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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 <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a>. 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. -</div> - -<table style='min-width:0; padding:0; margin-left:0; border-collapse:collapse'> - <tr><td>Title:</td><td>The Fantasy Fan, Volume 1, Number 12, August 1934</td></tr> - <tr><td></td><td>The Fan's Own Magazine</td></tr> -</table> - -<div style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Author: Various</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Editor: Charles D. Hornig</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Release Date: March 24, 2021 [eBook #64919]</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Language: English</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Character set encoding: UTF-8</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Produced by: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net</div> - -<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FANTASY FAN, VOLUME 1, NUMBER 12, AUGUST 1934 ***</div> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/title.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p class="ph1">[Transcriber's Note: Extensive research did not uncover any<br /> -evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h3>NOTICE!</h3> - -<p>This issue completes the first year in the existence of THE FANTASY -FAN. Many subscriptions expire with this number, and we urge all those -who had one year subscriptions starting with the first issue to send in -their dollar for volume two immediately—it is absolutely essential to -the existence of THE FANTASY FAN as a monthly that everyone renews his -subscription upon expiration. We cannot afford to lose circulation at -the present time. Will you co-operate with us? Thank you!</p> - -<p>The next issue, September, is our First Anniversary Number and we hope -to have at least one pleasant surprise for you. During the past year -we have given you many stories by Clark Ashton Smith, H. P. Lovecraft, -Robert E. Howard, August W. Derleth, R. H. Barlow, and others—new -stories that have never appeared in print before, not to mention the -scores of articles, columns, departments, and items of interest to all -fantasy lovers. We have on hand piles of manuscripts to be published in -future issues well up to the high standard that THE FANTASY FAN has -created. If you are a lover of weird fiction, you should not be without -THE FANTASY FAN—the only one in its field—"the fans' magazine."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>OUR READERS SAY</h3> - -<p>We have two things to say before we present the letters from our -readers. First, we wish to thank Farnsworth Wright, thank him a -thousand times, for placing a paragraph telling all about THE FANTASY -FAN, giving our address, in the Eyrie columns of the September <i>Weird -Tales</i>. This will really let the readers of <i>Weird Tales</i> know of the -existence of our little magazine which is designed for them alone. This -should raise the circulation of THE FANTASY FAN sufficiently so that in -a very short time we can greatly increase the number of pages and give -you everything you have asked for. Thank you again, Mr. Wright—words -cannot express our gratitude.</p> - -<p>Second: How would you like an index of the first volume of THE FANTASY -FAN? We could supply you with a printed pamphlet for 25 cents, with a -double index, alphabetically, according to titles and authors so that -any item published during our first year could be easily found. If we -receive enough requests for this pamphlet, it will be prepared. Let us -know immediately if you will be willing to pay 25 cents for it when it -is published. Send no money.</p> - -<p>"THE FANTASY FAN, June, 1934, on page 152, states: 'Ralph Milne -Farley is Roger Sherman Hoar.' This is not quite up-to-date. For -several years, Ralph Milne Farley has been Roger Sherman Hoar -plus his daughter, Caroline Prescott Hoar, who formerly wrote as -Jacqueline Farley, but has now merged her identity with that of her -father."—Ralph Milne Farley</p> - -<p>"The June FANTASY FAN certainly had a distinguishing and distinguished -feature in Lovecraft's story 'From Beyond.' Robert Nelson's poem 'Below -the Phosphor' sounds a genuinely macabre note. I enjoyed 'The Little -Box,' 'Within the Circle'—in fact, the whole issue."—Clark Ashton -Smith</p> - -<p>"The magazine fills a long-needed niche. The reprinting of Lovecraft's -article is especially good, as comparatively little material has been -published in the critical line."—Richard Ely Morse</p> - -<p>"The July FANTASY FAN is one of the best, the Clark Ashton Smith tale -being very good. My only objection is that you're wasting space on that -ass Barlow in Baldwin's column!! But say, doesn't Mr. Pritchard have an -eventful life?"—R. H. Barlow</p> - -<p>"'The Epiphany of Death' by Smith is truly a C. A. Smith type. The odd, -agelessness, the cadaverous features of Tomeron bring to mind one of -Smith's former stories, in Weird Tales sometime in 1932—'The Gorgon,' -which tale also had such an old, ancient-appearing person.—Gertrude -Hemken</p> - -<p>"I just received the excellent July issue of THE FANTASY FAN. I think -that your fine little magazine is steadily improving, and I hope to be -able to read many more of your splendid stories and articles in them. -Clark Ashton Smith and H. P. Lovecraft may always be relied on to -produce a fascinating tale; they have the gift of a great imagination -and love of beauty. Please publish many more writings by these two -masters of the art!"