by Schwartz and Weisinger
Seabury Quinn has been so busy with his magazine, _Casket and
Sunnyside_, that he hasn't written a story since last September--which
is bad news for the Jules de Grandin enthusiasts.... Jack Holt will
star in a weird picture of voodooism, taken from the story "Haiti
Moon," and titled for screen purposes, "Black Moon".... Donald Wandrei
will break into print in _Weird Tales_ again with "The Destroying
Horde".... His brother Howard, who is also an excellent illustrator,
is due in _Weird_ also with "The Vine Terror".... Elliott O'Donnell's
weird ghost stories are broadcast every Wednesday evening over the WEAF
NBC chain.
H. P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith, though living on opposite sides
of the continent, are intimate friends.... Incidently, one of the
characters in Lovecraft's bizarre "Whisperer in Darkness" was named
Klar-Kashton.... Eli Colter, popular weird author, is a woman!... And
Mary Elizabeth Counselman, _Weird's_ new sensational author is only
19!... C. L. Moore, who is creating a hit with the 'Northwest' Smith
stories in W T, is also a woman!... There have been three unsuccessful
attempts to plagiarise Arthur J. Burks' "Vale of the Corbies," an old
_Weird Tales_ yarn of his.... Incidentally, Burks' "Bells of Oceana,"
the recent _Weird_ reprint, is actually based on the tingling of bells
that Burks heard on one of his trans-Atlantic voyages.
Robert E. Howard sustained some very painful injuries, severe cuts,
crushings and wrenchings in an auto accident a few months ago, when he
and two friends ran into a dark-painted and almost invisible flagpole
in the center of a poorly lighted village square. It would have
killed anybody less tough than Howard, but what with his iron-clad
constitution, our favorite slaughter specialist has recovered from his
injuries and is virtually as good as ever.... Hugh Davidson, author of
the recent _Weird Tales_ serial, "The Vampire Master," is the pseudonym
for a well known WT author who has had more than 30 stories published
there!... Paul Ernest's forthcoming serial in _Weird_ describes a
journey thru space that takes millions of years, and tells what the
time travelers find here on their return.
Seabury Quinn got $17 for English reprint rights to his "House of
Phipps".... But didn't get a cent for his most famous story, "The
Phantom Farmhouse," published in WT when they were bankrupt.... August
W. Derleth's recently published novel, "Murder Stalks the Wakely
Family" was written on a bet that he couldn't write it in seven
days.... He did!... Edmond Hamilton's own favorite stories are "The
Monster-God of Mamurth" and "Pigmy Island".... David H. Keller's is
"The Thing in the Cellar".... H.P. Lovecraft chooses "The Colour Out of
Space".... Clark Ashton Smith picks "The Double Shadow".... And Donald
Wandrei maintains that "The Red Brain" is his best.... Williamson
cops the June WT cover.... "Trail of the Cloven Hoof" gets the July
cover.... We'll be back next month....
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