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Fantasy Fan, v. 1, issue 7, March 1934

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98			THE FANTASY FAN	   March, 1934

Searight's poem takes high honors in this issue.
	"All in all; I think this semi-birthday issue is fine.  But there are a few things I would like to make comments about.  'The Boiling Point' should be eliminated, but the readers' column should not be shortened!  I agree with Mrs. Wooley-you should not insert a contents page, and thus cut out some interesting feature that could occupy the space.  THE FANTASY FAN is going places!"
			- Bob Tucker
	As this is only our seventh issue, we don't believe it's quite time to celebrate our success(?)-however, we will be one year old in September and might be better off by then and feel justified in whooping it up.
	We take great pleasure in presenting the following letter from H. Koenig.  His letters are always thoroughly interesting and instructive and we value them as much as some of our articles:
	"The February issue of THE FANTASY FAN was splendid and a marked improvement over the previous issue.  It is rather difficult to pick out any high spot; but the articles and stories by Lovecraft, Barlow, Smith, and Petaja were all fine, to say nothing of the column, 'Howl.  from the Ether.'
	"I particularly enjoyed Clark Ashton Smith's article on M. R. James.  It was an admirable essay on an author who is far too little known and appreciated on this side of the water, and I dare say, on the other side also.  Dr. James, who apparently has a tremendous amount of antiquarian and archeological information at his finger tips, is also, in my humble opinion, the greatest modern exponent of the ghost story.  I heartily second Smith's recommendation that all lovers of the weird and supernatural procure a copy of the Longman's Green and Company volume.  They will not be disappointed.  Incidentally, for the information of readers who are perhaps interested in the searate volumes of James' work rather than in the complete collection, the individual titles of his books (not mentioned in Smith's article) are as follows:
	1. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
	2. More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
	3. A Thin Ghost and Others
	4. A Warning to the Curious
	"By the way, M. R. James should not be confused with G. P. R. James who wrote that interesting romance, 'The Castle of Ehrenstein, Its Lords Spiritual and Temporal; Its Inhabitants Earthly and Unearthly.'  This is a book, which, while probably somewhat tiresome to the general reader, should prove of considerable interest to the student of the ghost story (I am fortunate to have a first edition of this book in three volumes published in 1847).
	"Emil Petaja's arttcle on 'Famous Fantasy Fiction' was also fine but to me far too short.  I could add dozens of other interestiug anthologies to his list but a few of the more important ones will suffice.  Mr. Petaja called attention to Dorothy Sayer's 'Omnibus of Crime.'  It should be noted that Miss Sayer edited a second series of stories entitled, 'Detection, Mystery,
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98 THE FANTASY FAN March, 1934 Searight's poem takes high honors in this issue. "All in all; I think this semi-birthday issue is fine. But there are a few things I would like to make comments about. 'The Boiling Point' should be eliminated, but the readers' column should not be shortened! I agree with Mrs. Wooley-you should not insert a contents page, and thus cut out some interesting feature that could occupy the space. THE FANTASY FAN is going places!" - Bob Tucker As this is only our seventh issue, we don't believe it's quite time to celebrate our success(?)-however, we will be one year old in September and might be better off by then and feel justified in whooping it up. We take great pleasure in presenting the following letter from H. Koenig. His letters are always thoroughly interesting and instructive and we value them as much as some of our articles: "The February issue of THE FANTASY FAN was splendid and a marked improvement over the previous issue. It is rather difficult to pick out any high spot; but the articles and stories by Lovecraft, Barlow, Smith, and Petaja were all fine, to say nothing of the column, 'Howl. from the Ether.' "I particularly enjoyed Clark Ashton Smith's article on M. R. James. It was an admirable essay on an author who is far too little known and appreciated on this side of the water, and I dare say, on the other side also. Dr. James, who apparently has a tremendous amount of antiquarian and archeological information at his finger tips, is also, in my humble opinion, the greatest modern exponent of the ghost story. I heartily second Smith's recommendation that all lovers of the weird and supernatural procure a copy of the Longman's Green and Company volume. They will not be disappointed. Incidentally, for the information of readers who are perhaps interested in the searate volumes of James' work rather than in the complete collection, the individual titles of his books (not mentioned in Smith's article) are as follows: 1. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary 2. More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary 3. A Thin Ghost and Others 4. A Warning to the Curious "By the way, M. R. James should not be confused with G. P. R. James who wrote that interesting romance, 'The Castle of Ehrenstein, Its Lords Spiritual and Temporal; Its Inhabitants Earthly and Unearthly.' This is a book, which, while probably somewhat tiresome to the general reader, should prove of considerable interest to the student of the ghost story (I am fortunate to have a first edition of this book in three volumes published in 1847). "Emil Petaja's arttcle on 'Famous Fantasy Fiction' was also fine but to me far too short. I could add dozens of other interestiug anthologies to his list but a few of the more important ones will suffice. Mr. Petaja called attention to Dorothy Sayer's 'Omnibus of Crime.' It should be noted that Miss Sayer edited a second series of stories entitled, 'Detection, Mystery, (continued on page 112)