—Fred John Walsen</p> - -<p>"The July FANTASY FAN was excellent as usual, and the green cover gave -it just the right tone. Schwartz and Weisinger continue their good -work as does Mr. Baldwin. I missed the Prose Pastels by Smith and look -forward to more of them. His story, 'The Epiphany of Death' amply made -up for it though."—Duane W. Rimel</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>WEIRD WHISPERINGS<br /> -by Schwartz and Weisinger</h3> - -<p>Popular Publications (205 East 42nd Street, N.Y.C.) has launched a new -magazine, <i>Terror Tale's</i>, which is featuring terror and horror stories -of all varieties. It is edited by Rogers Terrill and C. H. Whipple, -and will sell for 15 cts a copy.... The first two numbers will feature -the following stories and writers: "House of Living Death" by Arthur -Leo Zagat; "Blood Magic" by C. F. Roberts; "Dead Man's Bride" by Wyatt -Blassingame; "Terror Island" by Hugh B. Cave; "Village of the Dead" -by Wyatt Blassingame; "Death's Loving Arms" by Hugh B. Cave; and "The -House where Horrors Dwell" by C. F. Roberts.</p> - -<p>Otis Adelbert Kline will serial it shortly in <i>Weird Tales</i> with a -three-parter, "The Lord of Lamia" ... L.A. Eshbach's weird-scientific -thriller, "The Brain of Ali Kahn," is slated for the October issue -of <i>Wonder Stories</i>.... Dr. Keller's unique tale, "The Dead Woman," -published originally in <i>Fantasy Magazine</i>, will be reprinted in the -11th volume of the "Not at Night" series.... And an English publishing -concern is arranging to put out an anthology of Dr. Keller's best -weird stories both published and unpublished.... As a result of Jack -Williamson's recent tropical adventure with Edmond Hamilton, Jack's -eyes are now on the blink, and it may be some weeks before he will be -producing again.... M. Brundage <i>is</i> a woman and has a young son in -grammar school.</p> - -<p>Farnsworth Wright has recently accepted stories from a famous Flemish -artist, writing under the pseudonym of John Flanders. His first tale -will be "The Graveyard Duchess".... The September <i>Weird Tales</i> will -contain a story, "Naked Lady," by a new author named Lord, which, -despite its title, is <i>not</i> sexy.... H. Bedford-Jones makes his bow -to WT readers in this issue with "The Sleeper," a tale of an Egyptian -magician.... Clark Ashton Smith has sold "Xeethra" and "The Last -Heiroglyph" to <i>Weird</i>. At present he is working on a science fiction -yarn, "Secondary Cosmos," and on a weird-scientific tale, "The Juju -Country".... Francis Flagg, who has collaborated with Forrest J. -Ackerman on "The Slow Motion Man," is associate editor of <i>The Anvil</i>.</p> - -<p>As mentioned here last month, Seabury Quinn has finally succeeded -in turning out another Jules de Grandin story, "The Jest of Warburg -Tantavul".... The reason for the delay was that Quinn has been so -extremely occupied with work for his own journal, <i>Casket & Sunnyside</i>, -that he found it almost impossible to spare the extra time.... A few -days after completing the story, when Quinn was again up to his neck -in work at his office, to make up for time he borrowed in writing the -story, he discovered he had been summoned to serve a full week on a -jury—and not even Jules de Grandin could get him out of it!... Willard -E. Hawkins, editor of the <i>Author & Journalist</i>, who also wrote "The -Dead Man's Tale," which was the first story in the first issue of -<i>Weird Tales</i>, has written a most interesting booklet, "Castaways of -Plenty," showing up fallacies in our economic system.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>FAMOUS FANTASY FICTION<br /> -by Emil Petaja</h3> - -<p>"Uncanny Stories" Macmillan Co. This splendid collection contains F. -Marion Crawford's "For the Blood is the Life" (considered one of the -best vampire stories ever written) and Sinclair's "Where their Fire is -not Quenched." Other of its stories are equally interesting.</p> - -<p>Algernon Blackwood is well known to lovers of fantasy. Of the books -containing his short stories "Wolves of God" and "The Dance of Death" -are two of the best. "The Man Who Found Out" (in "Wolves of God") -I consider one of the best short stories I have ever read. Like -Lovecraft, he merely hints at unmentionable things, leaving the reader -with a vague sense of fear.</p> - -<p>"Visible and Invisible," E. F. Benson, Doubleday, Doran & Co. This -is probably Benson's best work of fantasy. Readers of "Weird Tales" -will remember some of his splendid stories that have appeared in this -magazine.</p> - -<p>Lord Dunsany's two delightful books, "A Dreamer's Tales" and "Book of -Wonder" can now be had in the Modern Library list. After reading the -dark tales of Lovecraft, Howard, etc., these are a refreshing change.</p> - -<p>Some of the other good collections of stories of ghosts, vampires, -ghouls, etc. are "Physic Stories" French, "The White Ghost Book," "The -Grey Ghost Book" Middleton, "Sinister Stories" Walker, "Stories of the -Seen and Unseen" Oliphant. Frank Owen's two fantasies "The Wind -that Tramps the World" and "The Purple Sea"—and Birch's "The Moon -Terror" should be mentioned. A rare treat is Clark Ashton Smith's -booklet "The Double Shadow." These tales range from the wild terror of -Edgar Allen Poe, to the weird, imaginative beauty of Lord Dunsany.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>WITHIN THE CIRCLE<br /> -by F. Lee Baldwin</h3> - -<p>Richard F. Searight has had accepted by WT a short story titled "The -Sealed Casket" and a poem "The Wizard's Death."</p> - -<p>Wright expects to reprint H. P. Lovecraft's "Arthur Jermyn."