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Delaney, March ford Jones to do a series of stories 23: That the entire network of rumours or Frank Gruber, whose recent novel and speculations instigated by Fantasy- in Short Stories made such a success, ^ews to the effect that- Weird Tales The reprints are being eliminated might become a horror magazine is based now because Mr Delaney believes that a on misinterpretations- vzas rpvealed in magazine must live in the present rather an interview today, than in the past, must find new, fresh Mr Delaney’s statements in referen stories rather than try to rest upon the ce. to the mystery-terror-horror maga laurels of older days* The covers will zines, among which Weird Tales is most be weird; the element, of sex which had often placed by newsdealers’/" referred been overplayed to the point of misrep paly to the outride appearance of the resenting the magazine has been elimina Magazine, It was by no means stated ted. ‘ In the stories themselves, all that he considered Weird Tales in com types of weird and fantasy fiction will petition with these magazines' as” to con be presented. tent, There is one rule, however: Weird Mr Delaney.further stated his per Taies does not want stories which center sonal liking for weird and fantastic about sheer repulsiveness, stories which fiction and his belief that there is a leave an impression not to be described place for, a magazine, of wide circula by any other word than "nastyThis is tion, dealing with such tales, But, he not to imply that the "grim" story, or added, we must remember that it is• a the tale which leaves the reader gasping pulp magazine. It is not a.privately- at the verge of the unknown, is elimina printed work of art, selling at fancy ted) Mr Delaney believes that the sto prices; we cannot afford to become so ry which leaves a sickish feeling in > lost in-fantasy) so esoteric, that we the reader is not truly weird and has nd lose touch with ’the great majority o f place in Weird Tales, A better balance W. ’ readers. Neither, on the other hand in the individual issues will be made; $ is it necessary to write down to the in the future, readers will not find reader, or try to persuade him he is several stories of the same typo in the getting any more than we are presen ’ - same issue. And, finally, stories where ting. My Delaney has refused to cut in the characters arc continually talk down on the costs of the magazine (in ing in French, German, Latin, etc will other words, rates to authors); on the bo frowned on, as well as stories where contrary, some of the bost-known writers in the reader must constantly consult an of pulp fiction have been contacted for unabridged dictionary. In brief: rich forthcoming issues. If rcird Tales ness of expression, yes; eight-cylinder were planning to become a horror maga words *whcr.c two-cylinder words will- do, zine, they would not be getting H, Bed n-o. ’ ^o-ienc.e Fiction Weekly - , opener and a beauty. *** To bote, the I '.?■•, '■ P V■■ * "■. ■•‘ptW W •• . \\ ?• / ’ *. ) ., ’■ pm■ ■ J . '•, - '■ Towers novelette,' "Stepson's of Mors" is : Tl • ’ '■ • •• '•/ in'"stho 'April issue: of aforeme-hiioned Published every Monday at 2574 magazine.' No marked complaints about Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. Bok’s illustrations have come in to date Volumo. ■ Q&e, 'Number. §ix; WJiole Number. - - on the contrary! ^x x . ' ’■.dlqrl'hh 24,‘P-.‘lp40, " cents psyf' \, At ft '1 . ’• i *''• ■' ; r i) i ' \l \ ' single copy; three issues for ten.centd;. MORE FANTASY J *" • 1 ' eight issues for twenty-five cents, 'latch for'' "The Shadow of Atlantis" W@ accept advertising to the tune to be published soon by E. P. Dutton of five-, ©$r page"only. > NetAYopk. .•The-, book is- .advertised as •E.bbh*'ylllie -subh ad.’.is j^ceived^an extra-' "the most jpohiplete a ndt convincing book pag.e/"p/’ reading, in at text-". is gtaraAtee’d'. on; this • .fpsbinatihg, ’adventurous,i ■ apd ’"taken "from' ‘-other f'anmags is "* scientific”*'Subject." ’“Adthor Col. marked "exchange" end source is given. Alexandre Braghine. Such news may be precised or quoted de Then there*is* "Monkey on-a Stick" pending on space available, On contro by Henry W. Cline (Morrow), a social versial items,,or matters of orderly re-' satire, ' "The Star of Satan" by Georges buttal, each' side is permitted one Bernanos (Macmillan) about diabolism, statement only, "First Port of Call" by .Elizabeth'Jordan SFW will exchange with any other (Appleton), a ’'strange story about' an fan magazine so desiring. airplane crash. Thoee who like Don Marquis will be pleased to hear of "The Editor- in- Chief Lives and' Times of archy and mehitabel", Robert