Cover of The Fantasy Fan, Volume 1, Number 9, May 1934 by Various

The Fantasy Fan, Volume 1, Number 9, May 1934 by Various

Readers praise the increased space for Lovecraft's 'Supernatural Horror in Literature,' calling it scholarly and fascinating, the ninth number of a spirited weird-fiction fanzine.

First published 1934 1930s English FantasyHorror

'The Fantasy Fan' (May 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 best remembered for serializing Lovecraft's landmark essay on horror, amid the fiction and 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).

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