Want List
morgan...@gmail.com
I posted my original want list some years ago, a lot has changed,
but I did obtain one item from this posting thanks to a reply to it.
I'm looking for the following items, and am willing trade off
any duplicates in my collection to obtain them or buy them.
Please help me rid myself of some of these wants. :-)
Alliance Press (UK: pamphlet)
The Vampire and 16 Other Stories
– Leslie H. Fox, 1940's
Bear Hudson (UK: small digest, 1946)
Spawn of the Vampire – N. Wesley Firth
Terror From Timorkal -- Festus Pragnell
Currawong Publishing Co.
(Australia: 1940s pamphlet)
The Living Dead – J. W. Heming
Dragon Ltd (UK)
Creature From the Black Lagoon
– Vargo Statten, 1954
(hardcover wanted too)
Export Publications (for Pemberton, UK)
(Printed in Canada, 1946)
I Found Cleopatra – Thomas P. Kelly (sic)
Everybody's Books
(UK: pamphlets and digests)
Anonymous:
Tales of Murder and Mystery
Tales of Mystery and Surprises
Tales of Terror and Surprise
Tales of Terror and the Unknown
The Gamma Ray Murders – Preston Yorke
The Astounding Crime – Preston Yorke
The Grim Caretaker – Eugene Ascher
Uncanny Adventures – Eugene Ascher
Land of Hidden Death – Justin Atholl
Hamilton & Co (UK)
The Terror Strikes – N Wesley Firth, 1946
Strange Hunger – Michael Hervey, 1946
The Terror – N Wesley Firth, 1946
The Tomb of Horror – Earl Ellison, 1946
Harborough Publishing Co (UK) 1951
Shuna, White Queen of the Jungle – John King
J. Dennett (Australia: 1940s pamphlet)
Wolfblood – Vol Molesworth
John Spencer & Co.
Zamba of the Jungle – John Raymond
Mitre Press (UK 40s pamphlet or thin digest)
You Can't Hang the Dead – Leslie Carroll
The Blackmailer and the Blonde -- L. Carroll
The Lamp Burns With Blood -- L. Carroll
The Oasis of Sleep – Justin Atholl
The Man Who Tilted The Earth– Justin Atholl
Uncanny – George C. Bachelor
There Were No Asper Ladies– Eugene Ascher
Uncanny Tales – R. Thurston Hopkins
Weird and Uncanny Stories– R Thurston Hopkins
Robin Hood Press (UK: thin digest)
There Were No Asper Ladies- Eugene Ascher, 1940s
Scion, Ltd (UK: digest)
The Untamed – Victor Norwood, '51
Drums Along The Amazon – Victor Norwood
Cry of the Beast – Victor Norwood
The Gold of Akada – Earl Titan, 1951
Anjani the Mighty -- Earl Titan
Gerald G. Swan (UK: 1940s Pamphlets)
Crime Shorts # 3
Gang Shorts #'s 1, 2, 3, 4
Thrill Shorts #'s 1, 2
Detective Shorts # 3
Western Shorts #'s 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Vengeance Shorts #'s 1, 2
They Come From Mars – W.P. Cockcroft
Monster of the Lagoon – George F. Worts
The Dark City – Kay Hammond (upgrade)
Occult: A Collection of Stories of the
Supernatural (upgrade only)
Occult Shorts (2nd Collection) (upgrade only)
Weird Story Magazine (upgrade only)
Weird Story Magazine # 2 (upgrade only)
The following Swan's are author unknown and likely are short stories
that appear in some collection, somewhere:
The Lonely Road, circa 1946
The Clay Hercules, boxing story, dated???
