Forgotten Fantasy, Vol. 1, No. 1

# Contents

This October 1970 inaugural issue of Forgotten Fantasy reprints three works of imaginative literature. The lead serial, "The Goddess of Atvatabar" (Part I) by William R. Bradshaw, is presented as a science fiction classic from 1892 depicting a voyage into an underground world accessible through the Arctic. The novelette "The Parasite" by Arthur Conan Doyle depicts a psychic vampire—described as having never been reprinted in the United States before. A horror story, "The Dead Smile" by F. Marion Crawford, rounds out the fiction content, accompanied by a poem, "The Phantom-Wooer" by Thomas Lovell Beddoes. The editor's introduction surveys the history of hollow-earth fiction from Edmund Halley through Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burroughs, contextualizing Bradshaw's rare novel within the tradition of inner-world adventure narratives blending science fiction with occult mysticism.