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Although Now for Nordine is only a few weeks old, Nordine himself is no stranger to experimental television. For more than a year he has been frightening and delighting Chicago audiences with eerie readings of classic horror tales such as Poe's Pit and the Pendulum, Lovecraft's Rats in the Walls. He calls this show Faces in the Window, plays weird music as he reads and scares his listeners with a bagful of simple but effective tricks. For a story where a man is hanged, he had the camera turn slowly back and forth to suggest...
Hungry Fans. Readers of science fiction include a special cult which specializes in collecting the classics in the field and faithfully supports the worthy publishing ventures. The prices which some of the more prized volumes command are steep. H. P. Lovecraft's The Outsider sells for from $50 to $100, Vol. I No. 1 of Astounding Stories of Super Science for as high as $50. Several publishers estimate that from 30% to 40% of their readers are professional men, some of them scientists who read the stories for relaxation but with a sharp eye for scientific errors. Clubs...
...addition to the study of such imaginative authors as Lovecraft, Blackwood, and Lord Dunsany, the group plans more active doings for the future. Members contemplate field trips to "haunted houses" in and around Salem and Marblehead, and also have some catacombs lined up for investigation in Connecticut...