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Post by andydecker on Apr 25, 2023 9:05:15 GMT
Fantasy Newsletter (Florida Atlantic University, published monthly, founded by Paul C. Allen in 1978, published since November 1981 by Robert A. Collins)  Back in the days before Digitalisation made everything just another file in the Matrix this was one of the premier semi-professional magazines with a lot of information about genre literature. Not as polished as Charles Brown's Locus , it concentrated on Fantasy and Horror. There were interviews, reviews (often quite harsh and sometimes even fannish at times), opinion columns and articles about the field, not to mention a lot of advertising, which for overseas readers was a treasure trove. Over the years it had columnists like Fritz Leiber, Ramsey Campbell, Karl Edward Wagner, Jack L. Chalker and Somtow Sucharitkul.
The shown issue featered a long interview with Michael McDowell by Douglas E. Winter. At the time McDowell was writing his Blackwater series, and the interview lifted some pseudonyms under which he published. It is full of interesting tidbits.
In 1984 it was re-named Fantasy Review, now with more reviews and fewer columns. The magazine folded with issue #103 in 1987.
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Post by helrunar on Apr 25, 2023 13:59:04 GMT
Gorgeous scans, thanks Andreas! Interesting about KEW's contribution. That word is commonly spelled baloney when it refers to a meat product that was once a common sandwich ingredient (I am not sufficiently tuned in to omnivore diner/ deli counter cuisine to know if people still eat it today). Or as in Bela Lugosi's immortal line in the 1934 film The Black Cat (back from the days when films told proper stories and had characters who weren't just collages from some psychotherapist's notebook): "Supernatural, perhaps? BAAAALLLLLOOOONEYYY, perhaps not. There are many things under the sun." Ah, memories.
I just searched the word "baloney" on a popular interweb search thingumajig and all it would show was a bunch of entries in which the word was spelled as KEW did, however, all describing sandwiches. That just seems like such a fussy spelling to me, and I'm known to some for my preference for fussy spellings. So it goes.
cheers, Steve
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Post by Swampirella on Apr 25, 2023 14:07:18 GMT
Gorgeous scans, thanks Andreas! Interesting about KEW's contribution. That word is commonly spelled baloney when it refers to a meat product that was once a common sandwich ingredient (I am not sufficiently tuned in to omnivore diner/ deli counter cuisine to know if people still eat it today). Or as in Bela Lugosi's immortal line in the 1934 film The Black Cat (back from the days when films told proper stories and had characters who weren't just collages from some psychotherapist's notebook): "Supernatural, perhaps? BAAAALLLLLOOOONEYYY, perhaps not. There are many things under the sun." Ah, memories. I just searched the word "baloney" on a popular interweb search thingumajig and all it would show was a bunch of entries in which the word was spelled as KEW did, however, all describing sandwiches. That just seems like such a fussy spelling to me, and I'm known to some for my preference for fussy spellings. So it goes. cheers, Steve Baloney is still sold in supermarkets; I confess to the occasional baloney sandwich. So now you all can sleep easy.  |
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Post by helrunar on Apr 25, 2023 15:51:18 GMT
LOL! Thanks, Scarlett!
cheers, Steve
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Post by andydecker on Apr 25, 2023 16:03:06 GMT
Or as in Bela Lugosi's immortal line in the 1934 film The Black Cat (back from the days when films told proper stories and had characters who weren't just collages from some psychotherapist's notebook): "Supernatural, perhaps? BAAAALLLLLOOOONEYYY, perhaps not. There are many things under the sun." Ah, memories. Now that was a great movie! Vitus Werdegast! Hjalmar Poelzig! Names I remember without checking. So many crap remakes of crap movies, but this never got remade as as I know. So many possibilities to bring scenes on the screen which in the original just was referred to. The battle of Marmorous, the prison of Kurgaal.The movie begins like a Jules de Grandin story and is soon so much more. |
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Post by andydecker on May 4, 2023 8:46:29 GMT
Been browsing a few issues of 1981 these last days. It is kind of a relevation. How lively the market was at the time. Mike Ashley had a column about the British scene, Karl Edward Wagner was reviewing stuff in his colum and making fun of the competition.
