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Acolyte, v. 4, issue 1, whole no. 13, Winter 1946

Time, P. Schuyler Miller; The Proud Robot, Lewis Padgett: The Black Destroyer, A. E. van Vogt; Symbiotica, Eric Frank Russell; Seeds of the Dusk, Raymond Z. Gallum; Heavy Planet, Lee Gregor; Time Locker, Lewis Padgett; The Link, Cleve Cartmill; Mechanical Mice, Maurice A.
Hugi; V-2: Rocket Cargo Ship; Adam and No Eve, Alfred Bester; Nightfall, Isaac Asimov; A Matter of Size, Harry Bates; As Never Was, P. Schuyler Miller; Q.U.R., H. H. Holmes; Who Goes There, Don A. Stuart; The Roads Must Roll, Robert Heinlein; Asylum, A. E. van Vogt; Quietus, Ross Rocklynne; The Twonky, Lewis Padgett; Time Travel Happens, A. M. Phillips; Robot's Return, Robert Moore Williams: The Blue Giraffe, L. Sprague de Camp; Flight into Darkness, Webb Marlowe; The Weapon Shop, A. E. van Vogt; Farewell to the Master, Harry Bates; Within the Pyramid, R. DeWitt Miller; He Who Shrank, Henry Hasse; Correspondence Course, Raymond F. Jones; By His Bootstraps, Anson MacDonald; The Star Mouse, Frederic Brown.
     It is a pleasure to notice the way in which McComas and Heally have shunned the so-called "classics", most of which are of very dubious quality, and have concentrated on modern stories of sufficient
literary merit to receive from the general reading public something besides amused contempt. The presentation of this fine collection by a major publishing house should do science fiction more concrete good than anything that has happened since Hugo Gernsback launched the old
Amazing back in 1926.

AUGUST DERLETH'S QUARTERLY REPORT.
#1. One of our topflight literary
titles for 1946 will be Fearful
Pleasures, the first collection ever made of the fantastics of the famed author (one of 6 greatest living short story writers) A. E. Coppard, selected by himself, introduced by him. 2.    Satisfactory arrangements could not be concluded for publication of the book collections, Mimsy Were the Borogoves, by Kuttner, and Shambleau and Others, by Moore; they are permanently off the AH list. 3. Herman Koenig had the good fortune to unearth two previously unpublished Carnacki stories,
and those will appear with the original 6 in our Mycroft & Moran edition of Carnacki the Ghost Finder, by William Hope Hodgeson.    4. 1946 looks like this at the moment: (12/1/45) After appearance of The Hounds of Tlndalos just past the turn of the year, The Doll and One Other (Blackwood) is due by 3/15/46; The House on the Borderland by 4/15/46;
and after that in roughly this order, Fearful Pleasures (Coppard), Revelations in Black (Jacobi), West India Lights IWhitehead), Skull Face
and Others (Howard), SIan (van Vogt), Night's Black Agents (Leiber), Dark Carnival (Bradbury), This Mortal Coil (Asquith), Carnacki (Hodgson), an as—yet untitled anthology of weird poetry (ed. by myself), and, time permitting at our printers, two other titles, probably Machen's novel, The Green Round, and a Selected Shiel. For 1947 we have lined up a Wellman collection, Worse Things Waiting, a third collection, of my own containing earlier tales, mostly prior to 1940 and even to 1935, Not Long for This World, a Hartley collection, Smith's Genius Loci and Other Tales, Leiber's  Conjure Wife, Long's Horror from the Hills, etc;   5. Farrar and Rinehart tell us that Who Knocks? is down for publication 3/14/46.  6. The third of the F&R collections
will be titled The Night Side: 30 Masterpieces of the Strange and Terrible. So far rounded up are titles by Kantor, HPL, Howard and Donald Wandrei, Bierce, Dunsany, Kuttner, Moore, Blackwood, Doyle, Swain, Lawrence, Coppard, Saki, Long, Miller, Boucher, Coppard.

