Various Charles D. Hornig 32 min read

An apology opens the issue, an article on H. G. Wells was misattributed; it was really by young R. H. Barlow, in the eleventh number of a spirited weird-fiction fanzine.

'The Fantasy Fan' (July 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 gathered Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and rising talents like R. H. Barlow, amid the letters of early fandom.

In its time

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

Reading it

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