nimmMmrsi JUNE*1941 TWENTY CENTS FANTASY FICTION SHAPE OF DESIRE Cleve Cartmill It was—something. It was an ancient, fabled gem, it was a pair of tailor's sliears. It was a gun, a great emerald, or a hacksaw blade. It was—the shape of desire! YESTERDAY WAS MONDAY . Theodore Sturgeon Slight error somewhere! He gut behind the scenes, and woke up Wednesday morning although Yesterday was Monday. The Build­ y^i&ieikvissikl^mk''^ ers hadn't finished making Wednesday yet— NOT ACCORDING TO DANTE . Malcolm Jameson Hell wasn't what it used to be, what with all the imps on relief, and a steady rain of broken shoelaces, inoperable gadgets, and broken-down cars. But there was a very special hell for him— THE FOUNTAIN Nelson S. Rond Ponce de Leon was right—the Fountain of Youth was there in Florida. But he was wrong—for it was the fountain of death, too! 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Malcolm Jameson . 59 Even Hell should be modernized a little once in a while .- ^t makes, for a more effective, more subtle result. " ^ ,THE CREST OF THE WAVE . ... Jone Rice . ... 71 He rode the crest—till a Judas and a Delilah tricked him, and dropped him in the river. Thereafter—he rode them! JlHi HOWLING TOWER" . •' WiH Lciber. Jr. 9® ' On the vast, bleak plain there was only, one , thing^the lone tower. And the tower—hovyled! ' -v,- - . SHAP^E OF DESIRE". - ." . Cleve Cartmill ...'.101 No man could see what it was—and yet,-to every man . '" ' ~ who saw it, it was whatever thing he most wanteds— ' • i . YESTERDAY WAS'MONDAY ^. Theodore SSurgeon .'.112 The Actor slipped behind the scenes—to find the Scene- ' ' shifters at work' building Yesterday and Tomorrow! JOSHUA . ...... .'. .^'R.Creighton Buck . .124 .A strange old clock, that kept, quite liter- :. ally, marvelous time! It was never wrong. 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NEW YORK J- PRODUCED BY UNZ.ORG ELECTRONIC REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED THE IlISH "PUCK" IN the folklore of most nations there appears some type of "mischievous being —the personified essence of the orneriness of the inanimate. Considering the fiendish skill with which a collar button can conceal itself, or a pencil seen in its proper place not ten minutes ago can vanish, it is abundantly clear that some invisible—and ill-natured—visitant must be at work. • The English—see Shakespeare—called it the work of Puck, the jokester fairy. The Irish seemingly had more trouble; they required a whole race of jokester- tricksters to explain away their difficulties. Ireland had the Leprechaun-r-or at least they were so called in the Leinster district. -In south Ireland they were the Cluricaune, but Cluricaune or Leprechaun, they were a troublesome lot. Normally, they were pretty much solitary beings, unlike the friendly fairy folk who generally went in troops. There were suggestions, as a matter of fact, that the Leprechauns were outcasts from the fairy folk, exiled for their bad dis­ positions, a fact which naturally did nothing to improve those dispositions.