Avon Fantasy Reader

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Avon Fantasy Reader was a magazine (sometimes classed as a series of anthologies) which re-published science fiction and fantasy literature. It was published by Avon Novels, Inc. (aka Avon Book Co. and Avon Publishing Co.), New York and edited by Donald A. Wollheim.

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Issues

"Rhythm of the Spheres" by A. Merritt (© Copyright Renewed as part of Thrilling Wonder Stories, October 1936; Popular Library, Inc.; 11Sep63; R321807.)
"The Silent Trees" by Frank Owen
"The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper" by H. G. Wells (© Copyright Renewed as part of Ladies Home Journal, February or April 1932; Curtis Pub. Co.; 11Dec59; R247672 or R247674.)
"The Silver Key" (Randolph Carter series) by H. P. Lovecraft
"Black Thirst" (Northwest Smith series) by C. L. Moore (© Copyright Renewed: Catherine L. Moore Kuttner (A); 19May61; R276546.)
"Mimic" by Donald A. Wollheim (as Martin Pearson) (© Copyright Renewed as part of Astonishing Stories, December 1942; Popular Publications, Inc,; 10Nov69; R472055.)
"Bishop's Gambit" by August Derleth (as Stephen Grendon) (© Copyright Renewed: April Derleth & Balden Derleth(C); 20Jun75; R607403.)
"Evening Primrose" by John Collier (© Copyright Renewed as part of Presenting Moonshine; John Collier (A); 8Mar68; R431233.)
"Homecoming" by Ray Bradbury (© Copyright Renewed: Ray Bradbury (A); 24Jun74; R579952.)

Issue #4 – September 1947

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"The Arrhenius Horror" by P. Schuyler Miller
"The Hollow Man" by Thomas Burke (© Copyright Restored due to URAA as part of The Evening Standard Book of Strange Stories, 1933; PD in the UK)
"Conquerors' Isle" by Nelson Bond (See Discussion about the copyright status)
"The Hoard of the Gibbelins" by Lord Dunsany
"The Derelict" by William Hope Hodgson
"The Man Upstairs" by Ray Bradbury (© Copyright Renewed as part of Harper's Magazine, March 1947; Minneapolis Star and Tribune Company, Inc; 9Sep74; R585I75.)
"The Planet of the Dead" by Clark Ashton Smith (© Copyright Renewed as part of Weird Tales, March 1932; Steinberg Press, Inc.; R250136.)
"A Warning to the Curious" by M. R. James
"Defense" by A. E. van Vogt (© Copyright Renewed: A. E. Van Vogt (A); 18Aug75; R611735.)

Issue #5 – March 1948

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"Scarlet Dream" (Northwest Smith series) by C. L. Moore (© Copyright Renewed: C. L. Moore; 27Jul61; R279616.)
"Sambo" by William Fryer Harvey
"Fane of the Black Pharaoh" by Robert Bloch (© Copyright Renewed: Robert Bloch; 7Jul65; R364297.)
"The Random Quantity" by Carl Jacobi (© Copyright Renewed: Carl Jacobi; 16Jul75; R609279.)
"The Gold Dress" by Stephen Vincent Benét (© Copyright Renewed as part of Cosmopolitan, July 1942; Hearst Corp. (PCW); 30Jun69; R464835.)
"The Miracle of the Lily" by Clare Winger Harris
"In the Court of the Dragon" by Robert W. Chambers
"A Study in Amber" by Frank Owen
"The Words of Guru" by C. M. Kornbluth

Issue #6 – May 1948

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"The Crawling Horror" by Thorp McClusky
"Beyond the Wall of Sleep" by H. P. Lovecraft
"The Metal Man" by Jack Williamson
"The Thing in the Cellar" by David H. Keller, M.D.
"The Drone" by A. Merritt
"From the Dark Waters" by Joseph E. Kelleam
"The Star-Stealers" by Edmond Hamilton
"The Philosophy of Relative Existences" by Frank R. Stockton
"The Trap" (Gerald Canevin series) by Henry S. Whitehead

