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Cover illustration by Ric Binkley

UNDER THE TRIPLE SUNS by Stanton A. Coblentz (Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1955) Cover by Hannes Bok.

THE CRYSTAL HORDE by John Taine [aka Eric Temple Bell] (Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1952) Cover by Hannes Bok.

Published in an edition of 2,328 copies, the novel is a science horror story that involves silicon crystalline lifeforms threatening to overwhelm carbon life on Earth. It was substantially rewritten from a version that originally appeared in the magazine Amazing Stories Quarterly in 1930 under the title White Lily.

Amazing Stories Quarterly, Winter 1930. Cover by H. Wesso.

WHITE LILY by John Taine. Illustrated by H. Wesso

“The Astounding Enemy” by Louise Rice & Tonjoroff-Roberts. Illustrated by Leo Morey

“Tani of Ekkis” by Aladra Septama. Illustrated by H. Wesso [Severus Masonby]

THE MOON IS HELL by John W. Campbell (Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1951) Cover by Hannes Bok.

The Moon Is Hell! is a collection of two stories, one science fiction, the other sword and sorcery. It was published in an edition of 4,206 copies

The title story, original to this collection, deals with a team of scientists stranded on the Moon when their spacecraft crashes, and how they use their combined skills and knowledge to survive until rescue, including building shelter from meteor showers, and creating their own oxygen from Lunar rock. The second story, "The Elder Gods" [from a story by Arthur J. Burke] originally appeared in the October 1939 issue of Unknown under the pseudonym Don A. Stuart.

Unknown [v2 #2, October 1939] Edited by John W. Campbell. Cover by Modest Stein.

“The Elder Gods” by Don A. Stuart [with Arthur J. Burks] Illustrated by Isip

“A God in a Garden” by Theodore Sturgeon. Illustrated by Isip

“Dreams May Come” by H. Warner Munn. llustrated by H. Wesso

“Anything” by Lester del Rey. Illustrated by Isip

“Blue and Silver Brocade” by Dorothy Quick. Illustrated by Harry Kirchner

“The Enchanted Weekend” by John MacCormac. Illustrated by H.H. Gilmore