Various 30 min read

Rising printing costs force the fanzine to drop its covers, as this issue honors 'that father of the weird tale,' Edgar Allan Poe, with a fresh installment of Lovecraft's great essay.

'The Fantasy Fan' (Dec. 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's tribute to Poe, part of Lovecraft's serialized 'Supernatural Horror in Literature,' amid the strains of early 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).