Various 36 min read

'The November issue beats the first two by a mile!' writes young Bob Tucker, the fourth number of a scrappy little weird-fiction fanzine finding its feet.

'The Fantasy Fan' (Dec. 1933, 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 early issue of the pioneering fanzine, alive with the letters and enthusiasms of a fandom that included Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and Bob Tucker.

In its time

Published in 1933, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

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