Various 35 min read

Readers write in clamoring for fresh illustration and fresh writing, weary of the stereotyped fare of the pulps, the eighth number of a scrappy, ambitious little weird-fiction fanzine.

'The Fantasy Fan' (April 1934, ed. Charles D. Hornig) is a landmark early science-fiction and weird-fiction fanzine. Historic, lively, essential. Read it for a piece of genre history, an issue of the pioneering fanzine that gathered Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and the eager voices of 1930s fandom in one homemade magazine.

In its time

Published in 1934, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

35 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).