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Vampire, whole no. 7, September 1946
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Various people have complained from time to time that the staples with which we laboriously fasten each tender, palpitrating copy together don't hold. This time your suffering publisher hopes to remedy the situation by stapling each copy double--three staples from the front and three from the back. If this doesn't hold, next time we'll use Portland cement. Or else print the mag on flypaper and roll all the sheets up in a ball. Or something. Incidentally, our correspondence is in a horrible state of affairs, as per usual. Apologies to various long-suffering slans to whom we owe letters. And since we plan to attend college this fall, there is scant hope that the situation will be remedied. Well, as predicted by Arkham House, Sun Dial Press has re-issued H. F. Heard's The Great Fog under the title Weird Tales of Terror and Detection. This was formerly issued by Vanguard, at $2.50, and is printed from the original plates. The book contains eight short stories of which outstanding tales include "The Great Fog" (mysterious mist arises from a plant blight, altering the composition of the atmosphere and producing some radical changes in civilization) and "Wingless Victory" (Antarctic explorer stumbles upon a highly developed penguin society), plus other weird, fantastic, and s-f tales. 'Tis now on sale everywhere for one buck. ... Penguin Books' Out of This World anthology has been reprinted under the Bantam label, 25 c, pocket-sized, so fans who missed this excellent collection of light fantasy have another opportunity to acquire it. Also carrying the Bantam imprint is Drawn and Quartered, a collection of truly macabre cartoons by Chas. Addams of New Yorker fame. We recommend for laughs. ... At a nearby bookstall we took a look at a copy of Isak Dinesen's Winter's Tales, supposedly published by Tower Books, and were surprised to find that it was not a cheap 49 c reprint, but the original $2.50 edition, excellent paper and superlative binding, as published by Random House. Apparently the Dinesen book was too good to be commercial, and Tower took over the surplus, printed up some dust-jackets, and panned it out with the usual crop of mysteries and westerns. The volume is not all fantasy, but it is weird, beautifully written-- if you've never read any Dinesen you're missing a rare literary treat. Incidentally, her Seven Gothic Tales is still obtainable at 95 c in the Modern Library edition. It's excellent stuff... VAMPIRE NOW-WE-KNOW-WHAT-HAPPENED-TO-PALMER CORNER "..With our bodies trembling--yet untouched and unmarked--we suffered the unspeakable hell of having our flesh torn with hot pincers, of the skin of our bodies being removed slowly, inch by careful inch, while irritant powders and salt were sprinkled on the bared flesh and nerve ends, of having finger and toe nails mentally torn out, one by one, being immersed inch by slow inch'into boiling water--eardrums throbbing with the agonized screams of one's friends unmercifully suffering the same sensations."--"Cult of the Witch Queen", July 1946 Amazing. Egad, but doesn't it become a bit monotonous after a while? -5-
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Various people have complained from time to time that the staples with which we laboriously fasten each tender, palpitrating copy together don't hold. This time your suffering publisher hopes to remedy the situation by stapling each copy double--three staples from the front and three from the back. If this doesn't hold, next time we'll use Portland cement. Or else print the mag on flypaper and roll all the sheets up in a ball. Or something. Incidentally, our correspondence is in a horrible state of affairs, as per usual. Apologies to various long-suffering slans to whom we owe letters. And since we plan to attend college this fall, there is scant hope that the situation will be remedied. Well, as predicted by Arkham House, Sun Dial Press has re-issued H. F. Heard's The Great Fog under the title Weird Tales of Terror and Detection. This was formerly issued by Vanguard, at $2.50, and is printed from the original plates. The book contains eight short stories of which outstanding tales include "The Great Fog" (mysterious mist arises from a plant blight, altering the composition of the atmosphere and producing some radical changes in civilization) and "Wingless Victory" (Antarctic explorer stumbles upon a highly developed penguin society), plus other weird, fantastic, and s-f tales. 'Tis now on sale everywhere for one buck. ... Penguin Books' Out of This World anthology has been reprinted under the Bantam label, 25 c, pocket-sized, so fans who missed this excellent collection of light fantasy have another opportunity to acquire it. Also carrying the Bantam imprint is Drawn and Quartered, a collection of truly macabre cartoons by Chas. Addams of New Yorker fame. We recommend for laughs. ... At a nearby bookstall we took a look at a copy of Isak Dinesen's Winter's Tales, supposedly published by Tower Books, and were surprised to find that it was not a cheap 49 c reprint, but the original $2.50 edition, excellent paper and superlative binding, as published by Random House. Apparently the Dinesen book was too good to be commercial, and Tower took over the surplus, printed up some dust-jackets, and panned it out with the usual crop of mysteries and westerns. The volume is not all fantasy, but it is weird, beautifully written-- if you've never read any Dinesen you're missing a rare literary treat. Incidentally, her Seven Gothic Tales is still obtainable at 95 c in the Modern Library edition. It's excellent stuff... VAMPIRE NOW-WE-KNOW-WHAT-HAPPENED-TO-PALMER CORNER "..With our bodies trembling--yet untouched and unmarked--we suffered the unspeakable hell of having our flesh torn with hot pincers, of the skin of our bodies being removed slowly, inch by careful inch, while irritant powders and salt were sprinkled on the bared flesh and nerve ends, of having finger and toe nails mentally torn out, one by one, being immersed inch by slow inch'into boiling water--eardrums throbbing with the agonized screams of one's friends unmercifully suffering the same sensations."--"Cult of the Witch Queen", July 1946 Amazing. Egad, but doesn't it become a bit monotonous after a while? -5-
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