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Periodical: Shavertron

Summary: From Pat Deveney's database:

Shavertron.
Your Only Source of Post-Deluge Shaverania.
1979--1992
Quarterly
California.
Language: English.
Editor: Richard Ross Toronto.
1/1, autumn 1979-1992.
16 pp., $6.00 a year, originally typewritten and mimeographed. 29 issues in all.

The newsletter was devoted to anything relating to the Shaver Mystery, on which see the notes under Fate, Shaver Mystery Magazine, and Amazing, gradually incorporating accounts of the mysterious, unexplained and conspiratorial. It consisted of photocopies clippings from newspapers and magazines and articles by Toronto and others on the finer points of Mantong and other Shaver mysteries and on matters like "people who disappear into thin air," mysterious spelunking discoveries, the unexplained deaths of researchers, newly discovered pyramids, "death rays," etc . It also reprinted "from time to time" excerpts from the old Shaver Mystery Club Letterzine (1950-1954). The journal is now reprinted in book form as the Shaver Mystery Compendium.

Other Sources:
Issues:Shavertron N2 Winter 1979
Shavertron N3 Spring 1980
Shavertron N4 Summer 1980
Shavertron N7 Spring 1981
Claude-Generated Themes:   Read across 1979–1981, Shavertron is the devoted fanzine of the Shaver-mystery underground — the dero and tero, the inner-earth caverns and Shaver's 'Mantong' language, kept alive decades after the pulp original, with an eye on nearby Air Force bases and the saucer connection. It is the HYBRID hollow-earth strand at its most self-aware and cultish: a small, fierce keeper of the flame for the myth that helped ignite the saucer age.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
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