THE TRUTH ABOUT WALLPAPER, by Robert BlochAuthor’s Note Several years ago an English fan, who shall be nameless and blameless, asked me to contribute to a special one-shot fanzine. Its proceeds were to be donated to FAFF, and would I be kind enough to write on the topic, THE TRUTH ABOUT WALLPAPER? In as much as this seemed to be a worthy cause, I sat down and did my best to oblige, but the topic struck me as rather esoteric. If only I’d been asked to write THE FALSE ABOUT WALLPAPER, I wouldn’t have had any trouble — I can write an expose about wallpaper in ten minutes flat, or five sitting up. Scurrying off to the torture-chamber, I racked my brains. Three days later and twenty pounds lighter, I emerged with the following article and hastily dispatched it to England. That was years ago a

