Various 34 min read

'It's up to you!' the editor pleads, monthly, bi-monthly, or quarterly?, as the loss-making little weird-fiction fanzine begs its readers for the subscriptions that keep it alive.

'The Fantasy Fan' (Jan. 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, a candid issue of the pioneering fanzine that published Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith, revealing the shoestring struggle behind 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).