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Fanomena, March 1948

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GENERAL RECOGNITION OF KELLER AS AN IMPORTANT CONTEMPORARY AUTHOR IS THE AIM OF AVALON COMPANY'S VOLUME
by Sam Moskowitz

The Avalong Company is without question the most unique and altruistic of the book publishing companies formed by science-fiction fans. The Avalon Company has no plans beyond its first volume, "Live Everlasting and Other Tales of Science, Fantasy and Horror" by David H. Keller, M. D. The company was organized by Sam Moskowitz and Will Sykora for the sole purpose of gaining David H. Keller, M. D. the recognition we felt he deserved. To further this aim the Avalon Company has helped David H. Keller M. D. negotiate contracts with The New Collectors Group, The National Fantasy Fan Federation and Robert A. Madle and Associates. Full coordination exists between these groups and each book is planned to emphasize separate facets of David H. Keller's diverse writing ability.
To facilitate t his, "Life Everlasting and Other Tales of Science, Fantasy and Horror" has been designed as a key volume to properly introduce Keller. Stories representing all phases of his writing have been selected for inclusion in this bulky first volume. As a science-fiction novel we chose "Life Everlasting", acclaimed as a great class of science-fiction shorts but each was immensely diverse in theme. "The Boneless Horror", a novellette is a tale pre-dating Atlantis with the emphasis on beautiful writing. This story also provided an idea which inspired an important longevity discovery. "Unto Us a Child Is Born" delineates the tragedy of a too-regimented future world. "No More Tomorrows" is a powerful O Henry type story with an unusual psychological twist.
Under another heading of "Weird-Horror" we chose the internationally famous "The Thing in the Cellar" and the increasingly popular "Dead Woman". These are two of the most horrifying stories ever written utilizing a great deal of Dr. Keller's background as a psychiatrist. Of the same variety, but never hitherto published professional are"Heredity" and "The Face in the Mirror".
In the realm of the scientific detective Dr. Keller was noted for his unique character "Taine of San Francisco". The best of these Taine stories, a novellette "The Cerebral Library" was chose for inclusion.
Another series that Dr. Keller was noted for, The Cornwall Series is represented by "The Thirty and One". Beauty of style is highnoted in this short story which is a straight fantasy.
In the "off-trail" category David H. Keller wrote many tales, but one which may yet become a standard American classic is "The Piece of Linoleum" which is as effective told aloud as read.
A long introduction over 5000 words has been written carefully analyzing all facets of Keller's writing, giving biographical background and tracing the most obvious influences in his writing back to their source. The psychiatrist is virtually psychoanalyzed!
Added as a premium will be a cross-indexed bibliography of all of Keller's published fiction and articles of fantasy interest.
The volume is in every sense aimed to make the general reader as well as the literary critic receptive to the challenge of giving Keller a fair samplong and deciding for themselves whether they agree with the editors' opinion that David H. Keller is an important author not only in the fantasy field but in the general American field of literature.
1000 copies of this first book will be run off and the plates will be melted after completion. It will eventually prove an item of utmost collector's rarity. It cannot be sold at dealers' discount and will have to sell out the entire edition at $3.00 ($3.50 after publication). The Avalon Company is situated at P. O. Box 8052 Clinton Hill Station, Newark 8, New Jersey.
It is strongly to the interest of every science-fiction fan to support this project whose chief motive is to advance science-fiction as a literature.
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GENERAL RECOGNITION OF KELLER AS AN IMPORTANT CONTEMPORARY AUTHOR IS THE AIM OF AVALON COMPANY'S VOLUME by Sam Moskowitz The Avalong Company is without question the most unique and altruistic of the book publishing companies formed by science-fiction fans. The Avalon Company has no plans beyond its first volume, "Live Everlasting and Other Tales of Science, Fantasy and Horror" by David H. Keller, M. D. The company was organized by Sam Moskowitz and Will Sykora for the sole purpose of gaining David H. Keller, M. D. the recognition we felt he deserved. To further this aim the Avalon Company has helped David H. Keller M. D. negotiate contracts with The New Collectors Group, The National Fantasy Fan Federation and Robert A. Madle and Associates. Full coordination exists between these groups and each book is planned to emphasize separate facets of David H. Keller's diverse writing ability. To facilitate t his, "Life Everlasting and Other Tales of Science, Fantasy and Horror" has been designed as a key volume to properly introduce Keller. Stories representing all phases of his writing have been selected for inclusion in this bulky first volume. As a science-fiction novel we chose "Life Everlasting", acclaimed as a great class of science-fiction shorts but each was immensely diverse in theme. "The Boneless Horror", a novellette is a tale pre-dating Atlantis with the emphasis on beautiful writing. This story also provided an idea which inspired an important longevity discovery. "Unto Us a Child Is Born" delineates the tragedy of a too-regimented future world. "No More Tomorrows" is a powerful O Henry type story with an unusual psychological twist. Under another heading of "Weird-Horror" we chose the internationally famous "The Thing in the Cellar" and the increasingly popular "Dead Woman". These are two of the most horrifying stories ever written utilizing a great deal of Dr. Keller's background as a psychiatrist. Of the same variety, but never hitherto published professional are"Heredity" and "The Face in the Mirror". In the realm of the scientific detective Dr. Keller was noted for his unique character "Taine of San Francisco". The best of these Taine stories, a novellette "The Cerebral Library" was chose for inclusion. Another series that Dr. Keller was noted for, The Cornwall Series is represented by "The Thirty and One". Beauty of style is highnoted in this short story which is a straight fantasy. In the "off-trail" category David H. Keller wrote many tales, but one which may yet become a standard American classic is "The Piece of Linoleum" which is as effective told aloud as read. A long introduction over 5000 words has been written carefully analyzing all facets of Keller's writing, giving biographical background and tracing the most obvious influences in his writing back to their source. The psychiatrist is virtually psychoanalyzed! Added as a premium will be a cross-indexed bibliography of all of Keller's published fiction and articles of fantasy interest. The volume is in every sense aimed to make the general reader as well as the literary critic receptive to the challenge of giving Keller a fair samplong and deciding for themselves whether they agree with the editors' opinion that David H. Keller is an important author not only in the fantasy field but in the general American field of literature. 1000 copies of this first book will be run off and the plates will be melted after completion. It will eventually prove an item of utmost collector's rarity. It cannot be sold at dealers' discount and will have to sell out the entire edition at $3.00 ($3.50 after publication). The Avalon Company is situated at P. O. Box 8052 Clinton Hill Station, Newark 8, New Jersey. It is strongly to the interest of every science-fiction fan to support this project whose chief motive is to advance science-fiction as a literature. 8