace and exile, chose for his last days in -Paris the assumed name of "Sebastian Melmoth." - - - (continued next month) - - * * * * * - - - WITHIN THE CIRCLE - - by F. Lee Baldwin - -Two different issues of _Weird Tales_ are labelled Volume 19, Number 3. -(Look on Index Page.) - -E. Hoffmann Price is touring the Southwest and is planning to call on -Robert E. Howard, dip into Mexico, stop at Clark Ashton Smith's and -finally wind up in San Francisco. His beloved rugs are with him. - -"The Curse of Yig" by Zealia Brown Reed has been reprinted in the S & B -(London) "Not at Night" anthology a few years ago. - -Forrest Ackerman on binding stf: "--Place together evenly all pages to -be bound into one booklet; with thumbtack, press two holes thru pages, -holes being as far apart as the wire clips removed from original copies -of magazines containing the stories or parts of serial; push clip thru -these two holes near top of magazine and bend together at back, then -repeating operation near bottom. Story is now clipped together. Backs -and covers can now easily be put on by use of adhesive paper.--Does -that help you?" - -"The Horror in the Museum," by Hazel Heald is scheduled for reprinting -this year. - -Here's one about Edgar Allan Poe: Mrs. Whitman, poetess, suggested that -Poe remove the last stanza from his poem "Ulalume" as she thought it -detracted from the work. He did, and there are very few of the younger -Poe admirers who have seen it. Modern standard Editions don't contain -this bit; it is only the older ones that do. - -Howard Wandrei, Don's brother, is a weird painter of the most unusual -order. His work is far beyond that of any weird illustrator employed by -magazines, in my opinion.... Have a look some time you Editors who want -to be surprised! Howard illustrated Donald's "Dark Odyssey." - -Here are the stories in the "Randolph Carter Series" by H. P. -Lovecraft. They were written as follows: "Statement of Randolph Carter" -(1919), "The Silver Key" (1926), "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" -(1926-7, unpublished), and the collaboration with E. Hoffmann Price, -"Through the Gates of the Silver Key".... "At the Mountains of Madness" -was written in the Spring of 1831 and "The Shadow over Innsmouth" was -written in November of the same year. His latest tale is "The Thing on -the Doorstep" written in August, 1933. - -For those who would like to read some of the classics of weird fiction -try "John Silence" by Algernon Blackwood, "The Willows" by the same -author (found in "The Best Ghost Stories" edited by Bohun Lynch), "The -Three Imposters" by Arthur Machen (Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher, N. Y.), -"The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James (found in "The Two Magics" by -the same author), "The White People" by Arthur Machen (found in "The -House of Souls" published by Alfred A. Knopf), and "Portrait of a Man -With Red Hair" by Hugh Walpole (found in a public library). - - * * * * * - - - SCIENCE FICTION IN ENGLISH MAGAZINES - - Series Six - - by Bob Tucker - -Volume 1, numbers 12, 13, 14 and 15, of _Scoops_ contains a great -variety of stf. "The Humming Horror" (interplanetary); "The Black -Vultures" (air pirates); "Devilman of the Deep" (sea monster); -"Cataclysm" (another Armageddon, with the survivors going to Mars); -"The Poison Belt" (Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle's tale); "Scouts of Space" -(interplanetary space pirates); "The Metal Dictator" (robot ruler -plot); "The March of the Beserks" (scientist creates monsters who -revolt); "Invaders from Time" (time travelling tale by our own John -Russell Fearn); and "S O S from Saturn" (interplanetary). - -In addition, _Scoops_ maintains several departments, and a readers -page, among which are: "To the Planets," a weekly column by P. E. -Cleator, who is President of the British Interplanetary Society. This -column reports latest news flashes of rocketeers and interplanetary -projects all over the world. Two other departments called "Here's a -Scoop" and "Modern Marvels" list the latest inventions, scientific -discoveries, etc. Another column, "Can it be Done?" presents an -illustration of some badly needed device or invention, and asks readers -to try to invent them. The readers page occupies the back cover at -present and quite a few good arguments are put up. It needs some -American letters though, so get busy Mr. Ackerman and Mr. Darrow! - -Several requests have been received for information on this magazine, -so here it is: _Scoops_ is published weekly at 18 Henrietta St., -London, WC2, England. Yearly subscription price is 13s, or about $3.40. -Remittance can be made in American postal money orders. English money -values are not steady, in regards to American money, so the $3.40 may -be either more, or less, when you subscribe. _Scoops_ contains, on an -average, 28 pages. It has a cover in two or three colors, depicting -some scene from a story, or some scientific feat. The size of the -magazine is 9 X 12 inches, and has small type, thus quite a lot of -reading matter is put out, considering its small price of about 6 cents -for a copy. - -You can either subscribe for three months, six months, or a year. The -three month price is three shillings and three pence. Six months is -just double that. One year is 13 shillings. [We hope to present another -article in this series very soon. Perhaps even as early as next month.] - - * * * * * - - Science Fiction Fans - join the - Science Fiction League - For details, see the current issue of - _Wonder Stories_ - - * * * * * - - - BELOW THE PHOSPHOR - - by Robert Nelson - - The swaying corpse upon the wall - Grows rotten with the waning light; - And crawling shadows of the night - Lie on the body like a pall. - - Dead spirits dance upon the slope; - Blatant are bat-things overhead; - But now the revenants have fled, - The glad fantasias yet grope. - - Only the ghouls are gently stirred - By tainted gusts lost from the gale; - And in the faun-infested vale - Wild screeches of a fiend are heard. - - Impending o'er the noisome spawn, - In glaucous haze the Phosphor steals-- - Thence to Azrael's eyes reveals - The wrestling wraiths on death's dark lawn-- - - Fast scaling up the ebon sky - To cull and slay the gnawing blight, - All cool of the corpse's mute delight, - Or if the baneful fiend should die. - - * * * * * - - - THE FAVORITE WEIRD TALES OF - - AUGUST W. DERLETH - - (Courtesy of H. Koenig) - - The Willows A. Blackwood - The Inhabitant of Carcosa A. Bierce - The Yellow Sign R. W. Chambers - The Upper Berth F. Marion Crawford - The Monkey's Paw W. W. Jacobs - A View from a Hill M. R. James - Seaton's Aunt W. de la Mare - The House of Sounds M. P. Shiel - Dream of Armageddon H. G. Wells - Shadows on the Wall Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - - * * * * * - - - YOUR