Friendly Aliens: Contents

Thanks to Martin for locating the table of contents !
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Friendly Aliens ed. John Robert Colombo (Hounslow Press, 1981, 181pp, hc); Thirteen Stories of the Fantastic Set in Canada by Foreign Authors.

1 · Preface · John Robert Colombo · pr

5 · A Haunted Island · Algernon Blackwood · ss The Pall Mall Magazine Apr, 1899

18 · A Relic of the Pliocene · Jack London · ss Colliers Jan 12 ’01

27 · In Search of the Unknown [“The Harbor-Master”] · Robert W. Chambers · nv

Ainslee’s Aug, 1899

50 · The People of the Pit · A. Merritt · ss All-Story Weekly Jan 5 ’18

65 · Polaris · H. P. Lovecraft · ss The Philosopher Dec ’20; Weird Tales Dec ’37

69 · The Thing From—"Outside" · George Allan England · ss Science and Invention Apr ’23

85 · The Place of Pain · M. P. Shiel · ss The Red Magazine May 1 ’14

94 · Devolution · Edmond Hamilton · ss Amazing Dec ’36

108 · Arctic God [as by Frank Jones] · John Russell Fearn · nv Amazing May ’42

129 · The Thing that Walked on the Wind · August Derleth · ss Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror Jan ’33

139 · The Tattooed Man · Vincent Starrett · ss The Quick and the Dead, Sauk City: Arkham House, 1965

149 · Forever to a Hudson Bay Blanket · James Tiptree, Jr. · ss Fantastic Aug ’72

165 · Swan Song · Chelsea Quinn Yarbro · ss Cautionary Tales, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978

175 · Whither Canadian Fantasy? · Donald A. Wollheim · ar Uncanny Tales Dec ’42

1928: The "Gang" Well Represented

WEIRD TALES Vol. 12 #5 November 1928

Cover art by C. C. Senf. Interior art by Hugh Rankin.

Interior story contents courtesy of Miskatonic University Library

Serials/Complete Novels:
The Werewolf's Daughter [Part 2 of 3]..........H. Warner Munn Novellas
The Last Test..........Adolphe de Castro and H. P. Lovecraft

Novelettes:
The Flying Death..........Bruce Wallis
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow..........Washington Irving
The Polar Doom..........Edmond Hamilton

Short Stories:
The Cave of Spiders..........William R. Hickey
Flame of the Ages..........Robert Choate Albright
The Head From Ecuador..........Robert Lee Heiser
The Mystery in Acatlan..........Rachael Marshall and Maverick Terrell
The Tenant at Number Seven..........August Derleth
The Tryst in the Tomb..........M. J. Cain

Essays/Articles:
Folks Used to Believe:
The Fairy Court..........Alvin F. Harlow

Poems:
The Creatures..........Donald Wandrei
Haunted..........Earl W. Scott
Satan and Lilith..........George Sterling

Fantasy Magazine 1936 September

Description: This is the special 4th Anniversary issue from September 1936 of the classic fanzine published by Julius Schwartz. Contains the round-robin story THE GREAT ILLUSION by Eando Binder, Jack Williamson, Edmond Hamilton, Raymond Z. Gallun & John Russell Fearn. Also contains the story GRAPH by Stanley Weinbaum, a humorous piece by Robert Bloch & IN MEMORIAM ROBERT E. HOWARD by H. P. Lovecraft. The pages are somewhat brown from age due to the paper quality, but are not brittle. The covers have some dust-soiling

January 1934 Fantasy Fan

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An original vintage January 1934, Vol. 2 #5 issue of the early science fiction digest-sized fanzine, “Fantasy Magazine” which was edited by Conrad H. Ruppert, Julius Schwartz (later of DC Comics fame), Raymond Palmer, Mortimer Weisinger and Forrest J Ackerman who would go on to later edit “Famous Monsters of Filmland” magazine. This issue contains Part 1 of “The Vortex World” by Raymond Palmer, “An Experiment with Time”, a short story by Forry Ackerman and Francis Flagg (creator of Buck Rogers), Edmond Hamilton on himself, reviews by Schwartz of the Universal James Whale classic, “The Invisible Man” and by Ackerman on an unproduced Paramount sf film of the future to be titled “Frigidaired for the Future”. Magazine contains 36 pages, slick paper cover and back cover with pulp paper interior pages and is in overall good/very good condition with back cover chipped and detached. An early sf magazine for collectors of “Amazing Stories” and “Weird Tales”.