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Alchemist, v. 2, issue 1, Autumn 1946
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liberately reading books (can you imagine a crime more heinous?) and reporting that all that glitters is sometimes Fool's Gold. The day of blind belief is done, is their decree; nite must fall and, with it many stars from the fantasy firmament. The aforementioned "Pandora's Box" was on the shelves of every collector in L.A. till one day Everett Evans happened to read it and report at the club that it was non-fantasy-the sort of disappointing title which Laney first dubbed "a gay deciever". (As an aftermath fans simultaneously held Grab-bag Auctions at which well wrapped books were purchased on speculation. When all the unwrapping was over, 14 fans found they had simply exchanged copies of--you guessed it--"Pandora's Box".) Viereck's "House of the Vampire" was next to fall under the axe. Then Anthony (Weird Tales) Rud's "House of the Damned". Then the great Robt. Chambers became suspect, and it was whispered in some quarters that "The Dark Star" was scarcely fantasy! Aspersions were cast on Shiel's "Cold Steel" and "Children of the Wind", on Wright's "Elfwin", and on Philpott's "Lycanthrope". And then, against all aversions, I-- I read a book one day. (As Bradbury would say, not a big book, of course, that would be fantastic; but a pocketbook. It was a rainy afternoon (strike
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liberately reading books (can you imagine a crime more heinous?) and reporting that all that glitters is sometimes Fool's Gold. The day of blind belief is done, is their decree; nite must fall and, with it many stars from the fantasy firmament. The aforementioned "Pandora's Box" was on the shelves of every collector in L.A. till one day Everett Evans happened to read it and report at the club that it was non-fantasy-the sort of disappointing title which Laney first dubbed "a gay deciever". (As an aftermath fans simultaneously held Grab-bag Auctions at which well wrapped books were purchased on speculation. When all the unwrapping was over, 14 fans found they had simply exchanged copies of--you guessed it--"Pandora's Box".) Viereck's "House of the Vampire" was next to fall under the axe. Then Anthony (Weird Tales) Rud's "House of the Damned". Then the great Robt. Chambers became suspect, and it was whispered in some quarters that "The Dark Star" was scarcely fantasy! Aspersions were cast on Shiel's "Cold Steel" and "Children of the Wind", on Wright's "Elfwin", and on Philpott's "Lycanthrope". And then, against all aversions, I-- I read a book one day. (As Bradbury would say, not a big book, of course, that would be fantastic; but a pocketbook. It was a rainy afternoon (strike
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