The Fantasy Fan, Volume 2, Number 4, December 1934Various
History
The Fantasy Fan, Volume 2, Number 4, December 1934
Various
Fan magazines; Fantasy fiction -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; Fantasy fiction -- Periodicals
The enormous chamber was aflare with a myriad lamps. There were long
tables covered with seemingly endless varieties of meats, wines,
cheeses, birds, and other viands and edibles. Drunken centaurs carried
other intoxicated centaurs across the tables trampling everything
that came their way, causing both wrath and mirth to others. Wine was
spilled heavily all about; and centaurs fell and grappled with one
another on the lubricious earth. Two there were who fought for the
possession of a fried grasshopper; and three belabored each other's
heads with weighty stools. Some threw great platters of food from the
tables and demanded more wine. And the exhalation that arose from the
food and creatures became heavier; and the rejoicing and the swearing
and debating of tongues increased.
There were huge mirrors of multiplied convexity in the vast room and
these seemed to enhance and sharpen the ebbing and flowing luminosity
from the immense wax lights and bright vases. The mirrors caused much
confusion among the inebriated and over-gorged creatures, for they
crashed and careened with one another against the mirrors and cut
themselves, and laughed and cursed at their own grotesque and misshapen
likenesses.
* * * * *
SEABURY QUINN
A Brief Note
While it is not generally known to his readers, many of whom believe
him to be a physician, Seabury Quinn, author of the Jules de Grandin
stories which have been popular with the readers of Weird Tales for
ten years, holds the degrees of Bachelor and Master of Laws, being
graduated from the National University Law School, Washington, D. C.,
in 1910. From 1910 until his entry into the U. S. Army at the outbreak
of the World War (Second Lieutenant, Infantry attached Intelligence
Service) he practised law in the National Capital, specializing in
criminal and personal injury cases, in which he acted principally as
medico-legal consultant to other attorneys.
* * * * *
ADVERTISEMENTS
Rates: one cent per word
Minimum Charge, 25 cents
Back Numbers of _The Fantasy Fan_: September, 1933, out of print; Oct.,
Dec., 1933--Jan., Feb., Mar., May, June, Aug., Sept., Oct., 1934, 10
cents each. Nov., 1933--Apr., July, 1934, 20 cents each.
* * * * *
CLARK ASHTON SMITH presents THE DOUBLE SHADOW AND OTHER FANTASIES--a
booklet containing a half-dozen imaginative and atmospheric
tales--stories of exotic beauty, horror, 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.
* * * * *
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account