</p> - -<p>Forrest Ackerman's foreign correspondence runs something like this: one -Canada; one Philippine Islands; several New Zealand; four or five Great -Britain; two Ireland; one Switzerland; one Hungarian.</p> - -<p>Here's a "new" word: <i>Fantastiac</i>. One who goes in for the weird and -grotesque in life; also one who likes weird fiction.</p> - -<p>R. H. Barlow is planning on issuing "The Shunned House" by H. P. -Lovecraft sometime in the fall.</p> - -<p>Clark Ashton Smith is about 40 and has been a weird poet since boyhood. -He is a protege of the late George Sterling and a fantastic painter of -great power. He has translated "Baudelaire."</p> - -<p>Donald Wandrei is 25 and a U. of Minn. graduate. His sole occupation is -fiction-writing—comes from St. Paul but lives in New York.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h2>The Fall of the Three Cities</h2> - -<p class="ph1">(Annals of the Jinns—8)</p> - -<h3>by R. H. Barlow</h3> - -<p>Far to the south of Phoor and bordering upon Yondath extends the vast -jungle land. The River Oolae enters it at several points, making -travel by boat difficult between Phargo on the desert its outlet in -the unnamed land. Where the jungle ceases it gives way abruptly to a -vast and mighty plain. This open country is now desolate and entirely -uninhabited. Nothing but the six-legged and grotesque monster-things -called <i>rogii</i> roam its interminable fields of waving grass. Yet once -this lower south-land was a populous and fertile plateau, from the -swampy morasses of Yondath even unto the mountains and Zath, where -dwell the fungii-masters. How it came to be so barren is told in -antique myth, and when people hear the fate of the land beyond the -jungle they shudder and make prayers in the air with the small finger.</p> - -<p>This then is the tale of the fall of the cities of the plain—they that -were called by men Naazim, Zo, and Perenthines.</p> - -<p>Naazim lies now a waste, nor is there any trace of Perenthines. But -one can yet find ancient ruins of Zo, and the vandals of Time have not -entirely effaced the elaborate carvings of amber which lie half-buried -in the concealing grass near where the vast pool was once constructed -in the center of the city.</p> - -<p>The whole thing started when the magician Volnar refused to leave -Perenthines. He had been a most successful and prosperous sorceror -until the deplorable case of the fishwife whose hair all fell out and -took root in the ground before her house. This the people took to be -an evil omen, and it was really quite difficult for them to break into -his low, strange house after his refusal to depart. They were all -disappointed he had gone. They did not know of the black tunnel beneath -where he kept his magical supplies. So after searching hopefully around -the house some one set it afire, and they made merry by the embers, -diverting themselves lustily during the pale night while he fled with -only his vengeful thoughts for company. The curious manner of his -attire together with the black-edged mantle of crimson caused him to -resemble a great moth flapping across the wasteland between the cities. -By the time the last flagon of wine lay untidily upon the paving -before where his house once was, and while yet his pet mondal moaned -inconsolably about the ashes, for his persecutors had been unable to -capture the highly edible pet, Volnar arrived at the gates of Zo.</p> - -<p>The brilliance had begun in the northern sky, and the three suns were -nearly risen. Soon would the far mountains be illuminated in yellow -light, and Zath shine its metal towers like the armor of a weary knight -sprawled upon the hills. The black stone of the precipice directly -under the fasthold served only to set it off. Soon too would the rich -rice fields of cultivated vegetation gleam pleasingly and the jungle -come to animated life. But not yet were the gates open, for it had been -the rule in Zo to keep fast-closed, till full dawn, ever since the -Night of The Monster in neighboring Droom, close unto the mountains. -There was a smell of spice hanging in the air, for the breeze was -small, but this loveliness was wholly wasted upon the angry little -sorceror as he chaffed before the giant gate. His robe was bedraggled -from the mud and he was wearied of no sleep.</p> - -<p>"Ho, guard!" he shouted irritably, "can you not let an honest traveler -within your cursed village before high noon?"</p> - -<p>This was on the whole a misrepresentation for his traveling was -unintentional and he was by no means honest but he did not consider the -moral aspect of the matter.</p> - -<p>After a time sounds of distant shuffling reached his ears, and after -prodigious squeakings and bangings a sleepy-faced man gave him -entrance. Volnar entered the handsome city and made his way along the -vast paving-stones of yellow and brown, and at length arrived at a -lodging-house, the lighted lantern yet glimmering in the shadow of the -sleeping town.</p> - -<p>For a long time none saw the bearded little sorceror upon the streets -of Zo. He purchased an old house with curious artificial gold of -his own contriving—a secret of wizardry he held to be pleasingly -unique—and busied himself most industriously in the dank, ill-lit -cellar. Twice he ventured forth, after nightfall, to obtain certain odd -ingredients from a man to whom he was known, and the man (who had no -ears, but patches of fur that he concealed beneath his head-gear) saw -what was up, and left the city straightaway. Volnar worked on with his -charms and spells, occasionally sighing for his abandoned mondal, and -frequently pondering upon his revenge.