VIEWS - -[Readers are invited to make free use of this department. However, we -must ask you to be brief, due to the limited space available.] - -"If the devil suddenly materialized, horns, tail, hooves, brimstone -and all, sneaking in at the midnight hour and sat down beside one -of us ordinary disbelieving mortals--well, that's my own idea of a -good weird story! Most stories react upon one rather distantly. They -communicate merely a distant mental fear, and not a physical fear. If -I were to choose the most entertaining book I have ever read, I would -unquestionably name 'Seven Footprints to Satan' by A. Merritt. Just -as unhesitatingly I would name him as the insuperable weird writer, -since I have never experienced the physical fleshly cowardice of the -preternatural, either in actual life or in imaginative reconstruction -of fiction, more vividly than when I contacted Lucifer in person in -that book. What is the best weird fiction narrative ever penned? Vote -one from yours truly goes to 'Seven Footprints to Satan'."--J. Harvey -Haggard - -"Seabury Quinn is my favorite author for his clever little brain-child, -Jules de Grandin. Bless his li'l heart--the monsieur can combine -humor with work before one can bat an eyelash. Pouff!--the mystery is -solved. The very manner the author uses in his writings suits me best -of all--one is held in suspense until almost the end when a few brief -explanations solve the whole riddle."--Gertrude Hemken. - - * * * * * - - - ADVERTISEMENTS - Rates: one cent per word - Minimum Charge, 25 cents - - * * * * * - -BOOKS, Magazines, bought, sold. Lists 3 cts. Swanson-ff, Washburn, N. D. - - * * * * * - -CLARK ASHTON SMITH present 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 $2.00, reduced -to $1.00 per copy. Everything sent postpaid. 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Hornig</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Release Date: March 22, 2021 [eBook #64901]</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Language: English</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Character set encoding: UTF-8</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Produced by: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net</div> - -<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FANTASY FAN, VOLUME 1, NUMBER 10, JUNE 1934 ***</div> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/title.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<p class="ph1">[Transcriber's Note: Extensive research did not uncover any<br /> -evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3>OUR READERS SAY</h3> - - -<p>"The May FANTASY FAN was just what its cover implied—peachy. It -had just the right proportion of interesting items. Schwartz and -Weisinger's column was just what was needed—most of their items were -new and original. Just that!"—Lester Anderson</p> - -<p>"Lovecraft's article is getting to be interesting enough to read -through now, although I didn't think that it was very good during the -first few parts. The article on Wells was particularly good."—David -Stolaroff</p> - -<p>"The May issue is, I must say, one of the best yet. 'Weird Whisperings' -and 'Science Fiction in English Magazines' did I especially enjoy -and am looking forward to the latter's promised column on African -stf."—Daniel McPhail</p> - -<p>"I am glad to note that Lovecraft's monograph is appearing in larger -instalments. I hope that Baldwin will continue his 'Side Glances.' Glad -my article on M. R. James was approved by so many readers. Later on, -I hope to do some brief articles on other masters of the macabre and -fantastic."—Clark Ashton Smith</p> - -<p>"'Phantom Lights' outshines and stifles the reputation of 'Birkett's -Twelfth Corpse.' But 'Dragons' destroys the illusion of 'Shadows.' -Orchids to 'The Flower God,' the best Annal to date, and one of the -choice stories that has appeared thus far in THE FANTASY FAN."—Robert -Nelson</p> - -<p>"THE FANTASY FAN came yesterday and I enjoyed every page. The orange -stock paper improved the appearance greatly. The new type is excellent -also. The length of 'Our Readers Say' is just right. It should not be -too long."—Duane W. Rimel</p> - -<p>"I have just completed a reading of the May issue of THE FANTASY FAN. -Lovecraft and Smith still stand out as my favorites. Some of the other -articles proved quite interesting, particularly 'Weird Whisperings' and -the two poems 'Shadows' and 'Dragons' were very enjoyable. The colored -'cover' marks another step forward. Keep up the good work."—H. Koenig</p> - -<p>"The April issue of THE FANTASY FAN was fine! 'The Ancient Voice' -by Eando Binder was the best story that I have read in a good many -moons! And I don't mean maybe, either! Mr. Binder held me simply -spellbound from start to finish! Let's have many more like this superb -tale!"—Fred John Walsen</p> - -<p>"The strength and beauty of Robert E. Howard's 'Gods of the North' in -your March issue has influenced me to mark it for frequent re-reading. -No other of his stories has appealed to me quite so strongly. I -hope that you can induce him to write more stories in the same -vein."—Chester D. Cuthbert</p> - -<p>"Just received May FANTASY FAN and was agreeably surprised to see the -'cover.' That's one way of getting started on one. 'Weird Whisperings' -by those master newshawks was very fine. The high spots in the issue -were Barlow's Annals and 'Prose Pastels' by Smith. I never tire reading -either of these two authors. I enjoy all the poetry you print and -believe that you ought to have at least two pages of it."—F. Lee -Baldwin</p> - -<p>"I am enclosing a dollar this time for a full year's subscription. I -find the little mag most interesting. Another thing I like about the -book is that the Readers' Sayso includes letters from authors—which -proves that they, too, read stories."—Gertrude Hemken</p> - -<p>"I liked practically everything in the April issue of THE FANTASY FAN. -The letters in the lengthened 'Our Readers Say' were interesting, 'Side -Glances' was allright; you know I liked the feature story very much, -and I was interested in reading the views presented on the topic I -suggested, and the ads were good. So there!"—Forrest J. Ackerman</p> - -<p>"I enjoy articles by Bob Tucker, Hoy Ping Pong, and Eando Binder's -recent weird narration was fine."—J. Harvey Haggard</p> - -<p>"I devour your magazine like a dog does a bone, but I usually read -it first. The articles that appear beat anything ever written by -Shakespeare and makes the works of Poe, Wells, and Verne look -amateurish. Lovecraft, Smith, and Howard are the greatest writers -of all time, in any branch of literature. Of course, because of the -excitement my name would cause if it were printed in your magazine, -please do not publish this letter. Just be satisfied in knowing that -the greatest man in the world is one of your readers."