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Avon Fantasy Reader
Series Editor; Donald A. Wollheim
Avon Science Fiction Reader
Series Editor; Donald A. Wollheim
Avon Science Fiction and Fantasy Reader
Series Editor;
Sol Cohen
Note: Cover illustrations will be added shortly.
Avon Fantasy Reader
A digest sized publication consisting mostly of reprints with some original works. Although formated much like a traditional book anthology it, and the two companion series included here, are considered by most to be pulp magazines due to the binding technique used.. Each issue consists of a single signature with wrappers stapled together. The series is often collected as much for the wonderful pulp cover illustrations as for the contents.
1947
Issue #1 – February ($0.35, 132pp, Pub: Avon Book Co.;New York, cvr artist: unknown)
Contents:
The Power Planet by Murray Leinster (novella)
The Shuttered House by August Derleth (short story)
Justice by The Gibsons (short fiction)
The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgson
The Woman of the Wood by A. Merritt (novella)
The Truth About Pyecraft by H. G. Wells (short story)
The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis by Clark Ashton Smith
The Central Figure by H. Russell Wakefield (short story)
The Three Infernal Jokes by Lord Dunsany (short story)
Climax for a Ghost Story by I. A. Ireland (short fiction)
Issue #2 – April ($0.35, 132pp, Pub: Avon Book Co.;New York, cvr artist: unknown)
Contents:
Stenographer's Hands by David H. Keller, M.D.
The Strange Case of Lemuel Jenkins by Philip Fisher
The Day of the Dragon by Guy Endore (novella)
The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune [*Kull] by Robert E. Howard (short story)
The Yellow Sign by Robert W. Chambers (novella)
Automata by S. Fowler Wright (short story)
The City of the Living Dead by Laurence Manning & Fletcher Pratt (novella)
Issue #3 – June ($0.35, 132pp, Pub: Avon Book Co.;New York, cvr artist: unknown)
Contents:
Rhythm of the Spheres by A. Merritt (short story)
The Silent Trees by Frank Owen (short story)
The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper by H. G. Wells (short story)
The Silver Key [*Randolph Carter] by H. P. Lovecraft (short story)
Black Thirst [*Northwest Smith] by C. L. Moore
Mimic [as by Martin Pearson] by Donald A. Wollheim (short story)
Bishop's Gambit by Stephen Grendon (short story)
Evening Primrose by John Collier (short story)
Homecoming by Ray Bradbury (short story)
Issue #4 – September ($0.35, 132pp, Pub: Avon Book Co.;New York, cvr artist: unknown)
Contents:
The Arrhenius Horror by P. Schuyler Miller (novella)
The Hollow Man by Thomas Burke (short story)
Conquerors' Isle by Nelson Bond (short story)
The Hoard of the Gibbelins by Lord Dunsany (short story)
The Derelict by William Hope Hodgson (novella)
The Man Upstairs by Ray Bradbury (short story)
The Planet of the Dead by Clark Ashton Smith (short story)
A Warning to the Curious by M. R. James (short story)
Defense by A. E. van Vogt (short fiction)
1948
Issue #5 – March ($0.35, 132pp, Pub: Avon Book Co.;New York, cvr artist: unknown)
Contents:
Scarlet Dream [*Northwest Smith] by C. L. Moore (short fiction)
Sambo by William Fryer Harvey (short story)
Fane of the Black Pharaoh by Robert Bloch (short story)
The Random Quantity by Carl Jacobi (short story)
The Gold Dress by Stephen Vincent Benét (short story)
The Miracle of the Lily by Clare Winger Harris
In the Court of the Dragon by Robert W. Chambers
A Study in Amber [as by Richard Kent] by Frank Owen (novella)
The Words of Guru [as by Kenneth Falconer] by C. M. Kornbluth
Issue #6 – May ($0.35, 124pp, Pub: Avon Book Co.;New York, cvr artist: unknown)
Contents:
The Crawling Horror by Thorp McClusky (novella)
Beyond the Wall of Sleep by H. P. Lovecraft (short story)
The Metal Man by Jack Williamson (short story)
The Thing in the Cellar by David H. Keller, M.D. (short story)
The Drone by A. Merritt (short story)
From the Dark Waters by Joseph E. Kelleam (short story)
The Star-Stealers by Edmond Hamilton (novella)
"The Philosophy of Relative Existences" by Frank R. Stockton (short story)
The Trap [*Gerald Canevin] by Henry S. Whitehead
