Avon Fantasy Reader No. 9 — page 4: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

THE FLOWER-WOMEN by Clark Ashton Smith......... 3 Copyright, 1935, by the Popular Fiction Publishing Company; 1944, by Clark Ashton Smith. By permission of Arkham House. THE NIGHT WIRE by H.F. Arnold..................... 12 Copyright, 1926, by the Popular Fiction Publishing Company for Weird Tales. THROUGH THE VIBRATIONS dy P. Schuyler Miller.... 18 Copyright, 1938, by Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, Amazing Stories. THE MAN WHO NEVER GREW YOUNG }y Fritz es 48 Copyright, 1947, by Fritz Leiber, Jr., for “Night’s Black Agents.” By per- mission of Arkham House. THE MAN FROM THE MOON by Ouzis Adelbert Kline... 54 Copyright, 1938, by Ziff-Davis Publishing Company. Reprinted from Amaz- ing Stories, October, 1930. THE UNSPEAKABLE BETROTHAL dy Robert Bloch.... 75 Copyright, 1949, by Avon Publishing Company, Inc. THE STONE SHIP by William Hope Hodgson...... oS From “The Luck of the Strong” by William Hope Hodgson. Copyright, 1914, by William Hope Hodgson. Reprinted by permission of Lissie S. Hodgson. CHILD'S PLAY by Alice-Mary Schnirring................ 110 Copyright, 1942, by Weird Tales for Weird Tales March 1942. THE MADNESS OF ANDELSPRUTZ by Lord Dunsany..118 From “A Dreamer’s Tales” by Lord Dunsany. Reprinted by permission of John W. Luce & Company. THE PAINTED MIRROR by Donald Wandrei........... 121 Copyright, 1937, by Esquire, Inc.; copyright, 1944, by Donald Wandrei for “The Eye and the Finger.”’ By permission of Arkham House. AVON FANTASY READER NO. 9 COPYRIGHT, 1949, By AVON PUBLISHING CO., INC. PRINTED IN U. &. A.