The Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Weird Fiction Magazine Index

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Avon Fantasy Reader [#7 (1948)] ed. Donald A. Wollheim (Avon Publishing Co., 35¢, 126pp+, digest s/s) 3 · Shambleau [Northwest Smith] · C. L. Moore · nv Weird Tales November 1933 29 · The Curse of a Thousand Kisses · Sax Rohmer · ss The Premier Magazine November 1918 40 · The Dreams of Albert Moreland · Fritz Leiber · nv Acolyte Spring 1945 54 · The Slugly Beast [Joseph Jorkens] · Lord Dunsany · ss Jorkens Remembers Africa by Lord Dunsany, Longmans, Green, 1934 63 · The Cairn on the Headland · Robert E. Howard · nv Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror January 1933 80 · Aquella · Donald A. Wollheim · ss Super Science Stories November 1942, as “The Planet Called Aquella” by Martin Pearson 85 · The Empire of the Necromancers [Zothique] · Clark Ashton Smith · ss Weird Tales September 1932 94 · When Old Gods Wake · A. Merritt · uw 99 · The Were-Snake · Frank Belknap Long · ss Weird Tales September 1925 111 · The Gun · Frank Gruber · ss Weird Tales July 1942

Avon Fantasy Reader [#8 (1948)] ed. Donald A. Wollheim (Avon Publishing Co., 35¢, 126pp+, digest s/s) 3 · Queen of the Black Coast [Conan] · Robert E. Howard · nv Weird Tales May 1934 27 · The Machine Man of Ardathia [Ardathia] · Francis Flagg · ss Amazing Stories November 1927 40 · The Cat-Woman · Mary Elizabeth Counselman · ss Weird Tales October 1933 45 · The Man with a Thousand Legs · Frank Belknap Long, Jr. · nv Weird Tales August 1927 65 · Zero Hour · Ray Bradbury · ss Planet Stories Fall 1947 74 · The Other Wing · Algernon Blackwood · ss McBride’s Magazine November 1915 89 · The Temple · H. P. Lovecraft · ss Weird Tales September 1925 100 · The Goblins Will Get You · John Michel · ss Stirring Science Stories March 1942, as by Hugh Raymond 107 · The Canal · Everil Worrell · nv Weird Tales December 1927 123 · An Inhabitant of Carcosa · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Newsletter December 25 1886

Avon Fantasy Reader [#9 (1949)] ed. Donald A. Wollheim (Avon Publishing Co., 35¢, 128pp+, digest s/s) 3 · The Flower-Women [Maal Dweb] · Clark Ashton Smith · ss Weird Tales May 1935 12 · The Night Wire · H. F. Arnold · ss Weird Tales September 1926 18 · Through the Vibrations [Alexander Gregory] · P. Schuyler Miller · nv Amazing Stories May 1931 48 · The Man Who Never Grew Young · Fritz Leiber · ss Night’s Black Agents by Fritz Leiber, Jr., Arkham House, 1947 54 · The Man from the Moon · Otis Adelbert Kline · nv Amazing Stories October 1930 75 · The Unspeakable Betrothal · Robert Bloch · ss 87 · The Stone Ship · William Hope Hodgson · nv The Red Magazine July 1 1914, as “The Mystery of the Ship in the Night” 110 · Child’s Play · Alice-Mary Schnirring · ss Weird Tales March 1942 118 · The Madness of Andelsprutz · Lord Dunsany · vi Saturday Review (UK) May 30 1908 121 · The Painted Mirror · Donald Wandrei · ss Esquire May 1937

Avon Fantasy Reader [#10 (1949)] ed. Donald A. Wollheim (Avon Novels Inc., 35¢, 128pp+, digest s/s, cover by L. S.) 3 · A Witch Shall Be Born [Conan] · Robert E. Howard · na Weird Tales December 1934 36 · Bimini · Bassett Morgan · nv Weird Tales January 1929 53 · The Statement of Randolph Carter [Randolph Carter] · H. P. Lovecraft · ss The Vagrant May 1920 59 · The Mentanicals · Francis Flagg · nv Amazing Stories April 1934 81 · Vengeance in Her Bones · Malcolm Jameson · ss Weird Tales May 1942 92 · The Gostak and the Doshes · Miles J. Breuer, M.D. · ss Amazing Stories March 1930 107 · Storm Warning · Donald A. Wollheim · ss Future Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1942, as by Millard Verne Gordon 116 · Omega · Amelia Reynolds Long · ss Amazing Stories July 1932

