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Fantasy Fan, v. 2, issue 2, whole no. 14, October 1934
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October, 1934, THE FANTASY FAN 23 WEIRD WHISPERINGS by Schwartz and Weisinger Rumor had it that for several years Farnsworth Wright, editor of Weird Tales, was writing stories and poems under the pseudonym of Francis Hard. When we asked for permission to "break" the story, Wright said that "since the secret is already out that poems and stories published under the name Francis Hard were in fact written by me, of course I have no further objection to its being known. I have written nothing new since I became editor of Weird Tales in 1924, but I wrote stories for Weird Tales previous to that, when it was edited by Edwin Baird. When I became editor one of my stories was already in type for the next issue (A story called "The Great Panjandrum"). I thought it looked rather phony for an editor to use his own stories i his magazine, even though the story had been accepted by a previous editor; so I used the pen name Francis Hard as the author of that story (Hard was my maternal grandmother's name). Feeling that an editor is a bad judge of his own stuff, I submitted some stories that I had written several years ago, to Otis Adelbert Kline, whose literary judgment I value highly, and used the two that he liked--one in Oriental Stories, and the other in its successor, The Magic Carpet. Two other stories, which Kline considered rotten, I quickly canned -- may they rest in peace." Frank Belknap Long, Jr., is now trying to invade the detective story market... Here's hoping he matches the stride set by his pal, Donald Wandrei...New York fans would do well to tune in on Alonzo Deen Cole's weird broadcasts, "The Witch's Tale," over WOR, and to "Tales of Terror," over WINS...S. Gordon Gurwitt besides turning out weird stories, also writes detective yarns, and bears an amazing resemblance to Eddie Cantor...Farnsworth Wright has never yet rejected a story on the grounds that it was too juvenile ...A. Merritt claims he sits down to write "only after I have exhausted myself of all possible excuses" ... Arthur Sarsfield Ward, when asked why he used the pseudonym of Sax Rohmer for his writings, responded: "The reason why I use the name Sax Rohmer is as much a mystery to me as it is to you." Some Seabury Quinnformation: Seabury Quinn's next Jules de Grandin story will be published in the January, 1935, issue of Weird Tales, and is entitled "Hands of the Dead." It deals with post-mortem hypnotism... Quinn (known to Weird Tales fans as the Old Marster--not "Master") is working on a series introducing a new character, Thomas Eldridge Carter, a twenty-six year old investigator for the Grand Central Live Assurance Company. The series will deal with Carter's adventures in ferreting out the whys and wherefores of the deaths and disappearances of persons heavily insured by the company. Like all of Quinn's stories, these will have elements of weirdness, but will not contain supernatural elements.
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October, 1934, THE FANTASY FAN 23 WEIRD WHISPERINGS by Schwartz and Weisinger Rumor had it that for several years Farnsworth Wright, editor of Weird Tales, was writing stories and poems under the pseudonym of Francis Hard. When we asked for permission to "break" the story, Wright said that "since the secret is already out that poems and stories published under the name Francis Hard were in fact written by me, of course I have no further objection to its being known. I have written nothing new since I became editor of Weird Tales in 1924, but I wrote stories for Weird Tales previous to that, when it was edited by Edwin Baird. When I became editor one of my stories was already in type for the next issue (A story called "The Great Panjandrum"). I thought it looked rather phony for an editor to use his own stories i his magazine, even though the story had been accepted by a previous editor; so I used the pen name Francis Hard as the author of that story (Hard was my maternal grandmother's name). Feeling that an editor is a bad judge of his own stuff, I submitted some stories that I had written several years ago, to Otis Adelbert Kline, whose literary judgment I value highly, and used the two that he liked--one in Oriental Stories, and the other in its successor, The Magic Carpet. Two other stories, which Kline considered rotten, I quickly canned -- may they rest in peace." Frank Belknap Long, Jr., is now trying to invade the detective story market... Here's hoping he matches the stride set by his pal, Donald Wandrei...New York fans would do well to tune in on Alonzo Deen Cole's weird broadcasts, "The Witch's Tale," over WOR, and to "Tales of Terror," over WINS...S. Gordon Gurwitt besides turning out weird stories, also writes detective yarns, and bears an amazing resemblance to Eddie Cantor...Farnsworth Wright has never yet rejected a story on the grounds that it was too juvenile ...A. Merritt claims he sits down to write "only after I have exhausted myself of all possible excuses" ... Arthur Sarsfield Ward, when asked why he used the pseudonym of Sax Rohmer for his writings, responded: "The reason why I use the name Sax Rohmer is as much a mystery to me as it is to you." Some Seabury Quinnformation: Seabury Quinn's next Jules de Grandin story will be published in the January, 1935, issue of Weird Tales, and is entitled "Hands of the Dead." It deals with post-mortem hypnotism... Quinn (known to Weird Tales fans as the Old Marster--not "Master") is working on a series introducing a new character, Thomas Eldridge Carter, a twenty-six year old investigator for the Grand Central Live Assurance Company. The series will deal with Carter's adventures in ferreting out the whys and wherefores of the deaths and disappearances of persons heavily insured by the company. Like all of Quinn's stories, these will have elements of weirdness, but will not contain supernatural elements.
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