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Fantasy Fan, v. 1, issue 2, October 1933
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24 THE FANTASY FAN October, 1933 ABOUT AUTHORS Some fan, after reading one of Jules Verne's tales in Amazing, wrote in claiming that he was a very promising author! Charles Willard Diffin and C. D. Willard is the same author...The fastest writer: Arthur J. Burks. The Slowest; Edward Elme Smith...P. Schuyler Miller became a science fiction author as the result of a cover contest... You can't call Raymond Gallun a half-pint, anyway. (How did that pun get into this column?)...The question is still unsatisfactorally: WHO is Anthony Gilmore???...Allen Glasser's "Captives in Space" in the July, 1932 "The Time Traveller" is rejected entry of the November, 1929 Science Wonder Stories cover contest... Two of the titles of H. G. Winter's stories contain the word "ice," which seems quite appropriate...Sewell Peaslee Wright had a story in Weird years before Astounding Information (continued from page 23) ed with o we were collaborated with Arthur Leo Zagat, and "The Memory of the Atoms" was composed with R. Lacher. Mr. Schachner's first story was "The Tower of Evil." 8. What happened to the sequel to "Thru the Dragon Glass," by A. Merritt?--David Stolaroff. For some unknown reason, Mr. Merritt never wrote a sequel to this story, although it could stand one very well. Perhaps he will write one yet, even after all these years, if his fans are persistent enough. Reprint copies of this remarkable story, A. Merritt's first, can be purchased for ten cenrs a copy from Robert Scarlet, Jr., 87-36 162nd St., Jamaica, Long Island, N. Y. CONTEST RESULTS The winner of last month's cash prize contest is William Sykora, 35-51 41st St., Long Island City, New York. Here is his answer to "Why do you read fantasy fiction?" "Why do I read fantasy fiction? I often wonder. The occult, the fantastic, have always held me with supreme, almost unholy, fascination. I have found that by constant practice, an all-excluding, all-consuming concentration bonds stronger than the strongest steel to all[[?]] dismally horrible tales of the supernatural. The earthly ties that hold me mentally and morally to a workaday existence, are hypnoticaliy rent asunder by a mesmerism born of steely sharp concentration. Thus do I thrill--quake--and shudder with the delightful ecstasy of bizare adventure through the awful expanse of the inconceivably terrible unknown universe, and I love it." Because of lack of support, we will not present another cash prize contest, until enough readers ask for one. If we receive enough petitions, we will take great pleasure in featuring another in the near future. How to Collect Fantasy Fiction (continued from page 22) January, 1933. Wonder Stories Quarterly, science fiction, ran from Fall, 1929 to Winter, 1933, publishing only interplanetary tales in the last two years. (Next month Mr. Schwartz describes the less known fantasy magazines.) Subscribe now and insure yoursef of a monthly copy. Only a limited number are printed.
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24 THE FANTASY FAN October, 1933 ABOUT AUTHORS Some fan, after reading one of Jules Verne's tales in Amazing, wrote in claiming that he was a very promising author! Charles Willard Diffin and C. D. Willard is the same author...The fastest writer: Arthur J. Burks. The Slowest; Edward Elme Smith...P. Schuyler Miller became a science fiction author as the result of a cover contest... You can't call Raymond Gallun a half-pint, anyway. (How did that pun get into this column?)...The question is still unsatisfactorally: WHO is Anthony Gilmore???...Allen Glasser's "Captives in Space" in the July, 1932 "The Time Traveller" is rejected entry of the November, 1929 Science Wonder Stories cover contest... Two of the titles of H. G. Winter's stories contain the word "ice," which seems quite appropriate...Sewell Peaslee Wright had a story in Weird years before Astounding Information (continued from page 23) ed with o we were collaborated with Arthur Leo Zagat, and "The Memory of the Atoms" was composed with R. Lacher. Mr. Schachner's first story was "The Tower of Evil." 8. What happened to the sequel to "Thru the Dragon Glass," by A. Merritt?--David Stolaroff. For some unknown reason, Mr. Merritt never wrote a sequel to this story, although it could stand one very well. Perhaps he will write one yet, even after all these years, if his fans are persistent enough. Reprint copies of this remarkable story, A. Merritt's first, can be purchased for ten cenrs a copy from Robert Scarlet, Jr., 87-36 162nd St., Jamaica, Long Island, N. Y. CONTEST RESULTS The winner of last month's cash prize contest is William Sykora, 35-51 41st St., Long Island City, New York. Here is his answer to "Why do you read fantasy fiction?" "Why do I read fantasy fiction? I often wonder. The occult, the fantastic, have always held me with supreme, almost unholy, fascination. I have found that by constant practice, an all-excluding, all-consuming concentration bonds stronger than the strongest steel to all[[?]] dismally horrible tales of the supernatural. The earthly ties that hold me mentally and morally to a workaday existence, are hypnoticaliy rent asunder by a mesmerism born of steely sharp concentration. Thus do I thrill--quake--and shudder with the delightful ecstasy of bizare adventure through the awful expanse of the inconceivably terrible unknown universe, and I love it." Because of lack of support, we will not present another cash prize contest, until enough readers ask for one. If we receive enough petitions, we will take great pleasure in featuring another in the near future. How to Collect Fantasy Fiction (continued from page 22) January, 1933. Wonder Stories Quarterly, science fiction, ran from Fall, 1929 to Winter, 1933, publishing only interplanetary tales in the last two years. (Next month Mr. Schwartz describes the less known fantasy magazines.) Subscribe now and insure yoursef of a monthly copy. Only a limited number are printed.
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