''The Garden of Fear and Other Stories'' is an anthology of

fantasy Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction involving Magic (supernatural), magical elements, typically set in a fictional universe and sometimes inspired by mythology and folklore. Its roots are in oral traditions, which then became fantasy ...

and

science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...

stories anonymously edited by

William L. Crawford William Levi Crawford (September 10, 1911 – January 25, 1984) was an American publisher and editor. Career During the autumn of 1933, Crawford, a West Coast science fiction fan, proposed to start a non-paying weird fiction magazine, ''Unusu ...

. It was published as A Crawford Publication in

1945 1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the only year in which nuclear weapons have been used in combat. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. Januar ...

in an edition of 48,000 copies. The H. P. Lovecraft story first appeared in the magazine ''The Rainbow''. The other stories originally appeared in the magazine '' Marvel Tales''.

*"The Garden of Fear", by

Robert E. Howard Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906June 11, 1936) was an American writer. He wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He is well known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subge ...

*"The Man with the Hour Glass", by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach *" Celephais", by H. P. Lovecraft *"Mars Colonizes", by Miles J. Breuer, M.D. *"The Golden Bough", by David H. Keller, M.D.

Adaptations

The Howard story was adapted by

Marvel Comics Marvel Comics is an American comic book publishing, publisher and the flagship property of Marvel Entertainment, a divsion of The Walt Disney Company since September 1, 2009. Evolving from Timely Comics in 1939, ''Magazine Management/Atlas Co ...

as a Conan tale in ''Conan the Barbarian'' #9 ("The Garden of Fear", Sept 1971) by writer

Roy Thomas Roy William Thomas Jr."Roy Thomas Checklist" ''Alter Ego'' vol. 3, #50 (July 2005) p. 16 (born November 22, 1940) is an American comic book writer and editor, who was Stan Lee's first successor as editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics. He is possibl ...

and artist Barry Smith.

References

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