The Unknown (1963 anthology)
The Unknown is an anthology of fantasy fiction short stories edited by D. R. Bensen and illustrated by Edd Cartier, the second of a number of anthologies drawing their contents from the American magazine Unknown of the 1930s-1940s. It was first published in paperback by Pyramid Books in April 1963. It was reprinted by the same publisher in October 1970, and by Jove/HBJ in August 1978[1] A companion anthology, The Unknown Five, was issued in 1964.
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Editor | D. R. Bensen |
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Illustrator | Edd Cartier |
Cover artist | John Schoenherr |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Fantasy |
Publisher | Pyramid Books |
Publication date | 1963 |
Media type | Print (paperback) |
Pages | 192 |
Followed by | The Unknown Five |
The book collects eleven tales by various authors, together with a foreword by Isaac Asimov and an introduction by the editor.
Contents
- "Foreword" (Isaac Asimov)
- "Introduction" (D. R. Bensen)
- "The Misguided Halo" (Henry Kuttner) (Unknown, Aug. 1939)
- "Prescience" (Nelson S. Bond) (Unknown Worlds, Oct. 1941)
- "Yesterday Was Monday" (Theodore Sturgeon) (Unknown Fantasy Fiction, June 1941)
- "The Gnarly Man" (L. Sprague de Camp) (Unknown, June 1939)
- "The Bleak Shore" (Fritz Leiber) (Unknown Fantasy Fiction, Nov. 1940)
- "Trouble with Water" (H. L. Gold) (Unknown, Mar. 1939)
- "Doubled and Redoubled" (Malcolm Jameson) (Unknown Fantasy Fiction, Feb. 1941)
- "When It Was Moonlight" (Manly Wade Wellman) (Unknown Fantasy Fiction, Feb. 1940)
- "Mr. Jinx" (Fredric Brown and Robert Arthur (as by Arthur alone)) (Unknown Fantasy Fiction, Aug. 1941)
- "Snulbug" (Anthony Boucher) (Unknown Worlds, Dec. 1941)
- " Armageddon" (Fredric Brown) (Unknown Fantasy Fiction, Aug. 1941)
Notes
- The Unknown title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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