—John de Rocka -Fella</p> - -<p>Sorry, Johnny, old kid, but your letter has already gone to press and -it's too late to take it out now. I didn't read your last two sentences -until too late.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3>BOOKS OF THE WEIRD<br /> -by J. Harvey Haggard</h3> - - -<p>"Drums of Dambala" by H. Bedford-Jones is a crackerjack of a weird -novel in case any of the rest of the fans haven't read it. As related -by that master raconteur, we have zombies, ju-ju dances, and lots of -thrilling action on that dark island of ancient magic, Haiti. "The -Story of Superstition," a non-fiction book dealing with the origin of -such quaint modern customs as throwing rice and laying corner-stones, -is another absorbing book. After reading it, you'll wonder if man has -wholly escaped from his belief in the supernatural after all. "Magic -Island," by Seabrook, is another non-fiction book that will thrill -you as much as the most imaginative tale. The author relates his -experiences in Haiti, in which he goes native with the bushmen and -witnesses the sacred dance never before beheld by white men.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h2>From Beyond</h2> - -<h3>by H. P. Lovecraft</h3> - - -<p>Horrible beyond conception was the change which had taken place in my -best friend, Crawford Tillinghast. I had not seen him since that day, -two months and a half before, when he had told me toward what goal -his physical and metaphysical researches were leading; when he had -answered my awed and almost frightened remonstrances by driving me -from his laboratory and his house in a burst of fanatical rage, I had -known that he now remained mostly shut in the attic laboratory with -that accursed electrical machine, eating little and excluding even the -servants, but I had not thought that a brief period of ten weeks could -so alter and disfigure any human creature. It is not pleasant to see a -stout man suddenly grown thin, and it is even worse when the baggy skin -becomes yellowed or greyed, the eyes sunken, circled, and uncannily -glowing, the forehead veined and corrugated, and the hands tremulous -and twitching. And if added to this there be a repellant unkemptness; -a wild disorder of dress, a bushiness of dark hair white at the roots, -and an unchecked growth of white beard on a face once clean-shaven, -the cumulative effect is quite shocking. But such was the aspect of -Crawford Tillinghast on the night his half coherent message brought me -to his door after my weeks of exile; such was the spectre that trembled -as it admitted me, candle in hand, and glanced furtively over its -shoulder as if fearful of unseen things in the ancient, lonely house -set back from Benevolent Street.</p> - -<p>That Crawford Tillinghast should ever have studied science and -philosophy was a mistake. These things should be left to the frigid and -impersonal investigator for they offer two equally tragic alternatives -to the man of feeling and action; despair, if he fail in his quest, -and terrors unutterable and unimaginable if he succeed. Tillinghast -had once been the prey of failure, solitary and melancholy; but now I -knew, with nauseating fears of my own, that he was the prey of success. -I had indeed warned him ten weeks before, when he burst forth with his -tale of what he felt himself about to discover. He had been flushed and -excited then, talking in a high and unnatural, though always pedantic, -voice.</p> - -<p>"What do we know," he had said, "of the world and the universe about -us? Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and our -notions of surrounding objects infinitely narrow. We see things only -as we are constructed to see them, and can gain no idea of their -absolute nature. With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the -boundlessly complex cosmos, yet other beings with a wider, stronger, -or different range of senses might not only see very differently the -things we see, but might see and study whole worlds of matter, energy, -and life which lie close at hand yet can never be detected with the -senses we have. I have always believed that such strange, inaccessible -worlds exist at our very elbows, <i>and now I believe I have found a way -to break down the barriers</i>. I am not joking. Within twenty-four hours -that machine near the table will generate waves acting on unrecognized -sense-organs that exist in us as atrophied or rudimentary vestiges. -Those waves will open up to us many vistas unknown to man, and several -unknown to anything we consider organic life. We shall see that at -which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears -after midnight. We shall see these things, and other things which no -breathing creature has yet seen. We shall overleap time, space, and -dimensions, and without bodily motion peer to the bottom of creation."</p> - -<p>When Tillinghast said these things I remonstrated, for I knew him well -enough to be frightened rather than amused; but he was a fanatic, -and drove me from the house. Now he was no less a fanatic, but his -desire to speak had conquered his resentment, and he had written me -imperatively in a hand I could scarcely recognize. As I entered the -abode of the friend so suddenly metamorphosed to a shivering gargoyle, -I became infected with the terror which seemed stalking in all the -shadows. The words and beliefs expressed ten weeks before seemed bodied -forth in the darkness beyond the small circle of candle light, and I -sickened at the hollow, altered voice of my host. I wished the servants -were about, and did not like it when he said they had all left three -days previously. It seemed strange that old Gregory, at least, should -desert his master without telling as tried a friend as I. It was he -who had given me all the information I had of Tillinghast after I was -repulsed in rage.</p> - -<p>Yet I soon subordinated all my fears to my growing curiosity and -fascination. Just what Crawford Tillinghast now wished of me I could -only guess, but that he had some stupendous secret or discovery to -impart, I could not doubt. Before I had protested at his unnatural -pryings into the unthinkable; now that he had evidently succeeded to -some degree I almost shared his spirit, terrible though the cost of -victory appeared. Up through the dark emptiness of the house I followed -the bobbing candle in the hand of this shaking parody of man. The -electricity seemed to be turned off, and when I asked my guide he said -it was for a definite reason.