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Phantagraph, v. 6, issue 5, September 1937
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The Stranger (This anonymous midgetale appeared in the Literary Observer as a reprint from a London newspaper.--Editor) "Bets" said the khaki-clad stranger, entering our conversation. "You don't know what a real gamble is. "I once bet our C. O. a dozen Johnny Walkers that I'd go over the top at X and fetch back eight Germans single-handed. It was a million-to-one chance. If it came off, a dozen Johnny Walkers and the V. C. If it failed--absolutely certain death." "Bravo!" we exclaimed. "And it came off?" "No," said the stranger. "It failed." -:-:-:-:-:- The Short=Short Shortest Weird Tale by Antony Selkirk (Introductory note by Frederik Pohl: It is with pleasure that the world of fantasy will welcome the appearance of a story by Mr. Selkirk in the pages of this magazine. Those who have read "Mind of Man" will recall Mr. Selkirk as the dashing exponent of vers libre. In this short gem of prose he demonstrates his mastery over another form of literary art: fiction. The reader will be entranced by the inevitability of his sequences; he will note with pleasure the elan with which Mr. Selkirk treats so morbid a subject as weird fiction. We predict that in Mr. Selkirk the world of science fiction has found a new figure to replace those it has lost. -- F. G. Pohl) The Short-Short Shortest Weird Tale Boo!
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The Stranger (This anonymous midgetale appeared in the Literary Observer as a reprint from a London newspaper.--Editor) "Bets" said the khaki-clad stranger, entering our conversation. "You don't know what a real gamble is. "I once bet our C. O. a dozen Johnny Walkers that I'd go over the top at X and fetch back eight Germans single-handed. It was a million-to-one chance. If it came off, a dozen Johnny Walkers and the V. C. If it failed--absolutely certain death." "Bravo!" we exclaimed. "And it came off?" "No," said the stranger. "It failed." -:-:-:-:-:- The Short=Short Shortest Weird Tale by Antony Selkirk (Introductory note by Frederik Pohl: It is with pleasure that the world of fantasy will welcome the appearance of a story by Mr. Selkirk in the pages of this magazine. Those who have read "Mind of Man" will recall Mr. Selkirk as the dashing exponent of vers libre. In this short gem of prose he demonstrates his mastery over another form of literary art: fiction. The reader will be entranced by the inevitability of his sequences; he will note with pleasure the elan with which Mr. Selkirk treats so morbid a subject as weird fiction. We predict that in Mr. Selkirk the world of science fiction has found a new figure to replace those it has lost. -- F. G. Pohl) The Short-Short Shortest Weird Tale Boo!
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