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diff --git a/old/64942-0.txt b/old/64942-0.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 87ce15f..0000000 --- a/old/64942-0.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,1242 +0,0 @@ -The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Fantasy Fan, Volume 2, Number 5, January -1935, by Various - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and -most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms -of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. 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 5, January 1935 - The Fan's Own Magazine - -Author: Various - -Editor: Charles D. Hornig - -Release Date: March 27, 2021 [eBook #64942] - -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 -5, JANUARY 1935 *** - - - - - THE FANTASY FAN - - THE FANS' OWN MAGAZINE - - SPECIAL WEIRD POETRY NUMBER - - 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 - January, 1935 - Number 5 - Whole No. 17 - - [Transcriber's Note: Extensive research did not uncover any - evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - - - - FORWARD - - by Ye Ed - - You will notice that this is the - Special Weird Poetry Number. - - The next issue will be the - Special Short Story Number, - -and the March issue will be dedicated to Weird Tales. By the way, -F. Lee Baldwin, the author of our well-liked department, "Within the -Circle," has compiled an excellent biography of H. P. Lovecraft which -will appear in the Weird Tales number with a special wood-cut of the -famed writer by Duane W. Rimel. Coming up is also volumes of material -from Seabury Quinn, H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. -Howard, R. H. Barlow, Robert Nelson, and all your other favorite -writers. - -Upon suggestions from many of our readers, we are dropping "Our Readers -Say" department with this issue. As H. Koenig points, continuous -repetition of "I liked this" and "I liked that" does not make very -interesting reading. Therefore, "Our Readers Say" will be replaced -by this "Forward" each month besides fan articles made from the most -interesting of our readers' communications. - -Due to the huge influx of contributions, we find it very difficult -to oblige all of our contributors by placing their material in print -promptly. We intend to use the best material first and must ask the -patience of all those who have sent us articles. Please remember our -limited space. - - * * * * * - - - MR. KOENIG CORRECTS - -I have just had an opportunity to check up on Blackwood's "The Wolves -of God," (writes H. Koenig). The book was written by Blackwood and -Wilson as I indicated in my last letter. I find, however, that the -only story credited directly to Blackwood was the last story in the -book entitled "Vengeance is Mine" and _not_ the title story. Hence, -if you should publish my earlier letter, please make the correction. -Incidentally, it may be well that Blackwood had a hand in the other -stories. But if so, the Table of Contents does not so indicate. - - * * * * * - - - A GRAND SLAM - -You will remember that in our editorial for the November, 1934, number, -we stated casually that the average intelligence of the general public -was that of a moron. We have received a post-card containing the -following from "One of the 'General Public'," post-marked Newark, -N. J.: - -"In recently wasting time glancing through that collection of waste -paper which you honor with the title of a magazine, I noticed that you -consider the general public--of which I am proud to be a member--a -collection of moronic individuals, and the followers of your creed of -a "higher type of intellect." I just hate to disagree with you, but if -you investigate the reason for the small number of such creatures, you -would probably find out that most asylums censor their inmate's mail. -Unfortunately, lack of space and postal laws prohibit my expressing of -my true opinion of both the (?-!