Condition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. 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