Issue #7 – September 1948

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"Shambleau" (Northwest Smith series) by C. L. Moore
"The Curse of a Thousand Kisses" by Sax Rohmer
"The Dreams of Albert Moreland" by Fritz Leiber
"The Slugly Beast" (Joseph Jorkens series) by Lord Dunsany
"The Cairn on the Headland" by Robert E. Howard
"Aquella" (aka "The Planet Called Aquella") by Martin Pearson
"The Empire of the Necromancers" (Zothique series) by Clark Ashton Smith
"When Old Gods Wake" by A. Merritt
"The Were-Snake" by Frank Belknap Long
"The Gun" by Frank Gruber

Issue #8 – December 1948

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"Queen of the Black Coast" (Conan series) by Robert E. Howard
"The Machine Man of Ardathia" (Ardathia series) by Francis Flagg
"The Cat-Woman" by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
"The Man with a Thousand Legs" by Frank Belknap Long, Jr.
"Zero Hour" by Ray Bradbury
"The Other Wing" by Algernon Blackwood
"The Temple" by H. P. Lovecraft
"The Goblins Will Get You" by John Michel (as by Hugh Raymond)
"The Canal" by Everil Worrell
"An Inhabitant of Carcosa" by Ambrose Bierce

Issue #9 – February 1949

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"The Flower-Women" (Maal Dweb series) by Clark Ashton Smith
"The Night Wire" by H. F. Arnold
"Through the Vibrations" (Alexander Gregory series) by P. Schuyler Miller
"The Man Who Never Grew Young" by Fritz Leiber (© Copyright Renewed as part of Night's Black Agents, 1947: Fritz Leiber, Jr; 20Jun75; R607402.)
"The Man from the Moon" by Otis Adelbert Kline
"The Unspeakable Betrothal" by Robert Bloch (© Copyright Renewed: Robert Bloch; 16Apr76; R630957.)
"The Stone Ship" by William Hope Hodgson
"Child's Play" by Alice-Mary Schnirring
"The Madness of Andelsprutz" by Lord Dunsany
"The Painted Mirror" by Donald Wandrei (© Copyright Renewed as part of Esquire, May 1937: Esquire, Inc.; 7Mar63; R311983.)

Issue #10 – July 1949

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"A Witch Shall Be Born" (Conan series) by Robert E. Howard
"Bimini" by Bassett Morgan
"The Statement of Randolph Carter" (Randolph Carter series) by H. P. Lovecraft
"The Mentanicals" by Francis Flagg
"Vengeance in Her Bones" by Malcolm Jameson
"The Gostak and the Doshes" by Miles J. Breuer, M.D
"Storm Warning" by Donald A. Wollheim (as Millard Verne Gordon)
"Omega" by Amelia Reynolds Long

Issue #11 – October 1949

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"Glamour" by Seabury Quinn
"The Golden Hour of Kwoh Fan" by Frank Owen
"Uncommon Castaway" by Nelson S. Bond
"Mogglesby" by T. S. Stribling (© Copyright Renewed as part of Adventure, June 1, 1930; Popular Publications, Inc.; 8Nov57; R202653.)
"Asleep in Armageddon" by Ray Bradbury
"The Inheritors" by John Michel & Robert Lowndes
"The Dancer in the Crystal" by Francis Flagg

Issue #12 – January 1950

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"The Blonde Goddess of Bal-Sagoth" (aka "The Gods of Bal-Sagoth") by Robert E. Howard
"The Chain of Aforgomon" by Clark Ashton Smithh
"In the Valley of the Sorceress" by Sax Rohmer
"The Kelpie" by Manly Wade Wellman
"The Captured Cross-Section" by Miles J. Breuer, M.D
"The Wonderful Window" by Lord Dunsany
"Tiger Dust" by Bassett Morgan
"An Episode of Cathedral History" by M. R. James
"The Day Has Come" by Walter Kubilius

Issue #13 – April 1950

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"The Love-Slave and the Scientists" (aka "The Body-Masters") by Frank Belknap Long
"The Cave" by Beatrice Grimshaw
"The Forgotten Planet" (John Hanson series) 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
"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 D. Simak & Carl Jacobi

