* * * * * THE DEMONIAN FACE by Clark Ashton Smith About 1918 I was in ill health and, during a short visit to San Francisco, was sitting one day in the Bohemian Club, to which I had been given a guest's card of admission. Happening to look up, I saw a frightful demonian face with twisted rootlike eyebrows and oblique fiery-slitted eyes, which seemed to emerge momentarily from air about nine feet above me and lean toward my seat. The thing disappeared as it approached me, but left an ineffaceable impression of malignity, horror, and loathsomeness. If an hallucination, it was certainly seen amid appropriate surroundings; if an actual entity, it was no doubt the kind that would be likely to haunt a club in one of our modern Gomorrahs. * * * * * Back Numbers Of THE FANTASY FAN are still available See the ad in the rear of the magazine for issues available and prices WEIRD TALES is the only magazine on the market today presenting really literary weird fiction masterpieces of the macabre and unearthly Boost it and help its circulation by securing new readers Tell Your Friends about TFF * * * * * WEIRD WHISPERINGS by Schwartz and Weisinger _Pen Names_ Ronal Kayser, who has been writing for _Weird Tales_ under the pen-name of Dale Clark, has now dropped his pseudonym and will hereafter use his own name.... Greye La Spina had five stories in the first issue of that old fantasy magazine, _The Thrill Book_.... Four of these tales appeared under various pseudonyms, but the cover design story was published under her own name.... G. G. Pendarves, famous weird author, is the pen-name of an English_woman_.... Her real name is Miss G. Gordon Trenery; she is now selling stories to some of the English magazines under the name of Gordon Trenery.... And remember Hugh Davidson, author of "The Vampire Master," "Snake Man," and other WT thrillers? Well, Davidson is the pseudonym for none other than Edmond Hamilton! _Weird News_