The Fantasy Fan, December 1933: The Fans' Own Magazine — John Shaqi
The Fantasy Fan, December 1933: The Fans' Own MagazineVarious
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The Fantasy Fan, December 1933: The Fans' Own Magazine
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"I am highly pleased with your publication, and hope you can make a
success of it. Glad to see you are printing Lovecraft's excellent
article on 'Supernatural Horror in Literature,' and also his 'Other
Gods.' Smith's tale was most entertaining."--R. H. Barlow (author of
the 'Annals' series)
"TFF continues to improve, the November issue marking a new high, what
with Lovecraft and Smith in the same number."--Allen Glasser
"I find the _Fantasy Fan_ very interesting and think it has a
good future. Anybody ought to be willing to pay a dollar for the
privilege of reading, for a whole year, the works of Lovecraft, Smith,
and Derleth. I am glad to see that you announce a poem by Smith in the
next issue. He is a poet second to none. Weird poetry possesses an
appeal peculiar to itself and the careful use of it raises the quality
of any magazine. I liked very much the department of 'True Ghost
Stories,' and hope you will continue it. The world is full of
unexplained incidents and peculiar circumstances, the logical reasons
for which are often so obscure and hidden that they are lent an
illusion of the supernatural."--Robert E. Howard
We wish there were more authors and fans that were enthusiastic over
the future of weird fiction and _The Fantasy Fan_ as you and our
other readers are, and were willing to support it. Yes, anyone should
be willing to pay a dollar to read the works of the authors you
mention for a whole year--and you are certainly included in that list,
although you, of course, would not mention that fact. The opinions of
such a popular weird author as yourself carry weight, and it is a
supreme pleasure to have you as a subscriber and contributor. Our
gratitude is unbounded.
"Delighted to see the November Issue. All the items and departments
seem well calculated to interest the weird fiction devotee; and since
there is no other magazine in this field, TFF ought certainly to be
able to build up a solid clientele in the course of time."--H. P.
Lovecraft
"Weisinger has done himself proud in both TFF and SFD. If he can only
keep going! I wonder what would happen if Schwartz fell down?!!
Lovecraft is O.K., and so is the whole issue; it is interesting. All
I'm doing is praising your mag, but what else can I do?"--Kenneth
Pritchard
Without Schwartz and Weisinger, science fiction fan material would
receive a terrific blow from which it would never recover. We are glad
to see that you are boosting our magazine; thanks for your enthusiasm.
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