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Fantasite, v. 2, issue 3, whole no. 9, August-September 1942
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THE FANTASITE..........15 magazines, now long out of print. I discovered them, together with another hundred, in a seldom-visited book-store across town on the very same day in 1939 when the three Futurians, Donald A. Wollheim, John B. Michel, and Dick Wilson, came from New York City to visit Rochester. I did not tell this to them that evening, but merely the fact that I had quite a large set of Black Cats. They would have been surprised to know that the bulk of them had been brought home by street-car, in two uncovered market baskets, the very same afternoon that they had been driving to Rochester! All science- and fantasy-fiction stories are titled in capitals. 1903 January "The Dinner Party at Dayton Ranch" by Mabel Loder Stearns 15 pp. $250 Prize Story "Out of Court" by Virginia Yeaman Remnitz. 10 pp. $125 Prize Story. Not fantasy, except in mood. The innocent man, suspected of the murder of his own father, begins to doubt his own senses, thinking he must have lost his memory of the event. Then the guilty man confesses on his death-bed. There is also a deep romantic interest. "The Drowned Bedroom" by Rene Bache. 6 pp. Imagine spending the night in a bedroom which begins to fill with water, at the nome of a person who had, in a moment of passion, sworn to be your enemy! But it turns out that the host had no designs on his guest's life and was, indeed, much embarrassed that the room, especially constructed so that it was convertible into a tank or bathroom, had accidentally flooded with water. February "The Ones Concerned" by Eleanor A. Sterling. 14 pp. $150 Prize Story. "THE BRIDE" BY Anna McClure Shell. 10 pp. The ghost of mistreated Jane Adams haunts to death the grandson of Robert Arnold, who bears not only the name but also a striking resemblance to his grandfather, who had taken Jane Adams as a wife after a mock ceremony which she believed was legal, afterwards deserting "her and her child to make a real marriage with an Englishwoman of position"--fifty years before. "THE NEW ART" by Fred Nye. 9 1/2 pp. $125 Prize Story. Herr von Rosin discovers a process by which perfumes become, through the sense of smell "what music is to the human heart and soul through the ear". He then conducts an experiment in which nearly three hundred people are entranced with delight by the effect of "the new art". "The Golden-Mottled Spiders" by Mariner J. Kent. 3 1/2 pp. The remains of two brothers are found by their sister in a cave of gold-dust where they had been accidentally imprisoned, enwrapped in the glorious webs of the spiders which she has tracked. March "A Tale Never Told" by Alfred Williams Anthony. 13 1/2 pp. $500 Prize Story. Not science-fiction, but a gripping tale of the sea. "The Town That Took Treatment" by Jessie Reno Odlin. 6 pp. The town of Twin Harbors, fast fading in depression, gets a boom when the
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THE FANTASITE..........15 magazines, now long out of print. I discovered them, together with another hundred, in a seldom-visited book-store across town on the very same day in 1939 when the three Futurians, Donald A. Wollheim, John B. Michel, and Dick Wilson, came from New York City to visit Rochester. I did not tell this to them that evening, but merely the fact that I had quite a large set of Black Cats. They would have been surprised to know that the bulk of them had been brought home by street-car, in two uncovered market baskets, the very same afternoon that they had been driving to Rochester! All science- and fantasy-fiction stories are titled in capitals. 1903 January "The Dinner Party at Dayton Ranch" by Mabel Loder Stearns 15 pp. $250 Prize Story "Out of Court" by Virginia Yeaman Remnitz. 10 pp. $125 Prize Story. Not fantasy, except in mood. The innocent man, suspected of the murder of his own father, begins to doubt his own senses, thinking he must have lost his memory of the event. Then the guilty man confesses on his death-bed. There is also a deep romantic interest. "The Drowned Bedroom" by Rene Bache. 6 pp. Imagine spending the night in a bedroom which begins to fill with water, at the nome of a person who had, in a moment of passion, sworn to be your enemy! But it turns out that the host had no designs on his guest's life and was, indeed, much embarrassed that the room, especially constructed so that it was convertible into a tank or bathroom, had accidentally flooded with water. February "The Ones Concerned" by Eleanor A. Sterling. 14 pp. $150 Prize Story. "THE BRIDE" BY Anna McClure Shell. 10 pp. The ghost of mistreated Jane Adams haunts to death the grandson of Robert Arnold, who bears not only the name but also a striking resemblance to his grandfather, who had taken Jane Adams as a wife after a mock ceremony which she believed was legal, afterwards deserting "her and her child to make a real marriage with an Englishwoman of position"--fifty years before. "THE NEW ART" by Fred Nye. 9 1/2 pp. $125 Prize Story. Herr von Rosin discovers a process by which perfumes become, through the sense of smell "what music is to the human heart and soul through the ear". He then conducts an experiment in which nearly three hundred people are entranced with delight by the effect of "the new art". "The Golden-Mottled Spiders" by Mariner J. Kent. 3 1/2 pp. The remains of two brothers are found by their sister in a cave of gold-dust where they had been accidentally imprisoned, enwrapped in the glorious webs of the spiders which she has tracked. March "A Tale Never Told" by Alfred Williams Anthony. 13 1/2 pp. $500 Prize Story. Not science-fiction, but a gripping tale of the sea. "The Town That Took Treatment" by Jessie Reno Odlin. 6 pp. The town of Twin Harbors, fast fading in depression, gets a boom when the
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