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"Earlier this year I became fascinated with a series of volumes -- the collected back issues of a fanzine called SHAVERTRON, published by a longtime Shaverian named Richard Toronto who had, as a teen, been a correspondent of Shaver's and had even participated in his "rock book correspondence course."


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SHAVERTRON OVER-BLOG

In the Labyrinth

One of the main pitfalls when beginning to search for information on the Shaver Mystery ignores the fact that this information is difficult to obtain because the Internet has revolutionized information retrieval. It is rather to evaluate information found.

The Shaver Mystery was born of two men who have mixed their friendship, their ideas, delusions, and their destiny. Richard Shaver provided the material with his "visions." Ray Palmer, Chief Editor of Amazing Stories was responsible for putting in shape to make them publishable. This collaboration has given a lot of articles, pamphlets, and news from 1943 to 1975, when the book was published testament of two friends: The Secret World.

The census of their writings - relatively easy to start using the index of SF magazines - becomes a real headache when you discover that both of them have often used pseudonyms. Ray Palmer is started first. As Chief Editor of the journal he started inventing pen names to place discreetly himself. To date, we have no fewer than nine:

Henry Gade, GH Irwin, Frank Patton, JW Pelka, Quitman Wallace, Alfred R. Steber, J. Morris Steele, Robert N. Webster, Rae Winters are in fact nothing more than double by Ray Palmer. Once we became aware of this, we read differently editorials by Palmer where he presented his own texts in the third person singular. Ray Palmer was also amused to reverse the game. So he used his pseudonyms to hide his status as Chief Editor in other journals. Fate example, the first magazine devoted to the paranormal to be published in 1948, was a director Robert N. Webster, alias Ray. We understand better why there were a few times to contents of the journal articles published by a certain ... Ray Palmer.

Richard Shaver was no exception. For his part he used to say he used at least thirteen different pseudonyms for his appearances in magazines: Wes Amherst, Edwin Benson, Edwin Dexter, Peter Dexter, Richard Dorot, Richard Dorset Elcalir Mollie, Richard Français, GH Irwin, Paul Lohrman, Frank Patton, Stan Raycraft, D. Richard Sharpe.

The matter is further complicated when combining these two lists, one finds that at least one pseudonym for men: GH Irwin. We must therefore assume that in addition to using pseudonyms, the companions exchanged some names for their respective literary works. One is then faced with a problem insoluble. If this is the case, how to determine which text was written by Irwin one or the other? And if the practice was systematic, how to know if all the aliases of one another were not used by one or the other, that we do not know nothing about? If so, who has written what?

Just a simple little step further to cross the final barrier. And if Richard Shaver had been about a pseudonym Ray Palmer wanted to give life? The proposal is chilling. But somehow, it conforms to the logic of the Shaver Mystery . After all, do we not see the term " Shaver Mystery ", Palmer's own admission that all this was just a trick?

Some are now seriously asking the question. As to demonstrate the existence of a man is not easy. And if the task is not easy for someone as famous as Jesus, then we can imagine how it becomes difficult for an obscure vendor of Arkansas stones.

What evidence is sincere and objective that I can move forward on to the physical reality of Richard Shaver? I know his writings, I saw pictures of him and his paintings. But is it enough? Is Mona Lisa proved by her presence there with Leonardo da Vinci?

The theory that never was Richard Shaver is the best argument in the personality of Ray Palmer. Ray was a fantastic and true visionary in communications and media. With the Shaver Mystery , he had the intuition that interactivity between Author and Reader will be paramount in the future. For every case of Shaver Mystery is part of the drive itself.

It is indeed a mysterious letter that appeared in letters to the editor written by a Richard Shaver that all started in 1943. A large controversy then swelled in the columns of the magazine. Only after that the stories written under the signature of Richard Shaver have begun to be published. Ray was probably himself surprised by the enthusiasm aroused by the case when it was "installed" by the readers themselves. Still, then, he has systematized the process. He felt that prior agitation, an effect of Viral Marketing was able to prepare minds for a product to come out.

It appeared that the literary value of a product could be strengthened by the fact that readers have previously developed a dialogue with the authors of the said product. In short, creating from scratch a controversy in and about a product, summing up the latter at the height of the debate was an assurance of quick success. This may seem trivial now, because this technique has proven itself and is an ideal support to the net. The worldwide success of movies like Blair Witch Project for example, was completely subordinated to the prior existence of a website allowing room for doubt. It presented the upcoming film as a documentary about the events (maybe) real. Ray Palmer on the other hand did not know the net, he had only letters to the editor to build the network in 1943.

Once interest in the Shaver Mystery fell, Ray Palmer becomes totally fascinating. Its readership was dying. In the golden age, its journals pulled up 250,000 copies. In the mid-60s, it was down to 2000 potential readers in the file consisting of subscribers it had. Resuming his old way, he founded a magazine, the last of a long series. He called it simply the Forum. It contains no articles only drive letters accompanied by the controversial response from Ray Palmer. It spoke of everything: Flying Saucers, violence on TV, mind control, pollution, the Vietnam War, theories about the JFK assassination (sponsored Deros of course). But the launch of a review based solely on a letter to the editor was a problem. Because we had to have readers PRE order to publish their mail. That's when Ray was totally awesome: he decided to write himself.

He invented hundreds of readers ghosts addressing him for the challenge on a particular mystery. He created the interactions, feedback letters, letters of letters responding to each other from issue to issue. He moderated "his" Forum player himself. He criticized one, wondering about the other. He said sometimes he had long hesitated to publish a particular letter because it seemed doubtful. Pushing the process to a stage completely fascinating, it had written letters in which he placed highly doubt the success of the magazine. Then in the following numbers, he put a point to publish the facsimile of the deposit certificate attesting to the publication of its magazine circulation.

The more I think of this story the more it fascinates me. And more than the mystery of the underground civilization Atlante, it is the underground maze of the mind of Ray Palmer that seems endless, inhabited by a prodigious and gigantic personality. Although I am not yet able to put into words all that, it seems to me that something crucial and universal was lurking in the labyrinth of his mind. I seek.