Fanciful Tales of Time and Space contained a mixture of weird, science fiction and fantasy stories, including work by August Derleth, David H Keller and H P Lovecraft, as well as the first publication of Robert E Howard’s poem “Solomon Kane’s Homecoming”.
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Lovecraft Mythos is an anthology of Cthulhu Mythos fiction edited by Robert M. Price and published by Fedogan & Bremer in 1992.
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The 2nd Avon Fantasy Reader from February 1969. This anthology contains the story THE BLONDE GODDESS OF BAL-SAGOTH. This is a variant of THE GODS OF BAL-SAGOTH. Featuring Turlogh O’Brien. It was previously published in Avon Fantasy Reader #12.
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An anthology from Avon Books. It contains the story THE WITCH FROM HELL’S KITCHEN also known as THE HOUSE OF ARABU. This was previously published in Avon Fantasy Reader #18.
The book also contains stories by C. L. Moore, Manly Wade Wellman and others.
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Avon Fantasy Reader, No. 7 1948. This issue contains the story THE CAIRN ON THE HEADLAND. Also features stories by C. L. Moore, Sax Rohmer, Fritz Leiber and Clark Ashton Smith. The story has elements of fantasy and horror and there is a link to the Cthulhu Mythos, Norse Mythology and Catholic Christianity.
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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.
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Avon Fantasy Reader, No. 14 1950. This issue contains the story TEMPTRESS OF THE TOWER OF TORTURE AND SIN. This is a variant of THE VOICE OF EL-LIL.
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.
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Avon Fantasy Reader, No. 12, 1950. This issue contains the story THE BLONDE GODDESS OF BAL-SAGOTH. This is a variant of THE GODS OF BAL-SAGOTH. Featuring Turlogh O’Brien.
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Avon Fantasy Reader, No. 2, 1947. This issue contains the Kull story THE MIRRORS OF TUZUN THUNE. Set in the fictional Prehistoric Thurian Age, it deals with a disillusioned King Kull questioning the meaning of existence, leading him to seek the assistance of a two-faced wizard.
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This issue contains the Conan story ‘A Witch Shall Be Born’. It also contains a story by H. P. Lovecraft. Avon Fantasy Reader was a digest size magazine (sometimes classed as a series of anthologies) which 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.