Issue #7 – September ($0.35, 126pp, Pub: Avon Publishing Co.;New York, cvr artist: unknown)
Contents:
Shambleau [*Northwest Smith] by C. L. Moore (novelette)
The Curse of a Thousand Kisses by Sax Rohmer (short story)
The Dreams of Albert Moreland by Fritz Leiber (novelette)
The Slugly Beast [*Joseph Jorkens] by Lord Dunsany (short story)
The Cairn on the Headland by Robert E. Howard (short story)
Aquella ["The Planet Called Aquella" as by Martin Pearson] by Donald A. Wollheim (short story)
The Empire of the Necromancers [*Zothique] by Clark Ashton Smith (short story)
When Old Gods Wake by A. Merritt (short fiction)
The Were-Snake by Frank Belknap Long (short story)
The Gun by Frank Gruber (short story)
Issue #8 – December ($0.35, 126pp, Pub: Avon Publishing Co.;New York, cvr artist: unknown)
Contents:
Queen of the Black Coast [*Conan] by Robert E. Howard (novella)
The Machine Man of Ardathia [*Ardathia] by Francis Flagg (short story)
The Cat-Woman by Mary Elizabeth Counselman (short fiction)
The Man with a Thousand Legs by Frank Belknap Long, Jr. (novella)
Zero Hour by Ray Bradbury (short story)
The Other Wing by Algernon Blackwood (short story)
The Temple by H. P. Lovecraft (short story)
The Goblins Will Get You [as by Hugh Raymond] by John Michel (short story)
The Canal by Everil Worrell (short story)
An Inhabitant of Carcosa by Ambrose Bierce (short fiction)
1949
Issue #9 – February ($0.35, 128pp, Pub: Avon Publishing Co.;New York, cvr artist: unknown)
Contents:
The Flower-Women [*Maal Dweb] by Clark Ashton Smith (short story)
The Night Wire by H. F. Arnold (short story)
Through the Vibrations [*Alexander Gregory] by P. Schuyler Miller (novella)
The Man Who Never Grew Young by Fritz Leiber (short story)
The Man from the Moon by Otis Adelbert Kline (novella)
The Unspeakable Betrothal by Robert Bloch (short story)
The Stone Ship by William Hope Hodgson (novella)
Child's Play by Alice-Mary Schnirring (short story)
The Madness of Andelsprutz by Lord Dunsany (short fiction)
The Painted Mirror by Donald Wandrei
Issue #10 – July ($0.35, 128pp, Pub: Avon Novels Inc.;New York, cvr artist: unknown)
Contents:
A Witch Shall Be Born [*Conan] by Robert E. Howard (novella)
Bimini by Bassett Morgan (novella)
The Statement of Randolph Carter [*Randolph Carter] by H. P. Lovecraft (short story)
The Mentanicals by Francis Flagg (novella)
Vengeance in Her Bones by Malcolm Jameson (short story)
The Gostak and the Doshes by Miles J. Breuer, M.D
Storm Warning [as by Millard Verne Gordon] by Donald A. Wollheim (short story)
Omega by Amelia Reynolds Long (short story)
Issue #11 – October ($0.35, 128pp, Pub: Avon Novels Inc.;New York, cvr artist: unknown)
Contents:
Glamour by Seabury Quinn (novella)
The Golden Hour of Kwoh Fan by Frank Owen (short story)
Uncommon Castaway by Nelson S. Bond (short story)
Mogglesby by T. S. Stribling (novella)
Asleep in Armageddon by Ray Bradbury (short story)
The Inheritors by John Michel & Robert Lowndes (novelette)
The Dancer in the Crystal by Francis Flagg (short story)
1950
Issue #12 – January ($0.35, 128pp, Pub: Avon Novels Inc.;New York, cvr artist: unknown)
Contents:
The Blonde Goddess of Bal-Sagoth by Robert E. Howard (novella)
The Chain of Aforgomon by Clark Ashton Smith (novelette)
In the Valley of the Sorceress by Sax Rohmer (short fiction)
The Kelpie by Manly Wade Wellman (short story)
The Captured Cross-Section by Miles J. Breuer, M.D. (short story)
The Wonderful Window by Lord Dunsany (short story)
Tiger Dust by Bassett Morgan (novella)
An Episode of Cathedral History by M. R. James (short story)
The Day Has Come by Walter Kubilius
Issue #13 – April ($0.35, 128pp, Pub: Avon Novels Inc.;New York, cvr artist: M. Isip)
Contents:
The Love-Slave and the Scientists ["The Body-Masters"] by Frank Belknap Long (short story)
The Cave by Beatrice Grimshaw (short story)
The Forgotten Planet [*John Hanson] by Sewell Peaslee Wright (novella)
The Curious Case of Norton Hoorne by Ray Cummings (short story)
The Power and the Glory by Charles W. Diffin
He Walked by Day by Julius Long (short story)
Original Sin by S. Fowler Wright (short story)
