Avon Fantasy Reader #4, 7-10, 12-14, 17 edited by Donald A. Wollheim
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Overview: Avon Fantasy Reader was a digest size magazine (sometimes classed as a series of anthologies) which reprinted science fiction and fantasy literature by now well-known authors. It was edited by Donald A. Wollheim and published by Avon. The magazine had one spin off, Avon Science Fiction Reader, with which it merged on its cancellation to become Avon Science Fiction and Fantasy Reader.
Avon strived to bring readers little known stories by then little recognized writers such as H. P. Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury, C. L. Moore, A. Merritt, Murray Leinster and William Hope Hodgson. Avon Fantasy Reader was published from 1946 to 1952 and had 18 issues in full.
It was sold at many newsstands around the United States. The back cover of Avon Fantasy Reader carried this blurb:
"Past, Present, or Future or whatever sector of time and space you prefer, you’ll find the stories in these pages encompass the entire universe of imagination. From the eerie, spook-haunted corridors of ancient Asian castles to the water-choked avenues of Atlantean kingdoms… From the sinister sands of icy Martian deserts to the thunderbolt battles of future’s interplanetary rockets. Neither the invisible energy of atom nor the monstrous matter of the Milky Way present barriers to the mind that author these amazing fantasies. There are no boundaries to the astonishment, thrills and chills you’ll meet in the pages of… the Avon Fantasy Reader!"
Not the best conversions, but quite readable with a small effort from you. And ENJOYABLE very much!
Genre: Fiction » Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
Avon Fantasy Reader 04
This is a wonderful 1947 collection of fantasy tales. STORIES: The Arrhenius Horror (1931) by P. Schuyler Miller; The Hollow Man (1933) by Thomas Burke; Conquerors’ Isle (1946) by Nelson S. Bond; The Hoard of the Gibbelins (1911) by Lord Dunsany; The Derelict (1912) by William Hope Hodgson; The Man Upstairs (1947) by Ray Bradbury; The Planet of the Dead (1932) by Clark Ashton Smith; A Warning t the Curious (1925) by M. R. James; Defense (1947) by A. E. van Vogt.
Avon Fantasy Reader 07
Shambleau [Northwest Smith] · C. L. Moore
The Curse of a Thousand Kisses · Sax Rohmer
The Dreams of Albert Moreland · Fritz Leiber
The Slugly Beast [Joseph Jorkens] · Lord Dunsany
The Cairn on the Headland · Robert E. Howard
Aquella · Donald A. Wollheim
The Empire of the Necromancers [Zothique] · Clark Ashton Smith
When Old Gods Wake · A. Merritt
The Were-Snake · Frank Belknap Long
The Gun · Frank Gruber
Avon Fantasy Reader 08
Queen of the Black Coast [Conan] · Robert E. Howard
The Machine Man of Ardathia [Ardathia] · Francis Flagg
The Cat-Woman · Mary Elizabeth Counselman
The Man with a Thousand Legs · Frank Belknap Long, Jr.
Zero Hour · Ray Bradbury
The Other Wing · Algernon Blackwood
The Temple · H. P. Lovecraft
The Goblins Will Get You · John Michel
The Canal · Everil Worrell
An Inhabitant of Carcosa · Ambrose Bierce
Avon Fantasy Reader 09
THE FLOWER-WOMEN by Clark Ashton Smith
THE NIGHT WIRE by H. F. Arnold
THROUGH THE VIBRATIONS by P. Schuyler Miller
THE MAN WHO NEVER GREW YOUNG by Fritz Leiber, jr
THE MAN FROM THE MOON by Otis Adelbert Kline
THE UNSPEAKABLE BETROTHAL by Robert Bloch
THE STONE SHIP
CHILD’S PLAY by Alice-Mary Schnirring
THE MADNESS OF ANDELSPRUTZ by Lord Dunsany
THE PAINTED MIRROR by Donald Wandrei
Avon Fantasy Reader 10
Featuring: A Witch Shall Be Born by Robert E. Howard; Bimini by Bassett Morgan (aka Grace Jones Morgan); The Statement of Randolph Carter by H. P. Lovecraft; The Mentanicals by Francis Flagg (aka George Weiss); Vengeance in Her Bones by Malcolm Jameson; The Gostak and the Doshes by Miles J. Breuer, M.D.; Storm Warning by Millard Verne Gordon (aka Donald A. Wollheim); and Omega by Amelia Reynolds Long.
Avon Fantasy Reader 12
THE BLONDE GODDESS OF BAL-SAGOTH by Robert E. Howard
THE CHAIN OF AFORCOMON by Clark Ashton Smith
IN THE VALLEY OF THE SORCERESS from "Tales of Secret Egypt," by Sax Rohmer
THE KELPIE by Manly Wade Wellman
THE CAPTURED CROSS-SECTION by Miles Breuer
THE WONDERFUL WINDOW from THE BOOK OF WONDER by Lord Dunsany
TIGER DUST by Basset Morgan
AN EPISODE OF CATHEDRAE HISTORY by M. R. lames
THE DAY HAS COME by Walter Kubitius
Avon Fantasy Reader 13
THE LOVE-SLAVE AND THE SCIENTISTS by Frank BelknapLong
THE CAVE by Beatrice Grimshaw
THE FORGOTTEN PLANET by Sewell Peaslee Wright
THE CURIOUS CASE OF NORTON HOORNE by Ray Cummings
THE POWER AND THE GLORY by Charles W. Diffin
HE WALKED BY DAY by Julius Long
ORIGINAL SIN by S. Fowler Wright
THE THING THAT WALKED ON THE WIND by August Derleth
RAIDERS OF THE UNIVERSES by Donald Wandrei
THE HOUSE OF SHADOWS by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
THE SHIP OF SILENCE by Albert Richard Wetjen
THE STREET THAT WASN’T THERE
by Clifford Simak and Carl Jacobi
Avon Fantasy Reader 14
Temptress of the Tower of Torture and Sin · Robert E. Howard
Ylla [Mars] · Ray Bradbury
The Three Eyed Man [Tubby] · Ray Cummings
The Cave of the Invisible [Jan Kromhout] · James Francis Dwyer
Guard in the Dark · Allison V. Harding
The Still Small Voice · Clive G. B. Jackson
The Curse of Yig · Z. B. Bishop (with H. P. Lovecraft); written by Lovecraft based on a story idea and some notes by Bishop.
The Yeast Men · David H. Keller, M.D.
The Headless Miller of Kobold’s Keep · Irvin Ashkenazy
The Shadows · Henry S. Whitehead
Avon Fantasy Reader 17
THE SAPPHIRE SIREN by Nictzin Dyalhis
JACK-IN-THE-BOX by Ray Bradbury
THE NOTICEABLE CONDUCT OF PROFESSOR CHADD by G. K. Chesterton
THE PINK CATERPILLAR by Anthony Boucher
THE PHANTOM DICTATOR by Wallace West
THROUGH THE GATES OF THE SILVER KEY by H. P. Lovecraft and E. Hoffmann Price
THE BOOKSHOP by Nelson Bond
ONE-MAN GOD by Frank Owen
THE MYSTERY OF THE SARGASSO by William Hope Hodgson
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