Age of the Unicorn #1

Author:		Michael L. Cook.
Publisher:		Cook & McDowell Productions, Evansville, IN, U.S.A.
Date of publication:		April 1979.
Binding:		Soft cover, side stapled (three staples).
Number of pages:		46 pages.
Size:		8½ x 11 inches.

Front cover of fanzine

Age of the Unicorn #1 is a fanzine that contains a portrait of Lovecraft by Virgil Finlay.

Age of the Unicorn #1 further contains:

• An article by Dr. Roger C. Schlobin on The Haunt of Horror (magazine).
• An article byMaurice B. Gardner on the Bantan novels.
• A checklist to The Spider (pulp).
• Poetry by Jonathan E. Hoag, "Death," with a Virgil Finlay's portrait of Lovecraft
• 2 Poems by Lucille Coleman.
• Full page advertisements, among which:
  • A letter from Scott Connors regarding the H.P. Lovecraft Society.
  • Two Page Fantome Press catalogue, with original fine press printings of works by Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Frank Belknap Long, Joseph Payne Brennan.
  • The Castle Dracula Quarterly.
  • Whispers Press.

The artwork is by Frank Hamilton, David Prosser, Virgil Finlay, et al.

The poem by Jonathan E. Hoag ("Death) is sometimes attributed to H.P. Lovecraft, reinforced here as the poem bears no byline and is accompanied by a portrait of Lovecraft by Virgil Finlay.

References:

• Lovecraft Portrait
• Age of the Unicorn by Bob Gaines.