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Acolyte, v. 3, issue 1, whole no. 9, Winter 1945
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--nearly 67 years old, too! In later time, there are also scores of fine fantasies which, I venture to say, are in great part unknown to hosts of fans: Warner's thriller, The Bridge of Time (1919), wherein an Egyptian Prince is put in magic sleep and wakes, amazed, to the year 1914--can you imagine his astonishment when he first saw New York's subways?; or The Light in the Sky by Clock and Boetzel (1929)--a new and terrific idea; or E. Charles Vivian's "lost race" tale, The City of Wonder (England, 1923); or Edward Shank's great story, The People of the Ruins (1920), where--as in Wells' When the Sleeper Wakes--the hero awakes to find himself in a decadent, half-ruined England.... ---oo0oo--- PENGUIN RINGS THE BELL. American "Penguin" added another excellent item to the growing list of fantastic pocket-books under date of November 1944, when they reprinted (for the first time in cheap format) William Sloane's fine To Walk the Night (originally published by Murray Hill, 1937). This tremendous novel of the possession of an idiot girl by an alien intelligence is recommended unreservedly. Penguin book No. 550, it may be had for 25[[cent symbol]] at your newstand.....The Penguin anthology, Out of This World, is not worth the 25[[cent symbol]] to any collector of any standing, who is sure to have all the good stories in a dozen or more other anthologies. ---FTL FANTASY FORUM THE READERS W. PAUL COOK writes from North Montpelier, Vermont: I was interested in the "Postscript to the Checklist of M. G. Lewis" which Mr. Koenig furnished for the Fall issue of The Acolyte. He had previously been courteous enough to send me a copy of the letter from which it was taken. It was a valuable comment on the list by "W. Paul Cook and R. H. Barlow" published in a previous issue. However, it impells me to write you a letter I have long had in mind in reference to these various check lists "by W. Paul Cook" which you have been publishing. I am perfectly willing to have these lists used for what they may be worth, but I wish to clear up any misunderstanding in the matter. These lists were never released by me for publication. They were my own private checklists for my own guidance when I was collecting the authors in question. While they are largely taken from my own collection and are therefore authentic, in many cases they only embodied what information I had on the subject and merely represented what I was looking for. Lovecraft had copies of some of my checklists, and I presume these are what Mr. Barlow has been handing you. I have been in no way consulted about the master and my consent to publication has at no time been obtained. And certainly I have at no time collaborated with Mr. Barlow in the preparation of any Lewis or other check-list. I trust I make myself plain. These lists may be published for what they are worth, as I said, but as I prepared them they were never meant for publication. I do not care to have fantasy fans or others imagine that I am releasing for publication what I regard as definitive lists of these authors. (Note: I believe that Mr. Cook's letter clears this matter up. The Acolyte staff wish to apologise to him for any possible misuse of his lists. It might be said in extenuation that Barlow sent us several packages of mss. for possible publication, and these two lists were among them. We naturally presumed that their inclusion indicated -- 27 --
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--nearly 67 years old, too! In later time, there are also scores of fine fantasies which, I venture to say, are in great part unknown to hosts of fans: Warner's thriller, The Bridge of Time (1919), wherein an Egyptian Prince is put in magic sleep and wakes, amazed, to the year 1914--can you imagine his astonishment when he first saw New York's subways?; or The Light in the Sky by Clock and Boetzel (1929)--a new and terrific idea; or E. Charles Vivian's "lost race" tale, The City of Wonder (England, 1923); or Edward Shank's great story, The People of the Ruins (1920), where--as in Wells' When the Sleeper Wakes--the hero awakes to find himself in a decadent, half-ruined England.... ---oo0oo--- PENGUIN RINGS THE BELL. American "Penguin" added another excellent item to the growing list of fantastic pocket-books under date of November 1944, when they reprinted (for the first time in cheap format) William Sloane's fine To Walk the Night (originally published by Murray Hill, 1937). This tremendous novel of the possession of an idiot girl by an alien intelligence is recommended unreservedly. Penguin book No. 550, it may be had for 25[[cent symbol]] at your newstand.....The Penguin anthology, Out of This World, is not worth the 25[[cent symbol]] to any collector of any standing, who is sure to have all the good stories in a dozen or more other anthologies. ---FTL FANTASY FORUM THE READERS W. PAUL COOK writes from North Montpelier, Vermont: I was interested in the "Postscript to the Checklist of M. G. Lewis" which Mr. Koenig furnished for the Fall issue of The Acolyte. He had previously been courteous enough to send me a copy of the letter from which it was taken. It was a valuable comment on the list by "W. Paul Cook and R. H. Barlow" published in a previous issue. However, it impells me to write you a letter I have long had in mind in reference to these various check lists "by W. Paul Cook" which you have been publishing. I am perfectly willing to have these lists used for what they may be worth, but I wish to clear up any misunderstanding in the matter. These lists were never released by me for publication. They were my own private checklists for my own guidance when I was collecting the authors in question. While they are largely taken from my own collection and are therefore authentic, in many cases they only embodied what information I had on the subject and merely represented what I was looking for. Lovecraft had copies of some of my checklists, and I presume these are what Mr. Barlow has been handing you. I have been in no way consulted about the master and my consent to publication has at no time been obtained. And certainly I have at no time collaborated with Mr. Barlow in the preparation of any Lewis or other check-list. I trust I make myself plain. These lists may be published for what they are worth, as I said, but as I prepared them they were never meant for publication. I do not care to have fantasy fans or others imagine that I am releasing for publication what I regard as definitive lists of these authors. (Note: I believe that Mr. Cook's letter clears this matter up. The Acolyte staff wish to apologise to him for any possible misuse of his lists. It might be said in extenuation that Barlow sent us several packages of mss. for possible publication, and these two lists were among them. We naturally presumed that their inclusion indicated -- 27 --
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