Vampire Megapack
The Werewolf Megapack
WESTERNS
The B.M. Bower Megapack
The Max Brand Megapack
The Buffalo Bill Megapack
The Cowboy Megapack
The Zane Grey Megapack
The Western Megapack
The Second Western Megapack
The Wizard of Oz Megapack
YOUNG ADULT
The Boys’ Adventure Megapack
The Dan Carter, Cub Scout Megapack
The Doll Story Megapack
The G.A. Henty Megapack
The Girl Detectives Megapack
The Penny Parker Megapack
The Pinocchio Megapack
The Rover Boys Megapack
The Tom Corbett, Space Cadet Megapack
The Tom Swift Megapack
AUTHOR MEGAPACKS
The Achmed Abdullah Megapack
The Second Achmed Abdullah Megapack
The Edward Bellamy Megapack
The B.M. Bower Megapack
The E.F. Benson Megapack
The Second E.F. Benson Megapack
The First Algernon Blackwood Megapack**
The Second Algernon Blackwood Megapack
The Max Brand Megapack
The First Reginald Bretnor Megapack
The Wilkie Collins Megapack
The Ray Cummings Megapack
The Guy de Maupassant Megapack
The Philip K. Dick Megapack
The Erckmann-Chatrian Megapack
The Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Megapack
The Jacques Futrelle Megapack
The Randall Garrett Megapack
The Kahlil Gibran Megapack*
The Second Randall Garrett Megapack
The Anna Katharine Green Megapack
The Zane Grey Megapack
The Edmond Hamilton Megapack
The Dashiell Hammett Megapack
The M.R. James Megapack
The Selma Lagerlof Megapack
The Murray Leinster Megapack
The Arthur Machen Megapack**
The Second Murray Leinster Megapack
The George Barr McCutcheon Megapack
The Talbot Mundy Megapack
The Andre Norton Megapack
The H. Beam Piper Megapack
The Mack Reynolds Megapack
The Rafael Sabatini Megapack**
The Saki Megapack
The Robert Sheckley Megapack
*Not available in the United States.
**Not Available in the European Union.
OTHER COLLECTIONS YOU MAY ENJOY
The Great Book of Wonder, by Lord Dunsany (it should have been called “The Lord Dunsany Megapack”)
The Wildside Book of Fantasy
The Wildside Book of Science Fiction
Yondering: The First Borgo Press Book of Science Fiction Stories
To the Stars—And Beyond! The Second Borgo Press Book of Science Fiction Stories
Once Upon a Future: The Third Borgo Press Book of Science Fiction Stories
Whodunit?—The First Borgo Press Book of Crime and Mystery Stories
More Whodunits—The Second Borgo Press Book of Crime and Mystery Stories
X is for Xmas: Christmas Mysteries
INTRODUCTION, by Philip Harbottle
When I was given a free hand to create a new paperback fantasy magazine for Wildside Press in 2002, the only restriction I was given was that I had to purchase all its contents myself!
With a free editorial hand, my initial policy was to commission new stories from the older British science fiction authors, whose work I had read and enjoyed over many years. But, unaccountably, all of them had fallen silent in recent years because successive British magazine editors had chosen to ignore their talent. Not one editor had thought to commission new work from them in years!
I was angry that these talented veteran authors—who had helped to pioneer magazine science fiction in Britain—had been denied the opportunity to prove that they still had worthwhile stories to tell, and new things to say. And I also felt that many of their excellent early stories had been too long out of print, and been unjustly forgotten.
I wrote to all of these writers, offering them a firm commission for new work, and at a reasonable rate of pay. Selected reprints could also be used, at half this rate.
Most of the writers I contacted no longer had agents, and I was gratified when they asked me to represent them. As their new agent, I was then able to sell many of their backlist novels to my publisher, Wildside—and to other publishers, too.
And so Fantasy Adventures was launched. Print-on-demand paperbacks were still relatively new in 2002, and there was considerable dealer resistance to carrying them. It soon became evident that circulation would never be great, so budget considerations meant that only one-third of the 60,000 words contents were new stories, but I still managed to obtain some fine material, most notably some brilliant new stories by Sydney J. Bounds, Philip E. High, and E. C. Tubb. Much of each issue was made up with a reprint of one of John Russell Fearn’s better novels from the 1950s, and featuring specially commissioned illustrative covers by famed ex-Scion artist Ron Turner.
My editorial
