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Cover artist: Gray Morrow
Blurb: “Avon Fantasy Reader 1: Collection of seven stories culled by Ernsberger from Wollheim's speculative fiction magazine, The Avon Fantasy Reader (1947-51), which reprinted what Wollheim considered the best stories from the older pulp magazines.
Foreword - George Ernsberger
"The Witch from Hell’s Kitchen", Robert E. Howard, Avon Fantasy Reader 18, ed. Wollheim, Avon, '52
"Black Thirst" (Northwest Smith), C.L. Moore, Weird Tales 4/34
"A Victim of Higher Space" (John Silence), Algernon Blackwood, The Occult Review 12/14
"The Sapphire Siren" (aka "The Sapphire Goddess"), Nictzin Dyalhis, Weird Tales 2/34
"The Voice in the Night", William Hope Hodgson, Blue Book 11/07
"The Crawling Horror", Thorp McClusky, Weird Tales 11/36
"The Kelpie", Manly Wade Wellman, Weird Tales 7/36
Book 2:
Foreword-George Ernsberger
The Blonde Goddess of Bal-Sagoth-Rbt E. Howard, Weird Tales 10/31
Shambleau/Northwest Smith-C.L. Moore, Weird Tales 11/33
The Curse of Yig-Zealia Brown Reed Bishop, Weird Tales 11/29
Ubbo-Sathla-Clark Ashton Smith, Weird Tales 7/33
The Painted Mirror-Donald Wandrei, Esquire 5/37
Amina-Edward Lucas White, The Bellman 6/1/07
The Black Kiss-Rbt Bloch w/Henry Kuttner, Weird Tales 6/37
The City of the Living Dead-Laurence Manning & Fletcher Pratt, Science Wonder Stories 5/30
The Curse of a Thousand Kisses-Sax Rohmer, The Premier Magazine 11/18