futuria fantasia
Spring 1940
vol. 1. no. 4.
Ray Bradbury—editor
ten cents
CONTENTS
| COVER | Hannes Bok | |
| 3 | GOLGONO AND SLITH | Ray Bradbury |
| 4 | HEIL! | Lyle Monroe |
| 7 | THE PHANTOMS | J.E. Kelleam |
| 8 | THOTS ON THE WORLD STATE | Hank Kuttner |
| 9 | WOULD YOU? | J.H. Haggard |
| 10 | THE PIPER | Ron Reynolds |
| 14 | THE ITCHING HOUR | Damon Knight |
| 15 | THE FLIRTENFLOG | Hannes V. Bok |
| 16 | BOKARICATURE | Hannes V. Bok |
| 17 | NINEVAH | J.E. Kelleam |
| 18 | advertisements | |
| 19 | ART: CREATURES FROM LORELEI | Hannes V. Bok |
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gorgono and slith—
"Let us, by all means, be lucid," said Gorgono to Slith. Slith flutteredhis reptile tongue and turned his morbid eyes to me. "Yes," he said,"let us, certainly be lucid, Bradbury. From now on use a contents pagein Futuria Fantasia." And he spanked his tail slickly on my typewriter.
I don't mind Slith so much, he's only a little anachronistic reptile, adescendent of happier days in dinosaurial dawndom. I never feared Slith.But Gorgono!
Gorgono pierced me with his slanting green, clear eyes, heavy-lidded,extending one claw and attempting to keep it from shaking while hispointed ears stood up straight. A moment before he had been huntingfleas in the fertile hair that clothed his muscular limbs, but now hewas serious; so very serious it frightened me.
And when the thunder-voiced, evil-eyed, shaggy haired and monstrousGorgono reclined on the s