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Periodical: | The Mystic Magazine |
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From Pat Deveney's database:
Mystic Magazine. This was yet another of Raymond A. Palmer's (1910-1977) productions, one that appears to have been closest to his own heart and interests. In the first issue, he proclaimed: 'This is a magazine of fiction . . . not based on reason or knowledge. . . . They are stories of the supernatural, of the weird, of the mysterious, of the unknown, of life after death, or reincarnation, of dreams; of vampires and witches and goblins and werewolves; of the soul, the subconscious mind, the unconscious mind, the superconscious mind; of hell, or heaven, of the devil, of super beings, of angels, of demons, of elementals, of familiars; of spirits, ghosts, phantoms, afreets, djinns; of magic, both white and black, legerdemain, illusion; of cults and secret societies; of the white brotherhood and the brotherhood of evil; of the battle between the dark and the light, the good and the bad, the living and the dead!' As Palmer put it, 'They are tales of the things of which superstition is the only historian,' things that might be revealed, by 'scientific' scrutiny and inquiry, beyond the veil of mystery and the illusion of the everyday. The fiction promised in the first issue declined markedly after the first four issues, and thereafter the journal offered articles on astrology (principally by Dorothy Spence Lauer), true life voyages on flying saucers, 'Venusians Walk Our Streets,' the Shaver Mystery, the 'Hoxdey Cancer Cure' by Senator John Haluska, Bridey Murphy ('a death blow to reincarnation'), etc., as well as a correspondence column ('Letters from the Undead'), short excerpts of 'strange things' from the newspapers, Palmer's mysterious predictions received from 'The Man from Tomorrow,' and numerous advertisements from the Eidetic Foundation of Fairhope, Alabama (offering practical hypnotism and time travel), AMORC of San Jose, Oahspe, the Secret Teachings of the Brotherhood of the White Temple of Sedalia, Colorado (promulgated by 'Doreal'), Premier College of Technical Metaphysics, of Vancouver, Canada, 'Lucky Talisman' ('satisfaction guaranteed'), 'One bottle of Turn-Er's will cure your dandruff, restore your hair,' etc., etc. for $5.00, Kosmon, the College of Universal Truth ('Study at home for your Ph.D. degree'), a correspondence course in astral projection, angelic revelations, and always for Venture Bookshop in Evanston, Illinois, owned by Curtis Fuller, the co-editor with Palmer of Fate and the one who bought him out when he left to start this journal. The journal initially offered to pay for contributions but then declared its policy was not to pay: 'the truth cannot be bought.' |
Issues: | Mystic Magazine V6 N2 Aug 1907 |
Mystic Magazine V6 N4 Oct 1907 | |
Mystic Magazine V6 N6 Dec 1907 | |
Mystic Magazine V7 N1 Jan 1908 | |
Mystic Magazine V7 N2 Feb 1908 | |
Mystic Magazine V7 N3 Mar 1908. | |
Mystic Magazine V7 N4 Apr 1908 | |
Mystic Magazine V7 N5 May 1908 | |
Mystic Magazine V7 N6 Jun 1908 | |
Mystic Magazine V8 N1 Jul 1908 | |
Mystic Magazine V8 N2 Aug 1908 | |
Mystic Magazine V8 N3 Sep 1908 | |
Mystic Magazine V8 N4 Oct 1908 | |
Mystic Magazine V8 N5 Nov 1908 | |
Mystic Magazine V8 N6 Dec 1908 | |
Mystic Magazine V9 N1 Jan 1909 | |
Mystic Magazine V9 N2 Feb 1909 | |
Mystic Magazine V9 N3-4 Mar-apr 1909 | |
Mystic Magazine V9 N5-6 May-jun 1909 | |
Mystic Magazine V10 N1-2 Jul-aug 1909 | |
Mystic Magazine V10 N3-4 Sep-oct 1909 | |
Mystic Magazine V10 N5 Nov 1909 | |
Mystic Magazine V10 N6 Dec 1909 | |
Mystic Magazine V11 N2 Feb 1910 | |
Mystic Magazine V11 N3 Sep 1910 |
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