I'm afraid those are the only stories that I remember from The Avon Ghost Reader , but considering that I read it almost fifty years ago, the impressions that the stories made must have been pretty strong. The Science Fiction Galaxy edited by Groff Conklin and Shot in the Dark edited by Judith Merrill. Which brings me back to college, and the army, and my first real job and my marriage. In those early years a favorite outing for Pat and myself began with a sleazy science fiction movie, or better yet a double feature. Maybe, War of the Colossal Beast and House on Haunted Hill .
Tickets cost fifty cents.
We lived near White Plains, New York, for the first year of our marriage, and after the movies we would walk to Tommy Chen's restaurant for a late dinner topped off with watery chocolate ice cream. Then home to our apartment and our cocker spaniel. Pat and I had long since moved to Manhattan and had a wonderful apartment on East 73rd Street. I had a second job, moonlighting as an editor for Canaveral Press at 63 Fourth Avenue. Working for Canaveral, I found myself acting as Edgar Rice Burroughs' posthumous editor.