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The Unknown

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An early casualty to the paper shortage of World War II, Unknown survived for only a few issues. I first read these stories as a teenager, in what seems now to be Early Triassic, and still remember them and even much of the phrasing. If that isn't memorable then what is? Unknown, like Mozart, died young, more's the pity.

It lasted less than four years, but it was the best fantasy magazine ever. A victim of the World War II paper shortage, UNKNOWN, sadly, was not resurrected after peace broke out. Here are eleven tales carefully culled from its 31 issues, some making their first book appearance:


Foreword, by Isaac Asimov
Editor's Introduction
8/39 The Misguided Halo [Henry Kuttner];
10/41 Prescience [Nelson S. Bond];
6/41 Yesterday Was Monday [Theodore Sturgeon];
6/39 The Gnarly Man [L. Sprague de Camp];
11/40 The Bleak Shore [Fritz Leiber];
3/39 Trouble With Water [H. L. Gold];
2/41 Doubled and Redoubled [Malcolm Jameson];
2/40 When it was Moonlight [Manly Wade Wellman];
8/41 Mr. Jinx [Robert Arthur];
8/41 Armageddon [Fredric Brown];
12/41 Snulbug [Anthony Boucher]