Avon Fantasy Reader No. 11

This issue of *Avon Fantasy Reader* No. 11 (1949) collects seven fantasy and science-fiction stories. The lead story, "Glamour" by Seabury Quinn, concerns a modern witch who employs supernatural powers of seduction; Judge Crumpacker recounts to a new acquaintance an encounter with the elderly Lucinda Lafferty on her land, where his dog mysteriously vanishes at the moment she appears and curses him, afterward dying of poisoning. T. S. Stribling's "Mogglesby" involves the discovery of ape-men in a jungle and a terrible decision confronting their discoverer. Francis Flagg's "The Dancer in the Crystal" depicts catastrophic events when a celestial visitor disrupts global systems. "The Inheritors" by John Michel and Robert Lowndes portrays humanity's final war and Nature's ultimatum. Additional stories by Frank Owen, Nelson Bond, M. R. James, and Ray Bradbury complete the collection, combining themes of witchcraft, jungle adventure, cosmic invasion, and apocalypse.