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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 2, Number 1, September 1934 - The Fan's Own Magazine - -Author: Charles D. Hornig - -Release Date: March 27, 2021 [eBook #64938] - -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 2, NUMBER -1, SEPTEMBER 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 2 - September, 1934 - Number 1 - Whole Number 13 - - [Transcriber's Note: Extensive research did not uncover any - evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - - - - NOTICE! - -Many subscriptions expire with this issue. We urge all those whom this -effects to send in a dollar for their renewal immediately. We cannot at -this time afford to let the circulation of THE FANTASY FAN go down and -continue monthly publication. Will you co-operate? Thank you! - - * * * * * - - - OUR READERS SAY - -Well, we are one year old with this issue, and just to celebrate, -have added the smooth, glossy cover that you admired so much as you -took the issue out of the envelope. We may continue this every month -if circulation allows. After all, circulation means everything. The -more readers we have the more money comes into our treasury, and the -more improvements we can give you. Will you subscribe (if you haven't -already), and urge your fantasy friends to do likewise? Every little -bit counts. - -Our motto, by-word, or whatever you want to call it, is "The Fans' Own -Magazine," as you will notice, and we have made this issue consist -of 100 per cent fan material (except for the poetry), in order to -emphasize this. We have chosen some of our choice articles and columns -and provided an extra-long instalment of H. P. Lovecraft's excellent -serial-article, "Supernatural Horror in Literature," Part Twelve of -which appears in this issue. Only about one-third of it has been -published. However, when we find it possible to increase the number of -pages, much longer instalments will appear and we may clear it up in -less than two years more. Even so, we know you will be sorry to see -it end. So many of you have claimed it the best thing in our little -magazette. - -Just because there are no stories in this issue is no indication that -we have ceased to publish them. During the past year we have given you -brand-new masterpieces by the inimitable Clark Ashton Smith, H. P. -Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, August W. Derleth, Eando Binder, R. H. -Barlow, and other great writers, and have many on hand to use during -the months to come--several by Smith and Lovecraft, Binder, etc. You -won't want to miss these. They have never seen print before and are -well up to the standard set by these authors in the more professional -magazines. We want to keep THE FANTASY FAN a magazine for the fans, of -the fans, and by the fans--the authors being the very best of fans. -If you feel capable of writing any fan material, we would be glad to -consider it for publication. Payment for such consists of four copies -of THE FANTASY FAN of the issue in which the article appears per each -page of article, until our magazine is on a paying basis. - -If you would be willing to pay a quarter for a double alphabetical -index (according to authors and names) of the first volume of THE -FANTASY FAN, September, 1933, to August, 1934, please inform the editor -at once. If enough requests are received, the index will be prepared. - -Here's a special offer. To all those who have not subscribed to THE -FANTASY FAN yet and wish to do so, we will make a 10 per cent discount -on a two-year entry--$1.80 for two full years. This offer expires on -October first. - -This issue has gone to press before the publication of the August -number, so we have very few letters on hand from the readers: - -"Some extra fine stuff in the last TFF. I see, also, that you have -added a new newshound to the mag. All are doing good work. 'Your -Viewpoint' is better out as I don't believe there was much left to -write about, unless one had the time and inclination to puzzle -something out."--Kenneth B. Pritchard, Pittsfield, Mass. - - * * * * * - -"I was delighted with the fine line-up the latest TFF contained. The -green cover is the best color you have used yet. Green always reminds -me of something fresh and the July issue was indeed fresh and snappy. - -"'Weird Whisperings' by Schwartz and Weisinger ought to be another -half-page at least. Their dope is always interesting to me and I know -that other fans appreciate the column. I like 'Famous Fantasy Fiction' -by Emil Petaja very well and would enjoy an article like this every -issue. 'Science Fiction in English Magazines' is good too. Keller is -good as usual with his fast-moving and very interesting tale, 'Rider by -Night.' Keller has the knack of making a story interesting no matter -how condensed or short it is. I am looking forward to more by him. -Lovecraft's article is becoming so interesting that I can hardly wait -for the next instalment to appear. You should give this treatise on -weird literature at least two sheets. Make it a little longer, at least. - -"'The Epiphany of Death' by Clark Ashton Smith is easily the best thing -published in TFF this issue. Glad you are getting Smith's shorter tales -for publication and I hope that they are enjoyed as much by others who -read them as by myself. Smith has an in inimitable style--subtle, with -many fine figures of speech. 'Dreams of Yith' by Duane W. Rimel was -one of the finest poems you have so far published. After about three -or four readings, I began to see the real imagery of it. The heading -was surprisingly good and just the thing. I hope you can use them right -along, as they give a fine effect.--F. Lee Baldwin, Asotin, Washington. - - * * * * * - -"Enjoyed your last TFF and am anxiously awaiting the next. I especially -like the little newsy items about all the different authors, and what -they're doing."--Natalie H. Wooley, Rosedale, Kansas. - - * * * * * - -Write us a letter, reader, and let us know what you think of this issue -of TFF. What do you like in it, what would you rather not have, and -what suggestions have you to offer? We appreciate your letters and have -found many helpful hints in them in the past. - -See you again next month. - - * * * * * - - - SUPERNATURAL HORROR IN LITERATURE - - by H. P. Lovecraft - - Part Twelve - - (Copyright 1927 by W. Paul Cook) - -In this same period Sir Walter Scott frequently concerned himself with -the weird, weaving it into many of his novels and poems, and sometimes -producing such independent bits of narration as "The Tapestried -Chamber" or "Wandering Willie's Tale" in "Redgauntlet," in the latter -of which the force of the spectral and the diabolic is enhanced by a -grotesque homeliness of speech and atmosphere. In 1830 Scott published -his "Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft," which still forms one -of our best compendia of European witch-lore. Washington Irving is -another famous figure not unconnected with the weird; for though most -of his ghosts are too whimsical and humorous to form genuinely spectral -literature, a distinct inclination in this direction is to be noted in -many of his productions. "The German Student" in "Tales of a Traveller" -(1824) is a slyly concise and effective presentation of the old -legend of the dead bride, whilst woven into the cosmic tissue of "The -Money Diggers" in the same volume is more than one hint of piratical -apparitions in the realms which Captain Kidd once roamed. Thomas Moore -also joined the ranks of the macabre artists in the poem "Alciphron," -which he later elaborated into the prose novel of "The Epicurean" -(1827). Though merely relating the adventurers of a young Athenian -duped by the artifice of cunning Egyptian priests, Moore manages to -infuse much genuine horror into his account of subterranean frights -and wonders beneath the primordial temples of Memphis. De Quincey more -than once revels in grotesque and arabesque terrors, though with a -desultoriness and learned pomp which deny him the rank of specialist. - -This era likewise saw the rise of William Harrison Ainsworth, whose -romantic novels teem with the eerie and the gruesome. Capt. Marryat, -besides writing such short tales as "The Werewolf," made a memorable -contribution in "The Phantom Ship," (1839) founded on the legend of -the Flying Dutchman, whose spectral and accursed vessel sails for ever -near the Cape of Good Hope. Dickens now rises with occasional weird -bits like "The Signalman," a tale of ghostly warning conforming to a -very common pattern and touched with a verisimilitude which allies it -as much with the coming psychological school as with the dying Gothic -school. At this time a wave of interest in spiritualistic charlatanry, -mediumism, Hindoo theosophy, and such matters, much like that of the -present day, was flourishing; so that the number of weird tales with a -"psychic" or pseudo-scientific basis became very considerable. For a -number of these the prolific and popular Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton was -responsible; and despite the large doses of turgid rhetoric and empty -romanticism in his products, his success in the weaving of a certain -kind of bizarre charm cannot be denied. - -"The House and the Brain," which hints of Rosicrucianism and at a -malign and deathless figure perhaps suggested by Louis XV's mysterious -courtier St. Germain, yet survives as one of the best short haunted -house tales ever written. The novel "Zanoni" (1842) contains similar -elements more elaborately handled, and introduces a vast unknown sphere -of being pressing on our own world and guarded by a horrible "Dweller -of the Threshold" who haunts those who try to enter and fail. Here we -have a benign brotherhood kept alive from ages to ages till finally -reduced to a single member, and as a hero an ancient Chaldean sorceror -surviving in the pristine bloom of youth to perish on the guillotine -of the French Revolution. Though full of the conventional spirit -of romance, marred by a ponderous network of symbolic and didactic -meanings, and left unconvincing through lack of perfect atmospheric -realization of the situations hinging on the spectral world, "Zanoni" -is really an excellent performance as a romantic novel; and can be read -with genuine interest today by the not too sophisticated reader. It is -amusing to note that in describing an attempted initiation into the -ancient brotherhood, the author cannot escape using the stock Gothic -castle of Walpolian lineage. - -In "A Strange Story" (1862) Bulwer-Lytton shows a marked improvement -in the creation of weird images and moods. The novel, despite -enormous length, a highly artificial plot bolstered up by opportune -coincidences, and