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AVON SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY READER.
New York: Avon Novels Inc., 1953. Small octavo two issues, all published, cover illustrations by Leo Manso, pictorial wrappers. Digest size magazine. This was an attempt at a revival of Avon Fantasy Reader and Avon Science Fiction Reader. Publisher Joseph Meyer and new editor Sol Cohen were to produce a quarterly with all new stories. It lasted only two issues. All stories were illustrated. Authors included Alfred J. Coppel, Jr., Arthur C. Clarke, John Christopher, John Jakes, Stephen Marlowe, Jack Vance and others. Tymm and Ashley note in both issues many of the stories had a dystopian tone and the stories were not widely reprinted. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 132-134.
DETECTIVE: THE MAGAZINE OF TRUE CRIME STORIES.
Concord, N.H. Common Sense Publishing Co., Inc., 1951. Small octavo, two issues, pictorial wrappers. Digest sized magazine. Billed on the front covers "A selection of the best True Crime stories, new and old." Authors include Eleazar Lipsky, Craig Rice, Lillian de la Torre, Stuart Palmer, James Thurber and others. Published by Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Publications, these two issues are perhaps the only two published (this cataloger is unsure).
FANTASY FICTION later FANTASY STORIES. (Two issues, all published).
New York: Magabook Inc., 1950. Octavo, two issues, pictorial wrappers. Digest magazine. Contains mostly reprints with title changes, most culled from Argosy from the 1930s. Authors include Theodore Roscoe, Cornell Woolrich, Richard Sale, and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 266 - 267.
WHISPERS.
Browns Mills, NJ: Stuart David Schiff, 1979. Octavo, single issue, cloth. Of 376 hardbound copies this is one of 350 numbered copies signed by Fritz Leiber, Stephen Fabian, artist, and publisher Stuart Schiff. The Fritz Leiber issue. Contributors include Leiber, Glen Cook, Brian Lumley, Roger Zelazny, Dennis Etchison and others.
MISSISSIPPI REVIEW.
Hattiesburg: Center for Writers, University of Southern Mississippi, 1988. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Special issue guest-edited by Larry McCaffery devoted to cyberpunk fiction including "Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium" with comments by Gregory Benford, David Brin, Samuel R. Delany, Rudy Rucker, John Shirley and others, fiction by Samuel R. Delany, Rudy Rucker, Bruce Sterling, John Shirley, Thomas M. Disch, Kim Stanley Robinson and others, essays by Tom Maddox, George Slusser and others, an interview with William Gibson, and other material. See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) 9-127.
SCIENCE FICTION DIGEST. (Two issues, all published).
New York: Specific Fiction Corp. 1954. Small octavo, two issues, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Digest magazine. The only two issues of this short lived magazine. Fiction comprised largely of reprints from other magazines. The editor also featured articles telepathy and levitation. The second issue features a cover photo of the Creature From the Black Lagoon and a short article by George Pal on science fiction films. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 533-534.
SPACE SCIENCE FICTION. (Eight issues, all published).
New York: Space Publications Inc., 1952-1953. Small octavo, eight issues, pictorial wrappers. Digest magazine. Another short lived, but quality, magazine of the 1950s boomlet, done in by disagreement between the editor and publisher (which terminated all of the publishers fanstasy and science fiction magazines). Authors include Isaac Asimov, Henry Kuttner, Clifford Simak, Michael Shaara, Lester Del Rey (including pseudonyms), John Christopher, Damon Knight, Philip K. Dick, Robert Sheckley and others. Highlights include the first publication of the first of the newly discovered Conan stories which surfaced starting in the 1950s. This publication interestedly includes a short note by the editor of the story, L. Sprague De Camp, about the discovery of the story from unsold Howard manuscripts. De Camp also includes the transcript of a note which was attached to the manuscript by H. P. Lovecraft. Other notables include the publication of Algis Budrys first published story "Walk to the World" and two Philip K. Dick fictions, "Second Variety" and "The Variable Man." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 585-586.
TALES OF THE FRIGHTENED. (Two issues, all published).