--) and its readers. I challenge you to -print this." - -It is easy to see that the writer of this card is "one of the general -public." Here we find the customary challenge to print it and the lack -of signature, which must denote that the writer is either ashamed or -afraid to append his name. Concerning asylums, however, we hadn't even -thought of soliciting the inmates. That's not a bad idea. We'll have to -take that point up at the next Director's Meeting. Which one are you -in? - - * * * * * - - - DREAM - - by R. O. P. - - Erubescent, the southern sky - With sunset pools of flaming foam - Like opened crucibles of Hell - Glows redly, as a burning Rome - Beneath its red malevolanace - Where swooning orbs recline - Are etched grotesque and curious trees - With shapes of strange outline. - - * * * * * - - - WEIRD WHISPERINGS - - by Julius Schwartz - -Arthur B. Reeve, creator of the famous scientific-sleuth, Craig -Kennedy, makes his bow to _Weird Tales_ readers with a novelette in the -May issue!... Jack Binder, brother of the popular author Eando Binder, -will do most of the illustrating for _Weird_ commencing with the April -number.... C. L. Moore has pulled a "Clark Ashton Smith" and has drawn -the illustration for her forthcoming yarn in WT "Julhui".... There will -be no women on _Weird Tales'_ covers for two consecutive issues this -year, April and May! - -_Dr. Death_ is the title of the latest fantasy magazine to appear on -the newsstands. It features a weird-scientific novel each month written -by "Zorro," which is the pseudonym for Harold Ward. Rounding out the -rest of the issue are three or four thrillers with a pseudo-scientific -or weird background.... Donald Wandrei's latest Ivy Frost novelette, -"They Could Not Kill Him," appears currently in _Clues_.... The April -cover of _Weird Tales_ will illustrate a scene in A. W. Bernal's -"The Man Who was Two Men," and deals with an amazing development in -radio after television.... Bernal, by the way, is a student in the -University of California, and sold his first yarn, "The Man Who Played -with Time," which appeared in March, 1932 WT at the early age of 15. - -Farnsworth Wright brings up an interesting point regarding titles of -stories. Hardly a month goes by that does not bring at least one story -titled "The House of Fear," another entitled "The House of Living -Death," and another entitled "Hands of Death." The commonest title -on manuscripts submitted is "Retribution," but stories with the word -"House" in the title are almost as frequent. Of course, these titles -are changed if the story is accepted, to avoid repeating the same -title that has been used in the magazine before. "The House of the -Living Dead," by Harold Ward, appeared in WT for March, 1932. Quinn's -cover design story for the February, 1935 issue had the same title, in -manuscript, but the title was changed to "The Web of Living Death." -Harold Ward's cover design story for the March issue this year was -originally titled "Hands of Death," but this was too similar to Quinn's -tale title, "Hands of the Dead" in the current January issue, so the -title of Ward's story was changed to "Clutching Hands of Death." - - * * * * * - - - SUPERNATURAL HORROR IN LITERATURE - - by H. P. Lovecraft - - Part Sixteen - - (copyright 1927 by W. Paul Cook) - - VIII. The Weird Tradition in America - -The public for whom Poe wrote, though grossly unappreciative of his -art, was by no means unaccustomed to the horrors with which he dealt. -America, besides inheriting the usual dark folklore of Europe, had an -additional fund of weird associations to draw upon; so that spectral -legends had already been recognized as fruitful subject-matter for -literature. Charles Brockden Brown had achieved phenomenal fame with -his Radcliffian romances, and Washington Irving's lighter treatment -of eerie themes had quickly become classic. This additional fund -proceeded, as Paul Elmer Moore has pointed out, from the keen spiritual -and theological interests of the first colonists, plus the strange -and forbidding nature of the scene into which they were plunged, the -vast and gloomy virgin forest in whose perpetual twilight all terrors -might well lurk; the hordes of coppery Indians whose strange, saturnine -visages and violent customs hinted strongly at traces of infernal -origin; the free rein given under the influence of Puritan theocracy -to all manner of notions respecting man's relation to the stern and -vengeful God of the Calvinists, and to the sulphureous Adversary of -that God, about whom so much was thundered in the pulpits each Sunday; -and the morbid introspection developed by an isolated backwoods