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.

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

• 5 • Foreword (The 2nd Avon Fantasy Reader) • (1969) • essay by George Ernsberger
• 11 • The Blonde Goddess of Bal-Sagoth • [Turlogh O’Brien] • (1931) • novelette by Robert E. Howard (variant of The Gods of Bal-Sagoth)
• 46 • Shambleau • [Northwest Smith] • (1933) • novelette by C. L. Moore
• 74 • The Curse of Yig • (1959) • short story by Zealia Bishop and H. P. Lovecraft [as by Zealia Brown Bishop]
• 91 • Ubbo-Sathla • [Hyperborea] • (1933) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• 99 • The Painted Mirror • (1937) • short story by Donald Wandrei
• 107 • Amina • (1907) • short story by Edward Lucas White
• 117 • The Black Kiss • [Michael Leigh] • (1951) • short story by Robert Bloch and Henry Kuttner [as by Robert Bloch]
• 136 • The City of the Living Dead • (1930) • novelette by Laurence Manning and Fletcher Pratt
• 162 • The Curse of a Thousand Kisses • (1918) • short story by Sax Rohmer

Notes

Edited by Donald A. Wolheim and George Ernsberger