an atmosphere of homiletic pseudo-science designed -to please the matter-of-fact and purposeful Victorian reader, -is exceedingly effective as a narrative; evoking instantaneous -and unflagging interest, and furnishing many potent--if somewhat -melodramatic--tableaux and climaxes. Again we have the mysterious user -of life's elixir in the person of the soulless magician Margrave, -whose dark exploits stand out with dramatic vividness against the -modern background of a quiet English town and of the Australian bush; -and again we have shadowy intimations of a vast spectral world of the -unknown in the very air about us--this time handled with much greater -power and vitality than in "Zanoni." One of the two great incantation -passages, where the hero is driven by a luminous evil spirit to rise at -night in his sleep, take a strange Egyptian wand, and invoke nameless -presences in the haunted and mausoleum-facing pavillian of a famous -Renaissance alchemist, truly stands among the major terror scenes of -literature. Just enough is suggested, and just little enough is told. -Unknown words are twice dictated to the sleep-walker, and as he repeats -them the ground trembles, and all the dogs of the countryside begin to -bay at half-seen amorphous shadows that stalk athwart the moonlight. -When a third set of unknown words is prompted, the sleep-walker's -spirit suddenly rebels at uttering them, as if the soul could recognize -ultimate abysmal horrors concealed from the mind; and at last an -apparition of an absent sweetheart and good angel breaks the malign -spell. This fragment well illustrates how far Lord Lytton was capable -of progressing beyond his usual pomp and stock romance toward that -crystalline essence of artistic fear which belongs to the domain of -poetry. In describing certain details of incantations, Lytton was -greatly indebted to his amusingly serious occult studies, in the course -of which he came in touch with that odd French scholar and cabalist -Alphonse Louis Constant ("Eliphas Levi") who claimed to possess the -secrets of ancient magic, and to have evoked the spectre of the old -Grecian wizard Appollonius of Tyana, who lived in Nero's time. - -The romantic, semi-Gothic, quasi-moral tradition here represented was -carried far down the nineteenth century by such authors as Joseph -Sheridan LeFanu, Thomas Preskett with his famous "Varney, the Vampyre" -(1847), Wilkie Collins, the late Sir H. Rider Haggard, (whose "She" is -really remarkably good), Sir A. Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, and Robert -Louis Stevenson--the latter of whom, despite an atrocious tendency -toward jaunty mannerisms, created permanent classics in Markheim, -"The Body Snatcher," and "Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde." Indeed, we may -say that this school still survives; for to it clearly belong such -of our contemporary horror tales as specialise in events rather -than atmospheric details, address the intellect rather than the -impressionistic imagination, cultivate a luminous glamour rather than -a malign tensity or psychological verisimilitude, and take a definite -stand in sympathy with mankind and its welfare. It has its undeniable -strength, and because of its "human element" commands a wider audience -than does the sheer artistic nightmare. If not quite so potent as the -latter, it is because a diluted product can never achieve the intensity -of a concentrated essence. - -Quite alone both as novel and as a piece of terror-literature stands -the famous "Wuthering Heights" (1847) by Emily Bronte, with its mad -vista of bleak, windswept Yorkshire moors and the violent, distorted -lives they foster. Though primarily a tale of life, and of human -passions in agony and conflict, its epically cosmic setting affords -room for horror of the most spiritual sort. Heathcliff, the modified -Byronic villain-hero, is a strange dark waif found in the streets as -a small child and speaking only a strange gibberish till adopted by -the family he ultimately ruins. That he is in truth a diabolic spirit -rather than a human being is more than once suggested, and the unreal -is further approached in the experience of the visitor who encounters -a plaintive child-ghost at a bough-brushed upper window. Between -Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw is a tie deeper and more terrible -than human love. After her death he twice disturbs her grave, and -is haunted by an impalpable presence which can be nothing less than -her spirit. The spirit enters his life more and more, and at last he -becomes confident of some imminent mystical reunion. He says he feels a -strange change approaching, and ceases to take nourishment. At night he -either walks abroad or opens the casement by his bed. When he dies the -casement is still swinging open to the pouring rain, and a queer smile -pervades the stiffened face. They bury him in a grave beside the mound -he has haunted for eighteen years, and small shepherd boys say that he -yet walks with his Catherine in the churchyard and on the moor when it -rains. Their faces, too, are sometimes seen on rainy nights behind that -upper casement at Wuthering Heights. Miss Bronte's eerie terror is no -mere Gothic echo, but a tense expression of man's shuddering reaction -to the unknown. In this respect, "Wuthering Heights" becomes the symbol -of a literary transition, and marks the growth of a new and sounder -school. - -(Next month Mr. Lovecraft takes up "Spectral Literature of the -Continent") - - * * * * * - - - SUPERSTITION--A. D. 1934 - - by Lester Anderson - -Why the dearth of readers for that class of literature known as the -weird or fantastic? Why the cynicism in most circles regarding this -branch of writing? Many answers have been given to these queries, -the most common one being that of "lack of imagination." May I offer -a startling contradiction to this, namely--TOO MUCH IMAGINATION? -Precisely that. - -A study of superstitions in America is being made by Dr. Otis Caldwell -of Columbia University, who announces that 98 people out of 100 are -superstitious. Let that sink in--98 out of 100. He further states -that women are more superstitious than men, and superstition is more -prevalent in the country than in the city. - -Now, the person who goes around whistling in the dark, avidly studies -Dream Books (also known variously as "Success in 5 Lessons" and -"Would You DARE Join a Nudist Camp?"), avoids ladders, and keeps his -weather eye peeled for stray black cats--albeit he laughs it off -outwardly--isn't likely to pick up a copy of "The Slithering Shadow" no -matter in what state of dishabille the shapely lady might be in. (At -this point, let me briefly interrupt by stating that I have absolutely -no objections to the so-called "naked" covers gracing most issues of -Weird Tales--if the circulation is increased thereby). I venture to -say that the average reader of weird fantasy is remarkably free from -the superstitions which beset the run-of-the-mill literate, and if -encountered by an ultra-mundane manifestation would be the first to be -skeptical--and investigate. - -By superstition I don't mean speculation on unknown forces or cosmic -powers, but those things which effect the material world; those that -are detrimental to your way of living; and those superstitions which -stand in the path of progress--progress in all spheres of human -activity, and which are crammed down the throats of our plastic -younglings. - -A few reasons why most people are averse to reading fantasy, and cover -their dislike with a thinly-veiled sneer or a condescending smile, are: -someone might think them superstitious; there might be a grain of truth -in it at that; such childish stuff; and of course, their fear of that -great mental force, ridicule. Naturally, there are those who aren't -impressed one way or another, but in this article we are not concerned -with personal tastes. - -Perhaps Mr. Wright has the wrong idea of what constitutes weirdness. -Would Weird Tales reach a tremendous circulation if Lovecraft, Machen, -C. A. Smith, Blackwood, Merritt, and other blood-brothers collaborated -on a novel with the following plot which I will sketchily outline? Have -the hero born on Friday the 13th under the sign of--say Capricornus. -Then show his misadventures down life's highway starting with the theft -of his mammy's rabbit's foot and culminating in a cacophonic tumult of -soul-shattering events following his breaking up of the merchandise in -a mirror warehouse. There you have something everybody can understand -and appreciate. Oh yes! and have the novel endorsed by Einstein, -Stalin, the A.A.A.S., Lindbergh, and Mae West. Publicly, you know. -Seriously, though, I do not believe fantasy will be a strong force -until we root out superstitious hoodoos. Paradoxical? - -98 out of 100 have it. What Price Something-or-other! - - * * * * * - - - WITHIN THE CIRCLE - - by F. Lee Baldwin - -Forrest Ackerman says he really had that "surprise of one's life" when -Linus Hogenmiller of Missouri, his first correspondent, unexpectedly -dropped in on him in Los Angeles. - -A well-known editor who has been recently collecting old Weird Tales -had the good fortune of purchasing quite a few for two and a half cents -a copy. Just imagine! - -C. L. Moore has had some of her own illustrations accepted by Weird -Tales. - -A. Merritt calls his "The Metal Monster" his "best and worst" story. - -The youthful Robert Bloch of Milwaukee has sold his first story to -Weird Tales. It is titled "The Secret of the Tomb." - -On his way North from Florida, H. P. Lovecraft stopt in Washington, -D. C. and "did several things I had never done before" ... His "The -Rats in the Walls" was first submitted to Argosy but was rejected as -being too horrible.... His "The Shunned House" is to be bound and -issued by R. H. Barlow. The edition consists of about 225 copies and -will appear some time in the fall. - -Two of H. P. Lovecraft's "Fungi from Yuggoth" ("Mirage" and "The Elder -Pharos") have been set to music by Harold S. Farness of the Los Angles -Inst. of Musical Education. - -A. Merritt is an authority on folklore and mythology and has made a -study of ancient sorcery and witchcraft, past and modern. - -Forrest J. Ackerman often wonders what _would_ happen to him if an -earthquake came and splattered up the room where his collection is -situated. - - * * * * * - - - PROSE PASTELS - - by Clark Ashton Smith - - _IV. The Lotus and the Moon_ - -I stood with my beloved by the lotus pool, when the moon was round as -the great ivory breast of a Titaness, and the flowers were full-blown -and pale upon the water. - -And I said to my beloved: "I would that thou shouldst love me well -tonight: for never again shall there be a night like