The Anthem Series: A Guide to The Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and Weird Specialty Publishers of the Golden Age
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Author(s)Earl Terry Kemp
ISBN / ASIN1479287830
ISBN-139781479287833
Sales Rank4,820,776
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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The Anthem Series A Guide to The Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and Weird Specialty Publishers of the Golden Age What is The Anthem Series? The best science fiction, fantasy, horror and weird ever published by those original specialty publishers of the Golden Age of the genre. More precisely, The Anthem Series is contained within these pages. All of the imprints: Fantasy Press, Visionary Publishing Company, Fantasy Publishing Company, Incorporated, Griffin Publishing Company, Carcosa House, and Fantasy Book, Prime Press, Avalon Company, and Chamberlain Press, Shasta Publishers, and Gorgon Press, Gnome Press, Arkham House, and Mycroft & Moran, Grant-Hadley Enterprises, Buffalo Book Company, Hadley Publishing Company, Grandon: Publishers, Fantasy Fiction Field (FFF), Shroud: Publishers, Kenneth J. Krueger, Donald M. Grant, and The Phantagraph Press, Hyman Kaner, Trover Hall, The New Collector’s Group, New Era Publishing Company, The NFFF (National Fantasy Fan Federation), Merlin Press, Macabre House, The Council of Four, Squires & Beck, Perri Press, Science Fiction and Fantasy Publications, ASFO Press (Atlantic Science Fiction Organization), Walter R. Cole, MITSFS (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Science Fiction Society); and Advent:Publishers, Inc. Here are all the titles (over 410), the stories, with their dust jackets, including variants, including a master checklist. Added to this are bibliographic details containing information pertaining to first edition publication of these titles by the specialty publishers, as well as such details about the first appearance of these stories in the pulp magazines of the era, and information about their first paperback appearance (over 960 scans). As an added feature many of the first appearance pulp magazine covers appear, peppered by paperback covers and miscellaneous related covers, such as fanzine appearances. Further, a synopsis for each and every story, as well as a brief criticism completes this work. For more related titles, see our website at: www.TwentySecondCenturyEnterprises.com
