Why the checklist? because you've had many a magazine claims to be "the new
Weird Tales" (some of which actually have the front to call themselves
Weird Tales: only the Robert Weinberg and Lin Carter edited versions came close), just as you've had at least one modern anthology series which promoted itself as in the tradition of the
Not At Night series. worthy enterprises all, but for this reader, the magazines that came close to emulating what Farnsworth-Wright and Christine Campbell Thomson achieved in their very different ways are
Shock and, specifically, Robert A. W. Lowdnes'
Startling Mystery Stories and
Magazine Of Horror. its damning with faint praise to suggest that Donald Wollheim's
Avon Fantasy Reader acted as a mere bridge between
Weird Tales/
Not At Night and
Shock/ Lowdnes' various ventures - it remains a brilliant magazine in its own right - but this is the world according to what goes on in my head. With
Avon Fantasy Reader Wollheim introduced a magazine which was pure pulp reprint. There is no editorial, no interior illustrations, no readers section - but for one essay and a handful of weird poems it really is all story, 173 of them by my reckoning, the vast majority judiciously selected from the finest pre-WWII fantasy and SF pulps including
Weird Tales,
Amazing Stories,
Blue Book. Consult the checklist and we find a s considerable number of these authors graced Christine Campbell Thomson's between the wars collections (often with the same stories) and even more showed up in Lowdnes' magazines through the 'sixties. in short, i reckon it is very worthy of Vault's attention.
this listing could not have been compiled without the availability of info on that excellent resource, the
isfdb site.H. F. Arnold - The Night Wire
#9, 1949Irwin Ashenazy - The Headless Miller Of Kobold's Keep
#14, 1950John Kendrick Bangs - The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall
#16, 1951Maurice Baring - Venus
#15, 1951Thomas Lovell Beddoes - The Phantom-Wooer (verse)
# 3, 1947Stephen Vincent Benét - The Gold Dress
#5, 1947Ambrose Bierce - An Inhabitant of Carcosa
#8, 1948Zealia Brown Bishop - The Curse Of Yig
#14, 1950Algernon Blackwood - The Other Wing
#8, 1948Algernon Blackwood - A Victim of Higher Space
#18, 1952Robert Bloch - The Black Kiss
#16, 1951Robert Bloch - Fane of the Black Pharaoh
#5, 1947 Robert Bloch - The Unspeakable Betrothal
#9, 1949Nelson Bond - The Bookshop
#17, 1951Nelson S. Bond - Conquerors' Isle
#4, 1947Nelson S. Bond - Uncommon Castaway
#11, 1949Anthony Boucher - The Pink Caterpillar
#17, 1951Ray Bradbury - Asleep in Armageddon (aka
Perchance to Dream)
#11, 1949Ray Bradbury - Homecoming
# 3, 1947 Ray Bradbury - Jack-in-the-Box
#17, 1951Ray Bradbury - The Man Upstairs
#4, 1947Ray Bradbury - Ylla
#14, 1950Ray Bradbury - Zero Hour
#8, 1948Miles J. Breuer - The Captured Cross-Section
#12, 1950Miles J. Breuer - The Einstein Seasaw
#15, 1951Miles J. Breuer. - The Gostak and the Doshes
#10, 1949Gelett Burgess - Just What Happened
#18, 1952Gelett Burgess - The Man Who Lived Backward
#16, 1951Thomas Burke - The Hollow Man
#4, 1947Hugh B. Cave - The Watcher in the Green Room
#18, 1952Robert W. Chambers - In the Court of the Dragon
#5, 1947Robert W. Chambers - The Yellow Sign
# 2, 1947G. K. Chesterton - The Noticeable Conduct of Professor Chadd
#17, 1951Dale Clark - The Devil in Hollywood
#18, 1952John Collier - Evening Primrose