this, with -the meeting of thee and me by this pool with flowers blown but not -overblown." - -But she demurred, and was perverse and loved me not as I would that she -should love me. - -And after several nights we stood again by the lotus pool, when the -moon was hollow as an aging breast, and the petals of the flowers had -fallen apart on the water. - -And now my beloved was fain to love me well, and all was well between -us. But in my heart I mourned for that other night, when the moon was -round as the great ivory breast of a Titaness, and the flowers were -full-blown and pale upon the water. - - * * * * * - - - DREAMS of YITH - - DUANE W. RIMEL - - VI - - Amid dim hills that poison mosses blast, - Far from the lands and seas of our clean earth, - Dread nightmare shadows dance--obscenely cast - By twisted talons of archaean birth - On rows of slimy pillars stretching past - A daemon-fane that echoes with mad mirth. - And in that realm sane eyes may never see-- - For black light streams from skies of ebony. - - VII - - On those queer mountains which hold back the horde - That lie in waiting in their mouldy graves, - Who groan and mumble to a hidden lord - Still waiting for the time-worn key that saves; - There dwells a watcher who can ill afford - To let invaders by those hoary caves. - But some day then may dreamers find the way - That leads down elfin-painted paths of gray. - - VIII - - And past those unclean spires that ever lean - Above the windings of unpeopled streets; - And far beyond the walls and silver screen - That veils the secrets of those dim retreats, - A scarlet pathway leads that some have seen - In wildest visions that no mortal greets. - And down that dimming path in fearful flight - Queer beings squirm and hasten in the night. - - IX - - High in the ebon skies on scaly wings - Dread batlike beasts soar past those towers gray - To peer in greedy longing at the things - Which sprawl in every twisted passageway. - And when their gruesome flight a shadow brings - The dwellers lift dim eyes above the clay. - But lidded bulbs close heavily once more; - They wait-for Sotho to unlatch the door! - - X - - Now, through the veil of troubled visions deep - Is draped to blind me to the secret ways - Leading through blackness to the realm of sleep - That haunts me all my jumbled nights and days, - I feel the dim path that will let me keep - That rendezvous in Yith where Sotho plays. - At last I see a glowing turret shine, - And I am coming, for the key is mine! - - * * * * * - - - VOICES OF THE NIGHT - - by Robert E. Howard - - 1 - The Voices Waken Memory - - The blind black shadows reach inhuman arms - To draw me into darkness once again; - The brooding night wind hints of nameless harms, - And down the shadowed hill a vague refrain - Bears half-remembered ghosts to haunt my soul, - Like far-off neighing of the nightmare's foal. - - But let me fix my phantom-shadowed eyes - Hard on the stars--pale points of silver light-- - Here is the borderland-here reason lies-- - There, visions, gryphons, Nothing, and the Night. - Down, down, red specters, down, and rack me not! - Out, wolves of hell! Oh God, my pulses thrum; - The night grows fierce and blind and red and hot, - And nearer still a grim insistent drum. - - I will not look into the shadows--No! - The stars shall grip and hold my frantic gaze-- - But even in the stars black visions grow, - And dragons writhe with iron eyes ablaze. - Oh Gods that raised my blindness with your curse, - And let me see the horrid shapes behind - All outward veils that cloak the universe, - The loathsome demon-spells that bind and blind, - Since even the stars are noisome, foul and fell, - Let me glut deep with memory dreams of Hell. - - * * * * * - - - THE INTELLECTUAL SHOCKER - - by H. Koenig - -Collecting weird and fantastic stories is a fascinating pursuit. -Locating first editions of some of our well-known authors affords -considerable thrill, but the real kick comes when one discovers a -comparatively little-known author of weird stories or re-discovers an -old and forgotten one. I experienced such a thrill when I first came -across one of the books written by a young Englishman named Charles -Williams, and I didn't rest content until I had obtained all five of -his novels. Williams appears to be practically unknown over here and a -few lines regarding him and his books may prove of interest to other -readers and collectors. - -Sooner or later, the inveterate reader of weird fiction becomes -surfeited with stories of one pattern and falls into a rut. A year or -so ago one of the magazines devoted to books recommended to readers who -found themselves in such a predicament a sure cure--_the intellectual -shocker_. It is the type of story the average fiction reader will -overlook and even the habitual reader of weird and fantasy stories is -apt to ignore it. - -Bulwer-Lytton's "Zononi" and "Phra, the Phoenician" have long been out -of date. Rider Haqgard is not being read by the present generation and -yet his immortal "She" is the pure type of the intellectual horror -tale. All weird fans have read Merritt's "Burn Witch, Burn" but how -many read "The Moon Pool" when it was first published? Guy Endore's -"The Werewolf of Paris" received plenty of publicity but his "The Man -from Limbo," a good example of the intellectual shocker, slipped by -practically unnoticed. - -Charles Williams is one of the modern writers of the intellectual -horror story. Born in England in 1886, Williams was educated at -St. Albans and University College, London. He is an authority on -Shakespearean literature, poetry, etc. and has written a fairly long -list of books, most of them dealing with poetical subjects. In 1930, -however, he wrote his first novel, "War in Heaven," and it proved to -be one of the finest high-brow horror stories written in recent years. -It concerns a struggle for the "Graal," a battle between the forces of -good and evil. It has all the elements of a real mystery story combined -with the horror and thrill of the supernatural and the occult. - -To date, Mr. Williams has written five books of this type: - - "War in Heaven" (1930) - "Many Dimensions" (1931) - "Greater Trumps" (1932) - "Place of the Lion" (1932) - "Shadows of Ecstasy" (1933) - -The average fiction reader would probably be bewildered by Williams, -but most of his plots are original and his ideas unusual and somewhat -startling. He has the happy faculty of being able to combine the occult -adventures with present-day people and scenes and, as one reviewer -stated, "he succeeds in making the improbable likely and the impossible -credible." To the readers who want their intellect stirred as well as -their emotions, I highly recommend some of the books listed above. Try -"War in Heaven" first, followed by the "Place of the Lion." They will -prove to be a welcome relief from the stereotyped and often tiresome -stories now appearing in the pulp magazines. - - * * * * * - - - NOTES ON BOB OLSEN - - by Forest J. Ackerman - -So successfully received was his "Ant With a Human Soul," Bob Olsen has -written and had published by Amazing Stories another ant story "Peril -Among the Drivers." He has another, but dissimilar type of "Antale"--to -coin a word to describe his series--in preparation. In this story, no -unusual or grotesque Giants appear, but the ordinary-sized insects band -together to overthrow mankind; a possibility not to improbable, Bob -believes. - -In connection with ants, Bob was recently invited to speak on them -at the Adventurer's Club, an organization of internationally famous -men, such well-known figures as "Skipper" Dixon, author of the recent -Liberty serial, "Marriage Drums," being members. Previously, at -informal gatherings, Bob has given impromptu talks on ants, rockets, -interplanetary flight, and--of course--the fourth dimension. (Bob, -incidentally, was a mathematics teacher for ten years.) - -"Of the three subjects, however," Bob observed, "the audience always -seemed most interested in the life of the ants: how they maintain -slaves, cultivate gardens, domesticate insects, have bootleggers, -fight wars, and play games. Though an ant never built an automobile or -invented a radio, the insect is still a far more brilliant creature -than generally considered to be. In some ways, considering their -handicaps, the ant almost surpasses Man in accomplishments. Next to -Man, they rate highest in intelligence. The termites and then the bees -follow...." - -In addition to his literary work, Bob Olsen is the Advertising Manager -of a Los Angeles real estate concern. One day, during the noon hour, -Bob had an idea for a new murder mystery. In the process of cerebrating -the details of the plot, he gazed out of the window with a far-away -expression on his face. Unperceived by him, the secretary of the -corporation approached and sat down at the desk at Bob's elbow. He -waited awhile for the Advertising Manager to recognize him, but Bob -seemed star-gazing, dead to the world. - -Finally the official said, "what are you thinking about, Bob?" - -Startled by this unexpected voice right in his ear, Bob jumped up and -yelled, "MURDER!" - -Then it was the boss' turn to jump--whereupon Bob explained that he had -been concocting an ingenious scheme for committing homicide, which he -expected to use in one of his "Master of Mystery" stories. - -Again, some years back when Bob was in the midst of "The Four -Dimensional Rolle-Press," "Four Dimensional Surgery," "Four Dimensional -Robberies," etc., Dr. Miles J. Breuer sent Amazing Stories a -dimensional tale--shall we say fourth dimension narrative?