Mor-Farch

Mor-Farch was a fanzine published by Peter Roberts. Its letter supplement was Krumhorn.

In an article "Back to the Roots" (Stop Breaking Down 1 (March 1976)), Roberts explained the derivation of the title:

I think the title came from the cover. That's my excuse anyway. I certainly remember spending lunch-hours in Bristol Public Library looking up "walrus" in various languages. I finally chose the Welsh version, more out of sentiment than sense, since no-one could pronounce the wretched thing. Mor-Farch – I suppose it was distinctive, in a clumsy sort of way.

In a review of its first issue in WSFA Journal 60 (September 1968), Don Miller wrote

Ed likes New Worlds, albeit it has shifted from SF to avant-garde, and enthusiastically dislikes censorial or should I say censurial criticism. A. Graham Boak writes on today's quality SF — especially Zelazny and Delany. Cover and interior full-page illo by Roger Woods. Poem by Boy Newman. A parody/burlesque of the Miskatonic tales ("Ginnantonic", etc.) by our ed (sleepy Bob Roberts). Rob F. Johnson writes on "The Unnatural Numbers", while Greg Pickersgill pens a very strange "Smith's Burst", also contribs an intro and check list to SF Impulse. Book, fanzine, and record reviews. Also Tony Cottrell's very minor little horrible "The Twist". A curious 28-page melange, weirder than Wonkity.

Mor-Farch was followed by the more fannish Egg.

Issue	Date	Pages	-Notes
1	April 1968	32
2	July 1968	58
-	July 1968	12	Krumhorn letter supplement
3	April 1969	46	Final issue
-	April 1969	18	Krumhorn letter supplement

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Publication

1968—1969

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