Issue #14 – July 1950

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"Temptress of the Tower of Torture and Sin" (aka "The Voice of El-Lil") by Robert E. Howard
"Ylla" (aka "I'll Not Look for Wine") by Ray Bradbury
"The Three Eyed Man" (Tubby series)] by Ray Cummings
"The Cave of the Invisible" by James Francis Dwyer
"Guard in the Dark" by Allison V. Harding
"The Still Small Voice" by Clive Jackson
"The Curse of Yig" by Z. B. Bishop
"The Yeast Men" by David H. Keller, M.D.
"The Headless Miller of Kobold's Keep" by Irvin Ashkenazy
"The Shadows" by Henry S. Whitehead

Issue #15 – February 1951

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"A Man, a Maid, and Saturn's Temptation" (aka "Flight on Titan") by Stanley G. Weinbaum (© Copyright Renewed: details pending)
"Mommy" by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
"Gray Ghouls" by Bassett Morgan
"Venus" by Maurice Baring
"Ship-in-a-Bottle" by P. Schuyler Miller
"Up There" by Donald A. Wollheim (as by Martin Pearson)
"The Einstein See-Saw" by Miles J. Breuer, M.D
"In Amundsen's Tent" by John Martin Leahy
"Ubbo-Sathla" by Clark Ashton Smith (© Copyright Renewed as part of Weird Tales, July 1933; Weird Tales; 1961-1-25; R269995.)
"Kazam Collects" by Cyril M. Kornbluth (as by S. D. Gottesman)

Issue #16 – April 1951

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"The Black Kiss" (Michael Leigh series) by Robert Bloch
"Something From Above" by Donald Wandrei (© Copyright Renewed as part of Weird Tales, December 1930; Weird Tales; 1958-2-4; R208386.)
"The Wax Doll" by Greye La Spina (as Ezra Putnam)
"The Forest of Lost Men" by Beatrice Grimshaw
"The Place of Pain" by M. P. Shiel
"The River" by L. Major Reynolds
"The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall" by John Kendrick Bangs
"The Hounds of Tindalos" by Frank Belknap Long
"The Picture" by Francis Flagg (© Copyright Renewed as part of Weird Tales, February-March 1931; Weird Tales; 1958-2-4; R208388.)

Issue #17 – June 1951

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"The Sapphire Siren" (aka "The Sapphire Goddess") by Nictzin Dyalhis
"The Noticeable Conduct of Professor Chadd" (Rupert Grant and Basil Grant series) by G. K. Chesterton
"The Pink Caterpillar" (Fergus O'Breen series) by Anthony Boucher (© Copyright Renewed as part of Adventure, February 1945; 8Jan73; RS43l67.)
"The Phantom Dictator" by Wallace West (© Copyright Renewed as part of Astounding Stories, August 1935; 3Aug62; R299476.)
"Through the Gates of the Silver Key" (Randolph Carter series) by H. P. Lovecraft & E. Hoffmann Price
"The Bookshop" by Nelson Bond (© Copyright Renewed as part of The Blue Book Magazine, October 1941; 12Mar69; R457437.)
"One-Man God" by Frank Owen
"The Mystery of the Sargasso" (aka "The Mystery of the Derelict") by William Hope Hodgson

Issue #18 – January 1952

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"The Witch from Hell's Kitchen" by Robert E. Howard (© Copyright Renewed: P. M. Kuykendall (PPW), 1979-09-20; RE0000034522.)
"The Watcher in the Green Room" by Hugh B. Cave (© Copyright Renewed as part of Weird Tales, September 1933; Weird Tales; 1961-1-25; R269997.)
"A Victim of Higher Space" (John Silence series) by Algernon Blackwood
"Out of the Eons" by Hazel Heald (ghost written by H. P. Lovecraft)
"Just What Happened" by Gelett Burgess (© Copyright Renewed as part of The Blue Book Magazine, June 1944; 8Sep71; R512068.)
"The Phantom Ship of Dirk Van Tromp" by James Francis Dwyer
"Amina" by Edward Lucas White
"The Haunted Jarvee" (Carnacki series) by William Hope Hodgson (© Copyright Restored due to URAA, first published in the UK, The Premier Magazine, March 1929.)

External links

Internet Speculative Fiction Database - Avon Fantasy Reader
Collecting Science Fiction Books] - Avon Reader Series
Galactic Central - Avon Fantasy Reader checklist and datafile