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Fantasy Commentator, v. 1, issue 6, Spring 1945
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102 FANTASY COMMENTATOR This-'n'-That News from Arkham House demands prime attention from all lovers of fantasy fiction. Holding to a hard and fast schedule is made next to impossible by wartime paper limitations, the manpower situation at the printer's and a severe shortage help in the firm itself; the best thing to do, therefore, is to give a tentative schedule of those volumes to be published this year and in 1946 in the probable order of their appearance: Something Near, by August Derleth $3.00 Witch House by Evangeline Walton 2.50 The Opener of the Way by Robert Bloch 3.00 The Hounds of Tindalos, by Frank Belknap Long, Jr. 3.00 Green Tea and other Ghost Stories, by J. Sheridan Le Fanu 3.00 The Lurker at the Threshold, by H. P. Lovecraft & August Derleth 2.50 The House on the Borderland and Other Novels, by W. Hope Hodgson 5.00 Skull Face and Others, by Robert E. Howard 5.00 Mimsy Were the Borogroves, by Henry Kuttner 3.00 Shambleau (tentative title), by C. L. Moore 3.00 a collection by Fritz Leiber, Jr. 3.00 With the exception of those for the latter two (which have not as yet been assigned) the jackets for these volumes will be done by the well-known fantasy illustrators Hannes Bok (who has those for the collections of Long, Hodgson and Howard) and Ronald Clyne (who executes the rest). Of this fine series of books Derleth's Something Near is already in preparation, and is to be published this April. Those who order direct from Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin will receive these limited editions promptly after publication. New York's Argus Book Store has set April as the publication date of J. O. Bailey's long-awaited critique of science-fiction in literature, Pilgrims of Space and Time; Derleth's H. P. Lovecraft: a Memoir; and the limited edition of Lovecraft's Supernatural Horror in Literature. To appear soon after is a reprint of Finney's Circus of Dr. Lao. The prices are $5, $2 1/2 and $5 respectively. Still looking forward: March will see the publication of William Sanson's Fireman Flower (Vanguard, $2 1/2), which appeared in Britain last year. April will bring with it The Best Supernatural Stories of H. P. Lovecraft (Tower, 49c) and by July Doubleday-Doran's new anthology of fantasy and horror tales, Speak of the Devil, should be ready---this last being under the editorship of the New York Post's book-columnists Sterling North and Clip Boutell. And in September August Derleth's second anthology Who Knocks? (Farrar & Rinehart, ($2 1/2) will appear... And to finish the crop of 1944 fantasy books from Britain: In a merry yet wistful fantasy Titania Has a Mother (Joseph, 8/6) Caryl Brahms and S. J. Simon resurrect many childhood fairy-tale characters; Jane Olivier's In No Strange Land (Collins, 9/6) is a novel of reincarnation; The Heart Consumed, by Francis Askham (Lano, 8/6) deals with a similar theme, venturing into the future in its late chapters; the well-known novelist Robert Graves gives his readers a serious treatment of the quest of Jason and his Argonauts in the world of Greek mythology in his Golden Fleece (Cassell, 12/6); The Riddle of the Tower by J. D. Beresford and Esme Wynne-Tyson (Hutchinson, 8/6) traces the adventures of a discarnate mind from an Atlantis-like civilization of the past to a far future where a regimented and mechanized mankind has reverted to the status of insects; and Magdalen King-Hall's Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton (Davies, 8/6) is a full-length ghost story with an unexpected twist. In the realm of non-fiction, J. B. Coates' Ten Modern Prophets (Muller, 8/6) is an intriguing study of the works of several fictional forecasters, Wells and Stapledon and Wells among them. (concluded on page 125)
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102 FANTASY COMMENTATOR This-'n'-That News from Arkham House demands prime attention from all lovers of fantasy fiction. Holding to a hard and fast schedule is made next to impossible by wartime paper limitations, the manpower situation at the printer's and a severe shortage help in the firm itself; the best thing to do, therefore, is to give a tentative schedule of those volumes to be published this year and in 1946 in the probable order of their appearance: Something Near, by August Derleth $3.00 Witch House by Evangeline Walton 2.50 The Opener of the Way by Robert Bloch 3.00 The Hounds of Tindalos, by Frank Belknap Long, Jr. 3.00 Green Tea and other Ghost Stories, by J. Sheridan Le Fanu 3.00 The Lurker at the Threshold, by H. P. Lovecraft & August Derleth 2.50 The House on the Borderland and Other Novels, by W. Hope Hodgson 5.00 Skull Face and Others, by Robert E. Howard 5.00 Mimsy Were the Borogroves, by Henry Kuttner 3.00 Shambleau (tentative title), by C. L. Moore 3.00 a collection by Fritz Leiber, Jr. 3.00 With the exception of those for the latter two (which have not as yet been assigned) the jackets for these volumes will be done by the well-known fantasy illustrators Hannes Bok (who has those for the collections of Long, Hodgson and Howard) and Ronald Clyne (who executes the rest). Of this fine series of books Derleth's Something Near is already in preparation, and is to be published this April. Those who order direct from Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin will receive these limited editions promptly after publication. New York's Argus Book Store has set April as the publication date of J. O. Bailey's long-awaited critique of science-fiction in literature, Pilgrims of Space and Time; Derleth's H. P. Lovecraft: a Memoir; and the limited edition of Lovecraft's Supernatural Horror in Literature. To appear soon after is a reprint of Finney's Circus of Dr. Lao. The prices are $5, $2 1/2 and $5 respectively. Still looking forward: March will see the publication of William Sanson's Fireman Flower (Vanguard, $2 1/2), which appeared in Britain last year. April will bring with it The Best Supernatural Stories of H. P. Lovecraft (Tower, 49c) and by July Doubleday-Doran's new anthology of fantasy and horror tales, Speak of the Devil, should be ready---this last being under the editorship of the New York Post's book-columnists Sterling North and Clip Boutell. And in September August Derleth's second anthology Who Knocks? (Farrar & Rinehart, ($2 1/2) will appear... And to finish the crop of 1944 fantasy books from Britain: In a merry yet wistful fantasy Titania Has a Mother (Joseph, 8/6) Caryl Brahms and S. J. Simon resurrect many childhood fairy-tale characters; Jane Olivier's In No Strange Land (Collins, 9/6) is a novel of reincarnation; The Heart Consumed, by Francis Askham (Lano, 8/6) deals with a similar theme, venturing into the future in its late chapters; the well-known novelist Robert Graves gives his readers a serious treatment of the quest of Jason and his Argonauts in the world of Greek mythology in his Golden Fleece (Cassell, 12/6); The Riddle of the Tower by J. D. Beresford and Esme Wynne-Tyson (Hutchinson, 8/6) traces the adventures of a discarnate mind from an Atlantis-like civilization of the past to a far future where a regimented and mechanized mankind has reverted to the status of insects; and Magdalen King-Hall's Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton (Davies, 8/6) is a full-length ghost story with an unexpected twist. In the realm of non-fiction, J. B. Coates' Ten Modern Prophets (Muller, 8/6) is an intriguing study of the works of several fictional forecasters, Wells and Stapledon and Wells among them. (concluded on page 125)
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