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Fantasy-News, v. 6, issue 5, whole no. 136, February 2, 1941
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FANTASY NEWS Page Three NEW LOVECRAFT NOVEL IN 'WEIRD'! OTHER GOOD YARNS BY QUINN & OWEN! Scheduled for the May issue of WEIRD TALES--out March 1st--is a NEW, never before published novel by Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Too long to run complete in one issue, the book will appear in two instalments of twenty thousand words each--the first in the May and the second in the July number. Titled "The Case of Charles Dexter War", this grand story is a scoop exclusive to the pages of WEIRD. The manuscript was discovered by August W. Derleth and Donald Wandrei; they say that as far as they know, this story is the "very last of the Lovecrafts". Longtime readers who have enjoyed, since the founding of the magazine, the writings of this supreme master of the weird tale--will find in this one plenty to remind them of the old days; the Necronomicon of the mad Arab Alhazred, for example, together with the Cthulhu tribe, are back again in full force. While old and new fans alike will find a perfect wealth of new thrills in this full-blooded horror drama, created by an author who remains as undisputed lord of the fantasy field. Principle characters in the story--a story of horror beyond hell--are Joseph Curwen and his descendeant Charles War. The firs is an unimaginably evil old gentleman, who goes on living and living until his neighbors be n to whisper he will never die. And they are not far wrong!. In the vast grim catacombs that lie deep beneath his lonely house on the moors outside quaint 18th-century Providence--Joseph Curwen conducts nameless rites and ghastly, incredible experiments. Poring over the Necronomicon and other tomes of ancient magic, he raises the dead through the "essential Saltes" of their dust. And he raises the worse than dead--the Vampires of Space - No one knows how old he is, but when he must be well over a hundred, Curwen marries(Column 2.) [column break] 'TERROR TALES' & 'HORROR STORIES' CHASED OFF N Y STANDS!!! The LaGuardia ban on "off-trail" fiction was the cause of the disappearance of two more magazines from the New York stands, when POPULAR Publications withdrew TERROR TALES and HORROR STORIES. In return, a summons against the publishing company before Magistrate Ambrose J. Haddock in West Side Court was withdrawn by Commissioner of Licences Paul Moss. The summons was issued because M ayor LaGuardia thought the magazines "too lurid". LOVECRAFTIAN NOVEL IN WEIRD Cont'd: an eighteen year old girl, and it is from this blasphemous alliance that Charles Ward descends. The young man inherits a legacy of unspeakable fear and dread--a destiny beside which death is no worse than a wet week-end. Here is a chance all fantasy lovers cannot afford to miss. "The Case Of Charles Dexter War" is the last, and probably the best,of all Lovecraft's superb tales. As well as the Lovecraft novel, Seabury Quinn has a witchcraft novelet called "There Are Such Things." Frank Owen has written a weird tale of the Orient; "By What Mystic Mooring", and there are a half-dozen other good yarns by well-known writers. The cover was designed by Hannes Bok. ODD ITEMS by FN Reporters. John Victor Peterson, who has clicked recently with several good yarns in COMET, has been confined to his bed with the flu and a 104 fever. (jvt) There will be a conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter on Feb 20, according to the H ayden Planetarium, again forming what 2000 years ago may have been "The Star of Bethlehem. (ch) Stricken with almost total blindness, Elliot Dold, may never again be able to draw. (ch)
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FANTASY NEWS Page Three NEW LOVECRAFT NOVEL IN 'WEIRD'! OTHER GOOD YARNS BY QUINN & OWEN! Scheduled for the May issue of WEIRD TALES--out March 1st--is a NEW, never before published novel by Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Too long to run complete in one issue, the book will appear in two instalments of twenty thousand words each--the first in the May and the second in the July number. Titled "The Case of Charles Dexter War", this grand story is a scoop exclusive to the pages of WEIRD. The manuscript was discovered by August W. Derleth and Donald Wandrei; they say that as far as they know, this story is the "very last of the Lovecrafts". Longtime readers who have enjoyed, since the founding of the magazine, the writings of this supreme master of the weird tale--will find in this one plenty to remind them of the old days; the Necronomicon of the mad Arab Alhazred, for example, together with the Cthulhu tribe, are back again in full force. While old and new fans alike will find a perfect wealth of new thrills in this full-blooded horror drama, created by an author who remains as undisputed lord of the fantasy field. Principle characters in the story--a story of horror beyond hell--are Joseph Curwen and his descendeant Charles War. The firs is an unimaginably evil old gentleman, who goes on living and living until his neighbors be n to whisper he will never die. And they are not far wrong!. In the vast grim catacombs that lie deep beneath his lonely house on the moors outside quaint 18th-century Providence--Joseph Curwen conducts nameless rites and ghastly, incredible experiments. Poring over the Necronomicon and other tomes of ancient magic, he raises the dead through the "essential Saltes" of their dust. And he raises the worse than dead--the Vampires of Space - No one knows how old he is, but when he must be well over a hundred, Curwen marries(Column 2.) [column break] 'TERROR TALES' & 'HORROR STORIES' CHASED OFF N Y STANDS!!! The LaGuardia ban on "off-trail" fiction was the cause of the disappearance of two more magazines from the New York stands, when POPULAR Publications withdrew TERROR TALES and HORROR STORIES. In return, a summons against the publishing company before Magistrate Ambrose J. Haddock in West Side Court was withdrawn by Commissioner of Licences Paul Moss. The summons was issued because M ayor LaGuardia thought the magazines "too lurid". LOVECRAFTIAN NOVEL IN WEIRD Cont'd: an eighteen year old girl, and it is from this blasphemous alliance that Charles Ward descends. The young man inherits a legacy of unspeakable fear and dread--a destiny beside which death is no worse than a wet week-end. Here is a chance all fantasy lovers cannot afford to miss. "The Case Of Charles Dexter War" is the last, and probably the best,of all Lovecraft's superb tales. As well as the Lovecraft novel, Seabury Quinn has a witchcraft novelet called "There Are Such Things." Frank Owen has written a weird tale of the Orient; "By What Mystic Mooring", and there are a half-dozen other good yarns by well-known writers. The cover was designed by Hannes Bok. ODD ITEMS by FN Reporters. John Victor Peterson, who has clicked recently with several good yarns in COMET, has been confined to his bed with the flu and a 104 fever. (jvt) There will be a conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter on Feb 20, according to the H ayden Planetarium, again forming what 2000 years ago may have been "The Star of Bethlehem. (ch) Stricken with almost total blindness, Elliot Dold, may never again be able to draw. (ch)
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