</p> - -<p>"It would be too much.... I would not dare," he continued to mutter. -I especially noted his new habit of muttering, for it was not like -him to talk to himself. We entered the laboratory in the attic, and I -observed that detestable electrical machine, glowing with a sickly, -sinister violet luminosity. It was connected with a powerful chemical -battery, but seemed to be receiving no current; for I recalled that in -its experimental stage it had sputtered and purred when in action. In -reply to my question Tillinghast mumbled that this permanent glow was -not electrical in any sense that I could understand.</p> - -<p>He now seated me near the machine, so that it was on my right, and -turned a switch somewhere below the crowning cluster of glass bulbs. -The usual sputtering began, turned to a whine, and terminated in -a drone so soft as to suggest a return to silence. Meanwhile the -luminosity increased, waned again, then assumed a pale, outre colour or -blend of colours which I could neither place nor describe. Tillinghast -had been watching me, and noted my puzzled expression.</p> - -<p>"Do you know what that is?" he whispered, "<i>that is ultra-violet</i>." He -chuckled oddly at my surprise. "You thought ultra-violet was invisible, -and so it is—but you can see that and many other invisible things -<i>now</i>.</p> - -<p>"Listen to me! The waves from that thing are waking a thousand sleeping -senses in us; senses which we inherit from aeons of evolution from the -state of detached electrons to the state of organic humanity. I have -seen <i>truth</i>, and I intend to show it to you. Do you wonder how it -will seem? I will tell you." Here Tillinghast seated himself directly -opposite me, blowing out his candle and staring hideously into my eyes. -"Your existing sense-organs—ears first, I think—will pick up many -of the impressions, for they are closely connected with the dormant -organs. Then there will be others. You have heard of the pineal gland? -I laugh at the shallow endocrinologist, fellow-dupe and fellow-parvenu -of the Freudian. That gland is the great sense organ of organs—<i>I have -found out</i>. It is like sight in the end, and transmits visual pictures -to the brain. If you are normal, that is the way you ought to get most -of it.... I mean get most of the evidence <i>from beyond</i>."</p> - -<p>I looked about the immense attic room with the sloping south wall, -dimly lit by rays which the every-day eye cannot see. The far corners -were all shadows, and the whole place took on a hazy unreality which -obscured its nature and invited the imagination to symbolism and -phantasm. During the interval that Tillinghast was silent I fancied -myself in some vast and incredible temple of long-dead gods; some -vague edifice of innumerable black stone columns reaching up from a -floor of damp slabs to a cloudy height beyond the range of my vision. -The picture was very vivid for a while, but gradually gave way to a -more horrible conception; that of utter, absolute solitude in infinite, -sightless, soundless space. There seemed to be a void, and nothing -more, and I felt a childish fear which prompted me to draw from my -hip pocket the revolver I always carried after dark since the night I -was held up in East Providence. Then, from the farthermost regions of -remoteness, the <i>sound</i> softly glided into existence. It was infinitely -faint, subtly vibrant, and unmistakably musical, but held a quality -of surpassing wildness which made its impact feel like a delicate -torture of my whole body. I felt sensations like those one feels when -accidentally scratching ground glass. Simultaneously there developed -something like a cold draught, which apparently swept past me from the -direction of the distant sound. As I waited breathlessly I perceived -that both sound and wind were increasing; the effect being to give me -an odd notion of myself as tied to a pair of rails in the path of a -gigantic approaching locomotive. I began to speak to Tillinghast, and -as I did so all the unusual impressions abruptly vanished. I saw only -the man, the glowing machine, and the dim apartment. Tillinghast was -grinning repulsively at the revolver which I had almost unconsciously -drawn, but from his expression I was sure he had seen and heard as much -as I, if not a great deal more. I whispered what I had experienced and -he bade me remain as quiet and receptive as possible.</p> - -<p>"Don't move," he cautioned, "for in these rays <i>we are able to be seen -as well as to see</i>. I told you the servants left, but I didn't tell you -<i>how</i>. It was that thick-witted housekeeper—she turned on the lights -downstairs after I had warned her not to, and the wires picked up -sympathetic vibrations. It must have been frightful—I could hear the -screams up here in spite of all I was seeing and hearing from another -direction, and later it was rather awful to find those empty heaps of -clothes around the house. Mrs. Updike's clothes were close to the front -hall switch—that's how I know she did it. It got them all. But so -long as we don't move we're fairly safe. Remember we're dealing with a -hideous world in which we are practically helpless.... <i>Keep still!</i>"</p> - -<p>The combined shock of the revelation and of the abrupt command gave -me a kind of paralysis, and in my terror my mind again opened to the -impressions coming from what Tillinghast called "<i>beyond</i>." I was now -in a vortex of sound and motion, with confused pictures before my eyes. -I saw the blurred outlines of the room, but from some point in space -there seemed to be pouring a seething column of unrecognizable shapes -or clouds, penetrating the solid roof at a point ahead and to the right -of me. Then I glimpsed the temple-like effect again, but this time the -pillars reached up into an aerial ocean of light, which sent down one -blinding beam along the path of the cloudy column I had seen before. -After that the scene was almost wholly kaleidoscopic, and in the jumble -of sights, sounds, and unidentified sense-impressions I felt that I was -about to dissolve or in some way lose the solid form. One definite -flash I shall always remember. I seemed for an instant to behold a -patch of strange night sky filled with shining, revolving spheres, -and as it receded I saw that the glowing suns formed a constellation -or galaxy of settled shape; this shape being the distorted face of -Crawford Tillinghast. At another time I felt huge animate things -brushing past me and occasionally <i>walking or drifting through my -supposedly solid body</i>, and thought I saw Tillinghast look at them as -though his better trained senses could catch them visually. I recalled -what he had said of the pineal gland, and wondered what he saw with -this preternatural eye.