--because he -"didn't like the way Bob Olsen wrote them." Strangely enough, at the -same time Bob submitted his "Super-Perfect Bride." The two author's -stories appeared in the same issue of Amazing, the math teacher showing -the doctor how to write a medical tale, and the doctor demonstrating to -the teacher of mathematics how a dimension story should be handled! - -Bob's "Fourth Dimension Auto-Parker" is something amusing in the -way of applying the 4-D. It may be said to equal or surpass his -best-remembered yarn, "The Educated Pill." - - * * * * * - - - BEINGS FROM BEYOND - - (A True Experience) - - by Kenneth B. Pritchard - -I have often wondered whether spirits of the dead really walk the world. - -Edison, upon nearing his end, said, "It is very beautiful over there!" -Many have pondered those words, and sermons have been preached as to -their meaning. - -I am not a sufferer of hallucinations, though you may think so, but -I feel that it is only by having a true knowledge of things that are -known to have taken place and studying them that we can ever rise to a -higher plane of existence. - -What does the eye see? Does it ever perceive things beyond the familiar -vibrations consisting of our everyday normal life? I believe that in -some cases a man's eye does see more than normally. Perhaps it is -some outside influence that aids it, or stirs it into action. How it -occurs, I cannot say. I have never seen anything really distinctly -alarming along these lines. But I have had occasion to view things in -an indistinct form for a period of approximately five years. During the -past few years, I have seen nothing of these things. - -However, during those five years, when I was alone in the house, I -would sit on the bed and study my school books. Sometimes nothing would -happen. Then, again, I would glance up from the pages of the book in -hand and be startled to see a white figure going by! Not always did I -have to be absorbed in a book; sometimes a shape would be in front of -me when I passed from one room to another. Several times there were -more than one. And once or twice there were veritable groups or crowds -of such shapes milling about and going hither and thither. Some would -go through the regular doorways, and others would walk right through -the walls. Many times they came within a foot of me, but never appeared -distinct. - -I'm glad this happened mostly during the day or when a light was -burning. It gave me the creeps more than once. I'd like to know if they -were spirits, or beings living on another plane. - - * * * * * - - - NEW YORK DESTROYED AGAIN! - - by Bob Tucker - -Once more New York City is destroyed! For decades, this has been the -delight of science fiction authors. You must either destroy or attack -New York before you can become a famous science fiction writer. - -The first account of the destruction of New York is given in "The End -of New York" by Park Benjamin, published around 1890. - -Of recent times, Ray Cummings has probably destroyed it more often -than anyone else. He takes a crack at it (and a good one, too!) in his -"White Invaders" (Dec, 1931 Astounding). - -In the following issue, Arthur J. Burks sets his ape loose in it -("Man-ape the Mighty"), and in February, Cummings is back again with -"Wandl, the Invader," which brings the enemy right into the big city. - -C. D. Simak almost gets into town with his "Hellhounds of the Cosmos" -but something happens to prevent them. Maybe he has some sympathy -for the old burg. But the March 1933 Astounding makes up for it by -destroying it (in part) twice! - -Arthur J. Burks in his "Lord of the Stratosphere" and "Monsters of -Moyen" just tears it all to pieces and Wallace West puts everyone to -sleep in "The End of Tyme," as does Dr. Keller in his "Sleeping War." -Marius covers it with an ice-berg in his "Sixth Glacier," and Isaac R. -Nathanson burns it up with a comet in "The Passing Star." - -Going to Weird Tales, Edmond (World-Saver) Hamilton musses it all up -with a crazy man in "The Man Who Conquered Age," in the Dec., 1932 -issue and in the next month Murray Leinster has his "Monsters" tramping -through it. - -A particular delight, of late, is tearing up the Empire State Building. -The builders would groan with agony, if they could read some of the -tales wherein their work is smashed in three seconds flat! - -The movies have had their share in destroying New York, too. "King -Kong" does some fancy exterior decorating, and in "Men Must Fight" it -is bombed. - -So, remember, if you are not an author, but hope to be one, destroy New -York City in your first story, and you will be on the road to fame in -no time! - - * * * * * - - - SIDE GLANCES - - by F. Lee Baldwin - -In a sale conducted by Linus Hogenmiller he sold the Weird Tales -Anniversary number for only one dollar. - -Stories by Gaston Leroux that have appeared in Weird Tales are -translated in the office of Jacques Chambrun, New York literary -agent who represents Gaston Leroux's agent in this country. Some of -the translating was done by Mildred Gleasson Prochet. "The Crime on -Christmas Night" was translated by Morris Bentinck. - -R. H. Barlow won the National Amateur Press Association Laureateship -for the year 1933. - - * * * * * - - - WEIRD WHISPERINGS - - by Schwartz and Weisinger - -Paul Ernst is now illustrating his own yarns for _Weird Tales_, and -several of them will soon see print.... Ray Cummings, now living in -New York, informs us of his fantastic novelette, "The World of Doom," -sold to _Thrilling Adventures_.... M. Brundage _is_ a woman and has a -boy in grammar school. She swears that Howard's serial which started in -the September WT is the best Conan story he has ever written.... Greye -La Spina has received plenty of rough treatment from her fellow weird -authors. Seabury Quinn, for instance, once received a letter from her -criticising some of his work. In his answer to her he used words that -shouldn't exactly be used to ladies. (He thought she was a young man.) -However, he soon found out different and they are the best of friends. -Then again, Arthur J. Burks remarked to her in a letter that judging -from her work she had a bright future. La Spina wrote back that her -daughter and grandchildren thought likewise! - -Catherine L. Moore, already acknowledged as one of the most promising -weird tales authors, gleaned a rejection slip from _Amazing Stories_ -for the first story she ever penned. And she doesn't blame the editor -for spurning the manuscript!... Seabury Quinn's latest Jules de Grandin -story is "Hands of the Dead," a story of hypnotism.... A. Merritt's -serial, "Creep, Shadow," currently running in the _Argosy_, differs -considerably from the forthcoming book version, he confides.... Some -time ago, a reader wrote a letter to the Evrie praising Francis Flagg's -"The Picture" to the skies.... Nothing wrong in that, except that the -story did not see print until the month following the arrival of the -letter, the story having been postponed for an issue!... Farnsworth -Wright owns a miniature rogue's gallery of _Weird Tales_ contributors -and they are on display at his office.... Milt Kaletsky's weird yarn, -"The Mantis," met with an N. G. at the office of WT. He sent the same -story to _Terror Tales_ on Sunday, the magazine received it on Monday -and he got it back on Tuesday! - -Wright blames the failure of _Oriental Stories_ on ex-president Hoover. -After listening to one of Hoover's speeches in which he stated that -prosperity was just around the corner, Wright thought that it would be -an opportune time to launch a new magazine.... You, we, and Farnsworth -Wright know what happened.... Harry Stephen Keeler claims cats bring -him good luck, and so he has four cats in his home, the latest one -being named "Mencken the IV".... August W. Derleth has forged ahead -and has crashed _Scribner's_ and _Story_.... Eando Binder is really -Earl and Otto Binder working together in collaboration.... Their other -brother, Jack, does s-f illustrating work.... The fancy lettering of -_Weird Tales_ on the cover of the magazine was designed by J. Allen St. -John.... "The Destroying Horde," Donald Wandrei's next in _Weird_ tells -of a giant one celled organism spawned in a chemist's laboratory and an -orgy of hideous deaths. - -Winford Publications will positively launch a new all-weird magazine -within a few months, designed expressly for the purpose of competing -with _Weird Tales_.... Charles H. Bert, of Philadelphia, is the only -fan, to our knowledge, who owns copies of the now defunct weird tales -magazine, _Tales of Magic and Mystery_.... Edmond Hamilton has recently -written "Cosmo's End," "Master of the Genes," and "World Without -Sex".... Otis Adelbert Kline's _Weird Tales_ story, "The Bird People," -which he admits was based on the 1926 _Amazing Stories_ cover contest, -was originally titled "The Log of the Laurtanian".... His Kline's -popular "Thirsty Blades" was originally written by him as a 20,000 -word novelette. Wright said that he would use the yarn if Kline boiled -it down to a shorter length. So Kline turned the yarn over to Price, -who did the necessary revising, and the result was published as a -collab.... Just the reverse is the short story Price wrote as a sequel -to Lovecraft's "The Silver Key," which he turned over to Lovecraft who -worked it into the novelette. - -"Through the Gates of the Silver Key."... Otis Adelbert Kline was in -New York the other week, looking up editors and writers.... He had -dinner with his friend, Seabury Quinn, and for the first time in twelve -years, was treated to some Napoleon brandy.... 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Hornig</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Release Date: March 27, 2021 [eBook #64938]</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 2, NUMBER 1, SEPTEMBER 1934 ***</div> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/title.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - - -<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> - - -<h3>NOTICE!</h3> - -<p>Many subscriptions expire with this issue. We urge all those whom this -effects to send in a dollar for their renewal immediately. We cannot at -this time afford to let the circulation of THE FANTASY FAN go down and -continue monthly publication. Will you co-operate? Thank you!</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3>OUR READERS SAY</h3> - -<p>Well, we are one year old with this issue, and just to celebrate, -have added the smooth, glossy cover that you admired so much as you -took the issue out of the envelope. We may continue this every month -if circulation allows. After all, circulation means everything. The -more readers we have the more money comes into our treasury, and the -more improvements we can give you. Will you subscribe (if you haven't -already), and urge your fantasy friends to do likewise? Every little -bit counts.</p> - -<p>Our motto, by-word, or whatever you want to call it, is "The Fans' Own -Magazine," as you will notice, and we have made this issue consist -of 100 per cent fan material (except for the poetry), in order to -emphasize this. We have chosen some of our choice articles and columns -and provided an extra-long instalment of H. P. Lovecraft's excellent -serial-article, "Supernatural Horror in Literature," Part Twelve of -which appears in this issue. Only about one-third of it has been -published. However, when we find it possible to increase the number of -pages, much longer instalments will appear and we may clear it up in -less than two years more. Even so, we know you will be sorry to see -it end. So many of you have claimed it the best thing in our little -magazette.