Various 30 min read

'A sad, sad story': the editor recalls launching the fanzine with money to burn and finding, to his disappointment, how few lovers of weird fiction would pay to keep it alive.

'The Fantasy Fan' (Nov. 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, a candid, wistful issue of the pioneering fanzine that serialized Lovecraft and gathered the weird-fiction fandom of the 1930s.

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).