The Thing that Walked on the Wind by August Derleth (short story)
Raiders of the Universes by Donald Wandrei (novella)
The House of Shadows by Mary Elizabeth Counselman (short story)
The Ship of Silence by Albert Richard Wetjen (short story)
The Street That Wasn't There by Clifford D. Simak & Carl Jacob
Issue #14 – July ($0.35, 128pp, Pub: Avon Novels Inc.;New York, cvr artist: R. Crowl)
Contents:
Temptress of the Tower of Torture and Sin ["The Voice of El-Lil"] by Robert E. Howard (short fiction)
Ylla ["I'll Not Look for Wine"] by Ray Bradbury (short story)
The Three Eyed Man [*Tubby] by Ray Cummings (short fiction)
The Cave of the Invisible by James Francis Dwyer (short fiction)
Guard in the Dark by Allison V. Harding (short story)
The Still Small Voice by Clive Jackson (short fiction)
The Curse of Yig by Z. B. Bishop (short story)
The Yeast Men by David H. Keller, M.D. (novella)
The Headless Miller of Kobold's Keep by Irvin Ashkenazy (short story)
The Shadows by Henry S. Whitehead(short fiction)
1951
Issue #15 – February ($0.35, 128pp, Pub: Avon Novels Inc.;New York, cvr artist: J. Gama)
Contents:
A Man, a Maid, and Saturn's Temptation ["Flight on Titan"] by Stanley G. Weinbaum (novella)
Mommy by Mary Elizabeth Counselman (short story)
The Great Gizmo by Gilbert Wright (short story)
Gray Ghouls by Bassett Morgan (novella)
Venus by Maurice Baring (short story)
Ship-in-a-Bottle by P. Schuyler Miller (short story)
Up There [as by Martin Pearson] by Donald A. Wollheim (short story)
The Einstein See-Saw by Miles J. Breuer, M.D. (novella)
In Amundsen's Tent by John Martin Leahy (short story)
Ubbo-Sathla by Clark Ashton Smith (short story)
Kazam Collects [as by S. D. Gottesman] by C. M. Kornbluth (short story)
Issue #16 – April ($0.35, 128pp, Pub: Avon Novels Inc.;New York, cvr artist: R. Crowl)
Contents:
The Black Kiss [*Michael Leigh] by Robert Bloch (short story)
Mr. Strenberry's Tale ["Doomsday"] by J. B. Priestley (short story)
The Man Who Lived Backward by Gelett Burgess
Something From Above by Donald Wandrei by
The Wax Doll [as by Ezra Putnam] by Greye La Spina (short story)
The Forest of Lost Men by Beatrice Grimshaw (short story)
The Place of Pain by M. P. Shiel (short story)
The River by L. Major Reynolds (short story)
The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall by John Kendrick Bangs (short story)
The Hounds of Tindalos by Frank Belknap Long (short story)
The Picture by Francis Flagg
Issue #17 – June ($0.35, 128pp, Pub: Avon Novels Inc.;New York, cvr artist: Barton)
Contents:
The Sapphire Siren ["The Sapphire Goddess"] by Nictzin Dyalhis (novella)
Jack-in-the-Box by Ray Bradbury (short story)
The Noticeable Conduct of Professor Chadd [*Rupert Grant; *Basil Grant] by G. K. Chesterton
The Pink Caterpillar [*Fergus O'Breen] by Anthony Boucher (short story)
The Phantom Dictator by Wallace West (short story)
Through the Gates of the Silver Key [*Randolph Carter] by H. P. Lovecraft & E. Hoffmann Price (novella)
The Bookshop by Nelson Bond (short story)
One-Man God by Frank Owen (short story)
The Mystery of the Sargasso ["The Mystery of the Derelict"] by William Hope Hodgson
1952
Issue #18 – January ($0.35, 128pp, Pub: Avon Novels Inc.;New York, cvr artist: unknown)
Contents:
The Witch from Hell's Kitchen by Robert E. Howard
The Devil in Hollywood by Dale Clark (short story)
The Watcher in the Green Room by Hugh B. Cave
A Victim of Higher Space [*John Silence] by Algernon Blackwood (short story)
Out of the Eons [ghost written by H. P. Lovecraft] by Hazel Heald (novella)
Just What Happened by Gelett Burgess (short story)
The Phantom Ship of Dirk Van Tromp by James Francis Dwyer (short story)
Amina by Edward Lucas White (short story)
The Haunted "Jarvee" [*Carnacki] by William Hope Hodgson
Avon Science Fiction Reader
In 1951 Wollheim launched a companion series focusing on Science Fiction works, again mostly reprints. Three anthologies were published before Wollheim left Avon and moved to Ace Books. Both the Fantasy Reader and the Science Fiction Reader were discontuinued after he left. Avon attempted to combine the two into the short lived Avon Science Fiction and Fantasy Reader a year later (see below).
