“ It is no wonder at all that the Avon Fantasy Reader has found its readers applauding each number with mounting enthusiasm. In the pages of this hook we present the best efforts of imaginative men and women to obtain glimpses beyond the moon, to tell us tomorrow's blazing headlines today. Nothing else but the omens of our times can account for such stories as the pen of Catherine L. Moore can turn out. Such a tale as Scarlet Dream, interlocking within itself the future of men on Mars and temptations of dimensions yet unguessed by science. ”

“ Receiving re-echoed radio signals from Luna's pock-marked surface is already old stuff, last year's headlines. People read these reports as they go about their daily work: outwardly they do not change, but we feel confident that inwardly a very profound disturbance is moving into the hearts of humanity.
For thousands of years, as far back as recorded legend goes, the moon has been a symbol of the unattainable, of the heights of ambition and vanity and desire. ”

“ Frank Owen likewise knows how to tie in the past with the present as you will find in his enthralling modern legend of China, A Study in Amber. We cannot fail to see the doorways of power and terror that open up in the startling tales of C. M. Kombluth and Robert W. Chambers.
You'll find this an all-around collection of really superior fantasy. Write us and tell us what you think of it and what you would like to see in the future numbers.
—Donald A. Wollheim
Acknowledgments
Scarlet Dream by C. L. Moore. Copyright, 1934, by the Popular Fiction Publishing Company. ”