The Fantasy Fan, November 1933<br />The Fans' Own Magazine by Various (good novels to read TXT) 📗
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FAMOUS FANTASY FANS
2—Conrad H. Ruppert
Heart disease was CHR's means of becoming introduced to science fiction. Confined to bed he was given a copy of Science and Invention which he read and re-read many times, liking its science fiction story, "The Man on the Meteor" by Ray Cummings, best of all. He never lost one whit of his interest in fantasy fiction, and has become a keen judge of what is best in this field.
Always retiring in nature, he first came to notice in a vigorous campaign he conducted for increasing the membership of the International Scientific Association, and for innovating a Science Fiction Week. Hugo Gernsback was so pleased with this latter idea, and with CHR's work in trying to put it over, that CHR was awarded a $50 prize in the "What I Have Done for Science Fiction" contest that Science Wonder Quarterly conducted at that time.
His pet idea for many years was to issue a science fiction fan magazine. The Depression decided him upon the desperate expedient of launching the SCIENCE FICTION DIGEST without adequate preparation. Unwilling to take any credit for the work he appointed Maurice Z. Ingher as the Digest's editor, but when Mr. Ingher was forced to resign because of other duties, he reluctantly took the editorship. There is plenty of testimony to satisfy all as to the success he has attained with his little magazine, the SCIENCE FICTION DIGEST.
As for his age, and other personal points, he is 21, unmarried, and considers life quite thrilling. He is a printer by occupation, being one of the partners of the ARRA Printers, who have given the fans several science fiction pamphlets.
Though he declares he is not modest, he cannot be convinced that he has done anything unusual. It is his courage and determination that has carried the 'Science Fiction Digest' through the rough spots of its career, and it is stern judgement that selects the articles and stories which so please the readers of SFD, or FANTASY Magazine, as it will be called.
The word "weird" as meaning bizarre probably originated with Edgar Allan Poe, who was one of the greatest coiner of words. Is his poem "Ulalume," he speaks of the country of "Weir" from which the word "weird" was derived to describe anything horrible or unique.
Come over to "Our Readers Say" and "The Boiling Point" and join in the comment. We always like to get letters from our readers.
Send in your comments on the current issue. We want to know your likes and dislikes. That is the only way we can supply you with the kind of material you like.
Subscribe now and insure yourself of a monthly copy. Only a limited number are printed.
CELEBRITIES I'VE MET
by Mortimer Weisinger
Dr. T. O'Conor Sloane—who wishes he were related to the owner of 'Sloan's Liniment.'
Hugo Gernsback—who, when commended for his ability to turn out new editorials month after month, modestly shrugged it off with: "It's all in the day's work."
Harry Bates—who evasively answers all questions pertaining to the identity of Anthony Gilmore by saying, "I'll speak only upon advice from my counsel."
A. Merritt—who, though he is perhaps the greatest man I have ever known, is incredibly unaffected for a person with his success.
Dr. David Henry Keller—who can tell a story almost better than he can write, as witness the tale, "The Dead Woman," told to me in his room at the Hotel New Yorker.
Mrs. David Keller—who enjoys piquing one's curiosity when quizzed about the name of the magazine for which her husband writes under a nom-de-plume.
Angelica Keller—who is the 'Angelica' of scores of Keller stories, and upon whom Dr. Keller's story, "A Pyschological Experiment," was based.
Abner Joseph Gelula—who gleefully claims that he wishes the movie magnates would buy each of his stories for the movies, as they did "Automaton."
Miss Florence Bothner, Dr. Sloane's capable secretary, who rightly insists that Bob Olsen is the wittiest s-f writer.
Leo Morey—one of the most handsome chaps of the science fiction gang, and perhaps the slickest dresser of them all.
H. W. Wesso—who confesses that he knows less about technical sciences than Homer Eon Flint knows of the sequel to "The Blind Spot."
Miss Miriam Bourne—whose pet diversion is telling Dr. Keller that he is not a real author, in the true sense of the word, although she tells friends that Doctor Keller is the greatest of them all, when he isn't around!
Arthur J. Burks—who reeled off his five thousand word part for the serial, COSMOS, in exactly two hours! I vas dere, Sharlie.
Gawain Edwards,—who when asked to pay only one dollar as initiation fee for membership in the old Scienceers, slapped it down with such contempt as if to say, "What Pikers!"
Charles D. Hornig, a New Jerseyite, who wishes there were dozens of Clark Ashton Smiths and also dozens of H. P. Lovecrafts.
UNUSUAL STORIES
The new magazine of fantastic fiction presents such stories as:
"The White Sybil"
by Clark Ashton Smith
"Countries in the Sea"
by August W. Derleth
"The Sixth Sense"
by Stanton A. Coblentz
"On Board the Space-Ship Terra"
by L. A. Eshbach
"The Strange Case of Tony Rizutti"
by Ralph Milne Farley
"The Doom that Came to Sarnath"
by H. P. Lovecraft
"Tharda, Queen of Vampires"
by Richard Tooker
"The Garden of Fear"
by Robert E. Howard
"Mars Colonizes"
by Miles J. Breuer, M.D.
"When the Waker Sleeps"
by Cyril G. Wates
"The Torch of Life"
by Joe W. Skidmore
"The Ogre of Space"
by Manly Wade Wellman
"A Diamond Asteroid"
by Lowell H. Morrow
"Binding de Lux"
by Dr. David H. Keller
"Master of Matter"
by Amelia Reynolds Long
"The Titan"
by P. Schuyler Miller
"Synthetic"
by Harl Vincent
and others.
Subscribe now: Single copy: 20—Three months: 50—eight mo.: $1.00—year: $1.50
Special offers to be withdrawn soon.
Published by Fantasy Publications,
Everett, Pa.
QUINTESSENCE OF QUINN: a quarter of a hundred unique Jules de Grandin tales from Weird, $1. One selection only, for some Quinn fan. List of other fantasies, stf, for stamp. Forrest J. Ackerman, 530 Staples Avenue, San Francisco, California.
FOR SALE: Back numbers of all science fiction magazines. Send for free list. Charles' Book Haven, 238 Seventh Ave., New York, N.Y.
CLARK ASHTON SMITH presents THE DOUBLE SHADOW AND OTHER FANTASIES—a booklet containing a half-dozen imaginative and atmospheric tales.—Stories of exotic beauty, glamor, terror, strangeness, irony and satire. Price: 25 cents each, (coin or stamps). Also a small remainder of EBONY AND CRYSTAL—a book of prose poems published at $2.00, reduced to $1.00 per copy. Everything sent postpaid. Clark Ashton Smith, Auburn, California.
SCIENCE FICTION DIGEST
will be known as
FANTASY MAGAZINE
The Digest of Imaginative Literature
beginning with its
January, 1934 issue
COSMOS, and all the other SFD will be continued in FANTASY.
Subscription rates remain the same, 25 cents for 3 months, 50 cents for 6 months, $1. per year.
Science Fiction Digest Co.
87-36 162nd Street
Jamaica, New York
Transcriber's Note:
Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note.
Irregularities and inconsistencies in the text have been retained as printed.
The cover of this ebook was created by the transcriber and is hereby placed in the public domain.
End of Project Gutenberg's The Fantasy Fan November 1933, by Charles D. Hornig
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