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Fandango, v. 1, issue 2, whole no. 6, Fall 1944
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letter from that city praising the production. Let's see, the booklet was published in 1938. By 1939 he was writing, because I went to the First World Science Fiction Convention and obtained at the auction the lsip original illustration for his [[underline]] Two [[/underline]] [[underline]] Sought [[/underline]] [[underline]] Adventure [[/underline]]. So six years had passed since I saw him last; but he did not appear appreciably changed. Still a towering man, about six feet four, I should judge, with the build to go with his unusual height. Dark, handsome devil, and strongly resembling Leiber Sr., the cinemactor. (There has just crossed my mind at this moment the veriest mate of a memory of having seen Leiber Jr briefly about a lustrous ago in a short motion picture subject. Was he playing golf with Bing Crosby in a [[underline]] Screen [[/underline]] [[underline]] Snapshots [[/underline]] ..? The evening at Laney's, Leiber interested himself, as what true fantasy fan would not, in browsing thru the remarkable library removing now this, now that volume, from a heaven laden shelf, to examine it, perhaps comment on it. Let me see if I can remember any longer the titles that came to his attention or received mention: There was a Bram Stoker's [[underline]] Jewel [[/underline]] [[underline]] of [[/underline]] [[underline]] the [[/underline]] [[underline]] Seven [[/underline]] [[underline]] Stars [[/underline]], I should say; [[underline]] Dracula [[/underline]] ' [[underline]] s [[/underline]] [[underline]] Guest [[/underline]] ; a work of Oliver Onions; two enormous English horror anthologies; S. Fowler Wright's [[underline]] Deluge [[/underline]] (a Laney favorite); [[underline]] Darkness [[/underline]] [[underline]] and [[/underline]] [[underline]] the [[/underline]] [[underline]] Light [[/underline]], W. Olaf Stapledon's latest (mentioned only); and Leiber supplied quite a few facts on Algernon Blackwood. This author, Leiber revealed, related of himself in an autobiography ([[underline]] Things [[/underline]] [[underline]] Before [[/underline]] [[underline]] Thirty [[/underline]] ...ftl) that he had an affinity for bad lots of humanity. He was continually befriending riffraff. At first they would sponge on him, then come to steal from him. At last Blackwood would rebel and turn them over to the law; then, in a fit of remorse, do everything possible to prevent justice from taking its course! Neurotic, no doubt. Leiber also said that AB's reaction to the Big City was an odd one: New York seemed to be a huge, frightening, awesome, overwhelming, alien complexity to him. Leiber commented that Lovecraft gave evidence of being similarly affected. FL (no, that abbreviation won't work so well--I meant it for Fritz Leiber but realized the monet I typed it that it could stand equally easily for Fran Laney)--Leiber also talked at length about this author or that whose writing were derived from drams, and had a definite dreamlike quality about them. He told of a book credited as being almost completely a transcription of a dream. If FTL remembers the title of this unique work, I myself should be grateful for its inclusion at this point. (FTL regrets that his mind is a complete blank on this point, among many others.) At one time in the evening a remark was made about the English post-war plan for a scientifantasy magazine to be a king of combination of [[underline]] Astounding [[/underline]] and [[underline]] Unknown [[/underline]]. Leiber was immediately interested and a copy of the bi-weekly New Jersey s-f newssheet, [[underline]] Fantasy [[/underline]] [[underline]] Times [[/underline], was produced, from which he read the details and copied the address of potential editor Walter Gillings. Leiber theorized that many fantasy writers, finding the field too limited for a lucrative living, adapt part of their talents to science fiction, so called. The standards of the day being far less strict than in the Gernsback era of science-steeped writers like Brever, brary gleaning of a subject may hash together salable pseudo-scientific stories--and (too?) often do. Fritz had brought with him a box of manuscripts for [[underline]] Acolyte [[/underline]] consideration, and finally FTL could restrain himself no longer from [[dashed line]] (footnote from p. 1) A 28-page memorial volume including a chonological account of Conan's career, map of Hyperborea, and an introduction by HPL. Available from Box 6475 Metro Stn., LA 55, Cal., at $1 per copy.) -- 2 --
