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Vault January 28, 2020

Fantastic Nov. 1976

This issue Ted White laments the passing of rising star Thomas Burnett Swann (1928–1976), who succumbed to a second bout with cancer on May 5, 1976. White announced plans to publish Swann’s untitled “prequel” to Day of the Minotaur and The Forest of Forever in a future issue, but it seems a wish never unfulfilled.

Contents Page
Ted White: Editorial
Fred Saberhagen “The White Bull” art by Steve Fabian
Robert Thurston “Parker Frightened on a Tightrope” art by Richard Olsen
Brian Lumley “Tharquest and the Lamia Orbiquita” art by Doug Beekman
Lin Carter “Black Moonlight” (Thongor) art by Tony Gleeson
L. Sprague de Camp: Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers: White Wizard in Tweeds (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Dennis More “The Forest of Andred” (Felimid) art by Steve Fabian
Fritz Leiber: Fantasy Books
—Supernatural Cats edited by Claire Necker
—The Personal Eye by Clarence John Laughlin
—Kings of Horror by Arthur Machen & Robert W. Chambers
—The Ancient Mysteries Reader edited by Peter Haining
According to You (Letters)
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Fantastic Sword & Sorcery and Fantasy Stories Vol. 25 No. 5 November 1976
Publisher: Sol Cohen
Assoc. Publisher: Arthur Bernhard
Editor: Ted White
Assoc. Editor, Emeritus: Grant Carrington
Assist. Editors: Terry Hughes
Art Director: J. Edwards
Cover: Doug Beekman
5.25” x 7.75” 132 pages $1.00

Vault December 13, 2019

Fantastic August 1976

A sentence from Ted White’s editorial in this issue seems quite relevant to the current situation in Washington on this Friday the 13th:

“”Basically, we each bring our own attitudes to what we read—and we read the same things very differently.”

Contents Page
Ted White: Editorial
Avram Davidson “Bloody Man” art by Steve Fabian
Ova Hamlet “God of the Naked Unicorn” art by Daniel J. Steffan
Grania Davis “New-Way-Groovers Stew” art by Tony Gleeson
L. Sprague de Camp “Algy” art by Joe Staton
Clark Ashton Smith & Lin Carter “The Stairs in the Crypt” art by Richard Olson
Dennis More “The Atheling’s Wife” art by Steve Fabian
Steven Utley “OCean”
Fritz Leiber: Fantasy Books
—Deathbed Stories by Harlan Ellison
—Gods, Men and Ghosts by Lord Dunsany
—Harrigan’s File by August Derleth
—Disclosures in Scarlet by Carl Jacobi
—The Miscast Barbarian by L. Sprague de Camp
According to You (Letters)
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Fantastic Sword & Sorcery and Fantasy Stories Vol. 25 No. 4 August 1976
Publisher: Sol Cohen
Assoc. Publisher: Arthur Bernhard
Editor: Ted White
Assoc. Editor, Emeritus: Grant Carrington
Assist. Editors: Lou Stathis, Terry Hughes
Art Director: J. Edwards
Cover: Steve Fabian
5.25” x 7.75” 132 pages $1.00

Vault October 12, 2019

Fantastic Feb. 1976

Excerpts from Ted White’s editorial:
“The situation we find ourselves in today is overwhelming to some people.”

“So they turn to something which will give their lives and their universe meaning. They turn to superstition—to fantasy, in its broader sense.”

“Our cover this issue is one of which I am particularly proud. I think it marks a new breakthrough for Steve Fabian, the artist.”

Contents
Ted White: Editorial
Gordon Eklund “The Locust Descending” art by Stephen E. Fabian
Grania Davis “It’s Hard to Get Into College, Nowadays” art by Richard Olsen
Robert Thurston “Groups” art by Joe Staton
Michael F.X. Milhaus “A Personal Demon” art by Dan Steffan
Lin Carter “People of the Dragon” art by Marcus Boas
Marvin Kaye “The Incredible Umbrella” art by Stephen E. Fabian
According to You (Letters)
Best By Mail
Classified Advertisements

Fantastic Sword & Sorcery and Fantasy Stories Vol. 25 No. 2 February 1976
Publisher: Sol Cohen
Assoc. Publisher: Arthur Bernhard
Editor: Ted White
Assoc. Editor, Emeritus: Grant Carrington
Assist. Editors: Lou Stathis, Terry Hughes
Art Director: J. Edwards
Cover: Stephen E. Fabian
5.25” x 7.75” 130 pages $1.00

Vault October 4, 2019

Fantastic Dec. 1975

Excerpts from Ted White’s editorial:

“Last issue, in a last-minute decision after the issue had been completely made up and was ready to print, we raised our cover price from 75¢ to $1.00 a copy. We had hoped to avoid this move, having raised our price from 60¢ only a year and half earlier. However, economic realities made it necessary—I do not think I need to tell you that the rate of inflation in our economy in the last year has been frightening.”

“We could not increase the number of our pages, paper costs being what they are, but we have decreased the size of our type—going from 10-point type for the stories to 9-point, which adds in equivilent wordage an extra two stories to this issue. This is a permanent change, and it means more fiction every issue.”