This he worte about a story in the revival of Weird Tales under Lin Carter: Next is one of those newly discovered bits, "The Light from the Pole" by Clark Ashton Smith, which we learn was completed by editor Lin Carter. It appears to have been completed from a discarded early draft of "The Coming of the White Worm," and as such is little more than a dreary rehashing of that well known Smith story, served up in Carter's version of a "gor geously-written fable." "And thus it came to pass that Pharazyn knew the extremity of horror, and knew himself damned beyond all other dooms eternal: for it is a strange and fearful doom, to know that by your hand shall be set upon the flesh of men the seal of that gulf whose rigor paleth one by one the most ardent stars, and putteth rime at the very core of suns--the unutterable coldness of the profound and cosmic deeps!" But Pharazyn was too smart for them: cornered in his tower he slit his throat from ear to ear. Smith wasn't as fortunate.Even the ads speak volumes. Here is a full page ad of Timescape, the then new SF imprint of Pocket Books: The interviews are long and interesting, even with those writers one didn't fancy much back then. |
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Post by jamesdoig on May 4, 2023 11:02:12 GMT
Been browsing a few issues of 1981 these last days. It is kind of a relevation. How lively the market was at the time. Mike Ashley had a column about the British scene, Karl Edward Wagner was reviewing stuff in his colum and making fun of the competition. I've a pretty complete bound run of it - a great review magazine that's always worth a browse. Andy, I think you had a few articles in it back in the day, didn't you? |
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Post by andydecker on May 4, 2023 18:27:03 GMT
Been browsing a few issues of 1981 these last days. It is kind of a relevation. How lively the market was at the time. Mike Ashley had a column about the British scene, Karl Edward Wagner was reviewing stuff in his colum and making fun of the competition. I've a pretty complete bound run of it - a great review magazine that's always worth a browse. Andy, I think you had a few articles in it back in the day, didn't you? You are right. Inspired by Mike Ashley I co-wrote an article - or two? I don't know any longer, I would have to check - with a friend who was working full-time as a writer and editor at the time. The first piece I wrote in an different language. It was a market report. |
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Post by jamesdoig on May 5, 2023 5:42:13 GMT
The first six issues were 8 pages, then it went up to 12. It quickly became one of the leading review publications.   |
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Post by helrunar on May 5, 2023 16:09:46 GMT
Thanks for those scans. Interesting to see mention of the special edition of Thomas Burnett Swann's seldom-discussed novel Queens Walk in the Dusk, a fantasy version of the tragedy of Dido of Carthage. (An electronic edition is, or was, available recently, which was how I read the book.) With art by (Catherine) Jeff Jones--that must have been magical indeed. Still only $15. Surprisingly, I just checked and I see a copy listed with an online vendor for only $30.
Hel.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on May 5, 2023 18:32:31 GMT
Thomas Burnett Swann's seldom-discussed novel Queens Walk in the Dusk All his novels are seldom-discussed. Nobody wants to admit to having read them. |
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Post by andydecker on May 5, 2023 20:55:02 GMT
Thomas Burnett Swann's seldom-discussed novel Queens Walk in the Dusk All his novels are seldom-discussed. Nobody wants to admit to having read them. Why is that? |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on May 5, 2023 21:15:05 GMT
All his novels are seldom-discussed. Nobody wants to admit to having read them. Why is that? I remember the ones I read (yes, I am one of the few who will openly talk about it) as unremittingly "twee." |
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Post by andydecker on May 6, 2023 9:32:00 GMT
I remember the ones I read (yes, I am one of the few who will openly talk about it) as unremittingly "twee." I read a few in the 80s when they were translated. I seem to remember that I liked them, but thought them kind of sad. Maybe it is an age thing, but nowadays I sometimes like twee. Planned to re-read them for some time, but never came to it. |
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Post by andydecker on May 6, 2023 9:45:09 GMT
The first six issues were 8 pages, then it went up to 12. It quickly became one of the leading review publications. Thanks for those, James. It says a lot that he made from such a small start such a good magazines. This was so much work, collecting those infos, all done by mail. |
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