Forrest Ackerman's foreign correspondence runs something like this: one
Canada; one Philippine Islands; several New Zealand; four or five Great
Britain; two Ireland; one Switzerland; one Hungarian.
Here's a "new" word: _Fantastiac_. One who goes in for the weird and
grotesque in life; also one who likes weird fiction.
R. H. Barlow is planning on issuing "The Shunned House" by H. P.
Lovecraft sometime in the fall.
Clark Ashton Smith is about 40 and has been a weird poet since boyhood.
He is a protege of the late George Sterling and a fantastic painter of
great power. He has translated "Baudelaire."
Donald Wandrei is 25 and a U. of Minn. graduate. His sole occupation is
fiction-writing--comes from St. Paul but lives in New York.
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