life -devoid of normal amusements and of the recreational mood, harassed -by commands for theological self-examination, keyed to unnatural -emotional repression, and forming above all a mere grim struggle for -survival--all these things conspired to produce an environment in -which the black whisperings of sinister grandams were heard far beyond -the chimney corner, and in which tales of witchcraft and unbelievable -secret monstrosities lingered long after the dread days of the Salem -nightmare. - -Poe represents the newer, more disillusioned, and more technically -finished of the weird schools that rose out of this propitious milieu. -Another school--the tradition of moral values, gentle restraint, and -mild, leisurely phantasy tinged more or less with the whimsical--was -represented by another famous, misunderstood, and lonely figure in -American letters--the shy and sensitive Nathaniel Hawthorne, scion -of antique Salem and great-grandson of one of the bloodiest of the -old witchcraft judges. In Hawthorne we have none of the violence, the -daring, the high colouring, the intense dramatic sense, the cosmic -malignity, and the undivided and impersonal artistry of Poe. Here, -instead, is a gentle soul cramped by the Puritanism of early New -England; shadowed and wistful, and grieved at an unmoral universe -which everywhere transcends the conventional patterns thought by our -forefathers to represent divine and immutable law. Evil, a very real -force to Hawthorne, appears on every hand as a lurking and conquering -adversary; and the visible world becomes in his fancy a theater of -infinite tragedy and woe, with unseen, half-existent influences -hovering over it and through it, battling for supremacy and moulding -the destinies of the hapless mortals who form its vain and self-deluded -population. The heritage of American weirdness was his to a most -intense degree, and he saw a dismal throng of vague spectres behind the -common phenomena of life; but he was not disinterested enough to value -impressions, sensations, and beauties of narration for their own sake. -He must needs weave his phantasy into some quietly melancholy fabric -of didactic or allegorical cast, in which his meekly resigned cynicism -may display with naive moral appraisal the perfidy of a human race -which he cannot cease to cherish and mourn despite his insight into -its hypocrisy. Supernatural horror, then, is never a primary object -with Hawthorne; though its impulses were so deeply woven into his -personality that he cannot help suggesting it with the force of genius -when he calls upon the unreal world to illustrate the pensive sermon he -wishes to preach. - -Hawthorne's intimations of the weird, always gentle, elusive, and -restrained, may be traced throughout his work. The mood that produced -them found one delightful vent in the Teutonised retelling of classic -myths for children contained in "A Wonder Book" and "Tanglewood -Tales," and at other times exercised itself in casting a certain -strangeness and intangible witchery or malevolence over events not -meant to be actually supernatural; as in the macabre posthumous novel -"Dr. Grimshawe's Secret," which invests with a peculiar sort of -repulsion a house existing to this day in Salem, and abutting on the -ancient Charter Street Ground. In "The Marble Faun," whose design was -sketched out in an Italian villa reputed to be haunted, a tremendous -background of genuine phantasy and mystery palpitates just beyond -the common reader's sight; and glimpses of fabulous blood in mortal -veins are hinted at during the course of a romance which cannot help -being interesting despite the persistent incubus of moral allegory, -anti-Popery propaganda, and a Puritan prudery which caused the late -D. H. Lawrence to express a longing to treat the author in a highly -undignified manner. "Septimius Felton," a posthumous novel whose idea -was to have been elaborated and incorporated into the unfinished -"Dolliver Romance," touches on the Elixir of Life in a more or less -capable fashion; whilst the notes for a never-written tale to be called -"The Ancestral Footstep," shows what Hawthorne would have done with an -intensive treatment of an old English superstition--that of an ancient -and accursed line whose members left footprints of blood as they -walked--which appears incidentally in both "Septimius Felton" and "Dr. -Grimshawe's Secret." - -(Mr. Lovecraft tells you more about Nathaniel Hawthorne in the next -issue. Don't miss Part Seventeen). - - * * * * * - - - THE MONSTROSITY - - (A True Experience) - - by Hoy Ping Pong - - (Apologies to Kenneth B. Pritchard) - -Many people have seen freaks and monsters, both in the circus and -in their nightmares, especially after a gay night, but this which -I tell of happened when I was cold sober, on a crispy winter night -in the middle of July. (Don't laugh--this might have happened in -Australia--Editor). - -I had returned from a party, and to be sure, I was half lit up, for I -had dashed down several canters of buttermilk, but nevertheless, I was -cold sober when I met the great adventure! I had just about reached -home, when my sixth sense warned me that something was wrong. I looked -about. - -The snow covered the ground several inches thick, but as far as I could -see, not a single footprint marred the beauty of it. I even turned to -look behind me, but could not see my own tracks. Too peaceful. I had a -grim foreboding of something evil. For want of something better to do, -I bent over and tied my shoelace. And then I saw it! - -For as I bent over, I caught a glimpse of a monstrous foot protruding -from behind a nearby tree! Hastily, I assumed an innocent manner -and straightened. I must not let the Thing know I had seen it! -Nonchalantly, I lighted a Fizwig and blew smoke rings. And then it -happened! - -For the monster stepped out from behind the tree and approached me! He -was the strangest thing I had ever seen! All of six foot tall, four -queer limbs protruding from his body, a round, shiny cranium perched -upon what I took to be shoulders, and a mass of hanging brown stuff -sticking to the cranium. He had on some queer dress of blue material, -with shoulder straps on each side. I mumbled in fear and awaited his -approach. - -For several seconds he surveyed me, and then, much to my absolute -horror, he spoke. Spoke to me! My hair stood straight up in the air, my -eyes rolled, and I fainted at those fearful words: "I say, old chap, -could you direct me to the post office?" - - * * * * * - - - A BEAM FROM THE SKY - - (A True Experience) - - by Kenneth B. Pritchard - -On Saturday evening, October 21, 1933, a strange thing was noted by two -friends and myself. - -It was quite dark, for clouds were thick and hanging low in the sky. - -From out of the east there flashed a beam as of a searchlight questing -thru the atmosphere. It shone at intervals of a few seconds. These -intervals were irregular, and sometimes the beam would last longer than -at others. Once, it lasted easily ten seconds, and probably more. - -At times this light seemed a reflection from the clouds; but then -again, after the almost beam-like light had ceased, the light came -directly from the clouds seemingly from someone in or above them! - -There are no really high places in my city (Pittsfield, Mass.) to shine -a light from that position. - -Was it a search beam, a natural phenomena, or something from Beyond? - - * * * * * - - - WITHIN THE CIRCLE - - by F. Lee Baldwin - -"The Ghoul," British weird tale of the screen, disappeared from Los -Angeles screens the day Forrest J. Ackerman arrived there, playing no -theater during all the summer months he looked for it. The morning he -left, it came on again! - -Jack Williamson is recuperating from an appendix operation and has done -no writing for quite a while. He says: "--My drugged slumbers in the -first few days after the operation bred some of the weirdest dreams -yet, and I'm anxious to get back to writing".... When in Key West last -winter, he and Edmond Hamilton had a few adventures such as capsizing a -skiff out in the Atlantic and towing it behind them as they swam back -to shore. Hamilton caught a monster jew fish. - -Wright has bought "The Cyclops of Xoatl," featuring Two-Gun Bart Leslie -and his pursuit of a cannibal monster in Mexico. The tale is by -E. Hoffmann Price and Otis Adelbert Kline.... The two are now planning -a story of Burma, about leopard men.... Pierre d'Artois, Price's -veteran swordsman, is more or less a picture of his old fencing-master -of long ago during his academic days.... Price says about "Queen of