1951
Issue #1 – April ($0.35, 124pp, Pub: Avon Novels Inc.;New York, cvr artist: R. Crowl)
Contents:
The War of the Sexes by Edmond Hamilton (novella)
Green Glory by Frank Belknap Long (short story)
The Immeasurable Horror by Clark Ashton Smith
The Morrison Monument by Murray Leinster by
The Incubator Man by Wallace West (short story)
The Dark Side of Antri [*John Hanson] by Sewell Peaslee Wright (novella)
Blind Flight [as by Millard Verne Gordon] by Donald A. Wollheim (short story)
Madness of the Dust by R. F. Starzl (short story)
The Cosmic Express by Jack Williamson
Issue #2 – June ($0.35, 127pp, Pub: Avon Novels Inc.;New York, cvr artist: unknown)
Contents:
Priestess of the Flame [*John Hanson] by Sewell Peaslee Wright (novella)
The Whisperers by Donald Wandrei (short story)
When Half-Worlds Meet [as by Hugh Raymond] by John Michel (short story)
The Superperfect Bride by Bob Olsen (novella)
Vulthoom by Clark Ashton Smith (novella)
The Man Who Discovered Nothing [*Tubby] by Ray Cummings (short story)
Highway [as by Wilfred Owen Morley] by Robert W. Lowndes (short story)
When the Flame-Flowers Blossomed by Leslie F. Stone (short story)
The Book of Worlds by Miles J. Breuer (short story)
The Rebuff [*Joseph Jorkens] by Lord Dunsany
1952
Issue #3 – January ($0.35, 128pp, Pub: Avon Novels Inc.;New York, cvr artist: Earle Bergey)
Contents:
The Robot Empire ["The Vapor Death"] by Frank Belknap Long (short story)
P.N. 40 ["Love in the Year 93 E.E."] by S. Fowler Wright (novella)
The Master Ants by Francis Flagg (novella)
In the Walls of Eryx by Kenneth Sterling & H. P. Lovecraft (novella)
The Black Stone Statue by Mary Elizabeth Counselman (short story)
The Planet of Dread by R. F. Starzl (short story)
The Alien Vibration by Hannes Bok (short story)
The Ultimate Paradox by Thorp McClusky
Avon Science Fiction and Fantasy Reader
After Wollheim’s departure in 1952, Avon combined the Fantasy Reader and Science Fiction Reader into a single quarterly with the intent of focusing on original stories rather than reprints. Sol Cohen was slated as editor but the series was discontinued after only two issues.
1953
Issue #1 – January ($0.35, 128pp, Pub: Avon Novels Inc.;New York, cvr artist: Leo Manso)
Contents:
For Humans Only by Alfred Coppel (short story)
Like Gods They Came by Irving Cox, Jr. (short story)
The Forgotten Enemy by Arthur C. Clarke (short story)
The Agents by Bryce Walton (short story)
Mr. Kowtshook by John Christopher (short story)
The Shed by E. Everett Evans (short story)
Come Blow Your Horn! by Milton Lesser (short story)
The Call of the Black Lagoon by Charles L. Harness (short story)
Agratha by Glen Malin (short story)
Checkmate Morning by John Jakes (short story)
One-Man God by Frank Owen (short story)
The Short Count by Theodore R. Cogswell (short story)
Issue #2 – April ($0.35, 128pp, Pub: Stratford Novels Inc.; New York, cvr artist: Leo Manso)
Contents:
DP! by Jack Vance (short story)
The Rather Improbable History of Hillary Kiffer by William Vine
Survivor by Irving E. Cox, Jr. (short story)
Breaking Point [*Max Larkin] by John Christopher
As Holy and Enchanted by Henderson Starke (short story)
Hunt the Red Roe by Alan Payne (short story)
Crack of Doom by Milton Lesser (short story)
The Agent by Stephen Marlowe (short story)
Forever Is So Long by John Jakes (short story)
The Parasite by Arthur C. Clarke (short story)
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