Avon Fantasy Reader, No. 18 1952. This issue contains the story THE WITCH FROM HELL’S KITCHEN also known as THE HOUSE OF ARABU. This is the first publication of the story.

Avon Fantasy Reader was a digest-size magazine (sometimes classed as a series of anthologies) that reprinted science fiction and fantasy literature by now well-known authors. It was edited by Donald A. Wollheim and published by Avon. The magazine had one spin-off, Avon Science Fiction Reader, with which it merged on its cancellation to become Avon Science Fiction and Fantasy Reader.

Contents

• 3 • The Witch from Hell’s Kitchen • novelette by Robert E. Howard
• 21 • The Devil in Hollywood • (1936) • short story by Ronal Kayser [as by Dale Clark]
• 35 • The Watcher in the Green Room • (1933) • short story by Hugh B. Cave
• 47 • A Victim of Higher Space • [John Silence] • (1914) • novelette by Algernon Blackwood
• 62 • Out of the Eons • (1935) • novelette by Hazel Heald and H. P. Lovecraft
• 82 • Just What Happened • (1944) • short story by Gelett Burgess
• 94 • The Phantom Ship of Dirk Van Tromp • (1915) • short story by James Francis Dwyer
• 107 • Amina • (1907) • short story by Edward Lucas White
• 116 • The Haunted “Jarvee” • [Carnacki (Hodgson)] • (1929) • short story by William Hope Hodgson (variant of The Haunted Jarvee)

Notes

Edited by Donald A. Wolheim