Avon Fantasy Reader [#11 (1949)] ed. Donald A. Wollheim (Avon Novels Inc., 35¢, 128pp+, digest s/s) 3 · Glamour · Seabury Quinn · nv Weird Tales December 1939 22 · The Golden Hour of Kwoh Fan · Frank Owen · ss The Purple Sea by Frank Owen, Lantern, 1930 27 · Uncommon Castaway · Nelson S. Bond · ss Argosy June 1945 41 · Mogglesby · T. S. Stribling · nv Adventure June 1 1930 79 · Asleep in Armageddon · Ray Bradbury · ss Planet Stories Winter 1948 90 · The Inheritors · John Michel & Robert Lowndes · nv Future Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1942 111 · The Dancer in the Crystal · Francis Flagg · ss Weird Tales December 1929

Avon Fantasy Reader [#12 (1950)] ed. Donald A. Wollheim (Avon Novels Inc., 35¢, 128pp+, digest s/s, cover by M. Isip) 3 · The Blonde Goddess of Bal-Sagoth [Turlogh O’Brien] · Robert E. Howard · nv Weird Tales October 1931, as “The Gods of Bal-Sagoth” 34 · The Chain of Aforgomon · Clark Ashton Smith · nv Weird Tales December 1935 48 · In the Valley of the Sorceress · Sax Rohmer · ss The Premier Magazine January 1916 61 · The Kelpie · Manly Wade Wellman · ss Weird Tales July 1936 67 · The Captured Cross-Section · Miles J. Breuer, M.D. · ss Amazing Stories February 1929 80 · The Wonderful Window · Lord Dunsany · ss Saturday Review (UK) February 4 1911 84 · Tiger Dust · Bassett Morgan · nv Weird Tales April 1933 102 · An Episode of Cathedral History · M. R. James · ss The Cambridge Review June 10 1914 116 · The Day Has Come · Walter Kubilius · ss Stirring Science Stories March 1942

Avon Fantasy Reader [#13 (1950)] ed. Donald A. Wollheim (Avon Novels Inc., 35¢, 128pp+, digest s/s, cover by M. Isip) 3 · The Love-Slave and the Scientists · Frank Belknap Long · ss Weird Tales February 1935, as “The Body-Masters” 13 · The Cave · Beatrice Grimshaw · ss The Blue Book Magazine August 1932 25 · The Forgotten Planet [John Hanson] · Sewell Peaslee Wright · nv Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 43 · The Curious Case of Norton Hoorne · Ray Cummings · ss Argosy Allstory Weekly April 2 1921 57 · The Power and the Glory · Charles W. Diffin · ss Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 63 · He Walked by Day · Julius Long · ss Weird Tales June 1934 68 · Original Sin · S. Fowler Wright · ss The Witchfinder by S. Fowler Wright, Books for Today, 1946 74 · The Thing That Walked on the Wind [Cthulhu] · August Derleth · ss Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror January 1933 83 · Raiders of the Universes · Donald Wandrei · nv Astounding Stories September 1932 98 · The House of Shadows · Mary Elizabeth Counselman · ss Weird Tales April 1933 104 · The Ship of Silence · Albert Richard Wetjen · nv The Blue Book Magazine July 1932 116 · The Street That Wasn’t There · Clifford D. Simak & Carl Jacobi · ss Comet July 1941

