Avon Fantasy Reader

Issue #1 – February 1947
Avon Fantasy Reader 1


 * "The Power Planet" by Murray Leinster
 * "The Shuttered House" by August Derleth (© Copyright Renewed: August Derleth (A); 20Jul64; R341606.)
 * "Justice" by The Gibsons
 * "The Voice in the Night" by William Hope Hodgson
 * "The Woman of the Wood" by A. Merritt
 * "The Truth About Pyecraft" by H. G. Wells
 * "The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis" by Clark Ashton Smith (© Copyright Renewed as part of Weird Tales, May 1932; Steinberg Press, Inc.; 1960-1-18; R250138.)
 * "Nostalgia" by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
 * "The Central Figure" by H. Russell Wakefield
 * "The Three Infernal Jokes" by Lord Dunsany
 * "Climax for a Ghost Story" by I. A. Ireland

Issue #2 – April 1947
Avon Fantasy Reader 2


 * "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 (© Copyright Renewed as part of Blue Book Magazine, June 1934; McCall Corp.; 27Sep61; R282249.)
 * "The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune" (Kull series) by Robert E. Howard
 * "The Yellow Sign" by Robert W. Chambers
 * "Automata" by S. Fowler Wright
 * "The City of the Living Dead" by Laurence Manning & Fletcher Pratt

Issue #3 – June 1947
Avon Fantasy Reader 3


 * "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
Avon Fantasy Reader 4


 * "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
Avon Fantasy Reader 5


 * "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
Avon Fantasy Reader 6


 * "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
Avon Fantasy Reader 7


 * "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
Avon Fantasy Reader 8


 * "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
Avon Fantasy Reader 9


 * "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
Avon Fantasy Reader 10


 * "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
Avon Fantasy Reader 11


 * "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
Avon Fantasy Reader 12


 * "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
Avon Fantasy Reader 13


 * "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
 * "The Thing that Walked on the Wind" by August Derleth (© Copyright Renewed: August Derleth (A); 4Apr60; R255766.)
 * "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
Avon Fantasy Reader 14


 * "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
Avon Fantasy Reader 15


 * "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
 * "The Great Gizmo" by Gilbert Wright (© Copyright Renewed: details pending)
 * "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
Avon Fantasy Reader 16


 * "The Black Kiss" (Michael Leigh series) by Robert Bloch
 * "Mr. Strenberry's Tale" (aka "Doomsday") by J. B. Priestley (© Copyright: First publication in the United Kingdom)
 * "The Man Who Lived Backward" by Gelett Burgess (© Copyright Renewed: details pending)
 * "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
Avon Fantasy Reader 17


 * "The Sapphire Siren" (aka "The Sapphire Goddess") by Nictzin Dyalhis
 * "Jack-in-the-Box" by Ray Bradbury (© Copyright Renewed: Ray Bradbury (A); 3Mar75; R599694.)
 * "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
Avon Fantasy Reader 18


 * "The Witch from Hell's Kitchen" by Robert E. Howard (© Copyright Renewed: P. M. Kuykendall (PPW), 1979-09-20; RE0000034522.)
 * "The Devil in Hollywood" by Dale Clark (© Copyright Renewed as part of Argosy, August 8, 1936; 12Nov63; R325552.)
 * "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.)