Various 31 min read

Readers cheer the peachy May cover and Schwartz and Weisinger's column, and warm at last to Lovecraft's essay on horror, the tenth number of a spirited weird-fiction fanzine.

'The Fantasy Fan' (June 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 'Supernatural Horror in Literature' and printed Clark Ashton Smith, amid the voices of 1930s fandom.

In its time

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

Reading it

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