A fanzine or periodical edited by Jonathan Bacon from February 1976. Issue 7 contains the first appearance of the poem “Madame Goose’s Rhymes”, the untitled story (“The night was damp, misty, …”), a letter to Harold Preece from August 1928 and the story COLLEGE SOCKS (featuring Kid Allison). Also included articles and poems by other writers.

The letter to Preece starts like this:

Glad you enjoyed our reunion at Fort Worth. I sure as Hell did. Yes, I’d have liked to have been with Truett, Hildon1 and yourself at Waco. Glad you settled things satisfactorily. Let the millenium or however you spell the damned thing come, but I reckon I’ll have to pass. Some things won’t mix and from all I hear of the great age, I wouldn’t suit in at all.

The letter can be found in The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard Volume 1 (Letter #080).

Contents

• ibc •  Fantasy Crossroads #7 [2] • interior artwork by Robert K. Oermann
•  • Epistle Express (Fantasy Crossroads #7) • [Epistle Express] • essay by Jonathan Bacon
• 1 •  Letter (Fantasy Crossroads #7) • [Letters: L. Sprague de Camp] • essay by L. Sprague de Camp
• 1 •  Letter (Fantasy Crossroads #7) • essay by Dirk W. Mosig [as by Dirk Mosig]
• 1 •  Letter (Fantasy Crossroads #7) • [Letters: Robert Bloch] • essay by Robert Bloch
• 1 •  Letter (Fantasy Crossroads #7) • essay by Paul C. Allen
• 2 •  Letter (Fantasy Crossroads #7) • essay by Wayne Warfield
• 3 •  Letter responding to Bacon reply (Fantasy Crossroads #7) • essay by Wayne Warfield
• 3 •  Epistle Express • interior artwork by Tim Kirk
• 4 •  Letter (Fantasy Crossroads #7) • essay by David Parsons
• 4 •  Letter (Fantasy Crossroads #7) • essay by Loay Hall
• 5 •  Fantasy Crossroads #7 • interior artwork by Ric Cruz and Sam de la Rosa
• 7 • The Scarlet Sigil • [Hyark of Elysia] • short story by Leon L. Gammell [as by Leon Gammell]
• 7 •  The Scarlet Sigil • interior artwork by Stephen Fabian
• 9 • Death of Arthur • poem by Steve Troyanovich
• 9 •  Death of Arthur • interior artwork by Mercy Van Vlack
• 10 •  Lovecraft Portfolio • interior artwork by Stephen Riley
• 17 • A Tale of the Moon’s Telling • poem by Gordon Larkin
• 17 • What Waits upon Yandith • poem by Gordon Larkin
• 18 • The Aquarium • (1962) • short story by Carl Jacobi
• 18 •  The Aquarium • interior artwork by Gene Day
• 23 • Sparticus • poem by Steve Eng [as by John Bredon]
• 23 •  Sparticus • interior artwork by Roy Wilson
• 23 • The Little Green Men • poem by L. Sprague de Camp
• 24 • Madame Goose’s Rhymes • poem by Robert E. Howard (variant of Madam Goose’s Rhymes)
• 25 •  Madame Goose’s Rhymes • interior artwork by Gene Day
• 26 • Untitled fragment (“The night was damp, misty, the air possessing…”) • [Gordon] • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 27 •  Untitled fragment (“The night was damp…”) • interior artwork by Tony Nunn
• 28 •  Letter to Harold Preece, circa September 1928 (“Salaam: / Glad you enjoyed our reunion…”) • [Letters to Harold Preece] • (1976) • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 29 •  Letter (Fantasy Crossroads #7) • essay by Don Herron
• 29 •  Letter (Fantasy Crossroads #7) • essay by Steve Riley
• 30 • College Socks • [Kid Allison] • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 32 •  College Socks • interior artwork by Tom Foster
• 37 • News Notes • essay by uncredited
• bc •  Fantasy Crossroads #7 [3] • interior artwork by Cliff Bird [as by Cliff W. Bird]

Notes

Whole number 7. Page numbers do not include covers.
Stapled single sheets, wraps.
This issue produced by Bacon’s winter term (January) class at Graceland College.
Print run 985 copies.
Jacobi’s story “The Aquarium” is a restored version of the edited piece that appeared in Dark Mind, Dark Heart and later in Disclosures in Scarlet.