![]() ![]() Gold’s story was the first of many in Unknown to combine commonplace reality with the fantastic.Ĭampbell required his authors to avoid simplistic horror fiction and insisted that the fantasy elements in a story be developed logically: for example, Jack Williamson’s “Darker Than You Think” describes a world in which there is a scientific explanation for the existence of werewolves. Gold’s “Trouble With Water”, a humorous fantasy about a New Yorker who meets a water gnome. ![]() Unknown’s first issue appeared in March 1939 in addition to Sinister Barrier, it included H. Campbell wanted to publish a fantasy magazine with more finesse and humor than Weird Tales, and put his plans into action when Eric Frank Russell sent him the manuscript of his novel Sinister Barrier, about aliens who own the human race. The leading fantasy magazine in the 1930s was Weird Tales, which focused on shock and horror. Unknown was a companion to Street & Smith’s science fiction pulp, Astounding Science Fiction, which was also edited by Campbell at the time many authors and illustrators contributed to both magazines. Unknown (also known as Unknown Worlds) was an American pulp fantasy fiction magazine, published from 1939 to 1943 by Street & Smith, and edited by John W. ![]()
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