</p> - -<p>He pottered amidst his instruments. The thin cold light streaming -through a crack in the rocky ceiling was aided by that of the small -fire beneath the pot of bulging iron. Yet though with even these the -gloom was little disspelled, Volnar did not care, for his eyes were -familiar with darkness, in which his long apprenticeship had been -spent. That students of the dark lore were not appreciated had become -increasingly clear to him, ever since the night of his departure -from Perenthines. Consequent discretion called for subterranean -quarters. These he had obtained, and thus did he work upon the Doom -for Perenthines. And before he had completed the strange substance -that bubbled so obscenely and which cast off the odour of fresh blood -mingled with some nauseating aroma, Volnar sent a messenger to Sarall, -the Lord of Worms, to obtain a certain ingredient most accessible -to maggots. Frequently did he consult the parchments that were said -to have been copied from the Hsothian manuscripts by a slave of the -Lord Krang very long ago, and elaborate care was exercised upon the -concoction.</p> - -<p>Then, at last, it was completed, and Volnar gazed speculatively about -the cellar, thinking for some time. He arose from his lengthy vigil, -and poured the contents of the pot into a cylinder of unglazed pottery, -deftly sealing it with enchanted gummy material of moist black. While -the stuff was inside it continued to seethe audibly, although it had -been off the fire for some time. And this jar he bore with extreme -caution as he turned the immense iron key in the cellar door.</p> - -<p>The sky was a starless void when he entered into the street, intent -upon his mission. As he hurried through the silent city, accompanied -only by his shadow, a successive lifting of vapor-mists revealed the -moon of ashen blue, but it was quickly obscured again. The air was -chill and in ceaseless motion, faintly disturbing his crimson robe. His -footsteps echoed hollowly upon the paving, and he felt that everyone -must surely hear him, but he was not accosted. A lone pedestrian abroad -for no good purpose emerged from the mist abruptly, but passed Volnar -unseeing and soon was lost in the fast-gathering dimness. It was very -late now, and he was relieved when he approached the central part of -the city with the cylinder beneath his arm, for it was increasingly -heavy and the contents unruly with new animation.</p> - -<p>Soon he reached the handsome marble pool that was the center of Zo and -the marvel of the three towns, but which is now but a faint indentation -in the waving grass. The water was very still, and he let the thing in -the urn slide noiselessly into the pool. It sank unhurryingly to the -bottom, expanding, more solid now, and drifted away in the dimly-hidden -water. Whether it had moved of its own volition or was borne by a -current, none but the inscrutable little man could have told. Volnar -gazed after it, and apparently satisfied, departed.</p> - -<p>He did not return to his lodging, but made directly for the mountains -upon a stolen <i>rogii</i> which attained a remarkable speed for its bulk. -And while the fate of the three cities moved slowly about the pool, the -magician traveled ceaselessly towards Mt. Boriau. After the man and -his steed had approximated the nearer peaks, they stopped, and Volnar -knew he was within safety. Therefore he watched searchingly the far -dim mass that was the grouped cities. Nothing could be discerned, but -the watcher knew evil forces were at work, forces none could halt or -evade save by direct flight, and who was to wake the sleeping towns? -He chuckled grimly, and hoped his pet mondal was not within the doomed -area. Then he made his way more slowly toward the crags of Boriau.</p> - -<p>During this while the strange substance grew and distended in size and -weight until it restlessly filled the large pool. It had assumed no -definite shape, but life was unquestionably within the vast prehensile -tissue that groped at the edge of its confines. It was as yet unable -to release itself and venture in search of food, but the time was not -distant. A chance pedestrian, with his moth-like cloak that was of the -type common in those days went slowly by and did not fully realize what -was happening when he saw the thing droolingly emerge from the pool. -The hundred evil eyes peered loathesomely as it extended an awful limb -and seized him, intent upon the process of absorbing nutrition.</p> - -<p>Nor was that the end, for it roved the streets unsated, growing, -devouring throughout the night, and in a few horrible hours had -depopulated the cities that were so hostile to sorcerors....</p> - -<p>Volnar, it is told, went unto the black crags near Zath, though -discreetly distant from the inhabitants of that fearful place, and with -occult aid constructed for himself a castle of black stone in a very -short period, wherein he dwelt the remainder of his existence. This was -not long because of his ungrateful creation's abnormal longevity and -appetite.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>GLEANINGS<br /> -by Louis C. Smith</h3> - -<p>A. Merritt's family were believers in that ancient custom of going to -the Bible for the name of each new arrival. So when the future author -of "The Ship of Ishtar," "The Moon Pool," and those other famous -science fantasy classics was born, they rushed to the Book. Over his -defenseless body, they argued at to whether the infant should be named -Job, Hezekiah, Joshua, or Abraham. The Abes had it. So—A. Merritt. His -parentage is traceable back to the French Huguenots.