Gerald G. Swan (UK: 1940s – 1960s Digests)
Four-In-One Weird and Occult Shorts – 1948
Four-In-One Crime Shorts – ca. 1948
Four-In-One Gang and Thrills Shorts
Four-In-One Crime and Vengeance Shorts
Weird and Occult Miscellany – ca. 1960-61
Into The Fourth Dimension –Ray Cummings, 1943
Moon Conquerors – R. H. Romans, 1943
Detective Thriller Library #'s 1, 2 -- ca 1960-61
SPACE: FACT AND FICTION ALBUM, mid- 1950s
Scientific Thriller (Australia: digest pamphlet)
All wanted: by the following authors:
Paul Valdez Otto Kensch
W. Herscholt B. Ludwig
Belli Luigi S. Heinkel
R. Glenning
Tit-Bits Crime Fiction Library, imprint of
C Arthur Pearson (UK thin digest)
Murder Comes Easy – Sean Gregory
Fall Guy – Frank Struan
Corpses Cause Trouble – John Y Damony
Jail Break – Dane Andrews
Tunnel of Nightmare – Frank Struan
Treasure of Monte Ragazzo – Howard Braddock
Murder Bangs a Big Drum – Sean Gregory
Death in Darkness – Frank Struan
Missing – Believed Stolen – Dane Andrews
A Guy With a Gun – Dane Andrews
Murder Is So Permanent – Sean Gregory
Dateline Paris – Frank Struan
Murder Makes a Corpse – Sean Gregory
Murder Is So Unpleasant – Frank Struan
Girl From the Sea – Frank Struan
The Contact Man – Frank Struan
Murder Makes Mockery – Sean Gregory
This Woman Is Dangerous – Laurence Mallory
Edge of Terror – Sean Gregory
Transport Publications (Australia: pamphlet)
Action Monthly # 11 – (ca. mid-1950s)
Action Monthly #'s 1-9, 13, 14 on up (minor wants)
Utopian Publications (UK: 1940s pamphlet)
Strange Love Stories – Anonymous
Strange Tales # 1 (Alva Rogers cover art)
Strange Tales # 1 (H. W. Perl cover art)
American Fiction, series (1944-1946)
see section Part Four for details
Van der Elst Press Ltd (UK: 1940s pamphlet)
(All self-published by Violet Van der Elst)
The Sadistic Vampire
The Mummy Come To Life
The Strange Doctor & Other Mystic Stories
The Satanic Power
The Brain Master
The Secret Power
Death of the Vampire Baroness
United Kingdom Fanzines:
Slant QUOTE ALL, but need only # 1, and upgrades
United Kingdom Pulps & Digest-Magazines:
Gripping Terror, Hamilton & Co.
Creasey Mystery Magazine # 13
Round-Up Magazine (western), City Libraries, of Glasgow
Screen Chills and Macabre Stories, Pep Publishers & Printers
Weird Tales, William C. Merrett
Strange Tales, Utopian Publications
(cover art by H. W. Perl features a female on cover)
(cover art by Alva Rogers, 1st edition)
American Fiction, Utopian Publications
01. E. Frank Parker "Girl In Trouble"
02. S. P. Meek "Arctic Bride"
03. Robert Bloch "Sea-Kissed"
Variant features additional story "Goper's Head" by Benson Herbert
04. Jack Williamson "Lady In Danger"
05. Edmond Hamilton "Tiger Girl"
06. Johnson Harris "Love In Time"
07. Edmond Hamilton "Murder in the Clinic"
08. Stanton A. Coblentz "Youth Madness"
09. H. O. Dickinson "The Sex Serum"
10. R. A. Palmer "Strange Offering"
12. H. Vincent "Master of Dreams"
Weird Tales, Gerald G. Swan
Weird Pocket Library, Gerald G. Swan
Weird Shorts – First Selection, Gerald G. Swan
Weird Story Magazine, Gerald G. Swan
...
Australian:
Scientific Thrillers, Transport Publications, quote all
Action Monthly, Transport Publications, quote all
Canadian:
Toronto Star Weekly (also, please quote USA editions of Fearn)
"The Golden Amazon"
Uncanny Tales (Adam Publishing) 6 and 9
Uncanny Tales (Norman Book) 17
Eerie Tales
American paperbacks:
I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
Cosmic Engineers – Clifford D Simak
Pattern for Conquest – George O. Smith
The Shadow and the Voice of Murder – Maxwell Grant
Tarzan in the Forbidden City – Edgar Rice Burroughs
MISCELLANEOUS:
You Murdered Me -- Rosina Tarne, John Crowther, Uk circa 1946,
possibly not published
Partners In Crime -- *author unknown* -- India: Thackers of Bombay,
circa 1947, exists
The Bride of Frankenstein -- UK: Queensway Press, 1935 edition
Tapestry Triangle -- Thomas P. Kelley, Canadian, Associated Weekly
Newspapers Book Division for Pembertons, circa 1946
War of the Worlds -- H G Wells -- UK: World's Work
ADDITIONAL:
quote all pamphlet or paperbacks by Justin Atholl, R. Thurston
Hopkins,
Darcy Glinto, Michael Hervey, Eugene Ascher, Preston Yorke, Buck
Toler,
N Wesley Firth, Earl Ellison, Henri Duval, Gaston Lamond.....