Unknown Worlds, April 1942
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Unknown Worlds, April 1942
That "something" is nightmares, perhaps?
Dear Sir:
Back in 1940, July, to be exact. I read a story by L. Ron Hubbard called "Fear." As a fantasy, it was the finest, most heart-pounding thing I've ever finished in one reading. It opened up a field of writing that I didn't know existed. "Fear" has been a story that will not let go of my mind. I'm not much of a pulp reader. Not too high-brow, understand, but just so damned busy scribbling my own stuff that I never get to them.
That story persisted in hanging on with a bulldog grip. I saved the magazine and have it with my most valued books. Such a story in hard binding would set a few of our best sellers on the back shelves.
With the thing in mind, I picked up October Unknown Worlds last week and read every story in the book. That's a new high for pulp reading on my part. My password has always been, "read one and you've read 'em all." No good now. I have tossed the line into the wastebasket and decided to try your escape fiction as a steady diet.
Tell the boys who produced "Land Of Unreason" that they have an imagination that I hope to have with practice. A really fine story for a cold, rainy night.
For bed-light reading, your mag has something they can't take away from you with the best Western or adventure yarns on the stands.
If I can escape Podrang—the Gnome King, Georgie—the Smoke Ghost, and Kobolds, I'll be coming along one of these days with a nice wild mixture of fairy magic myself.
—LeRoy Yerxa, 946 Windsor Avenue, Chicago.
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