The SH-sf Fanthology
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| Title: | The SH-sf Fanthology |
| Publisher: | McArdle Press Publication |
| Editor(s): | Ruth Berman |
| Date(s): | 1967-1972 |
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| Medium: | fanzine |
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| Fandom: | Sherlock Holmes |
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The SH-sf Fanthology (which stands for 'Sherlock Holmes - Science Fiction Fanthology') is a collection of essays and fan fiction previously published in the 1960s and 1970s in other zines.
In 1967, Ruth Berman published the first issue with 32 pages of contributions by Robert Bloch, Dean Dickensheet, Dick Lupoff, and others. The second and third issues appeared in 1971 and 1972 and features cross-over essays and fiction.[1]
Issue 1
The SH-sf Fanthology 1 was printed in 167 and is 32 pages long.
- Preface
- The Dynamics of an Asteroid, by Robert Bloch
- Matter in Motion, by John Boardman
- Three (Sherlock Holmes at Camelot, The Case of the Incomplete Concept, Design Proposal: Sherlockian Playing Cards: Preliminary), by Dean Dickensheet
- Fundamental, My Dear Watson, by Dick Eney
- Review of Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street, by Dean Grennell
- Lupoffs Book Week, by Dick Lupoff
- Petrie Letter, by Bruce Pelz
Issue 2
The SH-sf Fanthology 2 was printed in 1971 and contains 21 pages.
From Ruth Berman in No #9 (December 1971):
The SHsf Fanthology #2 is now available. 50¢/copy. It is 21 pp of material on Sherlock Holmes from sf fan publications (including Dean Dickensheet's review of "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes" from No; the rest of the material, Edward Ludwig's "The Martian Who Hated People," Jon White's "A Letter (Mycroft to X.)," and Doug Hoylman's "Moriarty and the Binomial Theorem," appeared in other fanzines).
- The Martian Who Hated People by Edward Ludwig (reprinted from Inside #7, January 1955) (4)
- A Lefter (Mycroft to S.) by Jon White (reprinted from Fistula 1967) (12)
- Moriarty and the Binomial Theorem by Doug Hoylman (reprinted from The Proper Boskonian #6, 1970) (14)
- The Irregular Reviewer: "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes," by Dean Dickensheet (reprinted from No #7, February, 1971) (19)
Issue 3
The SH-sf Fanthology 3 was printed in February 1972 and contains 37 pages.
It was published by Ruth Berman "for the Professor Challenger Society, and others interested in Sherlockian or stfnal matters."
The art is by Mary Ellen Rabogliatti (one illo is a reprint from the August 1971 Despatch), Damon Ralph (these illos are reprints from Oziana #1), Jackie Franke, Rosalind Oberdieck, and Al Kuhfeld.
From Ruth Berman in No #10:
It is 37 pp. of material on Sherlock Holmes from fan publications (including Dick Lupoff's 'The Adventure of the Second Anonymous Narrator,' a double-barreled Holmes/Tarzan pastiche; comments on a Holmesian deduction from Apa-L, Pricilla Pollner's 'Holmes Was a Vulcan,' Mary Ellen Rabogliatti's limerick on the same subject, and my 'Sherlock Holmes in Oz.'
- The Adventure of the Second Anonymous Narrator, or, The Case of the Doctor Who Had No Business by Richard A. Lupoff (originally distribured privately by the author as a "Pok-Pik '66 Souvenir Booklet, June 5, 1966, and later published in the Winter 1969 issue of "Startling Mystery Stories.") (4)
- Annotations in Afghanistan, a discussion by members of Apa-L (Apa-L #258-264, April 32 June 5, 1970 - Bill Warren, Len & June Moffatt, Don Fitch, Ted Johnstone, Joyce O'Dell, John Goodman) (16)
- Holmes Was a Vulcan, "Mr. Holmes, where have you lived?..." by Priscilla Pollner (shorter version was "Was Sherlock Holmes a Vulcan?" in Son of a Beach #1, 1970) (for more on this topic, see Sherlock Holmes and Star Trek) (19)
- A Limerick by Mary Ellen Rabogliafti (Despatch August 1971) (24)
- Sherlock Holmes in Oz by Ruth Berman (Oziana #1, 1971) (25)
from issue #3, Jackie Franke
from issue #3, Rosalind Oberdieck
from issue #3, sample text
from issue #3, Damon Ralph
