by F. Lee Baldwin
At one time Forrest Ackerman had a complete collection of _Ghost
Stories_--the old large-size magazine of the photographic
illustrations, featuring strange stories by Victor Rousseau, Ray
Cummings, Frank Belknap Long, Jr., etc.--but disposed of them all upon
coming across science fiction. This was when he saw his first Amazing
Stories--Vol. 2, No. 6, the September 1926 number. Incidentally, this
issue contains the only story by H. P. Lovecraft ever to appear in
Amazing, "The Colour Out of Space."
Farnsworth Wright is a former music critic of _The Chicago American_.
This seems to be quite a season with our authors for travelling, E.
Hoffmann Price has just recently paid a second visit to Clark Ashton
Smith of Auburn, Calif.; Robert E. Howard spent some time exploring the
gigantic Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. Perhaps we'll be getting some
tales along that line, after a while. Richard F. Searight spent some
time amid the scenic grandeur in Houghton, Michigan; H. P. Lovecraft
has just returned from a visit with R. H. Barlow of De Land, Florida
and is now taking a trip to ancient Nantucket Island, off the coast of
Massachusetts; Jack Williamson has also returned from a sojourn in Key
West where he met Edmond Hamilton; Donald Wandrei has been on a fishing
trip in the woods of his native state, Minnesota.
H. P. Lovecraft denies all connections with the "The Battle that Ended
the Century" (Ms. found in a time machine). He was in De Land or in
St. Augustine at the time it was mailed, and by the time he was in
Washington D. C., the Eastern readers had received their copies.
Richard Ely Morse is the son of an Amherst professor and an assistant
librarian at Princeton.
Louis C. Smith of Oakland, Calif. is a collector of weird and fantastic
books and has a library of over two hundred volumes.
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