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Reader and Collector, v. 3, issue 6, January 1946
Page 20
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20. Fantastic Fiction Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed forlorn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Protens rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. William Wadsworth Chapter III Fantastic fiction is today enjoying a great popularity. Large collections of fantastic short stories edited under such titles as Pause to Wonder, Sleep No More, and The Moonlit Traveler are appearing in the lending libraries and book lists. Poe is well known to every American, and his followers seem to be becoming as popular. Fantastic fiction does not contain as much scientific data as the futuristic, but a possible scientific explanation for an otherwise completely mysterious tale is often the closing remark of an author. The fantastic spreads over almost as wide a field as the futuristic. It is represented by Famous Fantastic Mysteries in the pulp field, by Eric Knight in the Saturday Evening Post style of magazine, by Max Beerbohn and Oliver Onions in intellectual literature. The difference between the fantastic and the futuristic is that the fantastic takes place in, or is written from, a point in the present or a point in the past. It differs from the mystic int hat it does not attempt to offer a scientific, or logical explanation, nor does it attempt to keep its characters on a "possible" plane, but freely uses sorcerers, "things" and ancient Gods without the justification of symbolic references. In England the fantastic writers tend to use the metamorphic, the fold in time, and the sorcerer themes for most of their fantastic stories. Castles, old houses, ghosts, women who turn into animals, or men who turn into other men, witchcraft, visitations by strange ancestors, often appear
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20. Fantastic Fiction Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed forlorn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Protens rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. William Wadsworth Chapter III Fantastic fiction is today enjoying a great popularity. Large collections of fantastic short stories edited under such titles as Pause to Wonder, Sleep No More, and The Moonlit Traveler are appearing in the lending libraries and book lists. Poe is well known to every American, and his followers seem to be becoming as popular. Fantastic fiction does not contain as much scientific data as the futuristic, but a possible scientific explanation for an otherwise completely mysterious tale is often the closing remark of an author. The fantastic spreads over almost as wide a field as the futuristic. It is represented by Famous Fantastic Mysteries in the pulp field, by Eric Knight in the Saturday Evening Post style of magazine, by Max Beerbohn and Oliver Onions in intellectual literature. The difference between the fantastic and the futuristic is that the fantastic takes place in, or is written from, a point in the present or a point in the past. It differs from the mystic int hat it does not attempt to offer a scientific, or logical explanation, nor does it attempt to keep its characters on a "possible" plane, but freely uses sorcerers, "things" and ancient Gods without the justification of symbolic references. In England the fantastic writers tend to use the metamorphic, the fold in time, and the sorcerer themes for most of their fantastic stories. Castles, old houses, ghosts, women who turn into animals, or men who turn into other men, witchcraft, visitations by strange ancestors, often appear
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