Contents
Best By Mail (Classifieds)
Ted White: Editorial
Avram Davidson “The Church of Saint Satan and Pandaemons” art by Richard Olsen
Lin Carter “The City in the Jewel” art by Stephen E. Fabian
George Alec Effinger “Lydectes: On the Nature of Sports” art by Joe Staton
Vsevolod Ivanov “Sisyphus, Son of Aeolus” translated by John W. Andrews, art by Tony Gleeson
Barry N. Malzberg “The Thing Down Hallway 9”
James Lincoln Warren “The Purvess Incident” art by Marcus Boas
Colin Saxton “The Flyer” art by Colin Saxton
Richard Stooker “The Pi-a-saw Bird” art by Michael Nally
Felix C. Gotschaulk “Pandora’s Cryogenic Box”
David R. Bunch “The Strange Case of the Birds”
L. Sprague de Camp: Literary Swordsmen & Sorcerers (The Architect of Camelot)
Fritz Leiber: Fantasy Books
According to You (Letters)
Classified Advertisements

Fantastic Sword & Sorcery and Fantasy Stories Vol. 25 No. 1 December 1975
Publisher: Sol Cohen
Assoc. Publisher: Arthur Bernhard
Editor: Ted White
Assoc. Editor, Emeritus: Grant Carrington
Assist. Editors: Lou Stathis, Terry Hughes
Art Director: J. Edwards
5.25” x 7.75” 130 pages $1.00

Vault September 23, 2019

Fantastic Oct. 1975

Contents
Ted White: Editorial
Avram Davidson “The Case of the Mother-In-Law-of-Pearl” art by Richard Olsen
Clark Ashton Smith & Lin Carter “The Scroll of Morloc” art by Michael Nally
Dennis More “Fugitives in Winter” art by Laurence Kamp
W.S. Doxey “From Bondeen to Ramur” art by Tony Gleeson
Addison Steele II “The Wedding of Ova Hamlet” art by Joe Staton
Robert Thurston “The Haunted Writing Manual” art by Marcus Boas
Grania D. Davis “To Whom It May Concern” art by Stephen E. Fabian
Grant Carrington “A Shakespearean Incident”
Fritz Leiber: Fantasy Books
According to You (Letters)
Classified Advertisements

Fantastic Sword & Sorcery and Fantasy Stories Vol. 24 No. 6 October 1975
Publisher: Sol Cohen
Assoc. Publisher: Arthur Bernhard
Editor: Ted White
Assoc. Editor, Emeritus: Grant Carrington
Assist. Editors: Lou Stathis, Terry Hughes
Art Director: J. Edwards
Cover: Marcus Boas
5.25” x 7.75” 130 pages $1.00

Vault September 1, 2019

Fantastic June 1975

Contents
Grant Carrington: Editorial on Clarion
Michael Moorcock “Count Brass” Part One (Darian Hawkmoon) art by Harry Roland
Robert E. Howard & Lin Carter “The Tower of Time” art by Michael Nally
Jack D. Haldeman II “Laura’s Theme” art by Richard Olsen
Richard W. Brown “The Adventures of Jack and that Which Befell Him” art by Ken Kelly
Williams Nabors “Goodbye Joe Quietwater—Hello!” art by Tony Gleeson
Robert F. Young “Techmech” art by Lawrence Kamp
Al Sirois “The Woman Machine”
Fritz Leiber: Fantasy Books
According to You (Letters)
Classified Advertisements

Fantastic Sword & Sorcery and Fantasy Stories Vol. 24 No. 4 April 1975
Publisher: Sol Cohen
Assoc. Publisher: Arthur Bernhard
Editor: Ted White
Assoc. Editor: Grant Carrington
Assist. Editor: Moshe Feder, Terry Hughes
Art Director: J. Edwards
Cover: Harry Roland
5.25” x 7.75” 130 pages 75¢

Vault August 6, 2019

Fantastic Feb. 1975 Contents

Contents
Ted White: Editorial
L. Sprague de Camp & Lin Carter “Shadows in the Skull” (Conan) art by Michael Nally
Robert F. Young “Perchance to Dream” art by Stephen Fabian
C.L. Grant “To Be a Witch, in Three Quarter Time” art by Jeff Jones
Juanita Coulson “The Dragon of Tor-Nali” art by Mike Kaluta
Gardner R. Dubious “Dissenting”
Ian McEwan “Solid Geometry” art by Richard Olsen
Alpajpuri “Asylum in the Concrete”
Bruce B. Arthurs “The Return of Captain Nucleus” art by Joe Staton
Fritz Leiber: Fantasy Books (Reviews)
According to You (Letters)
Classified Advertisements

Fantastic Science Fiction & Fantasy Stories Vol. 24 No. 2 Feb. 1975
Publisher: Sol Cohen
Editor: Ted White
Assoc. Editor: Grant Carrington
Assist. Editor: Moshe Feder, Terry Hughes
Art Director: J. Edwards
Cover: Stephen E. Fabian
5.25” x 7.75” 130 pages 75¢