</p> - -<p>Just because there are no stories in this issue is no indication that -we have ceased to publish them. During the past year we have given you -brand-new masterpieces by the inimitable Clark Ashton Smith, H. P. -Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, August W. Derleth, Eando Binder, R. H. -Barlow, and other great writers, and have many on hand to use during -the months to come—several by Smith and Lovecraft, Binder, etc. You -won't want to miss these. They have never seen print before and are -well up to the standard set by these authors in the more professional -magazines. We want to keep THE FANTASY FAN a magazine for the fans, of -the fans, and by the fans—the authors being the very best of fans. -If you feel capable of writing any fan material, we would be glad to -consider it for publication. Payment for such consists of four copies -of THE FANTASY FAN of the issue in which the article appears per each -page of article, until our magazine is on a paying basis.</p> - -<p>If you would be willing to pay a quarter for a double alphabetical -index (according to authors and names) of the first volume of THE -FANTASY FAN, September, 1933, to August, 1934, please inform the editor -at once. If enough requests are received, the index will be prepared.</p> - -<p>Here's a special offer. To all those who have not subscribed to THE -FANTASY FAN yet and wish to do so, we will make a 10 per cent discount -on a two-year entry—$1.80 for two full years. This offer expires on -October first.</p> - -<p>This issue has gone to press before the publication of the August -number, so we have very few letters on hand from the readers:</p> - -<p>"Some extra fine stuff in the last TFF. I see, also, that you have -added a new newshound to the mag. All are doing good work. 'Your -Viewpoint' is better out as I don't believe there was much left to -write about, unless one had the time and inclination to puzzle -something out."—Kenneth B. Pritchard, Pittsfield, Mass.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>"I was delighted with the fine line-up the latest TFF contained. The -green cover is the best color you have used yet. Green always reminds -me of something fresh and the July issue was indeed fresh and snappy.</p> - -<p>"'Weird Whisperings' by Schwartz and Weisinger ought to be another -half-page at least. Their dope is always interesting to me and I know -that other fans appreciate the column. I like 'Famous Fantasy Fiction' -by Emil Petaja very well and would enjoy an article like this every -issue. 'Science Fiction in English Magazines' is good too. Keller is -good as usual with his fast-moving and very interesting tale, 'Rider by -Night.' Keller has the knack of making a story interesting no matter -how condensed or short it is. I am looking forward to more by him. -Lovecraft's article is becoming so interesting that I can hardly wait -for the next instalment to appear. You should give this treatise on -weird literature at least two sheets. Make it a little longer, at least.</p> - -<p>"'The Epiphany of Death' by Clark Ashton Smith is easily the best thing -published in TFF this issue. Glad you are getting Smith's shorter tales -for publication and I hope that they are enjoyed as much by others who -read them as by myself. Smith has an in inimitable style—subtle, with -many fine figures of speech. 'Dreams of Yith' by Duane W. Rimel was -one of the finest poems you have so far published. After about three -or four readings, I began to see the real imagery of it. The heading -was surprisingly good and just the thing. I hope you can use them right -along, as they give a fine effect.—F. Lee Baldwin, Asotin, Washington.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>"Enjoyed your last TFF and am anxiously awaiting the next. I especially -like the little newsy items about all the different authors, and what -they're doing."—Natalie H. Wooley, Rosedale, Kansas.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Write us a letter, reader, and let us know what you think of this issue -of TFF. What do you like in it, what would you rather not have, and -what suggestions have you to offer? We appreciate your letters and have -found many helpful hints in them in the past.</p> - -<p>See you again next month.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h2>SUPERNATURAL HORROR IN LITERATURE</h2> - -<h3>by H. P. Lovecraft</h3> - -<p class="ph1">Part Twelve</p> - -<p class="ph1">(Copyright 1927 by W. Paul Cook)</p> - -<p>In this same period Sir Walter Scott frequently concerned himself with -the weird, weaving it into many of his novels and poems, and sometimes -producing such independent bits of narration as "The Tapestried -Chamber" or "Wandering Willie's Tale" in "Redgauntlet," in the latter -of which the force of the spectral and the diabolic is enhanced by a -grotesque homeliness of speech and atmosphere. In 1830 Scott published -his "Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft," which still forms one -of our best compendia of European witch-lore. Washington Irving is -another famous figure not unconnected with the weird; for though most -of his ghosts are too whimsical and humorous to form genuinely spectral -literature, a distinct inclination in this direction is to be noted in -many of his productions. "The German Student" in "Tales of a Traveller" -(1824) is a slyly concise and effective presentation of the old -legend of the dead bride, whilst woven into the cosmic tissue of "The -Money Diggers" in the same volume is more than one hint of piratical -apparitions in the realms which Captain Kidd once roamed. Thomas Moore -also joined the ranks of the macabre artists in the poem "Alciphron," -which he later elaborated into the prose novel of "The Epicurean" -(1827). Though merely relating the adventurers of a young Athenian -duped by the artifice of cunning Egyptian priests, Moore manages to -infuse much genuine horror into his account of subterranean frights -and wonders beneath the primordial temples of Memphis. De Quincey more -than once revels in grotesque and arabesque terrors, though with a -desultoriness and learned pomp which deny him the rank of specialist.</p> - -<p>This era likewise saw the rise of William Harrison Ainsworth, whose -romantic novels teem with the eerie and the gruesome. Capt. Marryat, -besides writing such short tales as "The Werewolf," made a memorable -contribution in "The Phantom Ship," (1839) founded on the legend of -the Flying Dutchman, whose spectral and accursed vessel sails for ever -near the Cape of Good Hope. Dickens now rises with occasional weird -bits like "The Signalman," a tale of ghostly warning conforming to a -very common pattern and touched with a verisimilitude which allies it -as much with the coming psychological school as with the dying Gothic -school. At this time a wave of interest in spiritualistic charlatanry, -mediumism, Hindoo theosophy, and such matters, much like that of the -present day, was flourishing; so that the number of weird tales with a -"psychic" or pseudo-scientific basis became very considerable. For a -number of these the prolific and popular Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton was -responsible; and despite the large doses of turgid rhetoric and empty -romanticism in his products, his success in the weaving of a certain -kind of bizarre charm cannot be denied.</p> - -<p>"The House and the Brain," which hints of Rosicrucianism and at a -malign and deathless figure perhaps suggested by Louis XV's mysterious -courtier St. Germain, yet survives as one of the best short haunted -house tales ever written. The novel "Zanoni" (1842) contains similar -elements more elaborately handled, and introduces a vast unknown sphere -of being pressing on our own world and guarded by a horrible "Dweller -of the Threshold" who haunts those who try to enter and fail. Here we -have a benign brotherhood kept alive from ages to ages till finally -reduced to a single member, and as a hero an ancient Chaldean sorceror -surviving in the pristine bloom of youth to perish on the guillotine -of the French Revolution. Though full of the conventional spirit -of romance, marred by a ponderous network of symbolic and didactic -meanings, and left unconvincing through lack of perfect atmospheric -realization of the situations hinging on the spectral world, "Zanoni" -is really an excellent performance as a romantic novel; and can be read -with genuine interest today by the not too sophisticated reader. It is -amusing to note that in describing an attempted initiation into the -ancient brotherhood, the author cannot escape using the stock Gothic -castle of Walpolian lineage.</p> - -<p>In "A Strange Story" (1862) Bulwer-Lytton shows a marked improvement -in the creation of weird images and moods. The novel, despite -enormous length, a highly artificial plot bolstered up by opportune -coincidences, and an atmosphere of homiletic pseudo-science designed -to please the matter-of-fact and purposeful Victorian reader, -is exceedingly effective as a narrative; evoking instantaneous -and unflagging interest, and furnishing many potent—if somewhat -melodramatic—tableaux and climaxes. Again we have the mysterious user -of life's elixir in the person of the soulless magician Margrave, -whose dark exploits stand out with dramatic vividness against the -modern background of a quiet English town and of the Australian bush; -and again we have shadowy intimations of a vast spectral world of the -unknown in the very air about us—this time handled with much greater -power and vitality than in "Zanoni." One of the two great incantation -passages, where the hero is driven by a luminous evil spirit to rise at -night in his sleep, take a strange Egyptian wand, and invoke nameless -presences in the haunted and mausoleum-facing pavillian of a famous -Renaissance alchemist, truly stands among the major terror scenes of -literature. Just enough is suggested, and just little enough is told. -Unknown words are twice dictated to the sleep-walker, and as he repeats -them the ground trembles, and all the dogs of the countryside begin to -bay at half-seen amorphous shadows that stalk athwart the moonlight. -When a third set of unknown words is prompted, the sleep-walker's -spirit suddenly rebels at uttering them, as if the soul could recognize -ultimate abysmal horrors concealed from the mind; and at last an -apparition of an absent sweetheart and good angel breaks the malign -spell. This fragment well illustrates how far Lord Lytton was capable -of progressing beyond his usual pomp and stock romance toward that -crystalline essence of artistic fear which belongs to the domain of -poetry. In describing certain details of incantations, Lytton was -greatly indebted to his amusingly serious occult studies, in the course -of which he came in touch with that odd French scholar and cabalist -Alphonse Louis Constant ("Eliphas Levi") who claimed to possess the -secrets of ancient magic, and to have evoked the spectre of the old -Grecian wizard Appollonius of Tyana, who lived in Nero's time.