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evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
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OUR READERS SAY
Well, we are one year old with this issue, and just to celebrate,have added the smooth, glossy cover that you admired so much as youtook the issue out of the envelope. We may continue this every monthif circulation allows. After all, circulation means everything. Themore readers we have the more money comes into our treasury, and themore improvements we can give you. Will you subscribe (if you haven'talready), and urge your fantasy friends to do likewise? Every littlebit counts.
Our motto, by-word, or whatever you want to call it, is "The Fans' OwnMagazine," as you will notice, and we have made this issue consistof 100 per cent fan material (except for the poetry), in order toemphasize this. We have chosen some of our choice articles and columnsand provided an extra-long instalment of H. P. Lovecraft's excellentserial-article, "Supernatural Horror in Literature," Part Twelve ofwhich appears in this issue. Only about one-third of it has beenpublished. However, when we find it possible to increase the number ofpages, much longer instalments will appear and we may clear it up inless than two years more. Even so, we know you will be sorry to seeit end. So many of you have claimed it the best thing in our littlemagazette.
Just because there are no stories in this issue is no indication thatwe have ceased to publish them. During the past year we have given youbrand-new masterpieces by the inimitable Clark Ashton Smith, H. P.Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, August W. Derleth, Eando Binder, R. H.Barlow, and other great writers, and have many on hand to use duringthe months to come—several by Smith and Lovecraft, Binder, etc. Youwon't want to miss these. They have never seen print before and arewell up to the standard set by these authors in the more professionalmagazines. We want to keep THE FANTASY FAN a magazine for the fans, ofthe fans, and by the fans—the authors being the very best of fans.If you feel capable of writing any fan material, we would be glad toconsider it for publication. Payment for such consists of four copiesof THE FANTASY FAN of the issue in which the article appears per eachpage of article, until our magazine is on a paying basis.
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This issue has gone to press before the publication of the Augustnumber, so we have very few letters on hand from the readers:
"Some extra fine stuff in the last TFF. I see, also, that you haveadded a new newshound to the mag. All are doing good work. 'YourViewpoint' is better out as I don't believe there was much left towrite about, unless one had the time and inclination to puzzlesomething out."—Kenneth B. Pritchard, Pittsfield, Mass.
"I was delighted with the