The Avon Fantasy Reader

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Published: 1969

Pages: 173

Rating: 4.16

Language: en

eBook status: Skipped AudioBook status: Skipped

Publisher: Avon Books

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Description

Collection of seven stories culled by Ernsberger from Wollheim's speculative fiction magazine, The Avon Fantasy Reader (1947-51), which reprinted what Wollheim considered the best stories from the older pulp magazines.

Foreword - George Ernsberger
"The Witch from Hell’s Kitchen", Robert E. Howard, Avon Fantasy Reader 18, ed. Wollheim, Avon, '52
"Black Thirst" (Northwest Smith), C.L. Moore, Weird Tales 4/34
"A Victim of Higher Space" (John Silence), Algernon Blackwood, The Occult Review 12/14
"The Sapphire Siren" (aka "The Sapphire Goddess"), Nictzin Dyalhis, Weird Tales 2/34
"The Voice in the Night", William Hope Hodgson, Blue Book 11/07
"The Crawling Horror", Thorp McClusky, Weird Tales 11/36
"The Kelpie", Manly Wade Wellman, Weird Tales 7/36