</p> - -<p>Suddenly I myself became possessed of a kind of augmented sight. Over -and above the luminous and shadowy chaos arose a picture which, though -vague, held the elements of consistency and permanence. It was indeed -somewhat familiar, for the unusual part was superimposed upon the usual -terrestrial scene much as a cinema view may be thrown upon the painted -curtain of a theater. I saw the attic laboratory, the electrical -machine, and the unsightly form of Tillinghast opposite me; but of all -the space unoccupied by familiar objects not one particle was vacant. -Indescribable shapes both alive and otherwise were mixed in disgusting -disarray, and close to every known thing were whole worlds of alien, -unknown entities. It likewise seemed that all the known things entered -into the composition of other unknown things, and vice versa. Foremost -among the living objects were inky, jellyish monstrosities which -flabbily quivered in harmony with the vibrations from the machine. -They were present in loathsome profusion, and I saw to my horror that -they <i>over-lapped</i>; that they were semi fluid and capable of passing -through one another and through what we know as solids. These things -were never still, but seemed ever floating about with some malignant -purpose. Sometimes they appeared to devour one another, the attacker -launching itself at its victim and instantaneously obliterating the -latter from sight. Shudderingly I felt that I knew what had obliterated -the unfortunate servants, and could not exclude the things from my mind -as I strove to observe other properties of the newly visible world that -lies unseen around us. But Tillinghast had been watching me, and was -speaking.</p> - -<p>"You see them? You see them? You see the things that float and flop -about you and through you every moment of your life? You see the -creatures that form what men call the pure air and the blue sky? Have I -not succeeded in breaking down the barrier; have I not shown you worlds -that no other living men have seen?" I heard his scream through the -horrible chaos, and looked at the wild face thrust so offensively close -to mine. His eyes were pits of flame, and they glared at me with what I -now saw was overwhelming hatred. The machine droned detestably.</p> - -<p>"You think those floundering things wiped out the servants? Fool, they -are harmless! But the servants <i>are</i> gone, aren't they? You tried to -stop me; you discouraged me when I needed every drop of encouragement I -could get; you were afraid of the cosmic truth, you damned coward, but -now I've got you! What swept up the servants? What made them scream so -loud?... Don't know, eh! You'll know soon enough. Look at me—listen to -what I say—do you suppose there are really any such things as time -and magnitude. Do you fancy there are such things as form or matter. I -tell you, I have struck depths that your little brain can't picture. -I have seen beyond the bounds of infinity and drawn down demons from -the stars.... I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to -world to sow death and madness.... Space belongs to me, do you hear? -Things are hunting me now—the things that devour and dissolve—but -I know how to elude them. It is you they will get, as they got the -servants.... Stirring, dear sir? I told you it was dangerous to move, -I have saved you so far by telling you to keep still—saved you to see -more sights and to listen to me. If you had moved, they would have been -at you long ago. Don't worry, they won't <i>hurt</i> you. They didn't hurt -the servants—it was the <i>seeing</i> that made the poor devils scream so. -My pets are not pretty, for they come out of places where aesthetic -standards are—<i>very different</i>. Disintegration is quite painless, I -assure you—<i>but I want you to see them</i>. I almost saw them, but I knew -how to stop. You are not curious? I always knew you were no scientist. -Trembling, eh. Trembling with anxiety to see the ultimate things I have -discovered. Why don't you move, then? Tired? Well, don't worry, my -friend, <i>for they are coming</i>.... Look, look, curse you, look ... it's -just over your left shoulder...."</p> - -<p>What remains to be told is very brief, and may be familiar to you from -the newspaper accounts. The police heard a shot in the old Tillinghast -house and found us there—Tillinghast dead and me unconscious. They -arrested me because the revolver was in my hand, but released me in -three hours, after they found that it was apoplexy which had finished -Tillinghast and saw that my shot had been directed at the noxious -machine which now lay hopelessly shattered on the laboratory floor. I -did not tell very much of what I had seen, for I feared the coroner -would be skeptical; but from the evasive outline I did give, the doctor -told me that I had undoubtedly been hypnotised by the vindictive and -homicidal madman.</p> - -<p>I wish I could believe that doctor. It would help my shaky nerves if -I could dismiss what I now have to think of the air and the sky about -and above me. I never feel alone or comfortable, and a hideous sense -of pursuit sometimes comes chillingly on me when I am weary. What -prevents me from believing the doctor is this one simple fact—that the -police never found the bodies of those servants whom they say Crawford -Tillinghast murdered.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3>WEIRD WHISPERINGS<br /> -by Schwartz & Weisinger</h3> - - -<p>Otis Adelbert Kline died from an operation two years ago!... That is, -the doctors declared that he was dead.... Fortunately, an adrenalin -injection saved him.... Seabury Quinn's next Jules de Grandin novelette -will attempt to justify incest between brother and sister.... Quinn, -who gets most of his plots while shaving, is also working on a -book-length novel, "a sort of lost world affair".... When A. Merritt -finished reading "Thirsty Blades" by Kline and Price, he said, "I -wish I had written that story".... <i>Ten Story Book</i> edited by Harry -Stephen Keeler, once put out an all weird issue.... Robert E. Howard -occasionally does boxing yarns for <i>Sport Stories</i>.</p> - -<p>Farnsworth Wright says the best stories he's printed in <i>Weird Tales</i> -are (not in the order listed): "The Stranger from Kurdistan" by Price, -"The Phantom Farmhouse" by Quinn, "The Outsider" by Lovecraft, "The -Werewolf of Ponkert" by Munn, "The Shadow Kingdom" by Howard, "The -Canal" by Worrell, "The Wind that Tramps the World" by Owen.... Eli -Colter's full name is Elizabeth Colter.... Victor Rousseau's is Victor -Rousseau Emanuel.... Murray Leinster's is Will Fitzgerald Jenkins.... -Ralph Milne Farley's is Roger Sherman Hoar.... Farnsworth Wright -has had several stories and poems published under the nom-de-plume -of Francis Hard.... Desmond Hall, associate editor of <i>Astounding -Stories</i>, admits having had a story published in <i>Weird Tales</i> under a -pseudonym, but won't divulge which one.