Various 34 min read

Readers miss Bob Tucker's column and ask who wrote that last bit of poetry, while the editor confesses he's guilty of everything unsigned, the sixth number of a spirited weird-fiction fanzine.

'The Fantasy Fan' (Feb. 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, the pioneering fanzine that serialized Lovecraft's great essay on horror and gathered the top weird writers, amid the chatter of early fandom.

In its time

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

Reading it

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