# 3, 1947Mary Elizabeth Counselman - The Cat-Woman
#8, 1948 Mary Elizabeth Counselman - The House of Shadows
#13, 1950Mary E. Counselman - Mommy
#15, 1951Ray Cummings - The Curious Case of Norton Hoorne
#13, 1950 Ray Cummings - The Three-Eyed Man
#14, 1950Charles W. Diffin - The Power and the Glory
#13, 1950August Derleth - The Shuttered House
# 1, 1947August Derleth- The Thing That Walked on the Wind
#13, 1950 Lord Dunsany - The Hoard of the Gibbelins
#4, 1947Lord Dunsany - The Madness of Andelsprutz
#9, 1949Lord Dunsany - The Slugly Beast
#7, 1948Lord Dunsany - The Three Infernal Jokes
# 1, 1947 Lord Dunsany - The Wonderful Window
#12, 1950James Francis Dwyer - The Cave Of The Invisible
#14, 1950James Francis Dwyer - The Phantom Ship Of Dirk Van Tromp
#18, 1952Nictzin Dyalhis - The Sapphire Siren
#17, 1951Guy Endore - The Day of the Dragon
# 2, 1947Philip M. Fisher - The Strange Case of Lemuel Jenkins
# 2, 1947Francis Flagg - The Dancer in the Crystal
#11, 1949Francis Flagg - The Machine Man of Ardathia
#8, 1948Francis Flagg - The Mentanicals
#10, 1949Francis Flagg - The Picture
#16, 1951The Gibsons - Justice
# 1, 1947 Millard Verne Gordon (Donald A. Wollheim) - Storm Warning
#10, 1949Stephen Grendon (August Derleth ) - Bishop's Gambit
# 3, 1947Beatrice Grimshaw - The Cave
#13, 1950 Beatrice Grimshaw - The Forest of Lost Men
#16, 1951Frank Gruber - The Gun
#7, 1948Edmond Hamilton - The Star-Stealers
#6, 1948Allison V. Harding - Guard In The Dark
#14, 1950Clare Winger Harris - The Miracle of the Lily
#5, 1947William Fryer Harvey - Sambo
#5, 1947Hazel Heald - Out of the Eons
#18, 1952 William Hope Hodgson - The Derelict
#4, 1947William Hope Hodgson - The Haunted Jarvee
#18, 1952William Hope Hodgson - The Mystery of the Sargasso
#17, 1951 William Hope Hodgson - The Stone Ship
#9, 1949William Hope Hodgson - The Voice in the Night
# 1, 1947Robert E. Howard - The Blonde Goddess Of Bal-Sagoth
#12, 1950Robert E. Howard - The Cairn on the Headland
#7, 1948 Robert E. Howard - The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune
# 2, 1947Robert E. Howard - Queen of the Black Coast
#8, 1948Robert E. Howard - Temptress Of The Tower Of Torture And Sin
#14, 1950Robert E. Howard - The Witch from Hell's Kitchen
#18, 1952Robert E. Howard - A Witch Shall Be Born
#10, 1949I. A. Ireland - Climax for a Ghost Story
# 1, 1947Carl Jacobi - The Random Quantity
#5, 1947Clive G. B. Jackson - The Still Small Voice
#14, 1950M. R. James - A Warning to the Curious
#4, 1947M. R. James - An Episode In Cathedral History
#12, 1950Malcolm Jameson - Vengeance in Her Bones
#10, 1949 Joseph E. Kelleam - From the Dark Waters
#6, 1948David H. Keller, M.D.- Stenographer's Hands
# 2, 1947David H. Keller, M.D. - The Thing in the Cellar
#6, 1948David H. Keller - The Yeast Men
#14, 1950Otis Adelbert Kline - The Man From the Moon
#9, 1949C. M. Kornbluth - Kazam Collects
#15, 1951C. M. Kornbluth - The Words of Guru
#5, 1947Walter Kubilius - The Day Has Come
#12, 1950Greye La Spina - The Wax Doll
#16, 1951John Martin Leahy - In Amundsen's Tent
#15, 1951Fritz Leiber - The Dreams of Albert Moreland
#7, 1948Fritz Leiber - The Man Who Never Grew Young
#9, 1949 Murray Leinster - The Power Planet
# 1, 1947 Amelia Reynolds Long - Omega
#10, 1949Frank Belknap Long - The Hounds of Tindalos
#16, 1951Frank Belknap Long - The Love-Slave and the Scientists (aka
The Body-Masters)
#13, 1950Frank Belknap Long - The Man with a Thousand Legs
