Avon Fantasy Reader No. 9 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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she sft af2 ole ste ole ote ote ofe ate ale abe ole abe ste ale FANTASY At Its Best Imagination is both the spice of life and the stuff from which reality is made. It carries us away from the hum- drum world of worries into fascinating, and sometimes delightfully fearful worlds not visible to our five senses. Yet the stuff from which these. dreams are made con- tributed to the making of the world we all live in. The telephone, the radio, the automobile, were all merely fantasies less than a hundred years ago. No wonder then that such stories as the AVON FANTASY READER publishes have a special thrill not to be found in other types of literature. For in these dreams may be hints of things to come, things that may have been, or things that may be even now among us. Consider some of the stories in this number: THE MAN FROM THE MOON by Otis Adelbert Kline: a story of an interplanetary war, of a struggle to the death between two of Earth’s neighbors, and a hint of a celestial people who may walk among us today. THE FLOWER-WOMEN by Clark Ashton Smith: a colorful fantasia of life on a far-off star, a tale of exotic vampiric flowers with the appearance and wiles of beau- tiful wanton women. THROUGH THE VIBRATIONS by P. Schuyler Miller: where is Atlantis, that vanished home of the world’s first civilization? In this story, reminiscent of the imagery of A. Merritt, the veil of time is pierced to un- travel the most intriguing of ancient mysteries, There’s also Fritz Leiber, Jr.’s strangest story, THE MAN WHO NEVER GREW YOUNG; that classic tale of midnight doom, THE NIGHT WIRE, by H. F. Arnold; and many more specially selected stories of weird-fiction and science-fiction by the best writers of the field. The ninth AVON FANTASY READER is a particularly outstanding number of this highly acclaimed series. SPTP PS SS SSP Se seeeggesegag —D.A.W. ste ate ste ate abe ate ote ote ale abe ole ae ale obe ale STP TPS SESS SReessegesegeggggd >