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Acolyte, v. 3, issue 2, whole no. 11, Summer 1945
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rence. If the reader had any knowledge to speak of, he'd hardly be impressed! ---oo0oo--- August Derleth gives a glimpse of a busy life: A copy of Something Near went out to you today. Hope you like it. First review points out that most of my short stories have a "moral", that Someone in the Dark was better. Looks as if Witch House would come next, then The Opener of the Way, but the decision rests with our printers.....I have been pretty busy. In rapid succession this month ((May)) I have had to take in 2000 copies of Something Near, ship 400; enter scores of orders for coming AH and M&M books; fictionize an Arch Oboler script for slick-paper magazine in short novel length; proof and see from press for Decker my 8th book of poems, a singularly striking job for which Ron Clyne did the jacket (The Edge of Night - 600 copies printed); proof HPL: A Memoir and Supernatural Horror in Literature; read two collections of Hartley tales from England for our own projected selection of his uncanny stories, etc. etc.--all in addition to my journal, correspondence, reviewing, and the daily stint at hunting mushrooms (morels) at from 4 to 6 hours daily. So you can well conceive how I've been tied down. I have yet to finish a book on writing fiction for The Writer Publications promised June 1--50,000 words to go! Hold your thumbs, boy--I'll need some kind of magic to do it and still do everything else I should be doing. ---oo0oo--- Nils H. Frome, Box 3, Fraser Mills, British Columbia wanted an ad: To swap or sell: Ghost Stories, July 1926 to April 1927, May 1927, November 1927 to August 1928, October and November 1928, and January, March and July 1929. (He failed to price them, or to indicate what he might accept in exchange. Interested readers might write him. FTL) ---oo0oo--- Robert Bloch comments generally: Naturally I was much interested in the remarks of E. Hoffman Price, the Rajah of Redwood City. I concur wholeheartedly with his conclusions and admit that he has given the matter a great deal more thought than I did...to which he is able to add the experience of many years as a top-notcher in his field. Was also pleased by Leiber's story, epitomizing as it does Leiber's preoccupation with the intellectual as an alien amidst sordid surroundings or in shabby circumstances. It has always seemed to me that Leiber is most adept at intimating horror inherent in an accepted commonplace...the sight of a window shade flapping outward from a room in a cheap boarding house is one which he could invest with a vast and evil significance. ....See that you are really up to your neck in assorted grief...right now I am struggling with my 26 additional radio scripts to make up the 39 of the Stay Tuned for Terror series--which is already on the air, three times a week, from Chicago. This, plus my regular work, plus my daughter (who now identifies herself, at 22 months, as "Sally Ann the Bloch")...well, I'm in the same boat, brother. And searching for the same non-existent paddle. ---oo0oo--- Paul Doerr, one of our newer subscribers who was recently inducted into the Navy, gives an interesting bit of off-trail data on the Cthulhu Mythology: In one volume "popular" references book published in 1941 by Wm. H. Wise & Co., Marvels and Mysteries of Science, appears an arti- -- 30 --
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rence. If the reader had any knowledge to speak of, he'd hardly be impressed! ---oo0oo--- August Derleth gives a glimpse of a busy life: A copy of Something Near went out to you today. Hope you like it. First review points out that most of my short stories have a "moral", that Someone in the Dark was better. Looks as if Witch House would come next, then The Opener of the Way, but the decision rests with our printers.....I have been pretty busy. In rapid succession this month ((May)) I have had to take in 2000 copies of Something Near, ship 400; enter scores of orders for coming AH and M&M books; fictionize an Arch Oboler script for slick-paper magazine in short novel length; proof and see from press for Decker my 8th book of poems, a singularly striking job for which Ron Clyne did the jacket (The Edge of Night - 600 copies printed); proof HPL: A Memoir and Supernatural Horror in Literature; read two collections of Hartley tales from England for our own projected selection of his uncanny stories, etc. etc.--all in addition to my journal, correspondence, reviewing, and the daily stint at hunting mushrooms (morels) at from 4 to 6 hours daily. So you can well conceive how I've been tied down. I have yet to finish a book on writing fiction for The Writer Publications promised June 1--50,000 words to go! Hold your thumbs, boy--I'll need some kind of magic to do it and still do everything else I should be doing. ---oo0oo--- Nils H. Frome, Box 3, Fraser Mills, British Columbia wanted an ad: To swap or sell: Ghost Stories, July 1926 to April 1927, May 1927, November 1927 to August 1928, October and November 1928, and January, March and July 1929. (He failed to price them, or to indicate what he might accept in exchange. Interested readers might write him. FTL) ---oo0oo--- Robert Bloch comments generally: Naturally I was much interested in the remarks of E. Hoffman Price, the Rajah of Redwood City. I concur wholeheartedly with his conclusions and admit that he has given the matter a great deal more thought than I did...to which he is able to add the experience of many years as a top-notcher in his field. Was also pleased by Leiber's story, epitomizing as it does Leiber's preoccupation with the intellectual as an alien amidst sordid surroundings or in shabby circumstances. It has always seemed to me that Leiber is most adept at intimating horror inherent in an accepted commonplace...the sight of a window shade flapping outward from a room in a cheap boarding house is one which he could invest with a vast and evil significance. ....See that you are really up to your neck in assorted grief...right now I am struggling with my 26 additional radio scripts to make up the 39 of the Stay Tuned for Terror series--which is already on the air, three times a week, from Chicago. This, plus my regular work, plus my daughter (who now identifies herself, at 22 months, as "Sally Ann the Bloch")...well, I'm in the same boat, brother. And searching for the same non-existent paddle. ---oo0oo--- Paul Doerr, one of our newer subscribers who was recently inducted into the Navy, gives an interesting bit of off-trail data on the Cthulhu Mythology: In one volume "popular" references book published in 1941 by Wm. H. Wise & Co., Marvels and Mysteries of Science, appears an arti- -- 30 --
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