Scoops

When newspaper reporter Brant Emerson saves the life of the reclusive Professor Lestrange, the scientist offers to let Brant use a time machine—an offer which Brant accepts (hoping to get a scoop), and Brant soon finds himself in 2034 London where newspapers have been totally replaced by TV and radio (quite a good prognosis, even if Low didn’t think of the role the internet would play). —based on Frank J. Bleiler

Professor Dingle’s second escapade! Yes, he’s still in the asylum where he creates a powder that unleashes memories of previous lives. And when the professor and a friend take the powder, they find themselves as deadly enemies back in the medieval court of Baron De Brassat. —Michael Main

In retrieving objects from the future, Tom Lawton and Bill Richard manage to grab four brothers from 2534, and the brothers promptly take over London, announcing that they intend to make a utopia, but first they must kill half the population.

Scoops was a weekly British publication that lasted about half of 1934. This particular Fearn story was reprinted in the 1997 Fantasy Annual. —based on Frank J. Bleiler