</p> - -<p>And while on the subject of Merritt—when his "Moon Pool" first -appeared, a responsible critic compared it favorably in style with the -best of Poe. We'll let Clark Ashton Smith have it out with Merritt for -the title "Edgar Allan Poe, second."</p> - -<p>"I was once an industrious writer of short stories," states H. G. -Wells, in a preface to his "Man who Could Work Miracles," reprinted -last year in Golden Book. "I found that by taking almost any incident -as a starting point, I could arrive at a story." Some thousands of -scientifiction lovers may deplore the fact that he is no longer so -industrious. But Mr. Wells finds more recreation nowadays in writing -allegorically of such things as the "Bulpington of Blup."</p> - -<p>Frank Owen, of whose stories it has been said, "They are like delicate -carvings in jade," is a surprising man. Contrary to expectations that -would hope to reveal him a mystical, quiet, debonairly dreamy fellow, -Mr. Owen is "pleasingly plump," jolly, generous, energetic, and -voluminous in his writings. His work ranges from children's stories and -poems—fairy tales, stories in church magazines—to novels of a "sexy" -tang, and finally right down to our own back doorstep ... and the -wonderful "Wind that Tramps the World" type of fantasy. In all, Frank -Owen has written well over 500 published stories.</p> - -<p>A very well-known author of shuddery weird tales once wrote:</p> - -<p>"Otis Adelbert Kline is a typical writer—of the type of stories he -writes. Rather large, inclined toward embonpoint, always perfectly -dressed, pleasant in manner, but with an undeniable air of forcefulness -about him, you can easily imagine him performing some of the things his -characters do."</p> - -<p>We are glad to hear, always, how our favorite authors appear; we -are more happy when we find that the author is in keeping with the -type of story he turns out. It is disappointing—and not a little -incongruous—to read a thrilling, mile-a-minute, blood and thunder -adventure tale, with a death by violence to every page, and then find -that the author is a meek, mild-mannered, diminutive fellow who fears -to go out alone at night and has never experienced a more exciting -adventure than falling down in the bathtub!</p> - -<p>Where is the credit so justly due Sir H. Rider Haggard, one of the -greatest of the authors of fantastic adventure fiction?</p> - -<p>His tales of mysticism, ancient rites, and lost peoples of the dark -continent are marvels of weird adventure and ingenious plot. His -character, Allan Quartermain, is an adventurer of the rarest type. His -native witch doctors are real enough to step bodily out of the pages -and cast a malignant spell.</p> - -<p>Have you ever read his "People of the Mist," "When the Earth Shook," -"King Solomon's Mines," "She," "Marion Isle," "Morning Star," "Alan -and the Ice Gods," or any of the other two score novels penned by this -prolific Englishman? It is a living experience to read "People of the -Mist." It is a happy day when you travel into ancient Egypt through the -pages of "Morning Star." It is an event to read any of Haggard's works. -He ranks with Wells and Verne.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h2>SUPERNATURAL HORROR IN LITERATURE</h2> - -<h3>by H. P. Lovecraft</h3> - -<p class="ph1">Part Eleven</p> - -<p class="ph1">(Copyright 1927 by W. Paul Cook)</p> - -<p class="ph1">V. The Aftermath of Gothic Fiction</p> - -<p>Meanwhile, other hands had not been idle, so that above the dreary -plethora of trash like Marquis von Gross's "Horrid Mysteries," (1796) -Mrs. Roche's "Children of the Abbey," (1798) Mrs. Dacre's "Zofloya; -Or, the Moor," (1806) and the poet Shelley's schoolboy effusions -"Zastrozzi" (1810) and "St. Irvyne" (1811) (both imitations of -"Zofloya") there arose many memorable weird works both in English and -German. Classic in merit, and markedly different from its fellows -because of its foundation in the Oriental tale rather than the -Walpolesque Gothic novel, is the celebrated "History of the Caliph -Vathek" by the wealthy dilettante William Beckford, first written in -the French language but published in English translation before the -appearance of the original. Eastern tales, introduced to European -literature early in the eighteenth century through Galland's French -translation of the inexhaustibly opulent "Arabian Nights," had become -a reigning fashion; being used both for allegory and amusement. The -sly humour which only the Eastern mind knows how to mix with weirdness -had captivated a sophisticated generation, till Bagdad and Damascus -names became as freely strewn through popular literature as dashing -Italian and Spanish ones were soon to be. Beckford, well read in -Eastern romance, caught the atmosphere with unusual receptivity; -and in his fantastic volume reflected very potently the haughty -luxury, sly disillusion, bland cruelty, urbane treachery, and shadowy -spectral horror of the Saracen spirit. His seasoning of the ridiculous -seldom mars the force of his sinister theme, and the tale marches -onward with a phantasmagoric pomp in which the laughter is that of -skeletons feasting under Arabesque domes. "Vathek" is a tale of the -grandson of the Caliph Haroun, who, tormented by that ambition for -super-terrestrial power, pleasure, and learning which animates the -average Gothic villain or Byronic hero, (essentially cognate types) is -lured by an evil genius to seek the subterranean throne of the mighty -and fabulous pre-Adamite sultans in the fiery halls of Eblis, the -Mahomedan Devil. The descriptions of Vathek's palaces and diversions, -of his scheming sorceress-mother Carathis and her witch-tower with -the fifty one-eyed