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.

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

• fep • Outstanding Thrills • essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• 3 • Shambleau • [Northwest Smith] • (1933) • novelette by C. L. Moore
• 29 • The Curse of a Thousand Kisses • (1918) • short story by Sax Rohmer
• 40 • The Dreams of Albert Moreland • (1945) • short story by Fritz Leiber [as by Fritz Leiber, Jr.]
• 54 • The Slugly Beast • [Jorkens] • (1934) • short story by Lord Dunsany
• 63 • The Cairn on the Headland • (1933) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 80 • Aquella • (1942) • short story by Donald A. Wollheim (variant of The Planet Called Aquella) [as by Martin Pearson]
• 85 • The Empire of the Necromancers • [Zothique] • (1932) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• 94 • When Old Gods Wake • (1948) • short story by A. Merritt
• 99 • The Were-Snake • (1925) • short story by Frank Belknap Long [as by Frank Belknap Long, Jr.]
• 111 • The Gun • (1942) • short story by Frank Gruber

Notes

Edited by Donald A. Wolheim.

No cover art attribution.
According to Miller/Contento, this issue was not dated.
Source for the month of publication given in this issue is Tuck Vol 3