</p> - -<p>The romantic, semi-Gothic, quasi-moral tradition here represented was -carried far down the nineteenth century by such authors as Joseph -Sheridan LeFanu, Thomas Preskett with his famous "Varney, the Vampyre" -(1847), Wilkie Collins, the late Sir H. Rider Haggard, (whose "She" is -really remarkably good), Sir A. Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, and Robert -Louis Stevenson—the latter of whom, despite an atrocious tendency -toward jaunty mannerisms, created permanent classics in Markheim, -"The Body Snatcher," and "Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde." Indeed, we may -say that this school still survives; for to it clearly belong such -of our contemporary horror tales as specialise in events rather -than atmospheric details, address the intellect rather than the -impressionistic imagination, cultivate a luminous glamour rather than -a malign tensity or psychological verisimilitude, and take a definite -stand in sympathy with mankind and its welfare. It has its undeniable -strength, and because of its "human element" commands a wider audience -than does the sheer artistic nightmare. If not quite so potent as the -latter, it is because a diluted product can never achieve the intensity -of a concentrated essence.</p> - -<p>Quite alone both as novel and as a piece of terror-literature stands -the famous "Wuthering Heights" (1847) by Emily Bronte, with its mad -vista of bleak, windswept Yorkshire moors and the violent, distorted -lives they foster. Though primarily a tale of life, and of human -passions in agony and conflict, its epically cosmic setting affords -room for horror of the most spiritual sort. Heathcliff, the modified -Byronic villain-hero, is a strange dark waif found in the streets as -a small child and speaking only a strange gibberish till adopted by -the family he ultimately ruins. That he is in truth a diabolic spirit -rather than a human being is more than once suggested, and the unreal -is further approached in the experience of the visitor who encounters -a plaintive child-ghost at a bough-brushed upper window. Between -Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw is a tie deeper and more terrible -than human love. After her death he twice disturbs her grave, and -is haunted by an impalpable presence which can be nothing less than -her spirit. The spirit enters his life more and more, and at last he -becomes confident of some imminent mystical reunion. He says he feels a -strange change approaching, and ceases to take nourishment. At night he -either walks abroad or opens the casement by his bed. When he dies the -casement is still swinging open to the pouring rain, and a queer smile -pervades the stiffened face. They bury him in a grave beside the mound -he has haunted for eighteen years, and small shepherd boys say that he -yet walks with his Catherine in the churchyard and on the moor when it -rains. Their faces, too, are sometimes seen on rainy nights behind that -upper casement at Wuthering Heights. Miss Bronte's eerie terror is no -mere Gothic echo, but a tense expression of man's shuddering reaction -to the unknown. In this respect, "Wuthering Heights" becomes the symbol -of a literary transition, and marks the growth of a new and sounder -school.</p> - -<p>(Next month Mr. Lovecraft takes up "Spectral Literature of the -Continent")</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h2>SUPERSTITION—A. D. 1934</h2> - -<h3>by Lester Anderson</h3> - -<p>Why the dearth of readers for that class of literature known as the -weird or fantastic? Why the cynicism in most circles regarding this -branch of writing? Many answers have been given to these queries, -the most common one being that of "lack of imagination." May I offer -a startling contradiction to this, namely—TOO MUCH IMAGINATION? -Precisely that.</p> - -<p>A study of superstitions in America is being made by Dr. Otis Caldwell -of Columbia University, who announces that 98 people out of 100 are -superstitious. Let that sink in—98 out of 100. He further states -that women are more superstitious than men, and superstition is more -prevalent in the country than in the city.</p> - -<p>Now, the person who goes around whistling in the dark, avidly studies -Dream Books (also known variously as "Success in 5 Lessons" and -"Would You DARE Join a Nudist Camp?"), avoids ladders, and keeps his -weather eye peeled for stray black cats—albeit he laughs it off -outwardly—isn't likely to pick up a copy of "The Slithering Shadow" no -matter in what state of dishabille the shapely lady might be in. (At -this point, let me briefly interrupt by stating that I have absolutely -no objections to the so-called "naked" covers gracing most issues of -Weird Tales—if the circulation is increased thereby). I venture to -say that the average reader of weird fantasy is remarkably free from -the superstitions which beset the run-of-the-mill literate, and if -encountered by an ultra-mundane manifestation would be the first to be -skeptical—and investigate.</p> - -<p>By superstition I don't mean speculation on unknown forces or cosmic -powers, but those things which effect the material world; those that -are detrimental to your way of living; and those superstitions which -stand in the path of progress—progress in all spheres of human -activity, and which are crammed down the throats of our plastic -younglings.</p> - -<p>A few reasons why most people are averse to reading fantasy, and cover -their dislike with a thinly-veiled sneer or a condescending smile, are: -someone might think them superstitious; there might be a grain of truth -in it at that; such childish stuff; and of course, their fear of that -great mental force, ridicule. Naturally, there are those who aren't -impressed one way or another, but in this article we are not concerned -with personal tastes.</p> - -<p>Perhaps Mr. Wright has the wrong idea of what constitutes weirdness. -Would Weird Tales reach a tremendous circulation if Lovecraft, Machen, -C. A. Smith, Blackwood, Merritt, and other blood-brothers collaborated -on a novel with the following plot which I will sketchily outline? Have -the hero born on Friday the 13th under the sign of—say Capricornus. -Then show his misadventures down life's highway starting with the theft -of his mammy's rabbit's foot and culminating in a cacophonic tumult of -soul-shattering events following his breaking up of the merchandise in -a mirror warehouse. There you have something everybody can understand -and appreciate. Oh yes! and have the novel endorsed by Einstein, -Stalin, the A.A.A.S., Lindbergh, and Mae West. Publicly, you know. -Seriously, though, I do not believe fantasy will be a strong force -until we root out superstitious hoodoos. Paradoxical?</p> - -<p>98 out of 100 have it. What Price Something-or-other!</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3>WITHIN THE CIRCLE<br /> -by F. Lee Baldwin</h3> - -<p>Forrest Ackerman says he really had that "surprise of one's life" when -Linus Hogenmiller of Missouri, his first correspondent, unexpectedly -dropped in on him in Los Angeles.</p> - -<p>A well-known editor who has been recently collecting old Weird Tales -had the good fortune of purchasing quite a few for two and a half cents -a copy. Just imagine!</p> - -<p>C. L. Moore has had some of her own illustrations accepted by Weird -Tales.</p> - -<p>A. Merritt calls his "The Metal Monster" his "best and worst" story.</p> - -<p>The youthful Robert Bloch of Milwaukee has sold his first story to -Weird Tales. It is titled "The Secret of the Tomb."</p> - -<p>On his way North from Florida, H. P. Lovecraft stopt in Washington, -D. C. and "did several things I had never done before" ... His "The -Rats in the Walls" was first submitted to Argosy but was rejected as -being too horrible.... His "The Shunned House" is to be bound and -issued by R. H. Barlow. The edition consists of about 225 copies and -will appear some time in the fall.</p> - -<p>Two of H. P. Lovecraft's "Fungi from Yuggoth" ("Mirage" and "The Elder -Pharos") have been set to music by Harold S. Farness of the Los Angles -Inst. of Musical Education.</p> - -<p>A. Merritt is an authority on folklore and mythology and has made a -study of ancient sorcery and witchcraft, past and modern.</p> - -<p>Forrest J. Ackerman often wonders what <i>would</i> happen to him if an -earthquake came and splattered up the room where his collection is -situated.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h2>PROSE PASTELS</h2> - -<h3>by Clark Ashton Smith</h3> - -<p class="ph1"><i>IV. The Lotus and the Moon</i></p> - -<p>I stood with my beloved by the lotus pool, when the moon was round as -the great ivory breast of a Titaness, and the flowers were full-blown -and pale upon the water.</p> - -<p>And I said to my beloved: "I would that thou shouldst love me well -tonight: for never again shall there be a night like this, with -the meeting of thee and me by this pool with flowers blown but not -overblown."</p> - -<p>But she demurred, and was perverse and loved me not as I would that she -should love me.</p> - -<p>And after several nights we stood again by the lotus pool, when the -moon was hollow as an aging breast, and the petals of the flowers had -fallen apart on the water.</p> - -<p>And now my beloved was fain to love me well, and all was well between -us. But in my heart I mourned for that other night, when the moon was -round as the great ivory breast of a Titaness, and the flowers were -full-blown and pale upon the water.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent8">VI</div> -</div></div> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">Amid dim hills that poison mosses blast,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Far from the lands and seas of our clean earth,</div> - <div class="verse">Dread nightmare shadows dance—obscenely cast</div> - <div class="verse indent2">By twisted talons of archaean birth</div> - <div class="verse">On rows of slimy pillars stretching past</div> - <div class="verse indent2">A daemon-fane that echoes with mad mirth.</div> - <div class="verse">And in that realm sane eyes may never see—</div> - <div class="verse">For black light streams from skies of ebony.</div> -</div></div> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent8">VII</div> -</div></div> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">On those queer mountains which hold back the horde</div> - <div class="verse indent2">That lie in waiting in their mouldy graves,</div> - <div class="verse">Who groan and mumble to a hidden lord</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Still waiting for the time-worn key that saves;</div> - <div class="verse">There dwells a watcher who can ill afford</div> - <div class="verse indent2">To let invaders by those hoary caves.