The Unknown (1963 anthology) explained

The Unknown is an anthology of fantasy fiction short stories edited by D. R. Bensen and illustrated by Edd Cartier, the second of a number of anthologies drawing their contents from the American magazine Unknown of the 1930s-1940s. It was first published in paperback by Pyramid Books in April 1963. It was reprinted by the same publisher in October 1970, and by Jove/HBJ in August 1978 A companion anthology, The Unknown Five, was issued in 1964.

The book collects eleven tales by various authors, together with a foreword by Isaac Asimov and an introduction by the editor.

Contents

• "Foreword" (Isaac Asimov)
• "Introduction" (D. R. Bensen)
• "The Misguided Halo" (Henry Kuttner) (Unknown, Aug. 1939)
• "Prescience" (Nelson S. Bond) (Unknown Worlds, Oct. 1941)
• "Yesterday Was Monday" (Theodore Sturgeon) (Unknown Fantasy Fiction, June 1941)
• "The Gnarly Man" (L. Sprague de Camp) (Unknown, June 1939)
• "The Bleak Shore" (Fritz Leiber) (Unknown Fantasy Fiction, Nov. 1940)
• "Trouble with Water" (H. L. Gold) (Unknown, Mar. 1939)
• "Doubled and Redoubled" (Malcolm Jameson) (Unknown Fantasy Fiction, Feb. 1941)
• "When It Was Moonlight" (Manly Wade Wellman) (Unknown Fantasy Fiction, Feb. 1940)
• "Mr. Jinx" (Fredric Brown and Robert Arthur (as by Arthur alone)) (Unknown Fantasy Fiction, Aug. 1941)
• "Snulbug" (Anthony Boucher) (Unknown Worlds, Dec. 1941)
• " Armageddon" (Fredric Brown) (Unknown Fantasy Fiction, Aug. 1941)