The magazine was headquartered in
Hollywood, California. Douglas Menville served as editor and Robert Reginald as associate editor. The magazine was digest-sized in format and specialized in reprinting neglected classics of
speculative fiction from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, along with occasional earlier pieces. It appeared in five bimonthly issues from October 1970 through June 1971 which were reprinted by the
Borgo Press imprint of
Wildside Press in 2007.
Forgotten Fantasy was significant as the precursor to the
Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library, a book reprint series to which its editors eventually turned their energies after the magazine's demise, and which continued its mission of reviving fantasy classics. During its short life,
Forgotten Fantasy published short stories by
F. Marion Crawford,
Lord Dunsany,
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman,
Voltaire,
H. G. Wells,
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
E. Nesbit,
Algernon Blackwood and
Tudor Jenks, novelettes by
Arthur Conan Doyle and
William Morris, and poems by
Thomas Lovell Beddoes,
Goethe (translated by
Matthew Gregory Lewis) and
Richard Le Gallienne, as well as serializing such longer works as
The Goddess of Atvatabar by
William R. Bradshaw and
Hartmann the Anarchist by E. Douglas Fawcett (of the latter only the first part of a projected two appeared before the magazine ceased). Regular non-fiction features were Menville's "Excavations" and "Calibrations", of which the first appeared in every issue and the second all but the first. Cover artists included Bill Hughes, whose work appeared on three of the issues,
George Barr, and
Tim Kirk. ==References==