</div> - <div class="verse">But some day then may dreamers find the way</div> - <div class="verse">That leads down elfin-painted paths of gray.</div> -</div></div> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent8">VII</div> -</div></div> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">And past those unclean spires that ever lean</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Above the windings of unpeopled streets;</div> - <div class="verse">And far beyond the walls and silver screen</div> - <div class="verse indent2">That veils the secrets of those dim retreats,</div> - <div class="verse">A scarlet pathway leads that some have seen</div> - <div class="verse indent2">In wildest visions that no mortal greets.</div> - <div class="verse">And down that dimming path in fearful flight</div> - <div class="verse">Queer beings squirm and hasten in the night.</div> -</div></div> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent8">IX</div> -</div></div> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">High in the ebon skies on scaly wings</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Dread batlike beasts soar past those towers gray</div> - <div class="verse">To peer in greedy longing at the things</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Which sprawl in every twisted passageway.</div> - <div class="verse">And when their gruesome flight a shadow brings</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The dwellers lift dim eyes above the clay.</div> - <div class="verse">But lidded bulbs close heavily once more;</div> - <div class="verse">They wait-for Sotho to unlatch the door!</div> -</div></div> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent8">X</div> -</div></div> - - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">Now, through the veil of troubled visions deep</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Is draped to blind me to the secret ways</div> - <div class="verse">Leading through blackness to the realm of sleep</div> - <div class="verse indent2">That haunts me all my jumbled nights and days,</div> - <div class="verse">I feel the dim path that will let me keep</div> - <div class="verse indent2">That rendezvous in Yith where Sotho plays.</div> - <div class="verse">At last I see a glowing turret shine,</div> - <div class="verse">And I am coming, for the key is mine!</div> -</div></div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h2>VOICES OF THE NIGHT</h2> - -<h3>by Robert E. Howard</h3> - -<p class="ph1">1 - The Voices Waken Memory</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">The blind black shadows reach inhuman arms</div> - <div class="verse">To draw me into darkness once again;</div> - <div class="verse">The brooding night wind hints of nameless harms,</div> - <div class="verse">And down the shadowed hill a vague refrain</div> - <div class="verse">Bears half-remembered ghosts to haunt my soul,</div> - <div class="verse">Like far-off neighing of the nightmare's foal.</div> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">But let me fix my phantom-shadowed eyes</div> - <div class="verse">Hard on the stars—pale points of silver light—</div> - <div class="verse">Here is the borderland-here reason lies—</div> - <div class="verse">There, visions, gryphons, Nothing, and the Night.</div> - <div class="verse">Down, down, red specters, down, and rack me not!</div> - <div class="verse">Out, wolves of hell! Oh God, my pulses thrum;</div> - <div class="verse">The night grows fierce and blind and red and hot,</div> - <div class="verse">And nearer still a grim insistent drum.</div> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">I will not look into the shadows—No!</div> - <div class="verse">The stars shall grip and hold my frantic gaze—</div> - <div class="verse">But even in the stars black visions grow,</div> - <div class="verse">And dragons writhe with iron eyes ablaze.</div> - <div class="verse">Oh Gods that raised my blindness with your curse,</div> - <div class="verse">And let me see the horrid shapes behind</div> - <div class="verse">All outward veils that cloak the universe,</div> - <div class="verse">The loathsome demon-spells that bind and blind,</div> - <div class="verse">Since even the stars are noisome, foul and fell,</div> - <div class="verse">Let me glut deep with memory dreams of Hell.</div> -</div></div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3>THE INTELLECTUAL SHOCKER<br /> -by H. Koenig</h3> - -<p>Collecting weird and fantastic stories is a fascinating pursuit. -Locating first editions of some of our well-known authors affords -considerable thrill, but the real kick comes when one discovers a -comparatively little-known author of weird stories or re-discovers an -old and forgotten one. I experienced such a thrill when I first came -across one of the books written by a young Englishman named Charles -Williams, and I didn't rest content until I had obtained all five of -his novels. Williams appears to be practically unknown over here and a -few lines regarding him and his books may prove of interest to other -readers and collectors.</p> - -<p>Sooner or later, the inveterate reader of weird fiction becomes -surfeited with stories of one pattern and falls into a rut. A year or -so ago one of the magazines devoted to books recommended to readers who -found themselves in such a predicament a sure cure—<i>the intellectual -shocker</i>. It is the type of story the average fiction reader will -overlook and even the habitual reader of weird and fantasy stories is -apt to ignore it.</p> - -<p>Bulwer-Lytton's "Zononi" and "Phra, the Phoenician" have long been out -of date. Rider Haqgard is not being read by the present generation and -yet his immortal "She" is the pure type of the intellectual horror -tale. All weird fans have read Merritt's "Burn Witch, Burn" but how -many read "The Moon Pool" when it was first published? Guy Endore's -"The Werewolf of Paris" received plenty of publicity but his "The Man -from Limbo," a good example of the intellectual shocker, slipped by -practically unnoticed.</p> - -<p>Charles Williams is one of the modern writers of the intellectual -horror story. Born in England in 1886, Williams was educated at -St. Albans and University College, London. He is an authority on -Shakespearean literature, poetry, etc. and has written a fairly long -list of books, most of them dealing with poetical subjects. In 1930, -however, he wrote his first novel, "War in Heaven," and it proved to -be one of the finest high-brow horror stories written in recent years. -It concerns a struggle for the "Graal," a battle between the forces of -good and evil. It has all the elements of a real mystery story combined -with the horror and thrill of the supernatural and the occult.</p> - -<p>To date, Mr. Williams has written five books of this type:</p> - -<p class="ph1">"War in Heaven" (1930)<br /> -"Many Dimensions" (1931)<br /> -"Greater Trumps" (1932)<br /> -"Place of the Lion" (1932)<br /> -"Shadows of Ecstasy" (1933)</p> - -<p>The average fiction reader would probably be bewildered by Williams, -but most of his plots are original and his ideas unusual and somewhat -startling. He has the happy faculty of being able to combine the occult -adventures with present-day people and scenes and, as one reviewer -stated, "he succeeds in making the improbable likely and the impossible -credible." To the readers who want their intellect stirred as well as -their emotions, I highly recommend some of the books listed above. Try -"War in Heaven" first, followed by the "Place of the Lion." They will -prove to be a welcome relief from the stereotyped and often tiresome -stories now appearing in the pulp magazines.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3>NOTES ON BOB OLSEN<br /> -by Forest J. Ackerman</h3> - -<p>So successfully received was his "Ant With a Human Soul," Bob Olsen has -written and had published by Amazing Stories another ant story "Peril -Among the Drivers." He has another, but dissimilar type of "Antale"—to -coin a word to describe his series—in preparation. In this story, no -unusual or grotesque Giants appear, but the ordinary-sized insects band -together to overthrow mankind; a possibility not to improbable, Bob -believes.</p> - -<p>In connection with ants, Bob was recently invited to speak on them -at the Adventurer's Club, an organization of internationally famous -men, such well-known figures as "Skipper" Dixon, author of the recent -Liberty serial, "Marriage Drums," being members. Previously, at -informal gatherings, Bob has given impromptu talks on ants, rockets, -interplanetary flight, and—of course—the fourth dimension. (Bob, -incidentally, was a mathematics teacher for ten years.)</p> - -<p>"Of the three subjects, however," Bob observed, "the audience always -seemed most interested in the life of the ants: how they maintain -slaves, cultivate gardens, domesticate insects, have bootleggers, -fight wars, and play games. Though an ant never built an automobile or -invented a radio, the insect is still a far more brilliant creature -than generally considered to be. In some ways, considering their -handicaps, the ant almost surpasses Man in accomplishments. Next to -Man, they rate highest in intelligence. The termites and then the bees -follow...."</p> - -<p>In addition to his literary work, Bob Olsen is the Advertising Manager -of a Los Angeles real estate concern. One day, during the noon hour, -Bob had an idea for a new murder mystery. In the process of cerebrating -the details of the plot, he gazed out of the window with a far-away -expression on his face. Unperceived by him, the secretary of the -corporation approached and sat down at the desk at Bob's elbow. He -waited awhile for the Advertising Manager to recognize him, but Bob -seemed star-gazing, dead to the world.</p> - -<p>Finally the official said, "what are you thinking about, Bob?"</p> - -<p>Startled by this unexpected voice right in his ear, Bob jumped up and -yelled, "MURDER!"</p> - -<p>Then it was the boss' turn to jump—whereupon Bob explained that he had -been concocting an ingenious scheme for committing homicide, which he -expected to use in one of his "Master of Mystery" stories.</p> - -<p>Again, some years back when Bob was in the midst of "The Four -Dimensional Rolle-Press," "Four Dimensional Surgery," "Four Dimensional -Robberies," etc., Dr. Miles J. Breuer sent Amazing Stories a -dimensional tale—shall we say fourth dimension narrative?—because he -"didn't like the way Bob Olsen wrote them." Strangely enough, at the -same time Bob submitted his "Super-Perfect Bride." The two author's -stories appeared in the same issue of Amazing, the math teacher showing -the doctor how to write a medical tale, and the doctor demonstrating to -the teacher of mathematics how a dimension story should be handled!