Robert Arthur: "The Believers," ""The Book and the Beast," and "Ring Once for Death"

Recently, one of my well-read commenters recommended the author Robert Arthur. Not long after, I encountered at an antique mall a hard cover edition of the one Arthur collection listed at isfdb, Ghosts and More Ghosts, the one with an owl on the cover, not one of the editions with a ghost on the cover. I didn't drop 20 bucks for this thing, being an inveterate cheapo, but I still felt its appearance in my life was a sign I should read some of Arthur's stories. While this early 1960s collection was marketed to young people, the stories were originally printed in places like Weird Tales and Argosy, so presumably suitable for a 54-year-old like myself, at least in their original forms. So let's hie to the internet archive and read the magazine versions of three tales by Robert Arthur that were reprinted in Ghosts and More Ghosts, two from Weird Tales and one from Amazing.(You can read the 1963 1st revised edition of Ghosts and More Ghosts at the internet archive here. The headings of…