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Fantasy Fan, v. 2, issue 1, whole no. 13, September 1934
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14 THE FANTASY FAN, September, 1934 WEIRD WHISPERINGS by Schwartz and Weisinger Paul Ernst is now illustrating his own yarns for Weird Tales, and several of them will soon see print. Ray Cummings, now living in New York, informs us of his fantastic novelette, "The World of Doom," sold to Thrilling Adventures...M. Brundage is a woman and has a boy in grammar school. She swears that Howard's serial which started in the September WT is the best Conan story he has ever written...Greye La Spina has received plenty of rough treatment from her fellow weird authors. Seabury Quinn, for instance, once received a letter from her criticising some of his work. In his answer to her he used words that shouldn't exactly be used to ladies. (He thought she was a young man.) However, he soon found out different and they are the best of friends. Then again, Arthur J. Burks remarked to her in a letter that judging from her work she had a bright future. La Spina wrote back that her daughter and grandchildren thought likewise! Catherine L. Moore, already acknowledged as one of the most promising weird tales authors, gleaned a rejection slip from Amazing Stories for the first story she ever penned. And she doesn't blame the editor for spurning the manuscript!...Seabury Quinn's latest Jules de Grandin story is "Hands of the Dead," a story of hypnotism...A. Merritt's serial, "Creep, Shadow," currently runnning in the Argosy, differs considerably from the forthcoming book version, he confides...Some time ago, a reader wrote a letter to the Eyrie praising Francis Flagg's "The Picture" to the skies...Nothing wrong in that, except that the story did not see print until the month following the arrival of the letter, the story having been postponed for an issue!... Farnsworth Wright owns a miniature rogue's gallery of Weird Tales contributors and they are on display at his office...Milt Kaletsky's weird yarn, "The Mantis," met with an N. G. at the office of WT. He sent the same story to Terror Tales on Sunday, the magazine received it on Monday and he got it back on Tuesday! Wright blames the failure of Oriental Stories on ex-president Hoover. After listening to one of Hoover's speeches in which he stated that prosperity was just around the corner, Wright thought that it would be an opportune time to launch a new magazine ... You, we, and Farnsworth Wright know what happened...Harry Stephen Keeler claims cats bring him good luck, and so he has four cats in his home, the latest one being named "MenckentheIV"...August W. Derleth has forged ahead and has crashed Scribner's and Story...Eando Binder is really Earl and Otto Binder working together in collaboration. Their other brother, Jack does s-f illustrating work...The fancy lettering of Weird Tales on the cover of the magazine was designed by J. Allen St. John..."The Destroying Horde," Donald Wandrei's next in Weird tells of a giant one celled organism spawned in a chemist's laboratory and an orgy of hideous deaths.
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14 THE FANTASY FAN, September, 1934 WEIRD WHISPERINGS by Schwartz and Weisinger Paul Ernst is now illustrating his own yarns for Weird Tales, and several of them will soon see print. Ray Cummings, now living in New York, informs us of his fantastic novelette, "The World of Doom," sold to Thrilling Adventures...M. Brundage is a woman and has a boy in grammar school. She swears that Howard's serial which started in the September WT is the best Conan story he has ever written...Greye La Spina has received plenty of rough treatment from her fellow weird authors. Seabury Quinn, for instance, once received a letter from her criticising some of his work. In his answer to her he used words that shouldn't exactly be used to ladies. (He thought she was a young man.) However, he soon found out different and they are the best of friends. Then again, Arthur J. Burks remarked to her in a letter that judging from her work she had a bright future. La Spina wrote back that her daughter and grandchildren thought likewise! Catherine L. Moore, already acknowledged as one of the most promising weird tales authors, gleaned a rejection slip from Amazing Stories for the first story she ever penned. And she doesn't blame the editor for spurning the manuscript!...Seabury Quinn's latest Jules de Grandin story is "Hands of the Dead," a story of hypnotism...A. Merritt's serial, "Creep, Shadow," currently runnning in the Argosy, differs considerably from the forthcoming book version, he confides...Some time ago, a reader wrote a letter to the Eyrie praising Francis Flagg's "The Picture" to the skies...Nothing wrong in that, except that the story did not see print until the month following the arrival of the letter, the story having been postponed for an issue!... Farnsworth Wright owns a miniature rogue's gallery of Weird Tales contributors and they are on display at his office...Milt Kaletsky's weird yarn, "The Mantis," met with an N. G. at the office of WT. He sent the same story to Terror Tales on Sunday, the magazine received it on Monday and he got it back on Tuesday! Wright blames the failure of Oriental Stories on ex-president Hoover. After listening to one of Hoover's speeches in which he stated that prosperity was just around the corner, Wright thought that it would be an opportune time to launch a new magazine ... You, we, and Farnsworth Wright know what happened...Harry Stephen Keeler claims cats bring him good luck, and so he has four cats in his home, the latest one being named "MenckentheIV"...August W. Derleth has forged ahead and has crashed Scribner's and Story...Eando Binder is really Earl and Otto Binder working together in collaboration. Their other brother, Jack does s-f illustrating work...The fancy lettering of Weird Tales on the cover of the magazine was designed by J. Allen St. John..."The Destroying Horde," Donald Wandrei's next in Weird tells of a giant one celled organism spawned in a chemist's laboratory and an orgy of hideous deaths.
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