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Fantasite, v. 2, issue 3, whole no. 9, August-September 1942
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"The Death Pearl" by Frank Little Pollock. 8 pp. Not science fiction, but with an ending suitable for Ripley's "Believe It or Not". "The Passing of the Gooba" by Mrs. Willie Lord Moore. 8 1/2 pp. Disguised as a Hindoo mystic, the sly one leaves the town of Gnawsig and the Yenom Frater Society he has founded -- minus its financial wealth. February "The Flying Husband" by Wayne Byron Carlock. 8 pp. A frame-up of telephone calls and telegrams is arranged to make it appear that a cross-country trip was accomplished at three hundred miles an hour, a fantastic rate of speed when you consider the time the story was published. "WHERE IS ROBERT PALMER?" by I. Crane Clark. 7 pp. A Fantasy. The hypnotist of genuine powers gives his subject the belief that the (the subject) is an anarchist and "the world is a great big bombshell, with which he will be able to blow up and destroy the Universe." Finding he is believed, he retracts his statements when the subject, accidentally dropping a match he had lighted, gives an exclamation and disappears from sight. Simultaneously the skylight above the roof opens up as if with the upward flight of an object so incredibly swift as to melt the edges of the hole. Theme: "Where is Robert Palmer? Is the power of the mind infinite? Can it hurl bodies through space at a rate of speed such as would be produced by the explosion of a dynamite bomb the size of the earth? Does Robert Palmer's dust mingle with the distant stars? Does his soul survive after such an awful shock? Where, indeed, is Robert Palmer?" March "The Backsliding of Miss Mindy" by Mrs. Clark Dooley. 13 pp. $1300 Prize Story. "THE SPIRIT OF THE FAN" by Beatrice E. Rice. 6 pp. Mr. R. sees a tragedy enacted in the scene painted on a fan sent to him from Japan. This results in the bringing to justice of the heathen who has in reality, committed the crime. His version of the living world in the fan is unexplainable except by the occult. "Reasons of State" by Arthur Chamberlain. 11 1/2 pp. $100 Prize Story. "A Spiritual Affinity" by Margaret Merriwell. 7 1/2 pp. A reunion of two lovers is recognized in Denver after a seance. The cause is two halves of an Egyptian stone which together form a serpent, a symbol of eternity and a sign of the endurance of their love. "THE BLACK ROSES" by Anna McClure Sholl. 3 pp. The chemist satisfied his wife's craving for black roses, but is later horrified to find them white and his wife beside them, "quite dead, and black as if carved out of ebony," the poisons imprisoned in the petals having mysteriously escaped to her!" April "Mrs. Hanshy's Twins" by F. M. Warwick. 7 pp. $100 Prize Story. Brothers with identical likes and dislikes fall in love with one girl. One marries; the other commits suicide.
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"The Death Pearl" by Frank Little Pollock. 8 pp. Not science fiction, but with an ending suitable for Ripley's "Believe It or Not". "The Passing of the Gooba" by Mrs. Willie Lord Moore. 8 1/2 pp. Disguised as a Hindoo mystic, the sly one leaves the town of Gnawsig and the Yenom Frater Society he has founded -- minus its financial wealth. February "The Flying Husband" by Wayne Byron Carlock. 8 pp. A frame-up of telephone calls and telegrams is arranged to make it appear that a cross-country trip was accomplished at three hundred miles an hour, a fantastic rate of speed when you consider the time the story was published. "WHERE IS ROBERT PALMER?" by I. Crane Clark. 7 pp. A Fantasy. The hypnotist of genuine powers gives his subject the belief that the (the subject) is an anarchist and "the world is a great big bombshell, with which he will be able to blow up and destroy the Universe." Finding he is believed, he retracts his statements when the subject, accidentally dropping a match he had lighted, gives an exclamation and disappears from sight. Simultaneously the skylight above the roof opens up as if with the upward flight of an object so incredibly swift as to melt the edges of the hole. Theme: "Where is Robert Palmer? Is the power of the mind infinite? Can it hurl bodies through space at a rate of speed such as would be produced by the explosion of a dynamite bomb the size of the earth? Does Robert Palmer's dust mingle with the distant stars? Does his soul survive after such an awful shock? Where, indeed, is Robert Palmer?" March "The Backsliding of Miss Mindy" by Mrs. Clark Dooley. 13 pp. $1300 Prize Story. "THE SPIRIT OF THE FAN" by Beatrice E. Rice. 6 pp. Mr. R. sees a tragedy enacted in the scene painted on a fan sent to him from Japan. This results in the bringing to justice of the heathen who has in reality, committed the crime. His version of the living world in the fan is unexplainable except by the occult. "Reasons of State" by Arthur Chamberlain. 11 1/2 pp. $100 Prize Story. "A Spiritual Affinity" by Margaret Merriwell. 7 1/2 pp. A reunion of two lovers is recognized in Denver after a seance. The cause is two halves of an Egyptian stone which together form a serpent, a symbol of eternity and a sign of the endurance of their love. "THE BLACK ROSES" by Anna McClure Sholl. 3 pp. The chemist satisfied his wife's craving for black roses, but is later horrified to find them white and his wife beside them, "quite dead, and black as if carved out of ebony," the poisons imprisoned in the petals having mysteriously escaped to her!" April "Mrs. Hanshy's Twins" by F. M. Warwick. 7 pp. $100 Prize Story. Brothers with identical likes and dislikes fall in love with one girl. One marries; the other commits suicide.
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