Whispers Magazine
Dave with the Lee Brown Coye original from issue three of Whispers (the Easter issue). This issue contained Dave's "The Shortest Way" (the cover story) and the famous "Sticks" by Karl Edward Wagner.
In 1971 August Derleth died. He’d been publishing The Arkham Collector, a little magazine associated with his fantasy small press Arkham House. (My only published poem appeared in it.) Stu Schiff, a long-time collector and at that point a dentist with the army, decided to fill the gap with what he first planned to call Whispers from Arkham; the Arkham House heirs didn’t like that, so it became simply Whispers.
Stu said at the time that a major impetus was the huge, glossy-paper one-shot fanzine HPL that came out in 1971. He’d selected the art and believed he was supposed to have credit as art editor, but that didn’t happen. He was determined to start his own magazine so that he would get the credit he deserved. continue reading…