W. Lowndes an omnibus of those famous characters’ stories. Associates Later this year, Alfred Noyes, Leslie’ Perri Dick Wilson English poet, will author "The Last Man" an optimistic view of the' very distant future. Just-, published are "Utopia, CITY DESK Inc." by Lerman Everett Gieske (Fortuny) WO NEW TARZAN TALES are current about a modern Atlantis, and a new book these days': Blue Book features a by August W. Derle’th, dealing with Sac complete novelette, Tarzan and the Prairie, called "Atmosphere of Houses". Champion", in its latest issue, and the(Prairie Press) Frank Utpatel, who did T the, art work for Lovecraft’s "Shadow June' Thrilling Adventures magazine will feature~"Tarzan and the Jungle Murders". Ovor Innsmouth" illustrates this book. In addition to these a new cartoon maga Non-f ictio'nal works to appear that zine is devoted entirely to Taraun- will'be of interest to the science- strips, reprinted from the Sunday comic fictioneer will include "Life on Other supplements.’ Worlds" by H». Spencer Jones (Macmillan), which is a scientific investigation into D. SIL.RP, famous old-time stf the question, and- the mu’ch-awaited study gfc author,' (who tunred Astonishing Stories, Tower, March 18: Richard Wilson with a long novelette tentatively titled (Dick to you) is the latest of tho "Tho 'Lodestone Core"* *** F, E. Har Futurians to win one of those interes dert, one of the newcomers, c»ps tho ting slatcd-for-acccptancc slips from cover of the third issue of Astonishing. Harry Stephen Keeler’s Ton Story Book, Cover is by Mayarka, and is both an oyc- his agent, Doc Lowndos, revealed today. THEIR 0” N PETARD by E. C. KOENIG . EASTERN MASS. FANTASY SOCIETY • From an advertisement re "Golden Cambridge, Mass. March 18, 1940: Atom" in Fantasy News^ Volume 3 Number Yesterday the Eastern Mass. Fantasy So 21: "Eere'rs* some of the comments re ciety held it second meeting, at the ceived on the first G. A. - - From Ed. home of Mr and Mrs Swisher in Lanches Hamilton: ’l think its one of the best ter. Present were: the Swishers, Arthur fan magazines I’ve ever seen yet-, It’s L. Widner, Jr., John Ferrara, L'illiam carefully got up and has lots of real Zimmer, r.rilliam Schrage, Francis Paro inforrnation in it1" Marjorie 'Lilson, Earl Singleton, and LR (Carefully got up. You’re only Chauvenet, a total attendance of 10. At spoofing, aren’t you Eddie? ’Fess up —• this meeting, definite steps toward or you hardly looked at it did you? Or , ganization were taken. Art L'idner was if you did, you are certainly handling appointed director, and Paro s'ec’y- the truth with penurious frugality, treasurer. It was decided to inee t T7hy, man alive, an adding machine was monthly, and to publish a club organ bi required , to count the number of typo monthly. After some discussion Paro’s graphical errors in the first few pages Fanfare vras selected as the official of the magazine. And the English!J it magazine of the society, and the date was pretty nearly as worse yet as your for the first publication under ET'FS two - sentence review quoted above . auspices tentatively set for the May Guess you were just trying to be nice to meeting, The next meeting was arranged the boys, eh what, Eddie? Sort of a for April 7, and Earl Singleton chosen little act of reciprocity.) as host. There was some discussion of From a letter in "And Having Ur it" whether the society should be ‘‘fantasy" in Unknown October, 1939: "So far I or "science fiction" in name; on a vote, have only read three stories in this, “fantasy" won by 8-2 on grounds of wider the April issue, but on the whole it appeal. Some dissatisfaction was ex seems to be no better nor worse pressed with the EMFS title, and this than the first, There was a greater designation must thus be considered a s balance of good stories, whereas the tentative, pending someone’s bright i- last issue had one stupendous story and dea. (Arc there any bright-idea’s gals, its share of good ones. 1 or guys, in the audience?) It vras de - (A gem from the secretary of Los aided after some consideration that for Angeles Chapter, SFL. Boy, oh, boy, its the -present, at any rate, no attempt the.height of something or other. But, should be made to* affiliate with other on second thought, it is quite typical fan organizations, but outside contri of the juvenile letters we have been butions to Fanfare will be quite wel trained to expect from that section of come, In general ’ a moderately liberal the country* Ah there, Forrie, my lad!) spirit may be expected to prevail in the From Fantasy News Volume 3 Numbe r magazine. 