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Reader and Collector, v. 3, issue 3, June 1944
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4. Hodgson's tales may well have served as source books for many of the stories now being read in our present day pulp magazines. The whole range of weird and fantastic plots appears to have been covered in his books--pig-men, elementals, human trees, ghosts, sea of weeds, thought-transference, intelligent slugs, and in "The Night Land" the men are equipped with a hand weapon called a Diskos. This consists of a disk of gray metal which spins in the end of a metal rod, is charged from earth currents and capable of cutting people in two. To me, Hodgson will always be remembered as one of the great masters of the weird and fantastic. And I, for one, will always be grateful for the slim list of books he left behind him. -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The above article was based to some extent on two shorter articles which appeared in "The Fantasy Fan" (December 1934) and "The Phantagraph) (January 1937) respectively. The following essays by H.P. Lovecraft and C.A. Smith were written about seven years ago. The Lovecraft review of Hodgson's books originally appeared in H.C. Koenig's column "On the Trail of the Weird and Fantastic" in the February 1937 issue of "The Phantagraph". Smith's article was first published (in somewhat abbreviated form) in the same column in the March-April, 1937 number of "The Phantagraph".
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4. Hodgson's tales may well have served as source books for many of the stories now being read in our present day pulp magazines. The whole range of weird and fantastic plots appears to have been covered in his books--pig-men, elementals, human trees, ghosts, sea of weeds, thought-transference, intelligent slugs, and in "The Night Land" the men are equipped with a hand weapon called a Diskos. This consists of a disk of gray metal which spins in the end of a metal rod, is charged from earth currents and capable of cutting people in two. To me, Hodgson will always be remembered as one of the great masters of the weird and fantastic. And I, for one, will always be grateful for the slim list of books he left behind him. -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The above article was based to some extent on two shorter articles which appeared in "The Fantasy Fan" (December 1934) and "The Phantagraph) (January 1937) respectively. The following essays by H.P. Lovecraft and C.A. Smith were written about seven years ago. The Lovecraft review of Hodgson's books originally appeared in H.C. Koenig's column "On the Trail of the Weird and Fantastic" in the February 1937 issue of "The Phantagraph". Smith's article was first published (in somewhat abbreviated form) in the same column in the March-April, 1937 number of "The Phantagraph".
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