Avon Fantasy Reader [#14 (1950)] ed. Donald A. Wollheim (Avon Novels Inc., 35¢, 128pp+, digest s/s, cover by R. Crowl) · Unendurable Ecstasy and Inconceivable Doom! · Donald A. Wollheim · ed 3 · Temptress of the Tower of Torture and Sin · Robert E. Howard · nv Oriental Stories October/November 1930, as “The Voice of El-Lil” 20 · Ylla [Mars] · Ray Bradbury · ss Maclean’s January 1 1950, as “I’ll Not Ask for Wine” 30 · The Three Eyed Man [Tubby] · Ray Cummings · ss Argosy Allstory Weekly July 7 1923 40 · The Cave of the Invisible [Jan Kromhout] · James Francis Dwyer · ss The Blue Book Magazine April 1939 51 · Guard in the Dark · Allison V. Harding · ss Weird Tales July 1944 63 · The Still Small Voice · Clive G. B. Jackson · vi Slant #2, Summer 1949 66 · The Curse of Yig · Zealia Brown Bishop (with H. P. Lovecraft) · ss Weird Tales November 1929, as by Zealia Brown Reed written by Lovecraft based on a story idea and some notes by Bishop. 79 · The Yeast Men · David H. Keller, M.D. · nv Amazing Stories April 1928 95 · The Headless Miller of Kobold’s Keep · Irvin Ashkenazy · ss Weird Tales January 1937, as by G. Garnet 110 · The Shadows · Henry S. Whitehead · nv Weird Tales November 1927

Avon Fantasy Reader [#15 (1951)] ed. Donald A. Wollheim (Avon Novels Inc., 35¢, 128pp+, digest s/s, cover by James Bama) Cover attributed to “J. Gama.” 3 · A Man, a Maid, and Saturn’s Temptation · Stanley G. Weinbaum · nv Astounding Stories January 1935, as “Flight on Titan” 21 · Mommy · Mary Elizabeth Counselman · ss Weird Tales April 1939 29 · The Great Gizmo · Gilbert Wright · ss The Blue Book Magazine January 1946 38 · Gray Ghouls · Bassett Morgan · nv Weird Tales July 1927 54 · Venus · Maurice Baring · ss Orpheus in Mayfair by Maurice Baring, Mills & Boon, 1909 62 · Ship-in-a-Bottle · P. Schuyler Miller · ss Weird Tales January 1945 71 · Up There · Donald A. Wollheim · ss Science Fiction Quarterly #7, Summer 1942, as by Martin Pearson 77 · The Einstein See-Saw · Miles J. Breuer, M.D. · nv Astounding Stories April 1932 94 · In Amundsen’s Tent · John Martin Leahy · nv Weird Tales January 1928 109 · Ubbo-Sathla [Hyperborea] · Clark Ashton Smith · ss Weird Tales July 1933 115 · Kazam Collects · C. M. Kornbluth · ss Stirring Science Stories June 1941, as by S. D. Gottesman

Avon Fantasy Reader [#16 (1951)] ed. Donald A. Wollheim (Avon Novels Inc., 35¢, 128pp+, digest s/s, cover by R. Crowl) 3 · The Black Kiss [Michael Leigh] · Robert Bloch & Henry Kuttner · ss Weird Tales June 1937; given as by Robert Bloch, Kuttner having asked that his name be removed from later publication. 18 · Mr. Strenberry’s Tale · J. B. Priestley · ss The London Magazine March 1930, as “Doomsday” 26 · The Man Who Lived Backward · Gelett Burgess · ss The Blue Book Magazine January 1946 41 · Something from Above · Donald Wandrei · nv Weird Tales December 1930 59 · The Wax Doll · Greye La Spina · ss The Thrill Book August 1 1919, as by Ezra Putnam 68 · The Forest of Lost Men · Beatrice Grimshaw · ss The Blue Book Magazine August 1934 76 · The Place of Pain · M. P. Shiel · ss The Red Magazine May 1 1914 85 · The River · L. Major Reynolds · ss 94 · The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall · John Kendrick Bangs · ss Harper’s Weekly June 27 1891 101 · The Hounds of Tindalos [Cthulhu] · Frank Belknap Long · ss Weird Tales March 1929 113 · The Picture · Francis Flagg · ss Weird Tales February/March 1931

