by F. Lee Baldwin
"The Red Brain" by Donald Wandrei is one of a long cosmic series most
of which is unpublished.
H. P. Lovecraft wrote 35 "Fungi from Yuggoth" in 1929 and 1930. _The
Fantasy Fan_ is going to print some of those which WT didn't take.
Farnsworth Wright has been a visitor in Seattle, Washington.
During the month of August, Clark Ashton Smith fought a terrible wood
and grass fire on his ranch.... He wrote fiction--of a more realistic
cast than some of his present work--as early as 1910 and 1911; some
of it appearing in the defunct _Black Cat_. He dropped prose entirely
until 1925 when he wrote "The Abominations of Yondo" (rejected by WT
and published in the _Overland Monthly_) and "Sadastor" (also rejected
by WT but later accepted by them and published).
_Weird Tales_ has on hand "The Hand of Wrath" by E. Hoffmann Price....
He and Otis Adelbert Kline have collaborated in a Mexican weird
novelette. It features Bart Leslie--Two Gun Bart--one of Kline's
heroes. You will recall that he was featured in "The Demon of Tlaxpam"
in WT a few years ago.... Price has also collaborated with Frank
Belknap Long, Jr., on a weird novelette which is on a "visit" to
_Astounding Stories_. He is about to write a serial and a novelette;
interplanetary, and Far East, respectively.
Forrest Ackerman can produce, at his pleasure, hour long programs, of
weird and fantastic voices and sequences. He has recently added to his
set of sound-discs from "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", the complete set
of records from the weird-scientific film drama, "Frankenstein". He
also possesses the thrilling story of Im-Ho-Tep--the Egyptian, dead
26 centuries, returned to life--featuring the weird voice of Boris
Karloff; "Murders in the Rue Morgue" and the grotesque "Old Dark House".
Two youthful Merritt fans burglarized the basement of a certain
Carnegie Library and made off with old _Science and Inventions_
containing "The Metal Emperor".
Robert E. Howard's occupation is fiction-writing, though he helps his
father (a physician) attend to a small farm on the outskirts of Cross
Plains, Texas. He is 27 years old and has led a somewhat roving and
adventurous life. He is an amateur athlete and boxer; is very fond of
fighting and believes barbarism to be preferable to civilization. He
is a profound historic student, and an authority on the folklore and
tradition of the Southwest.
August W. Derleth is 24--U. of Wis. graduate and lives in Sauk City,
Wis. He is gaining fame in magazines of select quality with serious
reminiscent regional fiction and poetry. He writes mystery books
besides fantasy.
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