New on Archive.org this week, a clean scan of The Phantagraph for July 1936 (Vol. 4 No. 4), with the Lovecraft Fungi poem “Nostalgia” (c. 1930?) on the cover. Also a short but useful signposting article on ‘weird music’, as it stood in the mid 1930s.
After the first substantial issue, July-August 1935 (“Volume 4, No. 1” because it was deemed a continuation of the Bulletin of the Terrestrial Fantascience Guild) the Hevelin collection also has some complete online scans of Donald Wollheim’s Phantagraph from the 1930s. Though with the archive’s ‘plastic hold-down’ scanner-strip visible across the scans…
* November-December 1935. (Letter from Lovecraft praising an article by C. W. Lonsdell on writing good science fiction; Lovecraft poem “The Dweller”; tongue-in-cheek article-squib “How I Get My Inspiration”, on how to ‘write Lovecraftian’ for Weird Tales).
* June 1937. (Lovecraft poem “Halloween in a Suburb”)
* July 1937. (Lovecraft poem “The Well”, and Lovecraft’s c. 1920-21 prose poem “Ex Oblivione”)
* August 1937.
Archive.org has one 1940s issue, and the Hevelin collection has a number of 1940s issues.
The FictionMags Index has a complete index and tables of contents. The above links are to the only online full scans that I can find from the 1930s.
In 1967 a slim hardcover collected the very best of the publication as Operation: Phantasy. The Best from The Phantagraph (Table-of-Contents).
I’ll add links to this page as and when I find future complete scans of the 1930s issues.