Hotel of Usher

A one-shot, dittoed fanzine, nineteen pages long, published in 1968 by Lee Klingstein for Baycon. It cannot possibly be true that the title has anything to do with the difficulties Baycon had with its hotel...

According to the introduction, the Hotel of Usher was typed and drawn on ditto masters between 11:00 PM Sunday night and 3:00 AM Monday morning at the convention. Some of the masters were later retyped because the writers had neglected to remove the interleaf sheet between the front and back of the master. The issue was published on a hand cranked ditto machine at UCLA on Wednesday and Thursday September 4th and 5th. Contributions were not generally bylined, but there were two pages of signatures: One page headed "Contributers to House of Usher" and one page of signatures attesting to the "most eldridge" status of the Claremont Hotel. Some of the signatures on these pages are hard to decode, but they include: Lee Klingstein, Sanford J. Cohen, David Clark, Mary J. Ensley, Drew Sanders, "Grape", Bruce Newrock, Scott G. Shaw, Mike Zaharakis, Robert McNish, Richard A Brooks, Ron Bounds, Jack Chalker, Vonda N. McIntyre and "Nathan the Black Sorcerer and Sister" (Nathan Tobol and Frances Tobol). Other contributors we know of include M. Rankin, Kathleen Sky, Ed Baker, "? Simpson", Rick Cook, Bill Warren, "Tina H?", Cyrano Jones, Dorothy Monatam, and Sherna Burley.

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Publication

1968

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