Witchcraft Wednesday: Coven 13, Issue #4

In many ways, this last issue is unlike the first three. It is still recognizably Coven 13, but it has a transitional air about it. The witchcraft is in evidence, to be sure, but fantasy and sword-and-sorcery have encroached on the center of things. That makes sense in hindsight because this is the final issue published as Coven 13. Afterward, Fantasy Publishing Company acquired the magazine, and it continued as Witchcraft & Sorcery.The March 1970 issue contains Buddy Saunders' "The Bidderfrost Dragon," "I, Vampire!" by Pronzini/Wallman, S. M. Clawson's "The Convert," Lee Chater's "The Thing on the Stairs," Sidney Harriet's "Eats!", the poltergeist installment of Bell, Book and Tarot, a Robert E. Howard poem, and the enormous (85-page) conclusion to Let There Be Magick! The editorial is particularly poignant now. Landis says the distributor wants the magazine to remain bimonthly for another three issues, so they have decided to finish Let There Be Magick! early and clear the decks for…