</p> - -<p>"The Vengeance of Fi Fong," another tale of brain transplantation by -Bassett Morgan, will soon appear in <i>Weird Tales</i>.... Also scheduled -for early appearances are "Old Sledge" by Paul Ernst and "Distortion -out of Space" by Francis Flagg.... Otis Adelbert Kline's <i>Weird -Tales</i> story of some years back, "The Bird People," was based on the -<i>Amazing Stories</i> Cover Contest.... Jack Williamson wrote "Born of the -Sun" after an argument with Edmond Hamilton, in which the former has -maintained that no idea was too impossible to make convincing in a -story.... Arthur J. Burks began his career in <i>Weird Tales</i> under the -name of Estil Critchie because, he explains, "I was ashamed of being -associated with the stigma of being known as a writer".... An interview -with Burks, by your scribes, appeared in the April issue of <i>Author & -Composer</i>.</p> - -<p>E. Hoffmann Price has moved to Oklahoma where he is using his executive -ability and mechanical skill as partner in a garage business.... He -will soon take to the road in his 1928 Ford Juggernaut and will visit -Robert E. Howard in Cross Plains, Texas, and Clark Ashton Smith in -Auburn, California.... Farnsworth Wright once gave an account of his -pet peeve: "My pet peeve is stories that get the character in a very -interesting dilemma and lead the reader to expect an ingenious solution -of the story only to have the story end with the statement, 'then he -woke up and found it was a dream.' Readers have a right to expect the -author will offer an interesting denouement, but instead he says 'April -Fool'."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h2>The Little Box</h2> - -<h3>by R. H. Barlow</h3> - -<p class="ph1">Annals of the Jinns—7</p> - - -<p>On the planet called Loth, in the Seventh City, there lived a -semi-savage known as Hsuth. He had been captured in his youth by the -fearless raiders of Phargo, but popular demand later caused the release -of all the beings that once formed an interesting collection of the -larger animals. So it was that one might have had for a neighbor -anything from one of the reddish parrot-people from the far-away -isle of Hin to a pale blue octopus-thing from the dried sea-bed of -Innia. Hsuth, it is to be stated, was neither, being merely one of the -common-place brown tailed men from Leek. He was, as are most savages, -very inquisitive, and one day after returning from the ridna-zat works -(wherein were manufactured first class ornaments to be worn in the -nose) he espied a small black box in the window of a money-lender—a -box whose curious carvings and tightly closed lid brought up many -questions. When the dealer refused to open it for him his curiosity was -doubly whetted, so that he purchased it (after unavoidable delay and -expected haggling) thereby parting with the earnings of a week.</p> - -<p>Returning home with his prize he managed to slip past a street-brawl -and get inside his house—a three-towered affair resembling an -ill-fitted layer cake, each successive story being smaller than the one -upon which it reposed.</p> - -<p>Bolting the door he then tried to force the lid open. But it resented -this move on his part, and showed it by pinching his finger violently. -This caused him to fling it against the wall. It came to the floor -with a dull thud and the top fell off after a moment's silence. A -squeaky voice issued from the interior. "—press the control marked A -and the machine will come to him no matter where it is. I am making -three boxes similar to this and hope that someone will gain some -benefit, for I haven't. Anyone finding this is directed to press the -control marked A and the machine will come to him no matter where it -is iammakingthree-e-e-E-EEE Yah psuhutthush!" declared the little box. -As Hsuth did not understand what was said, it is to be feared the -directions were lost upon him, yet some demon directed his finger to -the control marked A. Perhaps it was because all the other buttons were -hopelessly jammed into the wood.</p> - -<p>Nothing happened, and Hsuth disappointedly threw the box through the -window where it landed upon the head of a prominent citizen, causing -that worthy unwonted irritation.</p> - -<p>And Hsuth forgot about the box and the fraudulent control marked A, -not knowing that ten million miles away the machine was battering -ceaselessly at its bonds, striving to escape and answer the -long-awaited call—which it never quite managed to do.</p> - -<p>But the Leerians gathered round with frightened eyes to watch the -reanimation of the god of the forefathers on that far continent, and -offered up sacrifices in the form of decrepit inhabitants and those who -would have had them doubt their deity.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h2>PROSE PASTELS</h2> - -<h3>by Clark Ashton Smith</h3> - - -<p class="ph1"><i>III. The Muse of Hyperborea</i></p> - -<p>Too far away is her wan and mortal face, and too remote are the snows -of her lethal breast, for mine eyes to behold them ever. But at whiles -her whisper comes to me, like a chill unearthly wind that is faint from -traversing the gulfs between the worlds, and has flown over ultimate -horizons of ice-bound deserts. And she speaks to me in a tongue I have -never heard but have always known; and she tells of deathly things and -of things beautiful beyond the ecstatic desires of love. Her speech is -not of good or evil, nor of anything that is desired or conceived or -believed by the termites of earth; and the air she breathes, and the -lands wherein she roams, would blast like the utter cold of sidereal -space; and her eyes would blind the vision of men like suns; and her -kiss, if one should ever attain it, would wither and slay like the kiss -of lightning.</p> - -<p>But, hearing her far, infrequent whisper, I behold a vision of vast -auroras, on continents that are wider than the world, and seas too -great for the enterprise of human keels. And at times I stammer forth -the strange tidings that she brings: though none will welcome them, -and none will believe or listen. And in some dawn of the desperate -years, I shall go forth and follow where she calls, to seek the high -and beautific doom of her snow-pale distances, to perish amid her -indesecrate horizons.