Amateur Correspondent, First Anniversary Number

This First Anniversary Number of Amateur Correspondent, a bimonthly magazine for amateur fantasy writers edited by Corwin F. Stickney, contains fiction, articles, and verse by established and emerging authors. The 8,000-word story "From Forgotten Ages" by W. I. Parks—revised from an earlier collaboration with Chester D. Cuthbert—follows Jeffrey Camden, a world traveler haunted by mysterious visions, as he discovers a hidden Andean temple with supernatural properties guarded by an isolated tribe. Chester D. Cuthbert's article "A Warning on Collaboration" recounts his failed attempt to co-write with Parks, demonstrating how two writers developing the same plot produced irreconcilably different stories. Clark Ashton Smith contributes a scholarly article on "Atmosphere in Weird Fiction," analyzing how kinetic and potential elements—overt imagery and subtle suggestion—create horror effects, with examples from Ambrose Bierce. Also included are "Sniper" by W. C. Peters, "The Waterfall" by Paul Hayward, "The Final Vision" by J. Francis Hatch, and verse by Robert Sanders Shaw.