The Heiskell Holler

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The Heiskell Holler was a science fiction fanzine by Janie Lamb.

The Heiskell Holler was published in the 1960s in Heiskell, Tennessee, U.S.A.

In the 1950s, Janie Lamb had been a member of the The International Science Fiction Correspondence Club (ISFCC), whose official organ was The Explorer, which Lamb contributed to, among other fanzines in the 1950s and 1960s.

Irv Koch, writing about Tennessee fandom for the 1997 Southern Fandom Confederation Handbook & History, says, "Before there was anything else there was Janie Lamb, R.I.P....Janie Lamb was a tremendously important fan in the '50s and early '60s who is nearly forgotten today, probably because she devoted most of her fanac to the NFFF."

According to Partners In Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926 - 1965, by Eric Leif Davin, Janie Lamb was also a member of The National Fan Federation, serving as Treasurer in 1954, and according to Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy by Robin Anne Reid, "Jamie Lamb began a long career of leadership in The National Fan Federation (N3F)."

Ned Brooks, editor of It Goes On The Shelf,writes for the 1997 Southern Fandom Confederation Handbook & History, "I also knew Janie Lamb as the benevolent dictator of the NFFF. She lived in a house fill of books and guns back behind Knoxville--her husband collected Lugars and she collected SF and Marie Corelli, a curious occult novelist of the early 1900s."

Jamie Lamb was also one of the editors of Tightbeam, a publication of The National Fan Federation.