The Recluse

The Recluse was a 78-page, one-shot magazine "issued by W. Paul Cook, for his own amusement" in 1927. Cook was active in ajays.

It contained the original version of H. P. Lovecraft's "Supernatural Horror in Literature" and works by others of the Lovecraft Circle. Could it have been the First Fanzine? It was at least a paleo-fanzine.

Contents:

• Early Vermont Minstrelsy • essay by Walter J. Coates
• After Armageddon • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• A Check-list of the First Editions of George Sterling • essay by uncredited
• A Fragment of a Dream • (1926) • short story by Donald Wandrei
• The Runner • poem by Arthur H. Goodenough
• Supernatural Horror in Literature • essay by H. P. Lovecraft
• Brume et Pluies • poem by Charles Baudelaire (trans. of Brumes et pluies 1857) [as by Charles P. Baudelaire]
• Heart Symphony for Dare • poem by Vrest Orton
• The Green Porcelain Dog • short story by H. Warner Munn
• Ballad of St. Anthony • poem by Frank Belknap Long (variant of Ballad of Saint Anthony) [as by Frank Belknap Long, Jr.]
• Hubert Crackanthorpe • essay by Samuel Loveman
• In the Grave • poem by Donald Wandrei

Entry at ISFDB.

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Publication

1927

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