THE FANS' OWN MAGAZINE
Editor: Charles D. Hornig
(Managing Editor: Wonder Stories)
| Published | 10 cents a copy |
| Monthly | $1.00 per year |
137 West Grand Street, Elizabeth, New Jersey
| Volume 1 | November, 1933 | Number 3 |
OUR READERS SAY
"The second number looks to me even more interesting than the first.Smith's tale was splendid. The remunerative editors were certainlyfools to turn it down. Glad to see that a number of readers areshowing up Ackerman. People like Ackerman are peculiarlyridiculous—one can plainly see that this type of thing is merelyegotistic and a gesture to call attention to themselves. However, mostpeople out-grow this stage. Glad you were able to get something fromyoung Barlow—he's distinctly worth encouraging." H. P. Lovecraft
Clark Ashton Smith informs us that Astounding Stories has justaccepted one of his tales, "The Demon of the Flowers," and Weird Taleshas just taken "The Tomb Spawn." He tells us that we will find asurprise in connection with his story, "The Weaver in the Vault" inthe January, 1934, Weird Tales.
"Your editorial was a corker, the various departments okay, andSmith's yarn was worthy of Weird Tales." Allen Glasser. Mr. Glasser isattempting to make a living at writing—and isn't doing so bad at it.The editor prefers to call him "the Arthur J. Burks of the youngergeneration." He has sold stories to dozens of magazines, includingscience fiction.
"The second issue was swell. I'd like to see more stories by ClarkAshton Smith in future issues of the mag. Yep, 20 pages of excellentarticles and stories."—Ted Lutwin. Clark Ashton Smith is a regularcontributor to THE FANTASY FAN.
Kenneth B. Pritchard, although he liked the second number immensely,reminds us that we omitted several things that we promised in theSeptember issue. Here's the reason: many articles were crowded out ofthis number, and others were postponed to make room for a number ofmuch better articles which came in the last minute. Everythingpromised will be published in good time, though.
Lloyd Fowler wants us to keep using the grade of paper that we are,instead of cutting down the number of pages in order to afford abetter grade.
"THE FANTASY FAN is starting out well."—Ralph Milne Farley
From A. Merritt, whom everybody knows, we hear that he had started asequel to "Thru The Dragon Glass," but abandoned it because he didn'tlike to write sequels. Our belief is that great authors don't need towrite sequels.
SUPERNATURAL HORROR IN LITERATURE
by H. P. Lovecraft
(Copyright 1927 by W. Paul Cook)
Part Two
Because we remember pain and the menace of death more vividly thanpleasure, and because our feelings toward the beneficent aspects ofthe unknown have from the first been captured and formalised byconventional religious rituals, it has fallen to the lot of the darkerand more maleficent side of cosmic mystery to figure chiefly in ourpopular supernatural folklore. The tendency, too, is naturallyenhanced by the fact that uncertainty and danger are closely allied;thus making any kind of an unknown world, a world of peril