Chapter I: Front Matter

FAN FARE

VOL 3, NO 3

MAY '53

15¢

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_Editor_: W. Paul Ganley

Cover by Charles Momberger
(see editorial please).

CONTENTS

THE ANNALS OF AARDVARK
by Harlan Ellison

THE GOTHIC HORROR
by George Wetzel

LOOSE ENDS
by Jean Reedy

A TIME TO LOVE
by Don Howard Donnell

_VERSE_:

THREE A.M., by Walt Klein

AT TAKEOFF TIME, by R. L. Clancy

NOVA, by Keran O'Brien

THE SEA AT EVENING, by A. Duane

TAVERN MOOD, by Walt Klein

_FEATURES_:

ENTR'ACTE

ASSAY REPORT

WHAT THE CAT DRAGGED IN

... ENTR'ACTE

This issue was published with the thought in mind that it would be nice to distribute it at the Midwestcon--in the rush to get it finished, the aid of Robert J. Fritz (editor of the now defunct HYPEROPIA) and Joseph M. Fillinger (editor of the now defunct GHUVNA). This was a mistake--as a matter of fact, two mistakes! Note the sloppiness of the interior reproduction. Note the cover, and realize that Joe swiped it from a Momberger cover on the second issue of GHUVNA; it suffered in the process, and I expect Charlie to sue me any day now. I'm tired of saying in each issue that the next one will see, finally, publication of the DeWeese story. It is _not_ a myth ... and it will appear. What? Well, now, you just wait and see!!

Beginning with this issue I am experimenting with kinds of stories--I'm tired of publishing tales that "almost made the pulps;" eventually, FAN-FARE will be issued in a better format than mimeographing--I'd have it lithographed beginning right away if I thought reader support would pay most of the cost, but I've learned from others' mistakes. And I refuse to issue it in the not-so-costly microscopic form which early issues of SF DIGEST used.... I'd have to provide magnifying lenses!

Next issue the regular page of book reviews should return, and I hope to have another installment of the Loverontz column--having been an observer to one of the latest atom explosions, he should have interesting things to comment on....

--8 June, 1953
--THE EDITOR

THE ANNALS OF AARDVARK

BY HARLAN ELLISON