SH-sf Fanthology

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Zine
Title: The SH-sf Fanthology
Publisher: McArdle Press Publication
Editor(s): Ruth Berman
Date(s): 1967-1972
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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.

Issue 2

cover issue #2, Al Kuhfeld, reprinted from No #7

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).

Issue 3

cover issue #3, Rosalind Oberdieck: "Sir Hugo Baskerville"

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.'