Various 29 min read

This number completes the fanzine's first year, and the editor urges every reader to renew, it is absolutely essential, he pleads, to the little weird-fiction magazine's survival as a monthly.

'The Fantasy Fan' (Aug. 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 anniversary issue of the pioneering fanzine that serialized Lovecraft's great horror essay and helped bind together early fandom.

In its time

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

Reading it

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