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Acolyte, v. 3, issue 2, whole no. 11, Summer 1945
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er tells us it sells in New York bookshops for $1.50. The latter two, however, are still available at their publication price of 25[[cent symbol]] each. Handsomely set-up and printed, both are recommended, particularly the Keller item. Most copies are autographed by the author. Postfree at 25[[cent symbol]] each from Richard Frank, 342 Susquehanna Street, Williamsport 15, Pennsylvania. ---oo0oo--- DERLETH'S SECOND ANTHOLOGY. Most recently published Arkham House book August Derleth's Something Near proves to be a worthy, if not outstanding, addition to the Arkham series. Though not of the same spectacular quality as the two Smith volumes or the Wandrei, Something Near contains twenty weird shorts and novellas which range from good to excellent. Derleth is a thoroughly competent craftsman, and his better efforts in the genre are well deserving of hard covers. Recommended. $3.00 postpaid from Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin. (Further information on Arkham House will be found in Fantasy Forum.) ---oo0oo--- DeFOE IN PENGUIN. Though it came out last January, your editor just discovered Penguin Book #554: Daniel DeFoe, Tales of Piracy, Crime, and Ghosts. This includes not only the well-known "Apparition of Mrs. Veal", but a wealth of other weird shorts, many of them making their first appearance in print since the 18th Century. At 25[[cent symbol]] it's a steal! At your newsstand, or from Penguin Books, New York City. (will some reader please give us Penguin's full address for future use in this column?) ---oo0oo--- A "PHANTOM" MYSTERY. The house name of this pocketbook is no understatement, since the volume contains no data on the publisher, save that it was printed in the USA! In any event, this recent edition of H. H. Holmes'(Anthony Boucher) hoodunnit, Rocket to the Morgue, should be mentioned here as an associational item, if for no other reason. It is a fast-paced murder mystery containing a large number of science-fiction fans and authors as leading characters. Such writers as Heinlein and Cartmill, and several members of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society were used as source material for the characterizations. 25[[cent symbol]], and it may still be at your newsstand. ---oo0oo--- DONOVAN'S BRAIN. This stirring novel by Curt Sidomak is now available in Mercury Mysteries. Dealing with an illegal experiment with the brain of a dying man, and the obscene life and power eventually developed by the brain in its glass culture vat, the story reaches an enviable height of weird horror. Highly recommended. Mercury Book No. 87. 25[[cent symbol]] from your newsstand, or from The American Mercury Inc., 570 Lexington Ave., New York City 22. ---oo0oo--- CHARLES WILLIAMS. It came as a pleasant surprise to your editor to learn that Charles Williams, the gifted British author of such masterpieces as Many Dimensions and The Place of the Lion, is again actively writing fantasy. His latest (published in March 1945) is All Hallows Eve, a story of London as seen by the souls of the dead, of the attempt of a magical adept to seize control over both this world of spirits and of our mundane civilization, and of how the attempt is thwarted by the collaboration of two young women, one dead and one living. It is tremendously powerful and well-done. 8/6 (about $2) from Faber & Faber, 24 Russell Square, London. (On the jacket is also mentioned another recent novel which we have not seen: Williams' Descent Into Hell. It is probably available from the same publisher.) -- 28 --
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er tells us it sells in New York bookshops for $1.50. The latter two, however, are still available at their publication price of 25[[cent symbol]] each. Handsomely set-up and printed, both are recommended, particularly the Keller item. Most copies are autographed by the author. Postfree at 25[[cent symbol]] each from Richard Frank, 342 Susquehanna Street, Williamsport 15, Pennsylvania. ---oo0oo--- DERLETH'S SECOND ANTHOLOGY. Most recently published Arkham House book August Derleth's Something Near proves to be a worthy, if not outstanding, addition to the Arkham series. Though not of the same spectacular quality as the two Smith volumes or the Wandrei, Something Near contains twenty weird shorts and novellas which range from good to excellent. Derleth is a thoroughly competent craftsman, and his better efforts in the genre are well deserving of hard covers. Recommended. $3.00 postpaid from Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin. (Further information on Arkham House will be found in Fantasy Forum.) ---oo0oo--- DeFOE IN PENGUIN. Though it came out last January, your editor just discovered Penguin Book #554: Daniel DeFoe, Tales of Piracy, Crime, and Ghosts. This includes not only the well-known "Apparition of Mrs. Veal", but a wealth of other weird shorts, many of them making their first appearance in print since the 18th Century. At 25[[cent symbol]] it's a steal! At your newsstand, or from Penguin Books, New York City. (will some reader please give us Penguin's full address for future use in this column?) ---oo0oo--- A "PHANTOM" MYSTERY. The house name of this pocketbook is no understatement, since the volume contains no data on the publisher, save that it was printed in the USA! In any event, this recent edition of H. H. Holmes'(Anthony Boucher) hoodunnit, Rocket to the Morgue, should be mentioned here as an associational item, if for no other reason. It is a fast-paced murder mystery containing a large number of science-fiction fans and authors as leading characters. Such writers as Heinlein and Cartmill, and several members of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society were used as source material for the characterizations. 25[[cent symbol]], and it may still be at your newsstand. ---oo0oo--- DONOVAN'S BRAIN. This stirring novel by Curt Sidomak is now available in Mercury Mysteries. Dealing with an illegal experiment with the brain of a dying man, and the obscene life and power eventually developed by the brain in its glass culture vat, the story reaches an enviable height of weird horror. Highly recommended. Mercury Book No. 87. 25[[cent symbol]] from your newsstand, or from The American Mercury Inc., 570 Lexington Ave., New York City 22. ---oo0oo--- CHARLES WILLIAMS. It came as a pleasant surprise to your editor to learn that Charles Williams, the gifted British author of such masterpieces as Many Dimensions and The Place of the Lion, is again actively writing fantasy. His latest (published in March 1945) is All Hallows Eve, a story of London as seen by the souls of the dead, of the attempt of a magical adept to seize control over both this world of spirits and of our mundane civilization, and of how the attempt is thwarted by the collaboration of two young women, one dead and one living. It is tremendously powerful and well-done. 8/6 (about $2) from Faber & Faber, 24 Russell Square, London. (On the jacket is also mentioned another recent novel which we have not seen: Williams' Descent Into Hell. It is probably available from the same publisher.) -- 28 --
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