Whispers no 9 (inscribed by the editor to contributor)

No 9 (vol 3 no 1, December 1976). Sixteen magazine issues (some were ''double issues'' and so the actual numbering goes from 1-24) were published of this US dark fantasy/heroic fantasy A5 magazine between 1973-1987 (with a final issue released ten years later in 1997, combined with Paul Ganley's Weirdbook magazine as a back-to-back publication). Front cover by Steven Fabian: rear cover by Lee Brown Coye. Includes fiction by R. A. Lafferty, Dennis Etchison and William Nolan: also a five-page ''HPL: A Reminiscence'' by H. Warner Munn. THIS COPY SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY EDITOR SCHIFF/''for John Bredon, Whispers most prolific poet, Stuart David Schiff''.