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Fantastic Stories [Vol. 25 No. 1, December 1975] ed. Ted White (Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $1.00, 130pp, digest)
- 4 · Editorial · Ted White · ed
- 6 · The Church of Saint Satan and Pandaemons [Dr. Eszterhazy] · Avram Davidson · ss; illustrated by Richard Olsen
- 22 · The City in the Jewel [Thongor] · Lin Carter · nv; illustrated by Stephen E. Fabian
- 48 · Lydectes: On the Nature of Sport · George Alec Effinger · nv; illustrated by Joe Staton; given as “Lydectes: On the Nature of Sports” in the Table of Contents.
- 58 · Sisyphus, Son of Aeolus · Vsevolod Ivanov; translated by John W. Andrews · ss; illustrated by Tony Gleeson
translated from the Russian (“Sisif, syn eola”, Nefantasti v fantastike, Moscow: Molodaia gvardiia 1970). - 71 · The Thing Down Hallway 9 · Barry N. Malzberg · ss
- 76 · The Purvess Incident · James Lincoln Warren · ss; illustrated by Marcus Boas; the full title on the story itself is “The Course of My Career from and Including The Purvess Incident, or, How I Became an Ambassador of the Realm, Due to Certain Happenstances of Said Incident, wherein is discussed diplomacy within and outside of the boudoir, the evil of onerours odours, the partial success of inventors, and the performance to and of certain ends. an account from the memoirs of Sir Edmund Clarence Clevere prefaced and annotated by James Lincoln Warren”.
- 82 · The Flyer · Colin Saxton · ss; illustrated by Colin Saxton
- 88 · The Pi-a-saw Bird · Richard Stooker · ss; illustrated by Michael Nally
- 96 · Pandora’s Cryogenic Box · Felix C. Gotschalk · ss
- 104 · The Strange Case of the Birds · David R. Bunch · ss
- 108 · Literary Swordsmen & Sorcerers: The Architect of Camelot · L. Sprague de Camp · cl [Ref. T. H. White]
- 118 · Fantasy Books · Fritz Leiber · rc
- _119 · Reader’s Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos · Fritz Leiber · br [Ref. Edward P. Berglund & Robert E. Weinberg]
- _118 · The Watchers Out of Time and Others · Fritz Leiber · br [Ref. August Derleth & H. P. Lovecraft]
- _120 · American Gothic · Fritz Leiber · br [Ref. Robert Bloch]
- 125 · …According to You · The Readers · lc
- _125 · [letter from Harrisonburg, VA] · Dave Hulvey · lt
- _126 · [letter from Grand Forks, ND] · George Oshry · lt
- _127 · [letter from Mason, OH] · Michael F. X. Milhaus · lt
- _128 · [letter from Memphis, TN] · Harris Lentz, III · lt
Typographic cover, as Fantastic Stories on the cover and spine. “The Big 24th Anniversary Issue”.
Details supplied by Douglas Greene.
