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AVON FANTASY READER. (all published).
New York: Avon Book Company (later Avon Book Company, Inc., Avon Publishing Co., Inc., and Avon Novels, Inc.), 1947-52. Small octavo 18 issues, pictorial wrappers. Digest size magazine. A complete set of the Avon Fantasy Reader which consists of 18 issues. Editor Donald Wolheim and the publisherJoseph Meyers considered these to be books rather than a magazine an anthology series and they brought to a mass audience some of the great genre fiction. The story selection came from a wide range of pulp magazines such as Weird Tales, All-Story and Argosy, Thrill Book, Astounding and Amazing as well as stories from hardcover book publications. Authors included William Hope Hodgson, Lord Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, M. R. James, Ambrose Bierce, A. Merritt, Algernon Blackwood, C. L. Moore, Fritz Leiber and many more. A few original stories were printed, including A. E. Van Vogt, Carl Jacobi, A. Merritt, Robert Bloch, Robert E. Howard and most notably "Ylla" by Ray Bradbury, part of THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines, p. 124-132. [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 124-132].
GOLDEN FLEECE. October, 1938 - June, 1939. Nine issues, all published.
Chicago: Sun Publications, 1938-1939. Octavo, all published, cover art by Harold Delay (1-6, 8) and M[argaret] Brundage (7 and 9), pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. A short lived magazine of mostly historical fiction. Authors published include: Talbot Mundy, H. Bedford-Jones, E. Hoffman Price, Clyde B. Clason, E.C. Vivian, Johnston McCulley, Murray Leinster and Robert E. Howard ("Black Vulmea's Revenge," 11/38 and "Gates of Empire," 1/39). A popular magazine which likely ceased due to distribution issues. [Reference: Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 319-320].