Various 34 min read

A reader praises Clark Ashton Smith's 'The Ghoul' and finds Lovecraft's 'Supernatural Horror in Literature' ever more absorbing, the seventh number of a spirited weird-fiction fanzine.

'The Fantasy Fan' (March 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 landmark horror essay and printed Clark Ashton Smith's fiction, amid the letters of 1930s 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).