New York: Republic Features Syndicate, Inc., 1956. Small octavo, two issues, pictorial and printed wrappers. Digest magazine. The only two issues of this short lived magazine. Each issue contained all original stories with authors Michael Avallone, James Harvey, John Jakes, John Wyndham, John Christopher, Hal Ellson, A. Bertram Chandler, Mack Reynolds and others. "...clearly the very magazine that a nation of Weird Tales denied readers had been waiting for." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 557-558. Sales were good but the pending demise of the mammoth distributing firm American News Company put them out of business. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 649-650.
THE FANTASY FAN: THE FAN'S OWN MAGAZINE.
Elizabeth, New Jersey: Charles D. Hornig, 1933-1935. Octavo, 18 issues, printed or self wrappers. The first important weird fiction fanzine, and one of the most desirable of the fanzines of the thirties. For two years it published news and fiction related to the genre. Stories first published in THE FANTASY FAN include H. P. Lovecraft's "The Other Gods" and "From Beyond," Clark Ashton Smith's "The Epiphany of Death," "The Ghoul," "The Kingdom of the Worm," and "The Primal City," as well as tales by Robert Bloch, August Derleth, Robert E. Howard, David H. Keller and others. THE FANTASY FAN was "an interesting mix of news, articles, stories, poems, and miscellany. Hornig however, made an error in initiating a column of controversy entitled 'The Boiling Point,' which quickly led to acrimonious letter exchanges between Lovecraft, Forrest J. Ackerman, Clark Ashton Smith, and numerous others; the column was terminated with the February 1934 issue. Perhaps Hornig's greatest accomplishment was the serialization of the revised version of Lovecraft's 'Supernatural Horror in Literature' (October 1933-February 1935). However, the serialization proceeded at such a slow pace that it had reached only the middle of Chapter VIII before the magazine folded. THE FANTASY FAN also saw the first publication of Lovecraft's stories. 'The Other Gods' (November 1933) and 'From Beyond' (June 1934) as well as reprints (from amateur papers) of 'Polaris' (February 1934) and 'Beyond the Wall of Sleep' (October 1934); it also published 'The Book' (October 1934), 'Pursuit' (October 1934), 'The Key' (January 1935), and 'Homecoming' (January 1935) from 'Fungi from Yuggoth.' Brief excerpts of Lovecraft's letters to Hornig appeared regularly in the magazine's letter column. The October 1934 issue was dedicated to Lovecraft. After the demise of THE FANTASY FAN, numerous attempts were made to revive or succeed it, but no magazine truly filled its place as a news organ, a forum for the expression of fan's views, and a venue for work by distinguished writers in the field" (Joshi and Schultz, An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia, pp. 90-91). "As a real help to the lover of weird and fantasy fiction Hornig's magazine reigned supreme in the field at that time ... Almost every weirdist of importance in fandom was at one time or another represented in its pages. And as a love-feast for such fans it has never again been equaled" (Moskowitz, The Immortal Storm, pp. 18-20). "... one of the legendary magazines of the 1930s ... an extremely consistent and reliable magazine ..." (Tymn and Ashley, eds., Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 822-23). According to Hornig (writing in 1988) "THE FANTASY FAN was printed by Conrad Ruppett of Jamaica, New York, hand set. Julius Schwartz and I helped him collate and staple each copy every month for eighteen months. Except for the second issue (500 copies), there were only 250 printed, and the paid circulation never reached over 50. What happened to the residue? Well, I found someone to buy up most of the unsold copies, and that was B. K. Gores of Austin, Texas. I never heard from him before or since, never knew him in fandom, and don't know whatever happened to him. Somewhere, there should be stacks of TFF, unless they're destroyed." Joshi I-B-ii-232. Pavlat and Evans, Fanzine Index (1965), p. 37.
WHISPERS.
Binhampton, NY: Stuart David Schiff, 1984. Octavo, single issue, cloth. First edition. Of 376 hardbound copies this is one of 350 numbered copies signed by contributors J. N. Williamson, Margo Skinner, Fritz Leiber, Hugh B. Cave, David Morrell, Susan Casper, Stuart Schiff, Dennis Etchison, and Alan Ryan. Fiction, news, reviews and other material.