Forgotten Fantasy, Vol. 1, No. 1

Contents This October 1970 inaugural issue of *Forgotten Fantasy* reprints three works of imaginative literature. The lead serial, "The Goddess of Atvatabar" (Part I) by William R. Bradshaw, is presented as a science fiction classic from 1892 depicting a voyage into an underground world accessible through the Arctic. The novelette "The Parasite" by Arthur Conan Doyle depicts a psychic vampire—described as having never been reprinted in the United States before. A horror story, "The Dead Smile" by F. Marion Crawford, rounds out the fiction content, accompanied by a poem, "The Phantom-Wooer" by Thomas Lovell Beddoes. The editor's introduction surveys the history of hollow-earth fiction from Edmund Halley through Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burroughs, contextualizing Bradshaw's rare novel within the tradition of inner-world adventure narratives blending science fiction with occult mysticism.