Each went through multiple printings, and Fright was retitled Harvest of Fear in its 1975 printing.įright contains six tales, by E.T.A. These books are Fright (1963), A Feast of Blood (1967), and A Walk with the Beast (1969). It is a kind of pseudo-archeological book about dwarf artifacts supposedly found in northern England.Įven further back in time before I knew Charlie, he edited three mass market horror anthologies for Avon Books, and these are the main reason for attention here. It has over one hundred illustrations, with twenty-five in color. The final Centaur book was in essence a showcase of the art of David Wenzel called Kingdom of the Dwarves, with text written by Robb Walsh. Its first printing of 10,000 copies sold out before publication, and a second printing of the same number was made. There was also a Tolkien-related volume, The World of Tolkien Illustrated, by Lin Carter, with cover and illustrations by David Wenzel. These include Galad Elflandsson's short novel The Black Wolf, and a collection of William Hope Hodgson stories, Out of the Storm, which omits the long introduction by Sam Moskowitz in the original 1975 Grant edition. Of Centaur's final four titles, published in 19, two are trade paperback reprintings of volumes originally published in limited editions by Donald M. Warner Munn's The Werewolf of Ponkert, originally collected in a volume published in 1953. Cyclops, originally a movie tie-in novel to the 1940 film of the same name, published under a house pseudonym "Will Garth." One original anthology, Swordsmen and Supermen edited by Donald M. Charles Vivian, Caesar Dies by Talbot Mundy, Grey Maiden by Arthur D. Bill's werewolf novel, The Wolf in the Garden, City of Wonder by E. Allan Dunn, and other reprints, including Alfred H. Howard ( The Moon of Skulls, The Hand of Kane, and Solomon Kane, each of which went through three printings), as well as another Friel, two Atlantis books by J. Between 19, Centaur published over a dozen more such editions, including three by Robert E. It was mass-market sized but printed on much better paper, as were most of the Centaur publications. The first Centaur book was a reprint of The Pathless Trail, by Arthur O. We swapped books and a few letters.īefore I knew him, Charlie had been one of the founders (in 1970, with his old friend, Donald M. He introduced us at a bookseller's convention, and for years afterwards I looked forward to catching up with Charlie at that annual event. Charlie didn't call on me himself, but his colleague Ken McConnell did, and Ken often said, in his thick Scots accent, that he must get Charlie and I together because of our shared interests. I met him because his company of publisher's representatives, Como Sales, called on me at my Ithaca, New York, bookstore in the 1980s and early 1990s. He wrote many non-fiction books as well.I recently learned that my friend Charlie Collins passed away at the end of August. His novels are about the trio, McKay, Ryan and Knowlton. These stories use natural and supernatural creatures of the jungle. His short story series features two explorers named Pedro and Lourenco. Unlike Edgar Rice Burroughs and his many imitators, Friel was actually an explorer, having spent six months on Venezuela’s Orinoco River. Arthur Olney Friel was a writer of jungle adventure stories for Adventure magazine.
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