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="ph1">Tell your friends about TFF</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h2>SUPERNATURAL HORROR IN LITERATURE</h2> - -<p class="ph1">Part Nine</p> - -<h3>by H. P. Lovecraft</h3> - -<p class="ph1">(copyright 1927 by W. Paul Cook)</p> - - -<p class="ph1">IV. The Apex of Gothic Romance</p> - -<p>Horror in literature attains a new malignity in the work of Matthew -Gregory Lewis, (1773-1818) whose novel "The Monk" (1795) achieved -marvelous popularity and earned him the nickname of "Monk" Lewis. This -young author, educated in Germany and saturated with a body of wild -Teuton lore unknown to Mrs. Radcliffe, turned to terror in forms more -violent than his gentle predecessor had ever dared to think of, and -produced as a result a masterpiece of active nightmare whose general -Gothic cast is spiced with added stores of ghoulishness. The story -is one of a Spanish monk, Ambrosio, who from a state of over-proud -virtue is tempted to the very nadir of evil by a fiend in the guise -of the maiden Matilda; and who is finally, when awaiting death at -the Inquisition's hands, induced to purchase escape at the price of -his soul from the devil, because he deems both body and soul already -lost. Forthwith the mocking Fiend snatches him to a lonely place, -tells him he has sold his soul in vain since both pardon and a chance -for salvation were approaching at the moment of his hideous bargain, -and completes the sardonic betrayal by rebuking him for his unnatural -crimes, and casting his body down a precipice whilst his soul is -borne off forever to perdition. The novel contains some appalling -descriptions such as the incantation in the vaults beneath the convent -cemetery, the burning of the convent, and the final end of the wretched -abbot. In the sub-plot where the Marquis de las Cisternas meets the -spectre of his erring ancestress, The Bleeding Nun, there are many -enormously potent strokes, notably the visit of the animated corpse to -the Marquis's bedside, and the cabalistic ritual whereby the Wandering -Jew helps him to fathom and banish his dead tormentor. Nevertheless, -"The Monk" drags sadly when read as a whole. It is too long and too -diffuse, much of its potency is marred by flippancy and by an awkwardly -excessive reaction against those canons of decorum which Lewis at first -despised as prudish. One great thing may be said of the author; that -he never ruined his ghostly visions with a natural explanation. He -succeeded in breaking up the Radcliffian tradition and expanding the -field of the Gothic novel. Lewis wrote much more than "The Monk." His -drama, "The Castle Spectre," was produced in 1798, and he later found -time to pen other fiction in ballad form—"Tales of Terror," (1799) -"Tales of Wonder," (1801) and a succession of translations from Germany.</p> - -<p>Gothic romances, both English and German, now appeared in multitudinous -and mediocre profusion. Most of them were merely ridiculous in the -light of mature taste, and Miss Austen's famous satire "Northanger -Abbey" was by no means an unmerited rebuke to a school which had -sunk far toward absurdity. This particular school was petering out, -but before its final subordination there arose its last and greatest -figure in the person of Charles Robert Maturin, (1782-1824) an obscure -and eccentric Irish clergyman. Out of an ample body of miscellaneous -writing which includes one confused Radcliffian imitation called "The -Fatal Revenge; or, The Family of Montorio," (1807) Maturin at length -evolved the vivid horror-masterpiece of "Melmoth, the Wanderer," (1820) -in which the Gothic tale climbed to altitudes of sheer spiritual fright -which it had never known before.</p> - -<p>"Melmoth" is the tale of an Irish gentleman who, in the seventeenth -century, obtained a preternaturally extended life from the Devil at -the price of his soul. If he can persuade another to take the bargain -off his hands, and assume his existing state, he can be saved; but -this he can never manage to effect, no matter how assiduously he -haunts those whom despair has made reckless and frantic. The framework -of the story is very clumsy; involving tedious length, digressive -episodes, narratives within narratives, and laboured dovetailing -and coincidences; but at various points in the endless rambling, -there is felt a pulse of power undiscoverable in any previous work -of this kind—a kinship to the essential truth of human nature, an -understanding of the profoundest sources of actual cosmic fear, and a -white heat of sympathetic passion on the writer's part, which makes -the book a true document of aesthetic self-expression rather than a -mere clever compound of artifice. No unbiased reader can doubt that -with "Melmoth" an enormous stride in the evolution of the horror-tale -is represented. Fear is taken out of the realm of the conventional and -exalted into a hideous cloud over mankind's very destiny. Maturin's -shudders, the work of one capable of shuddering himself, are of the -sort that convince. Mrs. Radcliffe and Lewis are fair game for the -parodist, but it would be difficult to find a false note in the -feverishly intensified action and high atmospheric tension of the -Irishman whose less sophisticated emotions and strain of Celtic -mysticism gave him the finest possible natural equipment for his task. -Without a doubt, Maturin is a man of authentic genius, and he was so -recognized by Balzac, who grouped "Melmoth" with Moliere's "Don Juan," -Goethe's "Faust," and Byron's "Manfred" as the supreme allegorical -figures of modern European literature, and wrote a whimsical piece -called "Melmoth Reconciled," in which the Wanderer succeeds in passing -his infernal bargain on to a Parisian bank defaulter, who in turn -hands it along a chain of victims, until a gambler dies with it in -his possession, and by his damnation ends the curse. Scott, Rossetti, -Thackeray and Baudelaire are other titans who gave Maturin their -unqualified admiration, and there is much significance in the fact that -Oscar Wilde, after his disgrace and exile, chose for his last days in -Paris the assumed name of "Sebastian Melmoth."</p> - - -<p class="ph1">(continued next month)</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h3>WITHIN THE CIRCLE<br /> -by F. Lee Baldwin</h3> - - -<p>Two different issues of <i>Weird Tales</i> are labelled Volume 19, Number 3. -(Look on Index Page.)</p> - -<p>E. Hoffmann Price is touring the Southwest and is planning to call on -Robert E. Howard, dip into Mexico, stop at Clark Ashton Smith's and -finally wind up in San Francisco. His beloved rugs are with him.</p> - -<p>"The Curse of Yig" by Zealia Brown Reed has been reprinted in the S & B -(London) "Not at Night" anthology a few years ago.</p> - -<p>Forrest Ackerman on binding stf: "—Place together evenly all pages to -be bound into one booklet; with thumbtack, press two holes thru pages, -holes being as far apart as the wire clips removed from original copies -of magazines containing the stories or parts of serial; push clip thru -these two holes near top of magazine and bend together at back, then -repeating operation near bottom. Story is now clipped together. Backs -and covers can now easily be put on by use of adhesive paper.—Does -that help you?"</p> - -<p>"The Horror in the Museum," by Hazel Heald is scheduled for reprinting -this year.</p> - -<p>Here's one about Edgar Allan Poe: Mrs. Whitman, poetess, suggested that -Poe remove the last stanza from his poem "Ulalume" as she thought it -detracted from the work. He did, and there are very few of the younger -Poe admirers who have seen it. Modern standard Editions don't contain -this bit; it is only the older ones that do.