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Toadstool Wine: A Collection of Fantasy and Horror from Six Independent Magazines

W. Paul Ganley

First published 1975
Publisher A. S. P.
Format quarto
Type Anthology
Cover art Lee Brown Coye
Pages 64
Price $2.95

The members of A.S.P., the publisher, were W. Paul Ganley (Weirdbook), Dale Donaldson (Moonbroth), Gordon Linzner (Space and Time), Jessica Amanda Salmonson (Fantasy and Terror), Stuart David Schiff (Whispers) and Greg Stafford (Wyrd).

  • Page numbers include covers.
  • Errata laid in.
  • Pages 44 though 51 are paired pages printed perpendicular to the rest of the publication.
  • The magazine anthology includes samplers from six independent horror & weird magazines: Fantasy & Terror (ed. Jessica Amanda Salmonson), pp. 7-15; Moonbroth (ed. Dale C. Donaldson), pp. 16-24; Space & Time (ed. Gordon Linzer), pp. 25-33; Weirdbook (ed. W. Paul Ganley), pp. 34-42; Whispers (ed. Stuart David Schiff), pp. 43-51; and Wyrd (ed. Greg Stafford), pp. 52-60. Ganley is listed as the "Coordinating Editor"; some sites list each of the sampler editors as additional editors of the anthology.

Page Title Author(s) Type
2 Editorial: Not at the Newstand (Toadstool Wine: A Collection of Fantasy and Horror from Six Independent Magazines) W. Paul Ganley Essay
3 The Literature of Cosmic Dread Fritz Leiber Essay
8 Editorial: Dear Odysseans Jessica Amanda Salmonson Essay
8 Editorial: Signifying Nothing Phyllis Ann Karr Essay
9 Ithtidzik David C. Smith Short Story
11 The Sword That Sings Stephanie Stearns Poem
14 "Die, Black Dog!" Charles R. Saunders Essay
16 Editorial (Toadstool Wine) Dale Donaldson Essay
17 Dragons, Snakes and Wiverns Tredinnick Essay
20 Scra Douglas Justice Short Story
23 Spellbound Gahan Addams Poem
24 Lover's Parting Margaret L. Carter Poem
26 Death of a Unicorn Michael M. Levy Short Story
28 Pleasure Frederic Croft Short Story
32 Transmutation John Bredon Poem
35 The Shaman's Head Jack Wysocki Short Story
36 Clover and Mushrooms Alixandra Lee Poem
37 The Black Footprints William Scott Home Short Story
40 Sorcerer's Web Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
41 How Ranthes Yin Sailed a Boat on the Waters of the River Time Darrell Schweitzer Short Story
42 Ache of an Ancient Avatar Walter Shedlofsky Poem
42 Drowned Robert E. Howard Poem
44 Editorial (Toadstool Wine) Stuart Schiff Essay
45 The Bait Fritz Leiber Short Story
46 News (Toadstool Wine) uncredited Essay
46 Story-Writing: A Letter from H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft Essay
46 Varney the Vampire or, The Feast of Blood Stuart David Schiff & Thomas Preskett Prest Review
49 The Inglorious Rise of the Catsmeat Man Robin Smyth Short Story
52 The Last Battle Brian Howard Crist Short Story
54 Editorial (Toadstool Wine) uncredited Essay
58 St. Columba and the Monster of Loch Ness Phyllis Ann Karr Short Story