Fantastic Novels was an American science fiction and fantasy pulp magazine published by the Munsey Company of New York from 1940 to 1941, and by Popular Publications from 1948 to 1951. It was launched as a bimonthly companion magazine to Famous Fantastic Mysteries in response to heavy demand for book-length reprints of stories from pulp magazines such as Amazing Stories and Argosy. It ran science fiction and fantasy classics from earlier decades, including novels by A. Merritt, George Allan England, Victor Rousseau and others, and occasionally published reprints of more recent work, such as Earth's Last Citadel by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore. There were five issues in the magazine's first incarnation and another twenty in the revived version from Popular Publications, along with seventeen Canadian and two British reprints. Mary Gnaedinger edited both series; her interest in reprinting Merritt's work helped make him one of the better-known fantasy writers of the era.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1559:

During a jousting match, Gabriel Montgomery of the Garde Écossaise mortally wounded King Henry II of France, piercing him in the eye with his lance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_II_of_France

1859:

French acrobat Charles Blondin crossed Niagara Gorge on a tightrope, turning him into one of the world's most famous tightrope walkers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Blondin

1894:

London's Tower Bridge, a combined bascule and suspension bridge over the River Thames, opened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_Bridge

1987:

The Royal Canadian Mint introduced the Canadian one-dollar coin, commonly known as the Loonie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loonie

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

miserabilist: One who is unhappy, or extols being miserable as a virtue; a philosopher of pessimism. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/miserabilist

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Evil grows and bears fruit, which is understandable, because it has logic and probability on its side and also, of course, strength. The resistance of tiny kernels of good, to which no one grants the power of causing far-reaching consequences, is entirely mysterious, however. Such seeming nothingness not only lasts but contains within itself enormous energy which is revealed gradually.   --Czesław Miłosz https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Czes%C5%82aw_Mi%C5%82osz