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Fantasy Fan, v. 1, issue 10, June 1934

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152     THE FANTASY FAN, June, 1934

WEIRD WHISPERINGS

by Schwartz & Weisinger

Otis Adelbert Kline died from an operation two years ago!... That is, the doctors declared that he was dead ...Fortunately, an adrenalin injection saved him ... Seabury Quinn's next Jules de Grandin novelette will attempt to justify incest between brother and sister ... Quinn, who gets most of his plots while shaving, is also working on a book-length novel, "a sort of lost world affair" ...When A. Merritt finished reading "Thirsty Blades" by Kline and Price, he said, "I wish I had written that story" ...Ten Story Book edited by Harry Stephen Keeler, once put out an all weird issue...Robert E.  Howard occasionally does boxing yarns for Sport Stories.
Farnsworth Wright says the best stories he's printed in Weird Tales are (not in the order listed): "The Stranger from Kurdistan" by Price, "The Phantom Farmhouse" by Quinn, "The Outsider" by Lovecraft, "The Werewolf of Ponkert" by Munn, "The Shadow Kingdom" by Howard, "The Canal" by Worrell, "The Wind that Tramps the World" by Owen ... Eli Colter's full name is Elizabeth Colter...Victor Rousseau's is Victor Rousseau Emanuel...Murray Leinster's is Will Fitzgerald Jenkins ...Ralph Milne Farley's is Roger Sherman Hoar...Farnsworth Wright has had several stories and poems published under the nom-de-plume of Francis Hard...Desmond Hall, associate editor of Astounding Stories, admits having had a story published in Weird Tales under a pseudonym, but won't divulge which one.
"The Vengeance of Fi Fong," another tale of brain transplantation by Bassett Morgan, will soon appear in Weird Tales...Also scheduled for early appearances are "Old Sledge" by Paul Ernst and "Distortion out of Space" by Francis Flagg ... Otis Andelbert Kline's Weird Tales story of some years back, "The Bird People," was based on the Amazing Stories Cover Contest ...Jack Williamson wrote "Born of the Sun" after an argument with Edmond Hamilton, in which the former has maintained that no idea was too impossible to make convincing in a story...Arthur J. Burks began his career in Weird Tales under the name of Estil Critchie because, he explains, "I was ashamed of being associated with the stigma of being known as a writer" ...An interview with Burks, by your scribes, appeared in the April issue of Author & Composer.
E. Hoffmann Price has moved to Oklahoma where he is using his executive ability and mechanical skill as partner in a garage business...He will soon take to the road in his 1928 Ford Juggernaut and will visit Robert E. Howard in Cross Plains, Texas, and Clark Ashton Smith in Auburn, California...Farnsworth Wright once gave an account of his pet peeve: "My pet peeve is stories that get the character in a very interesting dilemna and lead the reader to expect an ingenious solution of the story only to have the story end with the statement, "then he woke up and found it was a dream.' Readers have a right to expect the author will offer an interesting denouement, but instead he says 'April Fool'."

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152 THE FANTASY FAN, June, 1934 WEIRD WHISPERINGS by Schwartz & Weisinger Otis Adelbert Kline died from an operation two years ago!... That is, the doctors declared that he was dead ...Fortunately, an adrenalin injection saved him ... Seabury Quinn's next Jules de Grandin novelette will attempt to justify incest between brother and sister ... Quinn, who gets most of his plots while shaving, is also working on a book-length novel, "a sort of lost world affair" ...When A. Merritt finished reading "Thirsty Blades" by Kline and Price, he said, "I wish I had written that story" ...Ten Story Book edited by Harry Stephen Keeler, once put out an all weird issue...Robert E. Howard occasionally does boxing yarns for Sport Stories. Farnsworth Wright says the best stories he's printed in Weird Tales are (not in the order listed): "The Stranger from Kurdistan" by Price, "The Phantom Farmhouse" by Quinn, "The Outsider" by Lovecraft, "The Werewolf of Ponkert" by Munn, "The Shadow Kingdom" by Howard, "The Canal" by Worrell, "The Wind that Tramps the World" by Owen ... Eli Colter's full name is Elizabeth Colter...Victor Rousseau's is Victor Rousseau Emanuel...Murray Leinster's is Will Fitzgerald Jenkins ...Ralph Milne Farley's is Roger Sherman Hoar...Farnsworth Wright has had several stories and poems published under the nom-de-plume of Francis Hard...Desmond Hall, associate editor of Astounding Stories, admits having had a story published in Weird Tales under a pseudonym, but won't divulge which one. "The Vengeance of Fi Fong," another tale of brain transplantation by Bassett Morgan, will soon appear in Weird Tales...Also scheduled for early appearances are "Old Sledge" by Paul Ernst and "Distortion out of Space" by Francis Flagg ... Otis Andelbert Kline's Weird Tales story of some years back, "The Bird People," was based on the Amazing Stories Cover Contest ...Jack Williamson wrote "Born of the Sun" after an argument with Edmond Hamilton, in which the former has maintained that no idea was too impossible to make convincing in a story...Arthur J. Burks began his career in Weird Tales under the name of Estil Critchie because, he explains, "I was ashamed of being associated with the stigma of being known as a writer" ...An interview with Burks, by your scribes, appeared in the April issue of Author & Composer. E. Hoffmann Price has moved to Oklahoma where he is using his executive ability and mechanical skill as partner in a garage business...He will soon take to the road in his 1928 Ford Juggernaut and will visit Robert E. Howard in Cross Plains, Texas, and Clark Ashton Smith in Auburn, California...Farnsworth Wright once gave an account of his pet peeve: "My pet peeve is stories that get the character in a very interesting dilemna and lead the reader to expect an ingenious solution of the story only to have the story end with the statement, "then he woke up and found it was a dream.' Readers have a right to expect the author will offer an interesting denouement, but instead he says 'April Fool'."