negresses, of his pilgrimage to the haunted ruins -of Istakhar (Persepolis) and of the impish bride Nouronihar whom he -treacherously acquired on the way, of Istakhar's primordial towers, and -terraces in the burning moonlight of the waste, and of the terrible -Cyclopean halls of Eblis, where, lured, by glittering promises, each -victim is compelled to wander in anguish for ever, his right hand upon -his blazingly ignited and eternally burning heart, are triumphs of -weird colouring which raise the book to a permanent place in English -letters. No less notable are the three "Episodes of Vathek," intended -for insertion in the tale as narratives of Vathek's fellow-victims -in Eblis' infernal halls, which remained unpublished throughout the -author's lifetime and were discovered as recently as 1909 by the -scholar Lewis Melville whilst collecting material for his "Life and -Letters of William Beckford." Beckford, however, lacks the essential -mysticism which marks the acutest form of the weird; so that his tales -have a certain knowing Latin hardness and clearness preclusive of sheer -panic fright.</p> - -<p>But Beckford remained alone In his devotion to the Orient. Other -writers, closer to the Gothic tradition and to European life in -general, were content to follow more faithfully in the lead of Walpole. -Among the countless producers of terror-literature in these times -may be mentioned the Utopian economic theorist William Godwin, who -followed his famous but non-supernatural "Caleb Williams" (1794) with -the intendedly weird "St. Leon" (1799) in which the theme of the elixir -of life, as developed by the imaginary secret order of "Roticrucians," -is handled with ingeniousness if not with atmospheric convincingness. -This element of Rosicrucianism, fostered by a wave of popular magical -interest exemplified in the vogue of the charlatan Cagliostro and the -publication of Francis Barrett's "The Magus" (1801), a curious and -compendius treatise on occult principles and ceremonies, of which -a reprint was made as lately as 1896, figures in Bulwer-Lytton and -in many late Gothic novels, especially that remote and enfeebled -posterity which straggled far down into the nineteenth century and was -represented by George W.M. Reynolds' "Faust and the Demon" and "Wagner -and the Wehr-Wolf." "Caleb Williams," though non-supernatural, has many -authentic touches of terror. It is the tale of a servant persecuted -by a master whom he has found guilty of a murder, and displays an -invention and skill which have kept it alive in a fashion of this day. -It was dramatised as "The Iron Chest," and in that form was almost -equally celebrated. Godwin, however, was too much the conscious teacher -and prosaic man of thought to create a genuine weird masterpiece.</p> - -<p>His daughter, the wife of Shelley, was much more successful; and her -inimitable "Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus" (1817) is one of -the horror-classics of all time. Composed in competition with her -husband, Lord Byron, and Dr. John William Polidori in an effort to -prove supremacy in horror-making, Mrs. Shelley's "Frankenstein" was -the only one of the rival narratives to be brought to an elaborate -completion; and criticism has failed to prove that the best parts -are due to Shelley rather than to her. The novel, somewhat tinged -but scarcely marred by moral didacticism, tells of the artificial -human being moulded from charnel fragments by Victor Frankenstein, -a young Swiss medical student. Created by its designer "in the mad -pride of intellectuality," the monster possesses full intelligence but -owns a hideously loathsome form. It is rejected by mankind, becomes -embittered, and at length begins the successive murder of all whom -young Frankenstein loves best, friends and family. It demands that -Frankenstein create a wife for it; and when the student finally refuses -in horror lest the world be populated with such monsters, it departs -with a hideous threat 'to be with him on his wedding night.' Upon that -night the bride is strangled, and from that time on Frankenstein hunts -down the monster, even into the wastes of the Arctic. In the end, -whilst seeking shelter on the ship of the man who tells the story, -Frankenstein himself is killed by the shocking object of the search and -creation of his presumptous pride. Some of the scenes in "Frankenstein" -are unforgettable, as when the newly animated monster enters its -creator's room, parts the curtains of his bed, and gazes at him in -the yellow moonlight with watery eyes—"if eyes they may be called." -Mrs. Shelley wrote other novels, including the fairly notable "Last -Man;" but never duplicated the success of her first effort. It has the -true touch of cosmic fear, no matter how much the movement may lag -in places. Dr. Polidori developed his competing idea as a long short -story, "The Vampyre;" in which we behold a suave villain of the true -Gothic or Byronic type, and encounter some excellent passages of stark -fright, including a terrible nocturnal experience in a shunned Grecian -wood.</p> - -<p class="ph1">(<i>Continued next month</i>)</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>BOOK REVIEW<br /> -by Bob Tucker</h3> - -<p>Black Moon by Thomas Ripley is a thrilling, weird book of voodoo -worship and adventure that should please any weird fan. The author -knows voodoo, and voodoo worshipers, and he most ably presents it in -this story.</p> - -<p>The story concerns a young man of New York City, who is called to San -Cristobal, an island off the coast of Haiti, by a mysteriously worded -message, to the effect that the life of his sweetheart depends on his -coming. Of course he goes, and is immediately plunged up to his neck in -mystery and adventure.