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Necromancer, v. 1, issue 1, July 1947
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"NEVER JUDGE A BOOK ---" BY FINGAL S. CAVE Laney would call them 'gay deceivers'. Other fans, and particularly collectors dub them according to the extent of profanity in their vocabularies. Personally they are the bane of my book browsing hours - these deliciously fantastic sounding titles which very frequently materialize as fools' gold. I call them 'optical illusions'. At one time my bookshelves, which I, (living in a fool's paradise) thought bulged with naught but fantasy, were lined with them. Oh how I delighted in my library! I learned to my sorrow later that it was an idiot's delight. Catch this, for instance; THE HOLLOW MEN.....sounds like SF, doesn't it? When I eventually got around to reading it, (yes, I read them) it turned out to be a narrative on northern Canada! The dust jackets are unusually deceptive also. A collector may be browsing contentedly at his favorite bookseller's, when like a bolt from the black, a superbly drawn, seemingly fantastic dust wrapper catches his eye. "Oh joy!" he thinks to himself. Quickly, his gaze seeks out the title. The book is called ALL SOULS NIGHT. "Neat!" the deluded victim thinks. What does the subject matter of the book turn out to be?...…..Family stuff, browsing, saddened, but hopeful..unfortunately, though, the hoax happens time and again. Get a load of these beauties: THE DARK FANTASTIC -- sounds well, but it's a yarn about a woman caught in the tangled web of her own deception. THE ENCHANTED -- Fantasy? Hardly! This one concerns Europe's children fending for themselves. JOURNEY INTO THE DARK -- Ah, a weird! Nope, it's a tale about a fellow seeking wealth. FROM THE LAND OF SILENT PEOPLE -- Could be? Wrong again; Europe's troubles! THE ROCKET'S SHADOW -- Science-fiction? Well, what do you know - yes! But it's kid stuff. FANTASTIC INTERLUDE -- Naw! And I could go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on. I, and you others like me, probably shall too. We'll go on waxing enthusiastic over the myriad of Optical Illusions encountered at the bookstore, but will we go on being fooled?...…….To be sure! This excellent article is all too short, isn't it? Well, I had only so much space to fill, and the foregoing is the result. It grieves me indeed that you therefore will be deprived of more of my talent. PAGE 13
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"NEVER JUDGE A BOOK ---" BY FINGAL S. CAVE Laney would call them 'gay deceivers'. Other fans, and particularly collectors dub them according to the extent of profanity in their vocabularies. Personally they are the bane of my book browsing hours - these deliciously fantastic sounding titles which very frequently materialize as fools' gold. I call them 'optical illusions'. At one time my bookshelves, which I, (living in a fool's paradise) thought bulged with naught but fantasy, were lined with them. Oh how I delighted in my library! I learned to my sorrow later that it was an idiot's delight. Catch this, for instance; THE HOLLOW MEN.....sounds like SF, doesn't it? When I eventually got around to reading it, (yes, I read them) it turned out to be a narrative on northern Canada! The dust jackets are unusually deceptive also. A collector may be browsing contentedly at his favorite bookseller's, when like a bolt from the black, a superbly drawn, seemingly fantastic dust wrapper catches his eye. "Oh joy!" he thinks to himself. Quickly, his gaze seeks out the title. The book is called ALL SOULS NIGHT. "Neat!" the deluded victim thinks. What does the subject matter of the book turn out to be?...…..Family stuff, browsing, saddened, but hopeful..unfortunately, though, the hoax happens time and again. Get a load of these beauties: THE DARK FANTASTIC -- sounds well, but it's a yarn about a woman caught in the tangled web of her own deception. THE ENCHANTED -- Fantasy? Hardly! This one concerns Europe's children fending for themselves. JOURNEY INTO THE DARK -- Ah, a weird! Nope, it's a tale about a fellow seeking wealth. FROM THE LAND OF SILENT PEOPLE -- Could be? Wrong again; Europe's troubles! THE ROCKET'S SHADOW -- Science-fiction? Well, what do you know - yes! But it's kid stuff. FANTASTIC INTERLUDE -- Naw! And I could go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on. I, and you others like me, probably shall too. We'll go on waxing enthusiastic over the myriad of Optical Illusions encountered at the bookstore, but will we go on being fooled?...…….To be sure! This excellent article is all too short, isn't it? Well, I had only so much space to fill, and the foregoing is the result. It grieves me indeed that you therefore will be deprived of more of my talent. PAGE 13
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