Various 44 min read

The second issue doubles its pages and announces a bold new policy: a story every month from Clark Ashton Smith, H. P. Lovecraft, August Derleth, and other top names of weird fiction.

'The Fantasy Fan' (Oct. 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 as it recruited the giants of weird fiction and helped give shape to the earliest fandom.

In its time

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

Reading it

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