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Acolyte, vol 1, issue 3, whole 3, Spring 1943
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CANADA CALLING by Leslie A. Croutch -oOo- It looks as though the sudden and unannounced demise of UNCANNY TALES is absolute fact. Alan Child, Canadian west coast fan, sent a ms. to UT and had it returned with the notation that UT no longer was in business. This leaves us supplied only by Popular's Canadian Super Science, and American News Canadian edition of Weird Tales. UT certainly went out in a blaze of glory though. For our Christmas present it gave us a big, thick so-called quarterly number. -oOo- Canadian fanzine publishing picked up the first of the year. Alan Child finally got his MEPHISTO finished and in the mails, and a mighty good hektoed job it is. Called "Canada's Weird Fanzine", it goes in for uncanny, spookish material only. The cover, which is by Gordon Peck, isn't at all weirdish, being a damsel who managed to look only beautiful. (If I may interrupt, MEPHISTO is really a worthy job, serious in approach, and with some very good material---send 5c to Alan Child, Room 347, 2647 Willow Street, Vancouver, B.C. ---FTL.) From St. Andrew's College in Ontario, birthplace of Hurter's CENSORED, his friend Beak Taylor, on the insistence of Hurter, has hektoed the first edition of 8-BALL. It is of a format even smaller than normal, neatly put up, but the copy I got is somewhat dim. Beak promises a mimeod mag next time. -oOo- Popular seems always to bring out Canadian editions of its magazines sooner or later. We fans up here are keeping our fingers crossed and hoping FFM is one of those. RAILROAD STORIES and ARGOSY are part of the crowd, so why not MARY GNAEDINGER? ... Notice those single staples holding the magazines together these days? Wonder how many fans are going to start clans for the return of the dual staple?.....Wonder if these new regulations on paper will affect the fanzine publishers? I know they don't use anything at all compared with the big boys, but the time may be coming when nobody will be able to walk in anywhere and buy a thousand sheets of paper. Then where will we be? The point I am making, isn't it about time we fan publishers started investigating suitable paper substitutes for our publications just in case? I'm not trying to cry "Wolf", but look what happened to Poland, Belgium, and Holland for being caught unprepared... -oOo- News up here is slack. Sometimes even I, an active fan and publisher, wonder if there is a very big and active fandom here in the Dominion. I've noticed a definite dropping off of interest in those who were all afire a year ago; though their places are being taken to a certain extent by newcomers. Ted White, who is overseas, still manages to be as active as any of those still at home, but he's the exception........ Therefore, pardon the laxity of this offering, and Viva La Canada! BIBLIO CORRECTION By the war, I think I have discovered an omission in your "Cthulhu Mythology". This is the "Hounds of Tindalos" which Lovecraft mentioned in "The Whisperer in Darkness"--WT Aug. 1931. Frank Belknap Long's story, "The Hounds of Tindalos", appeared in WT for March 1929. Also did HPL mention "The Abominable Snow Men" before F.B. Long's poem of that name (WT June-July 1931)? (Yes, "Whisperer in Darkness was written in 1930. FL) -- Harold Wakefield. -- 26 --
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CANADA CALLING by Leslie A. Croutch -oOo- It looks as though the sudden and unannounced demise of UNCANNY TALES is absolute fact. Alan Child, Canadian west coast fan, sent a ms. to UT and had it returned with the notation that UT no longer was in business. This leaves us supplied only by Popular's Canadian Super Science, and American News Canadian edition of Weird Tales. UT certainly went out in a blaze of glory though. For our Christmas present it gave us a big, thick so-called quarterly number. -oOo- Canadian fanzine publishing picked up the first of the year. Alan Child finally got his MEPHISTO finished and in the mails, and a mighty good hektoed job it is. Called "Canada's Weird Fanzine", it goes in for uncanny, spookish material only. The cover, which is by Gordon Peck, isn't at all weirdish, being a damsel who managed to look only beautiful. (If I may interrupt, MEPHISTO is really a worthy job, serious in approach, and with some very good material---send 5c to Alan Child, Room 347, 2647 Willow Street, Vancouver, B.C. ---FTL.) From St. Andrew's College in Ontario, birthplace of Hurter's CENSORED, his friend Beak Taylor, on the insistence of Hurter, has hektoed the first edition of 8-BALL. It is of a format even smaller than normal, neatly put up, but the copy I got is somewhat dim. Beak promises a mimeod mag next time. -oOo- Popular seems always to bring out Canadian editions of its magazines sooner or later. We fans up here are keeping our fingers crossed and hoping FFM is one of those. RAILROAD STORIES and ARGOSY are part of the crowd, so why not MARY GNAEDINGER? ... Notice those single staples holding the magazines together these days? Wonder how many fans are going to start clans for the return of the dual staple?.....Wonder if these new regulations on paper will affect the fanzine publishers? I know they don't use anything at all compared with the big boys, but the time may be coming when nobody will be able to walk in anywhere and buy a thousand sheets of paper. Then where will we be? The point I am making, isn't it about time we fan publishers started investigating suitable paper substitutes for our publications just in case? I'm not trying to cry "Wolf", but look what happened to Poland, Belgium, and Holland for being caught unprepared... -oOo- News up here is slack. Sometimes even I, an active fan and publisher, wonder if there is a very big and active fandom here in the Dominion. I've noticed a definite dropping off of interest in those who were all afire a year ago; though their places are being taken to a certain extent by newcomers. Ted White, who is overseas, still manages to be as active as any of those still at home, but he's the exception........ Therefore, pardon the laxity of this offering, and Viva La Canada! BIBLIO CORRECTION By the war, I think I have discovered an omission in your "Cthulhu Mythology". This is the "Hounds of Tindalos" which Lovecraft mentioned in "The Whisperer in Darkness"--WT Aug. 1931. Frank Belknap Long's story, "The Hounds of Tindalos", appeared in WT for March 1929. Also did HPL mention "The Abominable Snow Men" before F.B. Long's poem of that name (WT June-July 1931)? (Yes, "Whisperer in Darkness was written in 1930. FL) -- Harold Wakefield. -- 26 --
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