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.

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

• 7 • Stenographer’s Hands • (1928) • short story by David H. Keller, M.D.
• 27 • The Strange Case of Lemuel Jenkins • (1919) • novelette by Philip M. Fisher [as by Philip M. Fisher, Jr.]
• 50 • The Day of the Dragon • (1934) • novelette by Guy Endore
• 73 • The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune • [Kull of Valusia] • (1929) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 81 • The Yellow Sign • [King in Yellow (Chambers)] • (1895) • novelette by Robert W. Chambers
• 97 • Automata • (1929) • short story by S. Fowler Wright
• 108 • The City of the Living Dead • (1930) • novelette by Laurence Manning and Fletcher Pratt

Notes

Edited by Donald A. Wolheim