Avon Fantasy Reader [#17 (1951)] ed. Donald A. Wollheim (Avon Novels Inc., 35¢, 128pp+, digest s/s, cover by Barton) 3 · The Sapphire Siren · Nictzin Dyalhis · nv Weird Tales February 1934, as “The Sapphire Goddess” 28 · Jack-in-the-Box · Ray Bradbury · ss Dark Carnival by Ray Bradbury, Arkham House, 1947 42 · The Noticeable Conduct of Professor Chadd [Rupert Grant; Basil Grant] · G. K. Chesterton · nv Harper’s Weekly June 25 1904 (+1) 56 · The Pink Caterpillar [Fergus O’Breen] · Anthony Boucher · ss Adventure February 1945 65 · The Phantom Dictator · Wallace West · ss Astounding Stories August 1935 76 · Through the Gates of the Silver Key [Randolph Carter] · H. P. Lovecraft & E. Hoffmann Price · nv Weird Tales July 1934 104 · The Bookshop · Nelson Bond · ss The Blue Book Magazine October 1941 111 · One-Man God · Frank Owen · ss 119 · The Mystery of the Sargasso [Sargasso Sea] · William Hope Hodgson · ss The Story-teller July 1907, as “The Mystery of the Derelict”

Avon Fantasy Reader [#18 (1952)] ed. Donald A. Wollheim (Avon Novels Inc., 35¢, 128pp+, digest s/s) 3 · The Witch from Hell’s Kitchen · Robert E. Howard · nv 21 · The Devil in Hollywood · Dale Clark · ss Argosy August 8 1936 35 · The Watcher in the Green Room · Hugh B. Cave · ss Weird Tales September 1933 47 · A Victim of Higher Space [John Silence] · Algernon Blackwood · nv The Occult Review December 1914 62 · Out of the Eons · Hazel Heald (with H. P. Lovecraft) · nv Weird Tales April 1935 82 · Just What Happened · Gelett Burgess · ss The Blue Book Magazine June 1944 94 · The Phantom Ship of Dirk Van Tromp [Hochdorf] · James Francis Dwyer · ss Breath of the Jungle by James Francis Dwyer, McClurg, 1915 107 · Amina · Edward Lucas White · ss The Bellman June 1 1907 116 · The Haunted “Jarvee” [Thomas Carnacki] · William Hope Hodgson · ss The Premier Magazine March 1929

Avon Science Fiction and Fantasy Reader   (about) Publishers: Avon Novels Inc.; New York: Avon Science Fiction and Fantasy Reader, Jan 1953. Stratford Novels Inc.; New York: Avon Science Fiction and Fantasy Reader, Apr 1953. Editors: Sol Cohen - Editor: Avon Science Fiction and Fantasy Reader. Features: The Space Ark · Noah Gordon · br;

Avon Science Fiction and Fantasy Reader [v1 #1, January 1953] (35¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by Leo Manso) 2 · For Humans Only · Alfred Coppel · ss; illustrated by Everett Raymond Kinstler 11 · Like Gods They Came · Irving Cox, Jr. · ss; illustrated by ? 17 · The Forgotten Enemy · Arthur C. Clarke · ss King’s College Review December 1948; illustrated by John Giunta 24 · The Agents · Bryce Walton · ss; illustrated by John Giunta 41 · Mr. Kowtshook · John Christopher · ss; illustrated by Everett Raymond Kinstler 52 · The Shed · E. Everett Evans · ss; illustrated by Gerald McCann 66 · Come Blow Your Horn! · Milton Lesser · ss; illustrated by Mort Lawrence 80 · The Call of the Black Lagoon · Charles L. Harness · ss; illustrated by Gerald McCann 96 · Agratha · Glen Malin · ss; illustrated by Vincent Napoli 104 · Checkmate Morning · John Jakes · ss; illustrated by John Giunta 112 · One-Man God · Frank Owen · ss Avon Fantasy Reader 17 ed. Donald A. Wollheim, Avon Novels Inc., 1951; illustrated by Everett Raymond Kinstler 122 · The Short Count · Theodore R. Cogswell · ss; illustrated by Everett Raymond Kinstler

