The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1952

Vol. 3, No. 4, August 1952. Cover art by George Gibbons. STORIES: Hobson's Choice” by Alfred Bester; “The Ancestral Amethyst” [Gavagan's Bar] by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt; “W. S.” by L. P. Hartley; “The Tooth” by G. Gordon Dewey; “Nine-Finger Jack” (1951) by Anthony Boucher; “The Sling” by Richard Ashby; “The Soothsayer” by Kem Bennett; “Who Shall I Say is Calling?" by August Derleth; “Listen” by Gordon R. Dickson; “Nor Iron Bars” by Cleve Cartmill and Dan Kelly; “Extra-Curricular” by Garen Drussaï; “Stair Trick” by Mildred Clingerman; “Note on a Grave Situation” (poem) by Leonard Wolf; “Proof Positive” (1947) by Graham Greene; “The Gualcophone” by Alan Nelson; “The Hour of Letdown” (1951) by E. B. White. FEATURE: Recommended Reading (book reviews) by The Editors.