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The Science Fiction Fan, v. 4, issue 8, whole no. 44, March 1940
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What's right with Weird Fiction? R.W. Lowndes (This was the first fan article I ever wrote; it was done for Wolheim's Phantagraph back in 1936 in answer to an article called "What's wrong with Weird Fiction? Mss. was mislard and never did get published.) Anent the recent discussiuon in Phantagraph a few brief observations might not be amiss, chiefly in answer to the points brought up in the September 1936 issue. First of all, I disagree that there is any more intrinsic weakness in this field than in any other type of writing; weird fiction, and by weird fiction I mean not only tales of the supernatural, legends, and mystery-horror-terror classed as strange, outre, grotesque, unusual, off-trail, or even metaphysical and speculative. Any form of fiction that is definitely creative opposed to the imitative prosodies of realism or the saceharinities of romanticism. It is bonded only by the bounds of writer's imagination. There are those who maintain that is
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What's right with Weird Fiction? R.W. Lowndes (This was the first fan article I ever wrote; it was done for Wolheim's Phantagraph back in 1936 in answer to an article called "What's wrong with Weird Fiction? Mss. was mislard and never did get published.) Anent the recent discussiuon in Phantagraph a few brief observations might not be amiss, chiefly in answer to the points brought up in the September 1936 issue. First of all, I disagree that there is any more intrinsic weakness in this field than in any other type of writing; weird fiction, and by weird fiction I mean not only tales of the supernatural, legends, and mystery-horror-terror classed as strange, outre, grotesque, unusual, off-trail, or even metaphysical and speculative. Any form of fiction that is definitely creative opposed to the imitative prosodies of realism or the saceharinities of romanticism. It is bonded only by the bounds of writer's imagination. There are those who maintain that is
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