#8, 1948 Frank Belknap Long - The Were-Snake
#7, 1948Julius Long - He Walked by Day
#13, 1950H. P. Lovecraft - Beyond the Wall of Sleep
#6, 1948H. P. Lovecraft - Nostalgia (verse)
# 1, 1947 H. P. Lovecraft - The Silver Key
# 3, 1947H. P. Lovecraft - The Statement of Randolph Carter
#10, 1949H. P. Lovecraft - The Temple
#8, 1948H. P. Lovecraft & E. Hoffmann Price - Through the Gates of the Silver Key
#17, 1951Laurence Manning & Fletcher Pratt - The City of the Living Dead
# 2, 1947Thorp McClusky - The Crawling Horror
#6, 1948A. Merritt - The Drone
#6, 1948A. Merritt - Rhythm of the Spheres
# 3, 1947A. Merritt - When Old Gods Wake
#7, 1948A. Merritt - The Woman of the Wood
# 1, 1947 John Michel & Robert Lowndes - The Inheritors
#11, 1949P. Schuyler Miller - The Arrhenius Horror
#4, 1947P. Schuyler Miller - Ship In A Bottle
#15, 1951P. Schuyler Miller - Through the Vibrations
#9, 1949C. L. Moore - Black Thirst
# 3, 1947C. L. Moore - Scarlet Dream
#5, 1947C. L. Moore - Shambleau
#7, 1948Bassett Morgan - Bimini
#10, 1949Bassett Morgan - Grey Ghouls
#15, 1951Bassett Morgan - Tiger Dust
#12, 1950Frank Owen - One-Man God
#17, 1951 Frank Owen - A Study in Amber
#5, 1947Frank Owen - The Golden Hour of Kwoh Fan
#11, 1949Frank Owen - The Silent Trees
# 3, 1947J. B. Priestley - Mr. Strenberry's Tale
#16, 1951 Seabury Quinn - Glamour
#11, 1949Hugh Raymond (John B. Michel) - The Goblins Will Get You
#8, 1948 L. Major Reynolds - The River
#16, 1951Sax Rohmer - The Curse of a Thousand Kisses
#7, 1948Sax Rohmer - In The Valley Of The Sorceress
#12, 1950M. P. Shiel - The Place of Pain
#16, 1951Alice-Mary Schnirring - Child's Play
#9, 1949Percy Bysshe Shelley - Ozymandias of Egypt (verse)
# 3, 1947Clifford D. Simak & Carl Jacobi - The Street That Wasn't There
#13, 1950Clark Ashton Smith - The Chain Of Aforgomon
#12, 1950Clark Ashton Smith - The Empire of the Necromancers
#7, 1948Clark Ashton Smith - The Flower-Women
#9, 1949Clark Ashton Smith - The Planet of the Dead
#4, 1947Clark Ashton Smith - Ubbo-Sathla
#15, 1951Clark Ashton Smith - The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis
# 1, 1947 Frank R. Stockton - The Philosophy of Relative Existences
#6, 1948T. S. Stribling - Mogglesby
#11, 1949 A. E. van Vogt - Defense
#4, 1947H. Russell Wakefield - The Central Figure
# 1, 1947Donald Wandrei - The Painted Mirror
#9, 1949Donald Wandrei - Raiders of the Universes
#13, 1950 Donald Wandrei - Something from Above
#16, 1951Stanley G. Weinbaum - A Man, A Maid And Saturn's Temptation (aka
Flight On Titan)
#15, 1951Manly Wade Wellman - The Kelpie
#12, 1950H. G. Wells - The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper
# 3, 1947H. G. Wells - The Truth About Pyecraft
# 1, 1947 Wallace West - The Phantom Dictator
#17, 1951 Albert Richard Wetjen - The Ship of Silence
#13, 1950Edward Lucas White - Amina
#18, 1952Henry S. Whitehead - The Shadows
#14, 1950Henry S. Whitehead - The Trap
#6, 1948Jack Williamson - The Metal Man
#6, 1948Donald A. Wollheim - Aquella
#7, 1948Donald A. Wollheim - The Doorway to the Moon
#5, 1947Donald A. Wollheim - Mimic
# 3, 1947Donald A. Wollheim - Up There
#15, 1951Everil Worrell - The Canal
#8, 1948Glibert Wright - The Great Gizmo
#15, 1951S. Fowler Wright - Automata
# 2, 1947S. Fowler Wright - Original Sin
#13, 1950Sewell Peaslee Wright - The Forgotten Planet
#13, 1950
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