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Fantascience Digest, v. 2, issue 5, July-September, 1939
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Page 23 FANTASCIENCE DIGEST flair for reporting, too. Last night, on a dark street, when passing a fat man, he turned to me and cried: "I'LL BE BACK IN A FLASH WITH SOME FLESH!" As one Spaniard said to another Spaniard about a third Spaniard, "REVOLTING, ISN'T HE?" But lately he's been playing with matches and I'm afraid he'll make an ash of himself. Ghouls, you see, are made of cotton bunting, vevla-sheen tape, three or four old window shades, a vacuum cleaner, and a little patience. Moses and Oliver are both collapsible ghouls, the kind that fit in a cigarette case comfortably. They are very susceptible to indigestion......all bodies must be reasonably aged before they'll dine. Out at the graveyard one ghoul, just imagine, walks up to the tombstone, checks his shroud, and takes a table in the swankiest tomb in the place. Seating himself before an empty coffin, Mr. Ghoul then looks over the menu printed on the marble marker: "Special today--one well rotted female--or two kids--pickled Yankee feet--ptomaine toes--gangrene girls--skull dust--freshly picked bones, by the vultures--and dead man cocktail, vintage 1898 -- SPEND*A*NIGHT CEMETARY. No coffin cover charge. Entertainment given by Jay Jeepers and his Creepers." The ghoul then points to one luscious coffin over in the corner and it s brought to him post-humous-haste! "Will you have light or dark meat?" asks the waiter. "I'll take a wing," retorts Ghoulie, sharpening his teeth on his elbow. "Give me some dressing, too, and the liver. Aren't humans just the best things ever?" Or he may say, "Just wrap it up and I'll nibble on it going home." This sort of depravity has been going on now for many centuries. #-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#- CASE HISTORY --the first article ever written by SAM MOSKOWITZ-- #-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#- Everything is changing but it seems to me that the swiftest changing of them all is science fiction. Contrary to usual opinion, it was established and organized as a unit long before the event of definite stf magazines. Hugo Gernsback had it running regularly both in story and science-theory form in the old ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER. His "MAGNETIC STORM", reprinted in the July, 1926 AMAZING STORIES, was originally published in the ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER. Gernsback's famous novel, "RALPH 1246-41 Plus", and many of Ray Cummings' better-known stories were first published in the ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER. In 1921 when Gernsback changed the ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER into two magazines, PRACTICAL ELECTRICS and SCIENCE AND INVENTION, he continued his science fiction actively in the latter. Probably among the first was the series, "DR. HACKENSAW's SECRETS" by Clement Fezandie. This series started in the January, 1922 issue of SCIENCE AND INVENTION and ran for almost thirty consecutive issues. About the same time Ray Cummings had his six-part serial "AROUND THE UNIVERSE" published.
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Page 23 FANTASCIENCE DIGEST flair for reporting, too. Last night, on a dark street, when passing a fat man, he turned to me and cried: "I'LL BE BACK IN A FLASH WITH SOME FLESH!" As one Spaniard said to another Spaniard about a third Spaniard, "REVOLTING, ISN'T HE?" But lately he's been playing with matches and I'm afraid he'll make an ash of himself. Ghouls, you see, are made of cotton bunting, vevla-sheen tape, three or four old window shades, a vacuum cleaner, and a little patience. Moses and Oliver are both collapsible ghouls, the kind that fit in a cigarette case comfortably. They are very susceptible to indigestion......all bodies must be reasonably aged before they'll dine. Out at the graveyard one ghoul, just imagine, walks up to the tombstone, checks his shroud, and takes a table in the swankiest tomb in the place. Seating himself before an empty coffin, Mr. Ghoul then looks over the menu printed on the marble marker: "Special today--one well rotted female--or two kids--pickled Yankee feet--ptomaine toes--gangrene girls--skull dust--freshly picked bones, by the vultures--and dead man cocktail, vintage 1898 -- SPEND*A*NIGHT CEMETARY. No coffin cover charge. Entertainment given by Jay Jeepers and his Creepers." The ghoul then points to one luscious coffin over in the corner and it s brought to him post-humous-haste! "Will you have light or dark meat?" asks the waiter. "I'll take a wing," retorts Ghoulie, sharpening his teeth on his elbow. "Give me some dressing, too, and the liver. Aren't humans just the best things ever?" Or he may say, "Just wrap it up and I'll nibble on it going home." This sort of depravity has been going on now for many centuries. #-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#- CASE HISTORY --the first article ever written by SAM MOSKOWITZ-- #-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#- Everything is changing but it seems to me that the swiftest changing of them all is science fiction. Contrary to usual opinion, it was established and organized as a unit long before the event of definite stf magazines. Hugo Gernsback had it running regularly both in story and science-theory form in the old ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER. His "MAGNETIC STORM", reprinted in the July, 1926 AMAZING STORIES, was originally published in the ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER. Gernsback's famous novel, "RALPH 1246-41 Plus", and many of Ray Cummings' better-known stories were first published in the ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER. In 1921 when Gernsback changed the ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER into two magazines, PRACTICAL ELECTRICS and SCIENCE AND INVENTION, he continued his science fiction actively in the latter. Probably among the first was the series, "DR. HACKENSAW's SECRETS" by Clement Fezandie. This series started in the January, 1922 issue of SCIENCE AND INVENTION and ran for almost thirty consecutive issues. About the same time Ray Cummings had his six-part serial "AROUND THE UNIVERSE" published.
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