the -Lilin": I ploughed through a good deal of research in order to present -Lilith authentically. A good deal of the Lilith lore had to be cut out -in the interests of brevity, which I regretted, as I felt that some of -the fans would enjoy a closer acquaintance with the fascinating Queen -of Zemargad. - -R. H. Barlow is in Washington taking treatment for his eyes. He is also -taking a light art course at the Corcoran Gallery. - -Alonzo Leonard, who appeared sometime ago in "Believe It Or Not" -for inventing a private language, is an authority on cults, ancient -languages, superstitions, and strange beliefs. He has compiled a set of -"books," 48 volumes, of all strange happenings and things of unusual -nature. The collection is called "Encyclopedia Satanic." - - - - - FUNGI FROM YUGGOTH - - by H. P. Lovecraft - - (Hitherto Unpublished Verses) - - - III. The Key - - I do not know what windings in the waste - Of those strange sea-lanes brought me home once more, - But on my porch I trembled, white with haste - To get inside and bolt the heavy door. - I had the book that told the hidden way - Across the void and through the space-hung screens - That hold the undimensioned worlds at bay, - And keep lost aeons to their own demesnes. - - At last the key was mine to those vague visions - Of sunset spires and twilight woods that brood - Dim in the gulfs beyond this earth's precisions, - Lurking as memories of infinitude. - The key was mine, but as I sat there mumbling, - The attic window shook with a faint fumbling. - - - V. Homecoming - - The daemon said that he would take me home - To the pale, shadow-land I half-recalled - As a high place of stair and terrace, walled - With marble balustrades that sky-winds comb, - While miles below a maze of dome on dome - And tower on tower beside a sea lies sprawled. - Once more, he told me, I would stand enthralled - On those old heights, and hear the far-off foam. - - All this he promised, and through sunset's gate - He swept me, past the lapping lakes of flame, - And red-gold thrones of gods without a name - Who shriek in fear at some impending fate. - Then a black gulf with sea-sounds in the night: - "Here was your home," he mocked, "when you had sight!" - - * * * * * - - - LATE REVENGE - - by Duane W. Rimel - - Spawn of the cellars, rising black, - Midst darkened doorways, out a crack; - To wither each bright blade of grass, - And smother flying souls that pass. - - Spawns of the cellars; evil slime; - Heed not their calling, lest they climb - As rays of light upon thy face, - And steal thy spirit's resting place. - - Wraiths of corruption, creep not in; - For though their minds be steeped in sin, - They hold a germ of terror yet, - That baffles every evil met. - - Seed of the tombstone, enter now; - Their house is darkened to the mow. - Your chance has come to right the wrong, - That you have waited all too long. - - Spawn of the cellars, rising fast, - To seek the hell-hounds out at last: - They cloudlike through the window creep, - On those who sprawl in drunken sleep. - - Dread putrefactions, find your breed; - That you may pay that awful deed; - That you may spread your bloating jaws, - And sap their entrails through your maws. - - Germ of corruption, speed ye fast. - A thing is rising to its last; - For greedy claws to grip around, - And carry back to that mouldy mound. - - Spawn of the cellars, get ye back - To gulfs of darkness where no track, - Can trace you to that worming brood; - Or toss your bones in darkened mood. - - Seed of the tombstone, floating black, - Back to the cellar through that crack. - And beings stare with sightless eyes, - Down black steps where a brother lies. - - * * * * * - - - THE ALIEN - - by Natalie H. Wooley - - She is like living golden flame. - She knows not whence or why she came - Into this world ... and yet at times - I hear her call strange gods by name. - - There is no warmth in her embrace, - Of human passions not a trace. - She seems remote, a thing attuned - To summonings from outer space. - - And on each starry, moonlit night - She gazes long in rapt delight - Toward the skies ... while I weep - Lest the message come, and she take flight. - - * * * * * - - - VOICES OF THE NIGHT - - by Robert E. Howard - - 2. Babel - - Now in the gloom the pulsing drums repeat, - And all the