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Spaceways, v. 4, issue 1, whole no. 24, December 1941
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14 SPACEWAYS A COLLECTOR SPEAKS "Haunted"--A poem by Howard Davis Spoerl, about one obsessed by loneliness and the ghost of a dead moon. "The Faun"--(1918) A tale "of Pan, the Hybia Bees, the Satyr, the Centaur, the Harpies, of Persephone, and the nearly-human Faun", by Samuel Loveman. "Flower of War"--A poem by Henry George Weiss (Francis Flagg). "Three Fragments"--Prose by H. P. Lovecraft: 1: "Azathoth" (1922), a tale of a time "when age fell upon the world, and wonder went out of the minds of men"; 2: "The Descendant" (1926), a Necronomicon story; 3. "The Book" (1934), the key to other dimensions. "O, Is There Aught in Wine and Ships"--A poem by Frank B. Long, Jr. "Futility"--Four lines by Frank B. Long, Jr.--"It doesn't matter what we do For when we die we'll rot, And worms will through our livers crawl And on our gizzards trot." Well, everyone is surely entitled to whatever point of view he may choose! "The Demons of the Upper Air"--A poem, four pages long, by Fritz Lieber, Jr. "In Defense of Dagon"--(January, 1932) A two page article by H. P. Lovecraft. "Dagon" was Lovecraft's first published story in Weird Tales. The following is an excerpt: "Imaginative artists have been few, and always unappreciated. Blake is woefully undervalued. Poe would never have been understood had not the French taken the pains to exalt and interpret him. Dunsany has met with nothing but coldness or lukewarm praise. And nine persons out of ten never hears of Ambrose Bierce, the finest story writer except Poe whom America ever produced. The imaginative writer devotes himself to art in its most essential sense. It is not his business to fashion a pretty trifle to please the children, to point a useful moral. He is a painter of moods and mind-pictures.....He mirrors the rays that fall upon him, and does not ask their source or effect. He is not practical, poor fellow, and sometimes dies in poverty....His statements and pictures are not always pleasant and sometimes quite impossible. "There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression. I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.....Man's relations to man do not captivate my fancy. It is man's relation to the cosmos--to the unknown--which alone arouses me in the spark of creative imagination. "The Unresisting", and "March"--Poems by Jonathon Lindley. "The Tree-Man"--A story, by Henry S. Whitehead, reprinted from the Feb.-March, 1931, issue of Weird Tales. "Check-List of the Published Stories of Henry S. Whitehead""--The list includes the author's twenty-five published stories in Weird Tales since "Tea-Leaves", in the May-June-July, 1924, issue, his six in Strange Tales, and his four in Adventure: "The Intarsia Box", November 10, 1923, "The Cunning of the Serpent". May 20, 1925, "The Black Beast", July 15, 1931, "Seven Turns in a Hangman's Rope", July 15, 1932. "Origin Undetermined"--A story by R. H. Barlow. This is a "seeds from space" narration, of a glass-eating growth whose smell induces visions of a far-flung land of desolation, the unknown place of origin of the seeds, and source of the final, mysterious doom of the Mayas...... A letter, by H. P. Lovecraft: "It can be said that anything which vividly embodies a basic human emotion or captures a definite and typical human mood is genuine art. The subject matter is immaterial. It requires no especial morbidity to enjoy any authentic word-description, whether it is conventionally 'pleasant' or not. The question to ask is not whether it is 'healthy' or 'pleasant', but whether it is genuine and powerful." On this general subject I could go on indefinitely. After all, there are so many sides to the collecting angle of published stf. that is a world in itself when uncovered. Or, to be more specific, there are innumerable items,
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14 SPACEWAYS A COLLECTOR SPEAKS "Haunted"--A poem by Howard Davis Spoerl, about one obsessed by loneliness and the ghost of a dead moon. "The Faun"--(1918) A tale "of Pan, the Hybia Bees, the Satyr, the Centaur, the Harpies, of Persephone, and the nearly-human Faun", by Samuel Loveman. "Flower of War"--A poem by Henry George Weiss (Francis Flagg). "Three Fragments"--Prose by H. P. Lovecraft: 1: "Azathoth" (1922), a tale of a time "when age fell upon the world, and wonder went out of the minds of men"; 2: "The Descendant" (1926), a Necronomicon story; 3. "The Book" (1934), the key to other dimensions. "O, Is There Aught in Wine and Ships"--A poem by Frank B. Long, Jr. "Futility"--Four lines by Frank B. Long, Jr.--"It doesn't matter what we do For when we die we'll rot, And worms will through our livers crawl And on our gizzards trot." Well, everyone is surely entitled to whatever point of view he may choose! "The Demons of the Upper Air"--A poem, four pages long, by Fritz Lieber, Jr. "In Defense of Dagon"--(January, 1932) A two page article by H. P. Lovecraft. "Dagon" was Lovecraft's first published story in Weird Tales. The following is an excerpt: "Imaginative artists have been few, and always unappreciated. Blake is woefully undervalued. Poe would never have been understood had not the French taken the pains to exalt and interpret him. Dunsany has met with nothing but coldness or lukewarm praise. And nine persons out of ten never hears of Ambrose Bierce, the finest story writer except Poe whom America ever produced. The imaginative writer devotes himself to art in its most essential sense. It is not his business to fashion a pretty trifle to please the children, to point a useful moral. He is a painter of moods and mind-pictures.....He mirrors the rays that fall upon him, and does not ask their source or effect. He is not practical, poor fellow, and sometimes dies in poverty....His statements and pictures are not always pleasant and sometimes quite impossible. "There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression. I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.....Man's relations to man do not captivate my fancy. It is man's relation to the cosmos--to the unknown--which alone arouses me in the spark of creative imagination. "The Unresisting", and "March"--Poems by Jonathon Lindley. "The Tree-Man"--A story, by Henry S. Whitehead, reprinted from the Feb.-March, 1931, issue of Weird Tales. "Check-List of the Published Stories of Henry S. Whitehead""--The list includes the author's twenty-five published stories in Weird Tales since "Tea-Leaves", in the May-June-July, 1924, issue, his six in Strange Tales, and his four in Adventure: "The Intarsia Box", November 10, 1923, "The Cunning of the Serpent". May 20, 1925, "The Black Beast", July 15, 1931, "Seven Turns in a Hangman's Rope", July 15, 1932. "Origin Undetermined"--A story by R. H. Barlow. This is a "seeds from space" narration, of a glass-eating growth whose smell induces visions of a far-flung land of desolation, the unknown place of origin of the seeds, and source of the final, mysterious doom of the Mayas...... A letter, by H. P. Lovecraft: "It can be said that anything which vividly embodies a basic human emotion or captures a definite and typical human mood is genuine art. The subject matter is immaterial. It requires no especial morbidity to enjoy any authentic word-description, whether it is conventionally 'pleasant' or not. The question to ask is not whether it is 'healthy' or 'pleasant', but whether it is genuine and powerful." On this general subject I could go on indefinitely. After all, there are so many sides to the collecting angle of published stf. that is a world in itself when uncovered. Or, to be more specific, there are innumerable items,
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