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SOUTHERN STAR The Munsey Panorama Page 22 in this magazine under the title The Occult Detector. I consider them quite as much fantasy as many stories in Unknown, yet have never seen them mentioned in a fan mag. Certainly these tales, the earlier ones especially, have an atmosphere that is seldom if ever duplicated, and I feel that most fans would enjoy them. J.U. Giesy and Junius B. Smith were the authors. The All-Story Weekly, March 7, 1914--July 17, 1920. (Merged with Argosy). Now here is the fantasy collector's treasure trove. If I live to be a hundred, I'll dream of those covers by Monahan and Modest Stein. These mags were crammed with fantasy. By the tail of my uncle's horse, I don't know how to tell you, how to start. Did you ever hear of a writer named E.R. Burroughs? A man named Merritt broke in here, and here was Lylda born! Remember Hall, and Flint, and Julian Hawthorne, and Francis Stevens? Tod Robbins, Victor Rousseau, Charles B. Stilson? Then what sort of resume do you expect me to submit in the cramped space at my disposal? I can't even list the tales that were novel length. Must do that in succeeding articles. And who am I to say, this is a good story, that isn't? Most fans know which were the masterpieces, or at least which are most talked about today. But If I follow up this piece I'm going to make it my business to boost a number of stories that seem to me to have been slighted in the requests for FFM reprints. I mean to go a-crusading, by golly, and yell for justice and bay at the moon, and generally make a damfool out of myself, just as do all Men with Missions. For some of those unmentioned or unknown stories, gentlemen, were great stuff. Are you acquainted with Swami Ram? Do you recall the blind hero of the story written by a blind man? Do you know that one of the most powerful descriptive passages ever printed in a pulp is to be found in Francis Stevens' Claimed, telling of the destruction of Atlantis? Do you know that as far back as 1909 Cavalier carried a short having to do with the preservation of a Viking's body in a block of ice? Across a Thousand Years was the title. In the old All-Story, Stevens, Julian Hawthorne, Sheehan, and several others are good material for a self-appointed press agent, so crusading we will go, I betcha. Maybe. A few outstanding All-Story serials, recalled off-hand: England's Empire in the Air, 1914. Hall's Into the Infinite, 1919. Robbins' The Terrible Three, 1917. Rousseau's Eye of Balamok, 1920. Stilson's Polaris--of the Snows, 1915. Stilson's Land of the Shadow People, 1920. THE ARGOSY, January 1910, to date. Between 1910 and November, 1917, Argosy was a monthly publication and many of the book length novels were printed complete in one issue. Thus if, like me, you have never been able to get your paws on the January, '15, number, you haven't the foggiest idea of what Sheehan's Abyss of Wonders could be about. I've found one guy who has that issue but he's so unfortunately like me that he won't sell. I offered a dollar, Bang, just like that. Careless like. I'm still offering. I might actually go as high as a dollar ten--whose nose? Anyway, in this period, highlights were: James Francis Dwyer's City of the Unseen, 1913. Garret P. Serviss' The Moon Maiden, 1915. William Wallace Cook's Castaways of the Year 2000, 1912. (Sequel to A Round Trip to the Year 2000, well remembered by Fred Fischer. From 1918 to the merger with All-Story in 1920, four great novels by Francis Stevens appeared in Argosy. They were: The Citadel of Fear
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SOUTHERN STAR The Munsey Panorama Page 22 in this magazine under the title The Occult Detector. I consider them quite as much fantasy as many stories in Unknown, yet have never seen them mentioned in a fan mag. Certainly these tales, the earlier ones especially, have an atmosphere that is seldom if ever duplicated, and I feel that most fans would enjoy them. J.U. Giesy and Junius B. Smith were the authors. The All-Story Weekly, March 7, 1914--July 17, 1920. (Merged with Argosy). Now here is the fantasy collector's treasure trove. If I live to be a hundred, I'll dream of those covers by Monahan and Modest Stein. These mags were crammed with fantasy. By the tail of my uncle's horse, I don't know how to tell you, how to start. Did you ever hear of a writer named E.R. Burroughs? A man named Merritt broke in here, and here was Lylda born! Remember Hall, and Flint, and Julian Hawthorne, and Francis Stevens? Tod Robbins, Victor Rousseau, Charles B. Stilson? Then what sort of resume do you expect me to submit in the cramped space at my disposal? I can't even list the tales that were novel length. Must do that in succeeding articles. And who am I to say, this is a good story, that isn't? Most fans know which were the masterpieces, or at least which are most talked about today. But If I follow up this piece I'm going to make it my business to boost a number of stories that seem to me to have been slighted in the requests for FFM reprints. I mean to go a-crusading, by golly, and yell for justice and bay at the moon, and generally make a damfool out of myself, just as do all Men with Missions. For some of those unmentioned or unknown stories, gentlemen, were great stuff. Are you acquainted with Swami Ram? Do you recall the blind hero of the story written by a blind man? Do you know that one of the most powerful descriptive passages ever printed in a pulp is to be found in Francis Stevens' Claimed, telling of the destruction of Atlantis? Do you know that as far back as 1909 Cavalier carried a short having to do with the preservation of a Viking's body in a block of ice? Across a Thousand Years was the title. In the old All-Story, Stevens, Julian Hawthorne, Sheehan, and several others are good material for a self-appointed press agent, so crusading we will go, I betcha. Maybe. A few outstanding All-Story serials, recalled off-hand: England's Empire in the Air, 1914. Hall's Into the Infinite, 1919. Robbins' The Terrible Three, 1917. Rousseau's Eye of Balamok, 1920. Stilson's Polaris--of the Snows, 1915. Stilson's Land of the Shadow People, 1920. THE ARGOSY, January 1910, to date. Between 1910 and November, 1917, Argosy was a monthly publication and many of the book length novels were printed complete in one issue. Thus if, like me, you have never been able to get your paws on the January, '15, number, you haven't the foggiest idea of what Sheehan's Abyss of Wonders could be about. I've found one guy who has that issue but he's so unfortunately like me that he won't sell. I offered a dollar, Bang, just like that. Careless like. I'm still offering. I might actually go as high as a dollar ten--whose nose? Anyway, in this period, highlights were: James Francis Dwyer's City of the Unseen, 1913. Garret P. Serviss' The Moon Maiden, 1915. William Wallace Cook's Castaways of the Year 2000, 1912. (Sequel to A Round Trip to the Year 2000, well remembered by Fred Fischer. From 1918 to the merger with All-Story in 1920, four great novels by Francis Stevens appeared in Argosy. They were: The Citadel of Fear
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