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letter from that city praising the production. Let's see, the booklet was published in 1938. By 1939 he was writing, because I went to the First World Science Fiction Convention and obtained at the auction the lsip original illustration for his [[underline]] Two [[/underline]] [[underline]] Sought [[/underline]] [[underline]] Adventure [[/underline]]. So six years had passed since I saw him last; but he did not appear appreciably changed. Still a towering man, about six feet four, I should judge, with the build to go with his unusual height. Dark, handsome devil, and strongly resembling Leiber Sr., the cinemactor. (There has just crossed my mind at this moment the veriest mate of a memory of having seen Leiber Jr briefly about a lustrous ago in a short motion picture subject. Was he playing golf with Bing Crosby in a [[underline]] Screen [[/underline]] [[underline]] Snapshots [[/underline]] ..? The evening at Laney's, Leiber interested himself, as what true fantasy fan would not, in browsing thru the remarkable library removing now this, now that volume, from a heaven laden shelf, to examine it, perhaps comment on it. Let me see if I can remember any longer the titles that came to his attention or received mention: There was a Bram Stoker's [[underline]] Jewel [[/underline]] [[underline]] of [[/underline]] [[underline]] the [[/underline]] [[underline]] Seven [[/underline]] [[underline]] Stars [[/underline]], I should say; [[underline]] Dracula [[/underline]] ' [[underline]] s [[/underline]] [[underline]] Guest [[/underline]] ; a work of Oliver Onions; two enormous English horror anthologies; S. Fowler Wright's [[underline]] Deluge [[/underline]] (a Laney favorite); [[underline]] Darkness [[/underline]] [[underline]] and [[/underline]] [[underline]] the [[/underline]] [[underline]] Light [[/underline]], W. Olaf Stapledon's latest (mentioned only); and Leiber supplied quite a few facts on Algernon Blackwood. This author, Leiber revealed, related of himself in an autobiography ([[underline]] Things [[/underline]] [[underline]] Before [[/underline]] [[underline]] Thirty [[/underline]] ...ftl) that he had an affinity for bad lots of humanity. He was continually befriending riffraff. At first they would sponge on him, then come to steal from him. At last Blackwood would rebel and turn them over to the law; then, in a fit of remorse, do everything possible to prevent justice from taking its course! Neurotic, no doubt. Leiber also said that AB's reaction to the Big City was an odd one: New York seemed to be a huge, frightening, awesome, overwhelming, alien complexity to him. Leiber commented that Lovecraft gave evidence of being similarly affected. FL (no, that abbreviation won't work so well--I meant it for Fritz Leiber but realized the monet I typed it that it could stand equally easily for Fran Laney)--Leiber also talked at length about this author or that whose writing were derived from drams, and had a definite dreamlike quality about them. He told of a book credited as being almost completely a transcription of a dream. If FTL remembers the title of this unique work, I myself should be grateful for its inclusion at this point. (FTL regrets that his mind is a complete blank on this point, among many others.) At one time in the evening a remark was made about the English post-war plan for a scientifantasy magazine to be a king of combination of [[underline]] Astounding [[/underline]] and [[underline]] Unknown [[/underline]]. Leiber was immediately interested and a copy of the bi-weekly New Jersey s-f newssheet, [[underline]] Fantasy [[/underline]] [[underline]] Times [[/underline], was produced, from which he read the details and copied the address of potential editor Walter Gillings. Leiber theorized that many fantasy writers, finding the field too limited for a lucrative living, adapt part of their talents to science fiction, so called. The standards of the day being far less strict than in the Gernsback era of science-steeped writers like Brever, brary gleaning of a subject may hash together salable pseudo-scientific stories--and (too?) often do. Fritz had brought with him a box of manuscripts for [[underline]] Acolyte [[/underline]] consideration, and finally FTL could restrain himself no longer from [[dashed line]] (footnote from p. 1) A 28-page memorial volume including a chonological account of Conan's career, map of Hyperborea, and an introduction by HPL. Available from Box 6475 Metro Stn., LA 55, Cal., at $1 per copy.) -- 2 --
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