Featuring Three Complete Fantasy Stories of adventure on far worlds and
in exotic lands, depicted in Complete Life Color.
_ONLY “OUT OF THIS WORLD ADVENTURES” HAS THIS UNIQUE COMBINATION_
At your local newsdealer—25c per copy. Or you can order direct from
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_The Best_
SCIENCE-FICTION, FANTASY
and
WEIRD FICTION
AVON FANTASY READER
An exciting series of original anthologies, packed with the best and
most hard-to-obtain novelettes and short stories of strange worlds and
unusual adventures. Tales of the forgotten past and the unknown future
by the leading imaginative writers.
Here are some of the still available numbers and the leading stories in
each:
No. 2—THE DAY OF THE DRAGON by Guy Endore, also Howard, Keller, etc.
No. 3—BLACK THIRST by C. L. Moore, also Merritt, Lovecraft, etc.
No. 4—THE ARRHENIUS HORROR by P. Schuyler Miller, also Bond, Smith,
etc.
No. 6—THE METAL MAN by Jack Williamson, also Merritt, McClusky, etc.
No. 7—SHAMBLEAU by C. L. Moore, also Rohmer, Leiber, etc.
No. 8—QUEEN OF THE BLACK COAST by Howard, also Bradbury, Flagg, etc.
No. 9—THE MAN FROM THE MOON by Otis Adelbert Kline, also Miller,
Wandrei, etc.
No. 10—BIMINI by Bassett Morgan, also Howard, Lovecraft, etc.
No. 11—MOGGLESBY by T. S. Stribling, also Quinn, Bradbury, etc.
No. 12—THE CAPTURED CROSS-SECTION by Miles J. Breuer, also Howard,
Rohmer, etc.
No. 13—THE FORGOTTEN PLANET by Sewell Peaslee Wright, also Grimshaw,
Wandrei, Cummings, etc.
No. 14—YLLA by Ray Bradbury, also Keller, Dwyer, Harding, etc.
Each number of the AVON FANTASY READER is a new and different collection
edited exclusively for AVON by Donald A. Wollheim, one of America’s
best-known fantasy authorities.
_Send 35c for each number you want, plus 5c each for packaging and
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