The winner of last month's cash prize contest is William Sykora, 35-51
41st St., Long Island City, New York. Here is his answer to "Why do
you read fantasy fiction?"
"Why do I read fantasy fiction? I often wonder. The occult, the
fantastic, have always held me with supreme, almost unholy,
fascination. I have found that by constant practice, an all-excluding,
all-consuming concentration bonds stronger than the strongest steel to
all dismally horrible tales of the supernatural. The earthly ties that
hold me mentally and morally to a workaday existence, are hypnotically
rent asunder by a mesmerism born of steely sharp concentration. Thus
do I thrill--quake--and shudder with the delightful ecstasy of bizarre
adventure through the awful expanse of the inconceivably terrible
unknown universe, and I love it."
Because of lack of support, we will not present another cash prize
contest, until enough readers ask for one. If we receive enough
petitions, we will take great pleasure in featuring another in the
near future.