Category: Media

Best Book of Sports Stories

Sections: Information | Covers

Information

  • Published by:
    • Doubleday and Company, 1966, USA.
  • Edited by: M. A. Donnelly
  • Illustrated by: Julio Freire
  • Also contains:
    • “The Diving Fool” by Franklin M. Reck
    • “A Piece of Steak” by Jack London
    • “A Busher’s Letters Home” by Ring Lardner
    • “Thicker Than Water” by Paul Gallico
    • “The Zealots of Cranston Tech” by Archie Oldham
    • “The Winning Bug” by Jackson Scholz
    • “The Greatest Victory” by Frank O’Rourk
    • “A Cure for Lumbago” by Charles Van Loan
    • “Dog Man” by Vereen Bell
    • “Bigger Than A Victory” by Owen Johnson
    • “His Finest Race” by A. Stanley Kramer
    • “Matilda” by Le Grand
    • “Last Race” by Harry Sylvester
    • “Mountain Madness” by Tom Hopkinson

Covers

The Best of Playboy Fiction Volume 2 (Audio Cassette)

Sections: Information | Covers

Information

  • Published by:
    • Brilliance Audio, 1996.
  • Contains:
    • “The Bookseller” (read by Micheal Page)
    • “Welcome to the Monkeyhouse” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (read by J. Charles)
    • “The Purpose of the Moon” by Tom Robbins (read by Steve Yankee)
    • “Carnal Knowledge” by T. Coraghessan Boyle (read by Dick Hill)
    • “Fahrvergnugen” by Jane Smiley (read by Bill Weidman)

Covers

Adventure and Suspense

Sections: Information | Covers

Information

  • Published by:
    • Scholastic, 1973, USA.
  • Edited by: Marion L. Huyck

Covers

The Armchair Horror Collection

Sections: Information | Covers

Information

  • Published by:
    • Orion Paperbacks, 1994, UK.
  • Edited by: Peter Haining

Covers

The Armchair Aviator

Sections: Information | Description | Covers

Information

  • Published by:
    • Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1983, USA.
  • Edited by: John Thorn

Description

From book cover: “Best in aviation fact and fiction–military or civil–from Richard Bach, Arthur C. Clarke, Len Deighton, Jimmy Doolittle, Ernest Gann, Wolfgang Langewiesche, Charles Lindbergh, Norman Mailer, James Michener, Harald Penrose, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, James Thurber, John Toland, and MANY MORE.”

From eBay auction: “Also includes writings by Octave Chanute, Michael Collins, Roald Dahl, Amelia Earhart, Benjamin Franklin, Sigmund Freud, John Glenn, Joseph Heller, Leonardo da Vinci, C.P. Snow, Edgar Allen Poe, H.G. Wells, T.H. White, Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright, William Butler Yeats, and many more. ‘The Armchair Aviator’ touches on every aspect of man’s love affair with flight, from Icarus’s fall to the Eagle landing… Excellent essays, this is where literature, dreams, science, technology, history all meet. Great book about flight, airplane, astronauts and space travel, air power and military, World War I and World War II and role of Air Force, jet fighters, etc. Fascinating.”

Covers

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories to be Read With the Door Locked

Sections: Information | Covers

Information

  • Published by:
    • Random House, 1975, USA.
  • Also contains:
    • “Hijack” by Robert L Fish
    • “Tomorrow and Tomorrow” by Adobe James
    • “Funeral in Another Town” by Jerry Jacobson
    • “A Case for Quiet” by William Jeffrey
    • “A Good Head for Murder” by Charles W Runyon
    • “The Invisible Cat” by Betty Ren Wright
    • “Light Verse” by Issac Asimov
    • “The Distributor” by Richard Matheson
    • “How Henry J Littlefinger Licked the Hippies Scheme to Take Over the Country by Tossing Pot in Postage Stamp Glue” by John Keefauver
    • “The Leak” by Jacques Futrelle
    • “All the Sounds of Fear” by Harlan Ellison
    • “Little Foxes Sleep Warm” by Waldo Carlton Wright
    • “The Graft is Green” by Harold Q Masur
    • “View by Moonlight” by Pat McGerr
    • “Ther Hangs Death!” by John D MacDonald
    • “Lincoln’s Doctor’s Son’s Dog” by Warner Law
    • “Coyote Street” by Gary Brandner
    • “Zombique” by Joseph Payne Brennan
    • “The Pattern” by Bill Pronzini
    • “Pipe Dream” by Alan Dean Foster
    • “Shottle Bop” by Theodore Sturgeon
    • “The Magnum” by Jack Ritchie
    • “Voices in the Dust” by Gerald Kersh
    • “The Odor of Melting” by Edward D Hoch
    • “The Sound of Murder” by William P McGivern
    • “The Income Tax Mystery” by Michael Gilbert
    • “Watch for It” by Joseph N Gores
    • “The Affair of the Twisted Scarf” by Rex Stout

Covers