night is filled with evil sound; - I hear the throbbing of inhuman feet - On marble stairs that silence locks around. - - I see black temples loom against the night, - With tentacles like serpents writhed afar, - And waving in a dusky dragon light - Great moths whose wings unholy tapers char. - - Red memory on memory, tier on tier, - Builds up a tower, time and space to span; - Through world on world I rise, and sphere on sphere, - To star-shot gulfs of lunacy and fear-- - Black screaming ages never dreamed by man. - - Was this your plan, foul spawn of cosmic mire, - To freeze my soul to stone and icy fire, - To carve me in the moon that all mankind - May know its race is futile, weak and blind-- - A horror-blasted statue in the sky, - That does not live and nevermore can die? - - * * * * * - - - FRAGMENT - - by Robert Nelson - - With the red bewitchment of the moon canines collect - And feast and howl o'er carrion and orts and bones - In green and putrid grots that echo shrill sea-moans; - And huge and hoary plantigrades on crags most high, - Hearing the maddened carnal ravings of the hounds, - Huddle together on the topmost frozen mounds - To hurl immense boulders on them until all die. - - * * * * * - - - THE ELDER THING - - by William Lumley - - Oh, have you seen the Elder Thing - That creeps upon the hill-- - A fearsome Thing with lurid eyes - At night when all is still; - A horror wrought of withered moss - And foul primordial slime, - Wherein there fester monstrously - The evils of all time? - - With phosphorescent glow like naught - That Nature might devise, - All the fell ancient lore of earth - Gleams hellish in its eyes. - As night by night this Elder Thing - Upon the hill doth creep, - Awakened by men's blasphemies - From out its age-long sleep. - - By monolith and haunted fen - Down to the mandrake mere - It prowls to meet the sheeted dead - That squeak and gibber there; - And nameless things, not beasts nor men, - With bat-like creatures vie, - And loathsome reptiles writhe and hiss - Till daybreak pales the sky. - - A thousand shapes the Things-- - A thousand shapes or none-- - All forms of Fear since Earth was born - It mirrors as its own; - It apes each rhythmic Elder Sign - As it doth onward creep, - Awakened by man's blasphemies - From out its age-long sleep. - - * * * * * - - - THE GHOUL'S PARADE - - by Lionel Dilbeck - - When the bells toll midnight - And Dark Things begin to roam, - The old house shivers, and the - Walls begin to moan. - - The rats stop their scurrying - And everything is quiet; - The moon rises, softly, - As if in fright. - - The wind howls mournfully - Through the skeleton trees, - And the breath of corruption - Is borne in on the breeze. - - The corpse in the cellar - Mouths a slobbering curse; - On those who have slit his throat, - And robbed him of his purse. - - The maggots swarm in his rotten flesh, - And he howls in mad despair; - He shrieks and moans and rages - And tears his gristly hair. - - He rages thus each night - From midnight until one; - And the maggots swarm and wiggle, - And have their hellish fun. - - * * * * * - - - THE DEAD WORLD - - by Richard F. Searight - - I dreamed I stood atop a craggy verge - And scanned long miles of dreary, jumbled waste - That stretched, sharp-etched in airless, frozen surge - Beneath the sable, star-strewn vault it faced. - - Black empty mouths of craters, grim and cold, - Yawned bottomless, abysmal pits of slag - Amid the desert stretching fold on fold - To distant jagged peak and sharp-thrust crag. - - The desolation flooded through my soul-- - No living thing relieved the dismal rifts - Of long-past cataclysms; the bleak roll - Of upflung ridge and tangled lava drifts. - - It was as if a Titan band had played - With this dead world when it was young and fair, - And tired of the sport when they had made - A ruin and a wreckage past repair. - - The cold of outer voids lay like a blight - Of cosmic hate across the planet's face; - And from the riven features I took flight - To seek relief in fairer realms of space. - - * * * * * - - - A WEIRD BOOK - - by P. J. Searles - - "Lost Horizon" by Hilton. - -Weird stories are so often bloody and gruesome that it is a delight -to find one written in an urbane and restrained style. "Lost Horizon" -tells of the stealing of a plane