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Imagination, v. 1, issue 12, whole no. 12, September 1938
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IMAGINATION! #12 38 Sep 5 BELIEVE IT Ornate Henry Kuttner "A tasty sandwich" I said, gulping. "Cold tongue, I think?" Mr Farnsworth Wright cought delicately. "Not exactly; just a little something we had left over from the Black Mass last nite." He lookt more closely at the roast & then hastily leand forward & extricated a glass eye. "Bill will be careless!" he complaind. "We had a--a roast last wk & it was quite spoilt because Bill didnt notice the false teeth. The meat was all gritty." Mr Wm Sprenger, the business manager of Weird Tales, lookt up from his task of skinning a bat. "How did I know he had false teeth" he retorted bitterly. "At that age, too! Bah." I now noticed there was a finger in my sandwich, whereat, first ascertaining it wasn't my own, I set the tasty morsel down with a slite shudder. To cover my confusion I said "Well, what's new? And the oldtime fantasy writers come back lately?" Nodding, Wright opend a drawer in his desk &, reaching in -- pulled out a small headless infant which I inspected with due politeness. Apologeticly: "I'm afraid I don't quite understand--" Glancing down, Wright understood. He flew into a violent frenzy. "Bill!" he demanded; "what's that refrigerator for? I can't open a drawer without find -- why," he went on, turning to me, "do you know what happend only yesterday? I sat down on a brain! A brain, mind you -- in my chair!" "I only left it there a moment" Mr Sprenger minimized. "The things I have to contend with..." Wright moand. "HK, are you troubled with such things way out west in that Leag of yours?" "Brains? I blurted. "Well..." But to get down to coffins--er, I mean cases: The offices of Weird Tales are strikingly unglahmorous, as since its inception &, too, copys the Canadian edits., pub't some yrs ago. (The only dif. is in the ads & front cover legend, "Printed in Canada".) Wright, by the way, has just accepted a new serial, "At the World's Edge", by H. Warner Munn, author the wellknown "Werewolf at Ponkert" series. Suddenly discovering Sprenger had stealthily opend a vein in my wrist & was avidly quenching his thirst I arose & hurriedly departed thru the nearest window. I was weakened but still game. The
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IMAGINATION! #12 38 Sep 5 BELIEVE IT Ornate Henry Kuttner "A tasty sandwich" I said, gulping. "Cold tongue, I think?" Mr Farnsworth Wright cought delicately. "Not exactly; just a little something we had left over from the Black Mass last nite." He lookt more closely at the roast & then hastily leand forward & extricated a glass eye. "Bill will be careless!" he complaind. "We had a--a roast last wk & it was quite spoilt because Bill didnt notice the false teeth. The meat was all gritty." Mr Wm Sprenger, the business manager of Weird Tales, lookt up from his task of skinning a bat. "How did I know he had false teeth" he retorted bitterly. "At that age, too! Bah." I now noticed there was a finger in my sandwich, whereat, first ascertaining it wasn't my own, I set the tasty morsel down with a slite shudder. To cover my confusion I said "Well, what's new? And the oldtime fantasy writers come back lately?" Nodding, Wright opend a drawer in his desk &, reaching in -- pulled out a small headless infant which I inspected with due politeness. Apologeticly: "I'm afraid I don't quite understand--" Glancing down, Wright understood. He flew into a violent frenzy. "Bill!" he demanded; "what's that refrigerator for? I can't open a drawer without find -- why," he went on, turning to me, "do you know what happend only yesterday? I sat down on a brain! A brain, mind you -- in my chair!" "I only left it there a moment" Mr Sprenger minimized. "The things I have to contend with..." Wright moand. "HK, are you troubled with such things way out west in that Leag of yours?" "Brains? I blurted. "Well..." But to get down to coffins--er, I mean cases: The offices of Weird Tales are strikingly unglahmorous, as since its inception &, too, copys the Canadian edits., pub't some yrs ago. (The only dif. is in the ads & front cover legend, "Printed in Canada".) Wright, by the way, has just accepted a new serial, "At the World's Edge", by H. Warner Munn, author the wellknown "Werewolf at Ponkert" series. Suddenly discovering Sprenger had stealthily opend a vein in my wrist & was avidly quenching his thirst I arose & hurriedly departed thru the nearest window. I was weakened but still game. The
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