Collier (AS392V) 1966? paperback (copyright 1953; first Collier pb was in 1962.) While the credits page has the line "First Collier Books Edition 1962" - I don't believe that means this is a first pb printing - which should have the number AS392X. [I use Tuck's Encyclopedia of SF and F (Volume 3) as a source, and think he has a mistake in his Collier's attributions for 1966 and 1968 since both have the same number. I think this number is the actual one for 1966.] Lucy Conklin is credited as co-editor on credits page. Cover by ???, 352 pages, 95 cent cover price. Condition is VG+: tight and almost square; spine has 3 or more faint lines; negligable age tanning (good grade of paper); very light wear (see scan.)

The Supernatural Reader: a large anthology edited by Groff Conklin. Conklin was a freelance editor, producing almost 40 anthologies large and small from 1946 until his death in 1968. He was book reviewer for Galaxy for the first 5 years (through October 1955.) Most will agree that he had good taste, and his anthologies were considered and capable. If you want some good reading - of the sort that you may not find easily, look here. Unless you have a really, really large magazine collection, you are likely to find a combination of stories and authors that you don't have or are curious about.

(Introduction by Groff Conklin)
"The Angel with Purple Hair" by Herb Paul
"For the Blood Is the Life" by F. Marion Crawford
"The Stranger" by Richard Hughes
"Mrs. Manifold" by Stephen Grendon (August Derleth)
"Piffingcap" by A. E. Coppard
"Shottle Bop" by Theodore Sturgeon
"Gabriel-Ernest" by H. H. Munro (a.k.a. Saki)
"The Lost Room" by Fitz-James O'Brien
"The Traitor" by James S. Hart
"Angus MacAuliffe and the Gowden Tooch" by Charles R. Tanner
"Are You Run-Down, Tired-" by Babette Rosmond & Leonard M. Lake
"The Nature of the Evidence" by May Sinclair
"The Tree's Wife" by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
"The Pavilion" by E. Nesbit
"Pick-Up for Olympus" by Edgar Pangborn
"The Swap" by H. F. Heard
"The Tombling Day" by Ray Bradbury
"Minuke" by Nigel Kneale
"Bird of Prey" by John Collier
"The Thing in the Cellar" by David H. Keller
"Devil's Henchman" by Will F. Jenkins (a.k.a. Murray Leinster)
"Lost Hearts" by M. R. James
"Thirteen at Table" by Lord Dunsany
"Lights" by Philip Fisher
"The Silver Highway" by Harold Lawlor
"The Moonlit Road" by Ambrose Bierce
"The Curate's Friend" by E. M. Forster
Stories are from 1916 to 1951 - some are from Weird Tales or Magazine of F&SF, others from short-story collections by the authors; "Pick-Up for Olympus" by Edgar Pangborn was original to the 1953 hardcover. Some editions of this book are abridged - this Collier edition and its reprints contain all 27 stories from the 1953 Lippincott hardcover.

Conklin was a freelance editor, producing almost 40 anthologies large and small from 1946 until his death in 1968. He was book reviewer for Galaxy for the first 5 years (through October 1955.) Most will agree that he had good taste, and his anthologies were considered and capable. If you want some good reading - of the sort that you may not find easily, look here. Unless you have a really, really large magazine collection, you are likely to find a combination of stories and authors that you don't have or are curious about.