and its four passengers (two British -consular agents, an American absconding banker, and an American -missionary) during a tribal outbreak north of India and their -intentional removal to a remote valley in Tibet where they find a -semi-Christian and semi-Buddhist monastery, inhabited by a group of -serene men and women who have achieved an indefinitely prolonged life. - -The main portion of the story concerns life in the monastery and -the attempt by its head to persuade the few prisoners to remain -there, exchanging a hurried, confused, and short life in so-called -civilization for calm, peace, and longevity in Tibet. Naturally, and -inevitably, the denouement is a tragedy, indirect, but poignant. - -Mr. Hilton is an urbane satirist (if that is not a contradiction of -terms) who has produced a beautiful story, weird and unusual, but -without the so-frequent accompaniment of vampires, ghosts, or the like. -He writes delicately in a style reminiscent of Owens' "The Wind that -Tramps the World." "Lost Horizon" is not for the blood-and-thunder -reader; it has no "crashing suns," no "supernatural," no "unseen -presences," no incredible "brain surgeons," no "werewolves," but it -does have an unusual plot, weird in a faint and beautiful manner. For -the not-too-hardened it will be a pleasure. - - * * * * * - - - TRILOGY OF DEATH - - by Robert Nelson - -Death is a wheel.... - -Death is a wheel, grinding, rending, crushing. The little boy skipped -gayly to the grocery store for his mother. Crossing the street, he -did not see an oncoming truck. It was too late and--Death is a wheel, -grinding, rending, crushing. Death is a wheel.... - -Death is a dollar bill.... - -Death is a dollar bill. A gust of wind swept a vagrant dollar bill into -the gutter. It sped onward thru the streets. Onward to a jutting pier. -Onward it went. A man espied it. He ran for it. Stumbled. Ran on. He -came to the end of the pier. Fell into the water. But he grasped the -dollar bill. "I've got it!" he cried. And then he sank beneath the -waves. Death is a dollar bill.... - -Death is a dream.... - -Death is a dream. "Death, too, must be a dream," said the man in his -dream. "Petty hills. Endless. Light all about. Light ... gladness ... -music ... voices of women. But my throat. How tight. I am choking.... -Breath, breath. My breath. Pretty hills. Endless. My breath. God, my -breath. Light ... breath ... hills ... music ... voices of women. -Breath...." Death is a dream.... - - * * * * * - - - SCIENCE FICTION IN ENGLISH MAGAZINES - - by Bob Tucker - - (Series Eight) - -British science fiction, with the death of "Scoops," has just about -gone pfft, to quote a New York columnist. The small four-cent magazines -in the field do not run enough "science" fiction to make reading them -worth your time. - -The "Triumph" is still running the "Invisible Charlie" series, and they -get no better each time. The "Wizard" has come forth with the "Worms -of Doom." It's the old idea of the gent with a world-conquering mania -again. He lets loose strange worms upon the world, said worms capable -of devouring steel. Of course, they devour the most popular buildings -first of all. It's funny how the Eiffel Tower and the Empire State -Building taste better than ordinary ones. - -"Amazing Stories" publishes a British Edition over there, so that -helps somewhat. When questioned, "Wonder" and "Astounding" say that -they don't publish such editions, but "Wonder" adds "as yet," so maybe -someday.... - - * * * * * - - Subscribe to - - THE FANTASY FAN - - * * * * * - - - AN ANECDOTE - - by Forrest J. Ackerman - -In the early days of science fiction when there were not many authors -who wrote it and Amazing was chiefly a magazine of Verne-Wells-Poe -reprints, Bob Olsen was writing and had a friend who thought he could -too. Bob had two tales published in Amazing without mentioning the -accomplishment to his friend who succeeded in having nothing accepted -(he was not writing stf). Then, with the third story, Bob's name -appeared on the cover, giving him quite a thrill. 'Stories by: H. G. -Wells, Bob Olsen, Edgar Allan Poe', it read. "Uh, what do you think -of that?" asked Bob proudly, now displaying his work, his name with -Wells and Poe. The friend sized up a moment. 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