</p> - -<p>His skirmishes with the voodoo'ers and his eventual discovery that his -own is the virgin queen of the voodoo worshipers prove thrilling. He is -beset by two villains, so to speak. Both his sweetheart, and her father -make several attempts upon his life, after he makes the discovery.</p> - -<p>The only criticisms of the book, are two, which even the most casual -readers will notice at once. The story, and one of the characters, are -altogether too "silvery" and too "cool".</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h2>NECROMANCY</h2> - -<h3>by Clark Ashton Smith</h3> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">My heart is made a necromancer's glass,</div> - <div class="verse">Where homeless forms and exile phantoms teem;</div> - <div class="verse">Where faces of forgotten sorrows gleam,</div> - <div class="verse">And dead despairs archaic peer and pass:</div> - <div class="verse">Grey longings of some weary heart that was.</div> - <div class="verse">Possess me, and the multiple, supreme,</div> - <div class="verse">Unwildered hope and star-emblazoned dream</div> - <div class="verse">Of questing armies.... Ancient queen and lass,</div> - <div class="verse">Risen vampire-like from out the wormy mold,</div> - <div class="verse">Deep in the magic mirror of my heart</div> - <div class="verse">Behold their perished beauty, and depart.</div> - <div class="verse">And now, from black aphelions far and cold,</div> - <div class="verse">Swimming in deathly light on charnel skies,</div> - <div class="verse">The enormous ghosts of bygone worlds arise.</div> -</div></div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h2>THE UNREMEMBERED REALM</h2> - -<h3>by Robert Nelson</h3> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">Nameless: that unremembered realm of the temporal universe</div> - <div class="verse">Which the sundry gods have slighted to complete:</div> - <div class="verse">These azure ice-peaks thrive and wane in wild exult,</div> - <div class="verse">And shift their freezing heights in tremulous tumult;</div> - <div class="verse">The wan ice-forms are vanished creatures lost in time.</div> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">Nameless: that unremembered realm of the temporal universe</div> - <div class="verse">Which the sundry gods have slighted to complete:</div> - <div class="verse">There the youthful moon is like a fount of living flame;</div> - <div class="verse">The eldern sun moves in a clique of pallid, dying mist;</div> - <div class="verse">Dark birds flow endlessly to turn the dawn to amethyst;</div> - <div class="verse">When moon and sun and birds are gone the dead make fires</div> - <div class="verse">In reeking, foul-swept skies above the great ice-spires,</div> - <div class="verse">And view the cold-fraught land with last and mad proclaim.</div> -</div></div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h2>Ebony and Ash</h2> - -<p class="ph1">(A Tale of Three Wishes)</p> - -<h3>by Richard Ely Morse</h3> - -<p>The city lay stricken, in those streets where once the carnival had -passed to the sound of lute and hautboy, now masquers of another sort -held reign, gray Pestilence, and livid Fever, and black-hooded Death. -The houses, so short a time ago bedecked with sweet-scented garlands -and precious stuffs, stood bleak and shuttered above the echoing -streets. Inside the people crouched, with staring eyes and hands -that trembled. No more did song or dance fantastic make bright their -chambers; prayer and fasting rather, penance for their sins. "Sackcloth -and ashes," had the gray-robed friars thundered for many a year, and -now were their warnings proved indeed.</p> - -<p>But there were those who, having made a jest of life, would mock even -at Death himself. In tall painted chambers they feasted, where peacocks -stalked emerald and amethyst on marble floors, while the banished flute -and hautboy murmured softly, and great candles guttered away into -perfumed ruin. Wine and jewels and the white breasts of women against -the pall of darkness outside. When the feast was ended the guests -departed each to his home, hiding his face in a cloak nor looking to -right or to left.</p> - -<p>But there were three, greatly favored by fortune, who left the -feast boldly and unafraid. Florian, Marius, and Leon, friends from -childhood, scoffers who feared nothing of the dank and noisome streets. -With lanterns of hammered brass in their hands and swords girded -at waist they set out, singing a love song, a sugared trifle more -befitting to some pleached alley than to this seething night. They had -gone but a short way before they came upon an aged crone who feebly -leaned beside an empty pedestal. A thousand years seemed lined within -the wrinkles of her face, but her eyes were young.</p> - -<p>Bidding them stop she cried that she, who ever loved bold youth, -would grant to each one wish if such he should choose to ask of her. -Believing her mad, yet willing to humor the fancies of a disordered -mind, they wished. Florian spoke first and begged that all the wealth -within the teeming world be his. Marius next bespoke the fairest of -women for his love. Leon last, and hesitating—sought happiness to -be his boon. Then laughing they passed on, and coming to the square, -parted, each for his home.