</p> - -<p>Howard Wandrei, Don's brother, is a weird painter of the most unusual -order. His work is far beyond that of any weird illustrator employed by -magazines, in my opinion.... Have a look some time you Editors who want -to be surprised! Howard illustrated Donald's "Dark Odyssey."</p> - -<p>Here are the stories in the "Randolph Carter Series" by H. P. -Lovecraft. They were written as follows: "Statement of Randolph Carter" -(1919), "The Silver Key" (1926), "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" -(1926-7, unpublished), and the collaboration with E. Hoffmann Price, -"Through the Gates of the Silver Key".... "At the Mountains of Madness" -was written in the Spring of 1831 and "The Shadow over Innsmouth" was -written in November of the same year. His latest tale is "The Thing on -the Doorstep" written in August, 1933.</p> - -<p>For those who would like to read some of the classics of weird fiction -try "John Silence" by Algernon Blackwood, "The Willows" by the same -author (found in "The Best Ghost Stories" edited by Bohun Lynch), "The -Three Imposters" by Arthur Machen (Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher, N. Y.), -"The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James (found in "The Two Magics" by -the same author), "The White People" by Arthur Machen (found in "The -House of Souls" published by Alfred A. Knopf), and "Portrait of a Man -With Red Hair" by Hugh Walpole (found in a public library).</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>SCIENCE FICTION IN ENGLISH MAGAZINES<br /> - -Series Six<br /> - -by Bob Tucker</h3> - - -<p>Volume 1, numbers 12, 13, 14 and 15, of <i>Scoops</i> contains a great -variety of stf. "The Humming Horror" (interplanetary); "The Black -Vultures" (air pirates); "Devilman of the Deep" (sea monster); -"Cataclysm" (another Armageddon, with the survivors going to Mars); -"The Poison Belt" (Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle's tale); "Scouts of Space" -(interplanetary space pirates); "The Metal Dictator" (robot ruler -plot); "The March of the Beserks" (scientist creates monsters who -revolt); "Invaders from Time" (time travelling tale by our own John -Russell Fearn); and "S O S from Saturn" (interplanetary).</p> - -<p>In addition, <i>Scoops</i> maintains several departments, and a readers -page, among which are: "To the Planets," a weekly column by P. E. -Cleator, who is President of the British Interplanetary Society. This -column reports latest news flashes of rocketeers and interplanetary -projects all over the world. Two other departments called "Here's a -Scoop" and "Modern Marvels" list the latest inventions, scientific -discoveries, etc. Another column, "Can it be Done?" presents an -illustration of some badly needed device or invention, and asks readers -to try to invent them. The readers page occupies the back cover at -present and quite a few good arguments are put up. It needs some -American letters though, so get busy Mr. Ackerman and Mr. Darrow!</p> - -<p>Several requests have been received for information on this magazine, -so here it is: <i>Scoops</i> is published weekly at 18 Henrietta St., -London, WC2, England. Yearly subscription price is 13s, or about $3.40. -Remittance can be made in American postal money orders. English money -values are not steady, in regards to American money, so the $3.40 may -be either more, or less, when you subscribe. <i>Scoops</i> contains, on an -average, 28 pages. It has a cover in two or three colors, depicting -some scene from a story, or some scientific feat. The size of the -magazine is 9 X 12 inches, and has small type, thus quite a lot of -reading matter is put out, considering its small price of about 6 cents -for a copy.</p> - -<p>You can either subscribe for three months, six months, or a year. The -three month price is three shillings and three pence. Six months is -just double that. One year is 13 shillings. [We hope to present another -article in this series very soon. Perhaps even as early as next month.]</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p class="ph1">Science Fiction Fans<br /> -join the<br /> -Science Fiction League<br /> -For details, see the current issue of<br /> -<i>Wonder Stories</i></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h2>BELOW THE PHOSPHOR</h2> - -<h3>by Robert Nelson</h3> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">The swaying corpse upon the wall</div> - <div class="verse">Grows rotten with the waning light;</div> - <div class="verse">And crawling shadows of the night</div> - <div class="verse">Lie on the body like a pall.</div> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">Dead spirits dance upon the slope;</div> - <div class="verse">Blatant are bat-things overhead;</div> - <div class="verse">But now the revenants have fled,</div> - <div class="verse">The glad fantasias yet grope.</div> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">Only the ghouls are gently stirred</div> - <div class="verse">By tainted gusts lost from the gale;</div> - <div class="verse">And in the faun-infested vale</div> - <div class="verse">Wild screeches of a fiend are heard.</div> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">Impending o'er the noisome spawn,</div> - <div class="verse">In glaucous haze the Phosphor steals—</div> - <div class="verse">Thence to Azrael's eyes reveals</div> - <div class="verse">The wrestling wraiths on death's dark lawn—</div> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">Fast scaling up the ebon sky</div> - <div class="verse">To cull and slay the gnawing blight,</div> - <div class="verse">All cool of the corpse's mute delight,</div> - <div class="verse">Or if the baneful fiend should die.</div> -</div></div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h2>THE FAVORITE WEIRD TALES OF<br /> -AUGUST W. DERLETH</h2> - -<h3>(Courtesy of H. Koenig)</h3> - -<table summary="favorite tales"> -<tr><td>The Willows </td><td> </td><td> A. Blackwood</td></tr> -<tr><td>The Inhabitant of Carcosa</td><td></td><td> A. Bierce</td></tr> -<tr><td>The Yellow Sign </td><td> </td><td> R. W. Chambers</td></tr> -<tr><td>The Upper Berth </td><td> </td><td> F. Marion Crawford</td></tr> -<tr><td>The Monkey's Paw </td><td> </td><td> W. W. Jacobs</td></tr> -<tr><td>A View from a Hill </td><td> </td><td> M. R. James</td></tr> -<tr><td>Seaton's Aunt </td><td> </td><td> W. de la Mare</td></tr> -<tr><td>The House of Sounds </td><td> </td><td> M. P. Shiel</td></tr> -<tr><td>Dream of Armageddon </td><td> </td><td> H. G. Wells</td></tr> -<tr><td>Shadows on the Wall </td><td> </td><td> Mary E. Wilkins Freeman</td></tr> -</table> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3>YOUR VIEWS</h3> - - -<p>[Readers are invited to make free use of this department. 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