The founding editors were Anthony Boucher and J Francis McComas with Boucher continuing alone from September 1954 until August 1958. Until February 1958 published by Fantasy House, Inc, a subsidiary of Mercury Publications, then by Mercury Press until January 2001, then by Gordon Van Gelder's Spilogale, Inc Lawrence E Spivak (1900-1994) was Publisher from Fall 1949 to July 1954, Joseph W Ferman August 1954 to October 1970, Edward L Ferman from November 1970 to January 2001, and Gordon Van Gelder from February 2001 to the present. The first issue was titled simply The Magazine of Fantasy. The title is based on verses from the Book of Job in the King James Version of the Bible, chapter 41 verses 14 and 19, which are part of the description of the Leviathan: "Who can open the doors of his face?" and "Out of his mouth go burning lamps".US Digest-size magazine published Fall 1949 to the present. The story has been seen as engaging in New Wave stylistics via its onomastics, metaphors and similes.
In the introduction to the novelette in Nebula Award Stories 1965, editor Damon Knight noted that not only did the story receive more votes than the other nominees in its category, but that it received more votes than all of the others combined.
Gardner Dozois opined that "Doors of His Face" was inspired by "a loving nostalgia for the era of the pulp adventure story that was then widely supposed to be ending". Writing in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, John Clute found that Zelazny's story "intoxicatingly dashes together myth and literary assonances-in this case Herman Melville's Moby-Dick-and sex". The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
▼ The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth Quick facts: The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth.
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