Various 30 min read

The little fanzine turns one year old, celebrating with a glossy cover and more weird fiction and verse from the top names of the field.

'The Fantasy Fan' (Sept. 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 'Supernatural Horror in Literature' and printed Clark Ashton Smith, amid the letters of a young fandom.

In its time

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

Reading it

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