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From Pat Deveney's database:
This was the fanzine companion of Richard S. Shaver's Shaver Mystery Magazine (q.v.). It included letters from members on anomalous events, warnings on the dangers of atomic bombs, gossip on Shaver and
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| Shaver Mystery Club Letterzine V3 N2 1951 | |
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The Shaver Mystery Club Letterzine was an amateur-press bulletin for followers of Richard Shaver's 'Shaver Mystery' — the postwar lore of deros and ancient cavern-dwelling elder races beneath the earth, promoted through Ray Palmer's magazines and, by this period, thoroughly entangled with the flying-saucer craze. Its pages mix saucer talk (radar, the Air Force, 'flying saucers') with Shaver's homemade catastrophist physics, in which atomic 'concussions' reverberate through a dense planetary core to unleash earthquakes and eruptions. Because the canonical topic list has no dedicated hollow-earth slug, the periodical reads onto UFO and contactee literature for its saucer content and onto the lost-continents theme for its subterranean elder-race mythology. It is a grassroots artifact of one of mid-century America's strangest occult-science subcultures. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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