13: "Science Fiction Quarterly is to be Out in a month. The Dream of fans. The OB TUCKER, who has just joined the most hopeless of all optimists dreams is I®/ Futurian League, Writes! "Upon pe- about to be consumated, A quarterly, a rusing the latest SFL1, I note I live, living, breathing, sacred quarter loft you hanging on the limb in one ly is anounced .as a ’sure thing’ b y place by saying that the ’three of us Blue- Ribbon Publications." had rented a room’, and neglecting to (There is only one thing more aw- mention a third party. The third person fuller than another s-f magazine, and is my brother ... *** I get a big kick that’s another fan magazine. I certain about F-N and New Fandom plugging the ly wish some of these fans would cut out Convention and the IFF, F-N is always ■ eating rarebits, pickles and ice cream advising its dear readers to join up and before going to bed,) support us. Fanta know something? At ’((The pages of SF'7 arc open to any the time of the last nose-count, w he n person or persons wishing to make an or* Fantasy Fietioncer wont to press, n o t dcrly rebuttal to anjrthing in this col.- one Quocnsio belonged! umn. Editor,)) Support, bah!" QSFL MEETING * "interlingua" and then wrote a letter in March 10, (Fantasy News exchange) : that language to another fan (Mrs Beas Despite the heavy rain and sleet ley . of Lyndon, Kansas), She had never storm on March 3rd, 29 members, visitors heard of the language, yet she read the and celebrities turned out for the regu letter without difficulty, L’e bot h lar monthly meeting of the Queens Sci think Lationo Sine-Flexione is vastly ence Fiction League held , at , -Bohemian superior to Esperanto' (don’t shoot, Fall, Morojo? i’ll be good!) because of the Among the prominent science-fiction absence of almost all grammer, and the celebrities who have recently joined the freedom from orthographic difficulties. ■QSFL are Farnsworth '.right, Miss Mary The grammer of Esperanto has always been Gnaedinger, Hannes Bok, and John Victor the chief difficulty of that language, Peterson, and it was mainly because of it that PIT "ARK SLF TO FOPM . Lationo Sine Flexione got its start in March 10, (Fantasy News Exchange)*: 1903," ((If any fan would like to con A Newark Chapter of the Science Ficti* tact Mr Thompson on this subject, his on League will be formed in about one street address is 3136 "Q" Street, Lin month. Groundwork on this chapter will coln, Neb, SFT.r awaits an orderly reply be done by Sam Moskowitz, A free meet from .any Esperantist fan who wishes to ing room in a Newark school has already make same, Ed it or•)) been obtained. Meetings will be held so as not to GENERAL SECRETARY of the Futu- intefere with the dating of the Queens, g.,.i rian League wishes to announce that Science Fiction League* All members membership cards will be mailed out will be urged to cooperate with and to' registrants at the earliest possible attend QSFL meetings, With these two .moment, but that printing will be held good chapters working in harmony, su up for a week or so until it can be as perior results should be obtained. certained the amount which will be re quired, It seeips that registration has *((The editor of this magazine exceeded expectations, wishes to call the attention of readers to the fact that we cannot vouch for the A T LONG LAST the FAPA Mailing has accuracy of exchange news from the maga AqA come through, It was, in the opin- zine quoted above, insofar, as, in the ion of your editor, worth the wait. past, it has been proven guilty of a In regard to' the FAPA, we quote from a number of gross exaggerations, and false letter by President Milton A. Rothman: hoods, )) "I did intimate that various people ■would be dropped from the FAPA because CORRECTION :of the activity amendments, but upon -re note with amusement’an interes further consideration, it was decided to ting little misprint in the latest issue give all but the most hopeless another of Startling Stories. , On page 103 ,of chapcp, as a result of which the current the May, 1940, issue, ^Valley of Dream.s" mailing is being sent to all, withan is represented as "copyright 1904, Con opportunity to pay up back dues. tinental Publications", Uh - uh, Stan, Ueinbaum wasn’t writing for ~ronder in I^SflR MALCOM REISS, editor of Planet those days. You mean 19341 Stories tells us that over a score ||| IM of irritated to irate letters arri CITY DESK ved pt his office in disagreement with B, THOMPSON, of Lincoln, N e b, the opinions expressed by Olcn F, writes: "Do you know of any fans Higgins in the "Visagraph" section for interested in, and conversant with, the second issue. the synthetic language ' called Latino ■ Get in your , Olds or nOw V-J$* Sine Flexions" o r "interlingua"? I spent a few hours studying a book on And see the Chic on before it’s too L8.