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Vampire, whole no. 7, September 1946
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The STRIPED Vombis Does this heading remind you of FFM? by JAY F. CHIDSEY (Cartoon faces say:0 LOOK!! IN THE SKY!! IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! IT'S THE STRIPED VOMBIS!!!!! jk A scholarly and significant dissertation upon one of the most important and yet most neglected fields of fantasy interest. This is the first of a series of serious articles concerning the weird creatures which abound in the lore of the fantast... well, that's what it says here. The vombis was first discovered about ten years ago by the world-renowned Professor H. P. Ponghoff. The professor had travelled by safari into darkest Africa, India, Tibet, Greenland, and Jersey City. He had gone safari that his corns were giving him holy Ghu. As the professor settled comfortably upon his chair at home in Bloomington, the chair emitted a startled grunt and flew off, leaving the equally startled professor sitting in a sprawled attitude of indignation on his imported reversible Mongolian broadloom pants. Gently lowering the flask of Australian Vodka still clenched in his hand, the professor squinted carefully about. The chair was now squatting incongruously on the mantlepiece. All at once it bethought itself of the spectacle it was presenting and snapped into a -14-
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The STRIPED Vombis Does this heading remind you of FFM? by JAY F. CHIDSEY (Cartoon faces say:0 LOOK!! IN THE SKY!! IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! IT'S THE STRIPED VOMBIS!!!!! jk A scholarly and significant dissertation upon one of the most important and yet most neglected fields of fantasy interest. This is the first of a series of serious articles concerning the weird creatures which abound in the lore of the fantast... well, that's what it says here. The vombis was first discovered about ten years ago by the world-renowned Professor H. P. Ponghoff. The professor had travelled by safari into darkest Africa, India, Tibet, Greenland, and Jersey City. He had gone safari that his corns were giving him holy Ghu. As the professor settled comfortably upon his chair at home in Bloomington, the chair emitted a startled grunt and flew off, leaving the equally startled professor sitting in a sprawled attitude of indignation on his imported reversible Mongolian broadloom pants. Gently lowering the flask of Australian Vodka still clenched in his hand, the professor squinted carefully about. The chair was now squatting incongruously on the mantlepiece. All at once it bethought itself of the spectacle it was presenting and snapped into a -14-
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