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Carcosa2004Mon Aug-01-22 05:03 PM
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"MOON OF THE TREES BROKEN BY SNOW..."


          

Although I love the two expanded versions, I'm fond of the original issue of YONDERING with its then more seemingly eclectic selection of stories...including MOON OF THE TREES BROKEN BY SNOW.

Beau, can you tell me a little bit how this came to be included initially, and what LL though of it?

  

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blamourSat Aug-06-22 03:23 PM
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I don't think there was much thought put into it. LL had written the MOTT short story for American Airlines Magazine. He did that as much to promote our friend Clifford Brycelea's art work as anything else. Clifford, who did the cover to Haunted Mesa, got several paintings included to somewhat abstractly illustrate the story. AA mag had asked for a Christmas story.

Then Dad was putting Yondering together and, because he had it, just threw it in because he had it on hand. It was VERY common, in the era leading up to 1980, to have paperback story collections that were kind of at random, no theme, no sequence, not even a little bit of everything, just "here's a bunch of stories." There was a mentality, that even my Dad accepted subconsciously, that paperbacks were disposable. It's not surprising, the business evolved out of magazines. No one thought of them lasting, or being reprinted for 50 years, or being re-collected into more permanent volumes

  

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