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Fantasy Crossroads #7

Graceland College Comic Club

1976

Material type

Magazine

Publication categories

Fanzines Periodicals

Publication date: February 1976

Introduction

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).

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.

Edition and production details

Edition: 1st
Format: Magazine
Publication date: February 1976
Pages: 40
Publisher / imprint: Graceland College Comic Club
Cover art: Gene Day
Illustrations: Se above

3 linked Howard works

50 contents entries

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

Contributors

Gene Day: Cover artist
Se above: Illustrator

Characters / Featuring

Falcon Gordon

Additional related terms

Preserved from the former REH World tagging system; these terms have not yet been assigned as contributors, characters or subjects.

Carl Jacobi Cliff W. Bird Don Herron Jonathan Bacon L. Sprague de Camp Paul C. Allen Robert E. Howard Stephen Fabian Tom Foster Wayne Warfield