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Acolyte, v. 3, issue 1, whole no. 9, Winter 1945
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BANQUETS FOR BOOKWORMS ARKHAM HOUSE. As most of our readers doubtless know, the second volume of Clark Ashton Smith's short stories, Lost Worlds, appeared shortly after the last issue of The Acolyte. Uniform in format with the now out-of-print Out of Space and time, this volume is positively a must. $3.00 from Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin. While you are ordering, we suggest you add $3.00 for Marginalia, the collection of Lovecraft odds and ends which should be out by the time this notice is published. It will include a miscellany of HPL's lesser-known writings and collaborations, considerable material about Lovecraft, and a number of illustrations. August Derleth writes, "I am still missing the October 1941 issue of Unknown, which I need to complete my files; if an y fan has a duplicate he wants to sell, pass the word around I'm buying." He continues with Arkham House's future plans: "...we have accepted our first work from ms.--Witch House by Evangeline Walton--and we hope to publish it in 1945 along with my own Something Near, Bloch's The Opener of the Way, Long's The Hounds of Tindalos, and Howard's Skull-Face and Others. The line-up for 1946 is beginning to emerge: collections by Kuttner, Moore, Leiber; Smith's Selected Poems; probably Frank Long's novel, The Horror From the Hills. Fan support forthcoming, we'll sell the novels at $2 the copy, slightly different format from the short story collections. 1946 should also see our first scientifiction volume, but I've not yet decided on the author. That will come after I've read over a few more pieces in the magazines." (This should effectually squelch the rumor that Arkham House is not interested in scientifiction. FTL) ---oo0oo--- COLLECTORS' ITEMS. In a recent letter, Thyril L. Ladd, a new Acolyte subscriber, got well wound p rhapsodizing over certain of the more obscure items in his collection. How would you like to get loose in this man's shelves? "Of course, as far as that goes, both you and I could fill several pages with most excellent fantastic and bizarre tales, of which many of the readers do not know. Items like Baroness Orzcy's splendid The Gates of Kamt, (1907) where the two young Englishmen discover the rock-rimmed valley where lives a great nation of people with customs, language, and buildings just as they were in ancient Egypt--even to a reigning Pharaoh. Well written, too. And the colored illustrations, by the Kinneys, are simply superb. Or Mrs. Blodgett's At the Queen's Mercy, (1897), Aubrey's The Devil-Tree of El-Dorodo, (1897), Bennet's Thyra, (1901), and Wilson's Rafnaland, (1900)---all very old-timers, and all great tales. I have one other book, published in Albany in 1878, entitled Hannibal's Man and Other Stories. The title-tale is fantastic--about finding a soldier of Hannibal's army imbedded in the ice of a glacier, and bringing him to life--but the really great story in the book is--what a title !--The Secret of Appolonius Septrio---a long novelette wherein an obscure professor discovers that, by eating a common weed, life may be prolonged forever. Ridiculed by contemporaries, only he, his wife, and her brother eat of it; they live on and on, while the centuries pass by. After thousands upon thousands of years, man has greatly increased in stature and grown wings---and deem the professor in his wingless state a freak, probably some queer animal! Now imagine a tale like this, -- 26 --
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BANQUETS FOR BOOKWORMS ARKHAM HOUSE. As most of our readers doubtless know, the second volume of Clark Ashton Smith's short stories, Lost Worlds, appeared shortly after the last issue of The Acolyte. Uniform in format with the now out-of-print Out of Space and time, this volume is positively a must. $3.00 from Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin. While you are ordering, we suggest you add $3.00 for Marginalia, the collection of Lovecraft odds and ends which should be out by the time this notice is published. It will include a miscellany of HPL's lesser-known writings and collaborations, considerable material about Lovecraft, and a number of illustrations. August Derleth writes, "I am still missing the October 1941 issue of Unknown, which I need to complete my files; if an y fan has a duplicate he wants to sell, pass the word around I'm buying." He continues with Arkham House's future plans: "...we have accepted our first work from ms.--Witch House by Evangeline Walton--and we hope to publish it in 1945 along with my own Something Near, Bloch's The Opener of the Way, Long's The Hounds of Tindalos, and Howard's Skull-Face and Others. The line-up for 1946 is beginning to emerge: collections by Kuttner, Moore, Leiber; Smith's Selected Poems; probably Frank Long's novel, The Horror From the Hills. Fan support forthcoming, we'll sell the novels at $2 the copy, slightly different format from the short story collections. 1946 should also see our first scientifiction volume, but I've not yet decided on the author. That will come after I've read over a few more pieces in the magazines." (This should effectually squelch the rumor that Arkham House is not interested in scientifiction. FTL) ---oo0oo--- COLLECTORS' ITEMS. In a recent letter, Thyril L. Ladd, a new Acolyte subscriber, got well wound p rhapsodizing over certain of the more obscure items in his collection. How would you like to get loose in this man's shelves? "Of course, as far as that goes, both you and I could fill several pages with most excellent fantastic and bizarre tales, of which many of the readers do not know. Items like Baroness Orzcy's splendid The Gates of Kamt, (1907) where the two young Englishmen discover the rock-rimmed valley where lives a great nation of people with customs, language, and buildings just as they were in ancient Egypt--even to a reigning Pharaoh. Well written, too. And the colored illustrations, by the Kinneys, are simply superb. Or Mrs. Blodgett's At the Queen's Mercy, (1897), Aubrey's The Devil-Tree of El-Dorodo, (1897), Bennet's Thyra, (1901), and Wilson's Rafnaland, (1900)---all very old-timers, and all great tales. I have one other book, published in Albany in 1878, entitled Hannibal's Man and Other Stories. The title-tale is fantastic--about finding a soldier of Hannibal's army imbedded in the ice of a glacier, and bringing him to life--but the really great story in the book is--what a title !--The Secret of Appolonius Septrio---a long novelette wherein an obscure professor discovers that, by eating a common weed, life may be prolonged forever. Ridiculed by contemporaries, only he, his wife, and her brother eat of it; they live on and on, while the centuries pass by. After thousands upon thousands of years, man has greatly increased in stature and grown wings---and deem the professor in his wingless state a freak, probably some queer animal! Now imagine a tale like this, -- 26 --
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