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'''The Fantasmith''' was a wierd fiction fanzine by Van Splawn. 

''The Fantasmith'' was released in May 1953 through the [[Fantasy Amateur Press Association]]. It was a single issue release.

Contributors were Calvin Thomas Beck, and Ben Singer ([[The Mutant]]) with a piece called "G-Rump-Ta-Tat". Also included were reprints of "The Wicked Clergyman" by [[H. P. Lovecraft]], and "Woods" by Richard Shaver ([[The Shaver Mystery Magazine]]), with illustrations by [[Margaret Dominick (DEA)|Margaret Dominick (as DEA)]].

The cover art work was by Max Keasler. 

Van Splawn also released the science fiction poetry fanzine [[Soma]], as well as the fanzines [[Djinn]], ''Mars'', ''Prometheus'', [[Sevagram]], and ''Symphony'', co-edited ''Phoenix'', which was renamed [[The Star Rover]], with F. Lee Baldwin and Fritz Hoffmann,  co-edited [[Worlds Apart]] with Paul D. Cox, John Kelly Jr. and J.T. Oliver, followed by [[Time Stream]] with Paul Cox and J.T. Oliver.

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