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Love Potions  
  and Wonders
Love potions, romantic incantations, and spells that bind men's hearts have been the stock in trade of witches from time immemorial. Surely therefore if witches exist today—as some say—then would they not still be trying to snare the souls of unsuspecting men? GLAMOUR by the well-known Seabury Quinn is a story dealing with just that intriguing notion. For what is glamour but a mysterious art, the secret and sale of which is actually one of the Twentieth Century's major industries? Perhaps, as this colorful tale suggests, we have something to learn from the darker centuries.
Seabury Quinn is only one of the popular fantasy writers this new number of the Avon Fantasy Reader presents. You will be pleased to read other excellent and long-sought-after classics of the imagination, hitherto unobtainable, such as:
  MOGGLESBY by T. S. Stribling: a story of the “Missing Link,” of ape-men in a jungle fastness and of the terrible decision that was forced upon their human discoverer. An overlooked classic that should rank with “Tarzan.”  
  THE DANCER IN THE CRYSTAL by Francis Flagg: an unusual tale of the incredible events that occurred when a celestial visitor short-circuited the world.  
  THE INHERITORS by John Michel and Robert Lowndes: a grimly compelling novelette of the final war and Nature's own ultimatum to mankind.
Specially selected tales by Frank Owen, M. R. James, Nelson Bond, and Ray Bradbury round out this number to make the Eleventh Avon Fantasy Reader the best collection of imaginative stories on the market at popular prices.
D.A.W.