Description: For sale is the December 1939 issue of Unknown, pulp fantasy fiction magazine, edited by John W. Campbell. Unknown was a companion to Street & Smith's science fiction pulp, Astounding Science Fiction. It began when Eric Frank Russell sent Campbell the manuscript of his novel Sinister Barrier, about aliens who own the human race. Unknown's first issue appeared in March 1939; in addition to Sinister Barrier, it included H. L. Gold's "Trouble With Water", a humorous fantasy about a New Yorker who meets a water gnome. Gold's story was the first of many in Unknown to combine commonplace reality with the fantastic. This issue contains “Lest Darkness Fall” a novel by L. Sprague de Camp illustrated by Edd Cartier, who also did the cover; a story by Frank Belknap Long and a fascinating article about a supposed case of time travel by two women who, during a visit to Versailles in 1901, claimed to have seen the gardens as they had been in the late eighteenth century, as well as ghosts, including Marie Antoinette and others.See scan for full contents.
Price: 20 USD
Location: Los Angeles, California
End Time: 2025-01-05T20:21:04.000Z
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Binding: Softcover, Wraps
Place of Publication: New York
Language: English
Illustrator: Edd Cartier
Region: North America
Author: L Sprague de Camp
Publisher: Street and Smith
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Fantasy
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1939
