Saturday, June 14, 2014

PaperBack



Donald A. Wollheim, editor, Avon Fantasy Reader #11, 1949

4 comments:

George said...

Love the cover! Another book I haven't seen before.

mybillcrider said...

It's actually a digest. I have the whole series. There aren't many of them, fewer than 20.

Todd Mason said...

One of the things I'll be writing about soon is how consistently Wollheim tried to support horror at his various desks.

Contents of this issue (courtesy ISFDB):
3 • Glamour • (1939) • novelette by Seabury Quinn
22 • The Golden Hour of Kwoh Fan • (1930) • shortstory by Frank Owen
27 • Uncommon Castaway • (1949) • shortstory by Nelson S. Bond
41 • Mogglesby • (1930) • novelette by T. S. Stribling
79 • Asleep in Armageddon • (1948) • shortstory by Ray Bradbury (variant of Perchance to Dream)
90 • The Inheritors • (1942) • novelette by Robert A. W. Lowndes and John B. Michel [as by John Michel and Robert Lowndes ]
111 • The Dancer in the Crystal • (1929) • shortstory by Francis Flagg

mybillcrider said...

Thanks for the ToC, Todd. Not a terrible lineup.