* * * * * WITHIN THE CIRCLE by F. Lee Baldwin "The Red Brain" by Donald Wandrei is one of a long cosmic series most of which is unpublished. H. P. Lovecraft wrote 35 "Fungi from Yuggoth" in 1929 and 1930. _The Fantasy Fan_ is going to print some of those which WT didn't take. Farnsworth Wright has been a visitor in Seattle, Washington. During the month of August, Clark Ashton Smith fought a terrible wood and grass fire on his ranch.... He wrote fiction--of a more realistic cast than some of his present work--as early as 1910 and 1911; some of it appearing in the defunct _Black Cat_. He dropped prose entirely until 1925 when he wrote "The Abominations of Yondo" (rejected by WT and published in the _Overland Monthly_) and "Sadastor" (also rejected by WT but later accepted by them and published). _Weird Tales_ has on hand "The Hand of Wrath" by E. Hoffmann Price.... He and Otis Adelbert Kline have collaborated in a Mexican weird novelette. It features Bart Leslie--Two Gun Bart--one of Kline's heroes. You will recall that he was featured in "The Demon of Tlaxpam" in WT a few years ago.... Price has also collaborated with Frank Belknap Long, Jr., on a weird novelette which is on a "visit" to _Astounding Stories_. He is about to write a serial and a novelette; interplanetary, and Far East, respectively. Forrest Ackerman can produce, at his pleasure, hour long programs, of weird and fantastic voices and sequences. He has recently added to his set of sound-discs from "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", the complete set of records from the weird-scientific film drama, "Frankenstein". He also possesses the thrilling story of Im-Ho-Tep--the Egyptian, dead 26 centuries, returned to life--featuring the weird voice of Boris Karloff; "Murders in the Rue Morgue" and the grotesque "Old Dark House". Two youthful Merritt fans burglarized the basement of a certain Carnegie Library and made off with old _Science and Inventions_ containing "The Metal Emperor". Robert E. Howard's occupation is fiction-writing, though he helps his father (a physician) attend to a small farm on the outskirts of Cross Plains, Texas. He is 27 years old and has led a somewhat roving and adventurous life. He is an amateur athlete and boxer; is very fond of fighting and believes barbarism to be preferable to civilization. He is a profound historic student, and an authority on the folklore and tradition of the Southwest. August W. Derleth is 24--U. of Wis. graduate and lives in Sauk City, Wis. He is gaining fame in magazines of select quality with serious reminiscent regional fiction and poetry. He writes mystery books besides fantasy. * * * * * ON FANTASY by Clark Ashton Smith