Avon Science Fiction and Fantasy Reader [v1 #2, April 1953] (35¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by Leo Manso) 2 · DP! · Jack Vance · ss; illustrated by Everett Raymond Kinstler 22 · The Rather Improbable History of Hillary Kiffer · William Vine · ss Magpie October 1951, as by Samuel Youd; illustrated by Mort Lawrence 28 · Survivor · Irving E. Cox, Jr. · ss; illustrated by John Giunta 40 · Breaking Point [Max Larkin] · John Christopher · ss New Worlds #15, May 1952; illustrated by John Giunta 56 · As Holy and Enchanted · Henderson Starke · ss; illustrated by Norman Nodel 69 · Hunt the Red Roe · Alan Payne · ss; illustrated by Gerald McCann 80 · Crack of Doom · Milton Lesser · ss; illustrated by Everett Raymond Kinstler 94 · The Agent · Stephen Marlowe · ss; illustrated by Mort Lawrence 104 · Forever Is So Long · John Jakes · ss; illustrated by Everett Raymond Kinstler 115 · A Night on Mars Hill · Dr. R. S. Richardson · ar 118 · The Parasite · Arthur C. Clarke · ss; illustrated by John Giunta

Avon Science Fiction Reader   (about) A series of digest-sized anthologies. Don Day indexed them as magazines and SF fans have traditionally considered them as such. Publishers: Avon Novels Inc.; New York: Avon Science Fiction Reader. Editors: Donald A. Wollheim - Editor: Avon Science Fiction Reader.

Avon Science Fiction Reader [#1, 1951] (35¢, 128pp+, digest s/s, cover by R. Crowl) 3 · The War of the Sexes · Edmond Hamilton · nv Weird Tales November 1933 25 · Green Glory · Frank Belknap Long · ss Astounding Stories January 1935 34 · The Immeasurable Horror · Clark Ashton Smith · ss Weird Tales September 1931 45 · The Morrison Monument · Murray Leinster · nv Argosy August 10 1935 65 · The Incubator Man · Wallace West · ss Weird Tales October 1928 71 · The Dark Side of Antri [John Hanson] · Sewell Peaslee Wright · nv Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 88 · Blind Flight · Donald A. Wollheim · ss Stirring Science Stories March 1942, as by Millard Verne Gordon 95 · Rhythm of the Spheres · A. Merritt · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories October 1936 revised from “Cosmos - Chapter 11: The Last Poet and the Robots”, Fantasy Magazine Apr ’34. 105 · Madness of the Dust · R. F. Starzl · ss Amazing Stories May 1930 116 · The Cosmic Express · Jack Williamson · ss Amazing Stories November 1930

Avon Science Fiction Reader [#2, 1951] (35¢, 128pp+, digest s/s) 3 · Priestess of the Flame [John Hanson] · Sewell Peaslee Wright · nv Astounding Stories June 1932 26 · The Whisperers · Donald Wandrei · ss Astounding Stories May 1935 39 · When Half-Worlds Meet · John Michel · ss Cosmic Stories July 1941, as by Hugh Raymond 53 · The Superperfect Bride · Bob Olsen · nv Amazing Stories July 1929 70 · Vulthoom [Mars] · Clark Ashton Smith · nv Weird Tales September 1935 89 · The Man Who Discovered Nothing [Tubby] · Ray Cummings · ss All-Story Weekly January 10 1920 95 · Highway · Robert W. Lowndes · ss Science Fiction Quarterly #8, Fall 1942, as by Wilfred Owen Morley 105 · When the Flame-Flowers Blossomed · Leslie F. Stone · ss Weird Tales November 1935 115 · The Book of Worlds · Miles J. Breuer · ss Amazing Stories July 1929 124 · The Rebuff [Joseph Jorkens] · Lord Dunsany · vi The (London) Evening News March 10 1945