AMATEUR TITLES. The past six months have seen the publication of no less than three amateur pamphlets of fantastic implications. Best, in the opinion of this reviewer, is In Memoriam--A Fan

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Time, P. Schuyler Miller; The Proud Robot, Lewis Padgett: The Black Destroyer, A. E. van Vogt; Symbiotica, Eric Frank Russell; Seeds of the Dusk, Raymond Z. Gallum; Heavy Planet, Lee Gregor; Time Locker, Lewis Padgett; The Link, Cleve Cartmill; Mechanical Mice, Maurice A. Hugi; V-2: Rocket Cargo Ship; Adam and No Eve, Alfred Bester; Nightfall, Isaac Asimov; A Matter of Size, Harry Bates; As Never Was, P. Schuyler Miller; Q.U.R., H. H. Holmes; Who Goes There, Don A. Stuart; The Roads Must Roll, Robert Heinlein; Asylum, A. E. van Vogt; Quietus, Ross Rocklynne; The Twonky, Lewis Padgett; Time Travel Happens, A. M. Phillips; Robot's Return, Robert Moore Williams: The Blue Giraffe, L. Sprague de Camp; Flight into Darkness, Webb Marlowe; The Weapon Shop, A. E. van Vogt; Farewell to the Master, Harry Bates; Within the Pyramid, R. DeWitt Miller; He Who Shrank, Henry Hasse; Correspondence Course, Raymond F. Jones; By His Bootstraps, Anson MacDonald; The Star Mouse, Frederic Brown. It is a pleasure to notice the way in which McComas and Heally have shunned the so-called "classics", most of which are of very dubious quality, and have concentrated on modern stories of sufficient literary merit to receive from the general reading public something besides amused contempt. The presentation of this fine collection by a major publishing house should do science fiction more concrete good than anything that has happened since Hugo Gernsback launched the old Amazing back in 1926. AUGUST DERLETH'S QUARTERLY REPORT. #1. One of our topflight literary titles for 1946 will be Fearful Pleasures, the first collection ever made of the fantastics of the famed author (one of 6 greatest living short story writers) A. E. Coppard, selected by himself, introduced by him. 2. Satisfactory arrangements could not be concluded for publication of the book collections, Mimsy Were the Borogoves, by Kuttner, and Shambleau and Others, by Moore; they are permanently off the AH list. 3. Herman Koenig had the good fortune to unearth two previously unpublished Carnacki stories, and those will appear with the original 6 in our Mycroft & Moran edition of Carnacki the Ghost Finder, by William Hope Hodgeson. 4. 1946 looks like this at the moment: (12/1/45) After appearance of The Hounds of Tlndalos just past the turn of the year, The Doll and One Other (Blackwood) is due by 3/15/46; The House on the Borderland by 4/15/46; and after that in roughly this order, Fearful Pleasures (Coppard), Revelations in Black (Jacobi), West India Lights IWhitehead), Skull Face and Others (Howard), SIan (van Vogt), Night's Black Agents (Leiber), Dark Carnival (Bradbury), This Mortal Coil (Asquith), Carnacki (Hodgson), an as—yet untitled anthology of weird poetry (ed. by myself), and, time permitting at our printers, two other titles, probably Machen's novel, The Green Round, and a Selected Shiel. For 1947 we have lined up a Wellman collection, Worse Things Waiting, a third collection, of my own containing earlier tales, mostly prior to 1940 and even to 1935, Not Long for This World, a Hartley collection, Smith's Genius Loci and Other Tales, Leiber's Conjure Wife, Long's Horror from the Hills, etc; 5. Farrar and Rinehart tell us that Who Knocks? is down for publication 3/14/46. 6. The third of the F&R collections will be titled The Night Side: 30 Masterpieces of the Strange and Terrible. So far rounded up are titles by Kantor, HPL, Howard and Donald Wandrei, Bierce, Dunsany, Kuttner, Moore, Blackwood, Doyle, Swain, Lawrence, Coppard, Saki, Long, Miller, Boucher, Coppard. AMATEUR TITLES. The past six months have seen the publication of no less than three amateur pamphlets of fantastic implications. Best, in the opinion of this reviewer, is In Memoriam--A Fan