</p> - -<p>Bob's "Fourth Dimension Auto-Parker" is something amusing in the -way of applying the 4-D. It may be said to equal or surpass his -best-remembered yarn, "The Educated Pill."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h2>BEINGS FROM BEYOND</h2> - -<p class="ph1">(A True Experience)</p> - -<h3>by Kenneth B. Pritchard</h3> - -<p>I have often wondered whether spirits of the dead really walk the world.</p> - -<p>Edison, upon nearing his end, said, "It is very beautiful over there!" -Many have pondered those words, and sermons have been preached as to -their meaning.</p> - -<p>I am not a sufferer of hallucinations, though you may think so, but -I feel that it is only by having a true knowledge of things that are -known to have taken place and studying them that we can ever rise to a -higher plane of existence.</p> - -<p>What does the eye see? Does it ever perceive things beyond the familiar -vibrations consisting of our everyday normal life? I believe that in -some cases a man's eye does see more than normally. Perhaps it is -some outside influence that aids it, or stirs it into action. How it -occurs, I cannot say. I have never seen anything really distinctly -alarming along these lines. But I have had occasion to view things in -an indistinct form for a period of approximately five years. During the -past few years, I have seen nothing of these things.</p> - -<p>However, during those five years, when I was alone in the house, I -would sit on the bed and study my school books. Sometimes nothing would -happen. Then, again, I would glance up from the pages of the book in -hand and be startled to see a white figure going by! Not always did I -have to be absorbed in a book; sometimes a shape would be in front of -me when I passed from one room to another. Several times there were -more than one. And once or twice there were veritable groups or crowds -of such shapes milling about and going hither and thither. Some would -go through the regular doorways, and others would walk right through -the walls. Many times they came within a foot of me, but never appeared -distinct.</p> - -<p>I'm glad this happened mostly during the day or when a light was -burning. It gave me the creeps more than once. I'd like to know if they -were spirits, or beings living on another plane.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h2>NEW YORK DESTROYED AGAIN!</h2> - -<h3>by Bob Tucker</h3> - -<p>Once more New York City is destroyed! For decades, this has been the -delight of science fiction authors. You must either destroy or attack -New York before you can become a famous science fiction writer.</p> - -<p>The first account of the destruction of New York is given in "The End -of New York" by Park Benjamin, published around 1890.</p> - -<p>Of recent times, Ray Cummings has probably destroyed it more often -than anyone else. He takes a crack at it (and a good one, too!) in his -"White Invaders" (Dec, 1931 Astounding).</p> - -<p>In the following issue, Arthur J. Burks sets his ape loose in it -("Man-ape the Mighty"), and in February, Cummings is back again with -"Wandl, the Invader," which brings the enemy right into the big city.</p> - -<p>C. D. Simak almost gets into town with his "Hellhounds of the Cosmos" -but something happens to prevent them. Maybe he has some sympathy -for the old burg. But the March 1933 Astounding makes up for it by -destroying it (in part) twice!</p> - -<p>Arthur J. Burks in his "Lord of the Stratosphere" and "Monsters of -Moyen" just tears it all to pieces and Wallace West puts everyone to -sleep in "The End of Tyme," as does Dr. Keller in his "Sleeping War." -Marius covers it with an ice-berg in his "Sixth Glacier," and Isaac R. -Nathanson burns it up with a comet in "The Passing Star."</p> - -<p>Going to Weird Tales, Edmond (World-Saver) Hamilton musses it all up -with a crazy man in "The Man Who Conquered Age," in the Dec., 1932 -issue and in the next month Murray Leinster has his "Monsters" tramping -through it.</p> - -<p>A particular delight, of late, is tearing up the Empire State Building. -The builders would groan with agony, if they could read some of the -tales wherein their work is smashed in three seconds flat!</p> - -<p>The movies have had their share in destroying New York, too. "King -Kong" does some fancy exterior decorating, and in "Men Must Fight" it -is bombed.</p> - -<p>So, remember, if you are not an author, but hope to be one, destroy New -York City in your first story, and you will be on the road to fame in -no time!</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3>SIDE GLANCES<br /> -by F. Lee Baldwin</h3> - -<p>In a sale conducted by Linus Hogenmiller he sold the Weird Tales -Anniversary number for only one dollar.</p> - -<p>Stories by Gaston Leroux that have appeared in Weird Tales are -translated in the office of Jacques Chambrun, New York literary -agent who represents Gaston Leroux's agent in this country. Some of -the translating was done by Mildred Gleasson Prochet. "The Crime on -Christmas Night" was translated by Morris Bentinck.</p> - -<p>R. H. Barlow won the National Amateur Press Association Laureateship -for the year 1933.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3>WEIRD WHISPERINGS<br /> -by Schwartz and Weisinger</h3> - - -<p>Paul Ernst is now illustrating his own yarns for <i>Weird Tales</i>, and -several of them will soon see print.... Ray Cummings, now living in -New York, informs us of his fantastic novelette, "The World of Doom," -sold to <i>Thrilling Adventures</i>.... M. Brundage <i>is</i> a woman and has a -boy in grammar school. She swears that Howard's serial which started in -the September WT is the best Conan story he has ever written.... Greye -La Spina has received plenty of rough treatment from her fellow weird -authors. Seabury Quinn, for instance, once received a letter from her -criticising some of his work. In his answer to her he used words that -shouldn't exactly be used to ladies. (He thought she was a young man.) -However, he soon found out different and they are the best of friends. -Then again, Arthur J. Burks remarked to her in a letter that judging -from her work she had a bright future. La Spina wrote back that her -daughter and grandchildren thought likewise!</p> - -<p>Catherine L. Moore, already acknowledged as one of the most promising -weird tales authors, gleaned a rejection slip from <i>Amazing Stories</i> -for the first story she ever penned. And she doesn't blame the editor -for spurning the manuscript!... Seabury Quinn's latest Jules de Grandin -story is "Hands of the Dead," a story of hypnotism.... A. Merritt's -serial, "Creep, Shadow," currently running in the <i>Argosy</i>, differs -considerably from the forthcoming book version, he confides.... Some -time ago, a reader wrote a letter to the Evrie praising Francis Flagg's -"The Picture" to the skies.... Nothing wrong in that, except that the -story did not see print until the month following the arrival of the -letter, the story having been postponed for an issue!... Farnsworth -Wright owns a miniature rogue's gallery of <i>Weird Tales</i> contributors -and they are on display at his office.... Milt Kaletsky's weird yarn, -"The Mantis," met with an N. G. at the office of WT. He sent the same -story to <i>Terror Tales</i> on Sunday, the magazine received it on Monday -and he got it back on Tuesday!</p> - -<p>Wright blames the failure of <i>Oriental Stories</i> on ex-president Hoover. -After listening to one of Hoover's speeches in which he stated that -prosperity was just around the corner, Wright thought that it would be -an opportune time to launch a new magazine.... You, we, and Farnsworth -Wright know what happened.... Harry Stephen Keeler claims cats bring -him good luck, and so he has four cats in his home, the latest one -being named "Mencken the IV".... August W. Derleth has forged ahead -and has crashed <i>Scribner's</i> and <i>Story</i>.... Eando Binder is really -Earl and Otto Binder working together in collaboration.... Their other -brother, Jack, does s-f illustrating work.... The fancy lettering of -<i>Weird Tales</i> on the cover of the magazine was designed by J. Allen St. -John.... "The Destroying Horde," Donald Wandrei's next in <i>Weird</i> tells -of a giant one celled organism spawned in a chemist's laboratory and an -orgy of hideous deaths.</p> - -<p>Winford Publications will positively launch a new all-weird magazine -within a few months, designed expressly for the purpose of competing -with <i>Weird Tales</i>.... Charles H. Bert, of Philadelphia, is the only -fan, to our knowledge, who owns copies of the now defunct weird tales -magazine, <i>Tales of Magic and Mystery</i>.... Edmond Hamilton has recently -written "Cosmo's End," "Master of the Genes," and "World Without -Sex".... Otis Adelbert Kline's <i>Weird Tales</i> story, "The Bird People," -which he admits was based on the 1926 <i>Amazing Stories</i> cover contest, -was originally titled "The Log of the Laurtanian".... His Kline's -popular "Thirsty Blades" was originally written by him as a 20,000 -word novelette. Wright said that he would use the yarn if Kline boiled -it down to a shorter length. So Kline turned the yarn over to Price, -who did the necessary revising, and the result was published as a -collab.... Just the reverse is the short story Price wrote as a sequel -to Lovecraft's "The Silver Key," which he turned over to Lovecraft who -worked it into the novelette.</p> - -<p>"Through the Gates of the Silver Key."... Otis Adelbert Kline was in -New York the other week, looking up editors and writers.... He had -dinner with his friend, Seabury Quinn, and for the first time in twelve -years, was treated to some Napoleon brandy.... It may be a coincidence, -but the circulation of THE FANTASY FAN has increased thirty-five per -cent since the inception of this column!</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p class="ph1">ADVERTISEMENTS<br /> -Rates: one cent per word<br /> -Minimum Charge, 25 cents</p> - -<p>Back Numbers of <i>The Fantasy Fan</i>: September, 20 cents (only a few -left), October, November, December, January, February, March, April, -May, June, July, 10 cents each.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>CLARK ASHTON SMITH presents THE DOUBLE SHADOW AND OTHER FANTASIES—a -booklet containing a half-dozen imaginative and atmospheric -tales—stories of exotic beauty, horror, 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. Clark Ashton Smith, -Auburn, California.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>IMPORTANT! 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