</p> - -<p>Florian went swiftly, for now the moon lay hidden from the earth and -darkness rode upon the air. But soon he needst must stop—some vast -bulk stopped his pace. Holding his lantern high its gleam came back -a thousandfold; from gold and silver and gems heaped high until they -seemed to threaten Heaven itself. Falling upon his knees Florian -bathed his hands and arms within this precious flood, and threw bright -handfuls against the crouching night. But now there was within his -grasp something which seemed to whisper of sinister import, and as the -dancing rays fell clear upon it he shrieked and threw it far away—a -skull. With stricken face he fled, but as he ran, through every vein a -swifter racer sped, while shuddering pain was in every member. And the -lips of Fever twisted in a jagged grin.</p> - -<p>Now the moon tore from her web of shadows and drew strange patterns -over rooftops and cobbled ways. Marius stopped short, beholding at an -open window a face of beauty such is found in dreams only, and then -but seldom. Leaping from the street, Marius grasped the sill. She made -no outcry nor murmur even when he caught her in his arms and kissed -her curving mouth. She smiled ever, while from between her lips there -crawled a bloated worm. And Pestilence laughed aloud.</p> - -<p>But Leon lay quiet and forever still in the great square, with two curs -worrying at his feet.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h2>A DISEMBODIED SHADOW</h2> - -<p class="ph1">(A True Experience)</p> - -<h3>by Kenneth B. Pritchard</h3> - -<p>Everyone has seen shadows, but I'll wager that there are exceedingly -few who have seen the kind I did, beside those who were with me at the -time it happened.</p> - -<p>You have read weird stories of shadows, or of people who cast none. -What I am about to relate is true; I have witnesses to prove it.</p> - -<p>It was twilight of a summer day in the year '27 or '28. Our little -group was gathered in the rear of our homes—we called it the backyard, -though it was composed of roadways. We were talking and the stars began -to peep out of the skies. The street lamps began to glow, and the -windows of the surrounding houses began to show lights. And thus, the -stage was set.</p> - -<p>Our eyes wandered. About fifteen feet away lay a large shadow.</p> - -<p>It was mainly because of its size that I thought it might have been -caused by a friend of mine sitting by a window in a nearby building. I -became curious; thinking I could attract his attention so he would come -and join us, I walked to a point of vantage. There was no one by the -window, yet the shadow persisted in remaining!</p> - -<p>Upon looking further, being fully aroused, I could find no cause for -its existence. There was no possible, or probable source of blocked -light. I did not forget the sun, the stars, or the sky itself. I found -no flaw; the heavens and all ordinary light were normal. But there was -a shadow covering an area of from 100 to 150 square feet.</p> - -<p>The others gave it up. We could draw no satisfactory conclusion. I can -tell you that it was an eerie feeling I had in observing a disembodied -shadow. My mind went riot with thoughts of time travellers, visitors -from space, etc.</p> - -<p>Since then, I have tried to think of it as being caused by a kink in an -otherwise clear atmosphere; but my reason seems to tell me differently. -What was it? What strange thing had occurred that evening? Was this -planet of ours visited by some half-seen beings from another world?</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>FAMOUS FANTASY FANS<br /> -No. 3 Raymond A. Palmer</h3> - -<p>An indomitable will and courage has carried Raymond A. Palmer, or -Rap as he signs his well-liked column in <i>Fantasy Magazine</i>, through -trials and tribulations that would have sapped the strength of ordinary -men. It was the organizing genius of Rap that started the Science -Correspondence Club, and it was his guiding hand that brought it to a -success. When he was confirmed at a sanitarium he was forced to give up -his activities, and found the organization run down during his absence, -when he returned. It is he who is again building the International -Scientific Association to a position it once held.</p> - -<p>He is the chairman for the Jules Verne Prize Club, and President of the -International Scientific Association and his free hours are filled with -the details of managing these two organizations. His working has been -confined, by the depression, to writing stories.</p> - -<p>Now, at the beginning of his writing career, he is already recognized -as an author who will reach the highest pinnacles of the field. His -work has been praised by leading science fiction critics as being among -the outstanding stories appearing today.</p> - -<p>Recently, he seems destined to achieve additional success in the field -of radio continuity writing. He is now working on a Western skit on a -year's contract.</p> - -<p>He is active as a member of the "Fictioneers," an organized group of -authors in Milwaukee, South Milwaukee, Wauwatosa, and other Wisconsin -cities.</p> - -<p>Counts among his friends members of every race and every country of the -world. His letters fill many large packing boxes.</p> - -<p>Is the author of "The Time Ray of Jandra," "The Symphony of Death," -"The Man Who Invaded Time," "Dimension Doom," "Escape from Antarctica," -"The Vortex World," and "The Range Rid-Riders" (radio skit), besides -many unsubmitted stories. He has submitted nothing for a year because -of the condition of the markets.</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! Many subscriptions to THE FANTASY FAN expire this fall. -Yours is probably one of them. DON'T forget to send in your new -subscription if you want THE FANTASY FAN to continue publication. 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