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].

New York: Avon Novels Inc., 1953. Small octavo two issues, all published, cover illustrations by Leo Manso, pictorial wrappers. Digest size magazine. This was an attempt at a revival of Avon Fantasy Reader and Avon Science Fiction Reader. Publisher Joseph Meyer and new editor Sol Cohen were to produce a quarterly with all new stories. It lasted only two issues. All stories were illustrated. Authors included Alfred J. Coppel, Jr., Arthur C. Clarke, John Christopher, John Jakes, and others. Tymm and Ashley note many of the stories had a dystopian tone and the stories were not widely reprinted. [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 132-134].

New York: Avon Novels, Inc., 1951-1952. Small octavo, three issues, pictorial wrappers. Anthology style magazine which lasted only three issues which did not survive editor Wollheim leaving Avon. [Reference: Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 134-35].

Concord, N.H. Common Sense Publishing Co., Inc., 1951. Small octavo, two issues, pictorial wrappers. Digest sized magazine. Billed on the front covers "A selection of the best True Crime stories, new and old." Authors include Eleazar Lipsky, Craig Rice, Lillian de la Torre, Stuart Palmer, James Thurber and others. Published by Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Publications, these two issues are perhaps the only two published (this cataloger is unsure).

New York: Magabook Inc., 1950. Octavo, two issues, pictorial wrappers. Digest magazine. Contains mostly reprints with title changes, most culled from Argosy from the 1930s. Authors include Theodore Roscoe, Cornell Woolrich, Richard Sale, and others. [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 266 - 267].

London: Published by George Newnes Ltd., 1938-1939. Octavo, three issues, all covers by S. R. Drigin, pictorial wrappers. Fantasy magazine was a combination of reprints and new materials as well as factual articles. Authors included John Beynon, John Russell Fearn, Eric Frank Russell and others. The magazine was canceled due to the war. "Fantasy 's lifetime was too short to make a value judgment on its position in SF, but there is not denying that Sprigg had considerable editorial acumen and that Fantasy would no doubt have developed into a major magazine" - Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 254-56.

New York: National Periodical Publications, Inc., 1975. Octavo, four issues, covers by Joe Kubert and Jack Kirby, pictorial wrappers. All published. Features the character the Avenger from the pulps. Stories by Denny O'Neil with art by Al McWilliams, Jack Kirby.

[Tacoma, WA: Lance Thingmaker, June 2012.]. Quarto, cloth backed boards. First edition in book form. Limited to 300 copies of which this is one of 100 numbered copies. A facsimile reprint of the complete file of five issues. One of the better fanzines, approaching (or equaling in some instances) the quality of content of the SF specialty pulps of the 1930s. The impressive list of contributors includes, August Derleth, H. P. Lovecraft, David H. Keller, Frank Belknap Long, Robert E. Howard ("The Garden of Fear"), Robert Bloch (first printing of "Lilies," his first published story, originally submitted to WEIRD TALES and rejected by Farnsworth Wright), P. Schuyler Miller ("The Titan"), Clifford D. Simak ("The Creator"), John Beynon Harris, Amelia Reynolds Long, Carl Jacobi, Ralph Milne Farley, and others. [Reference: Moskowitz, The Immortal Storm, pp. 22-3. Pavlat and Evans, Fanzine Index (1965), p. 66. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 401-04].

New York: Flying Eagle Publications, Inc., 1956. Small octavo, single issue, cover by Frank Cozzarelli, pictorial wrappers. Digest sized magazine. The first of only three issues published. Contemporary crime and murder stories. From the publishers of MANHUNT, another magazine that faced stiff competition in the marketplace and could not find a foothold. Author's include: Lionel White, Jack Ritchie, Ed Hoch and others. [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 335-336].

Mount Olive, NC: Cryptic Publications, 1987-1988. Octavo, two issues, covers by Stephen Fabian, pictorial wrappers, saddle stitched. Booklet format. The first issue includes all unpublished material, including unfinished stories by Robert E. Howard and Manly Wade Wellman, as well as a story by Carl Jacobi which was rejected by publishers in the 1930s. The second issue features another unpublished Jacobi tale as well as a Robert Bloch reprint.

[Mount Olive, NC: Cryptic Publications], 1984-1988. Octavo, eight issues, pictorial wrappers, saddle stitched. Booklet format. Collects weird menace fiction. Mostly new material. Author's include Robert E. Howard, Hugh B. Cave, Carl Jacobi, Manly Wade Wellman, Will Murray and others. The Howard material is all previously unpublished.