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Weird Tales
1928
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. WEIRD TALES
January, 1928

Vol. 11, No. 1
Title Issue: MULti-WT0052Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 144
Cover: C. C. Senf  - Illustrating a scene from "The Gods of East and West"

Weird Tales cover
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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Giant World [Part 1 of 3]..........Ray Cummings
     A three-part weird-scientific serial - a distant world - giants growing into largeness unfathomable -  eery adventures.
The Time-Raider [Part 4 of 4]..........Edmond Hamilton
     A four-part serial about an entity that sweeps back thorugh time to seize its victims.

Novelettes:
The Gods of East and West..........Seabury Quinn
     A tale of Jules de Grandin - the Gods of East and West wage terrific battle over the soul of Idoline Chef[-----]le
The Golden Whistle..........Eli Colter
     Su[---]ver came from a far planet, searching the worlds for a soul that he could d[----] in him by atomic vibrtics.

Short Stories:
The Bone-Grinder..........Wilford Allen
     A weird story of the frightful thing that crushed the life out of those that came within its toils.
The Feathered Serpent..........Walter Carrington
     The Gray Death slithered through the ruins of the Temple of Xupa, where C[-------] C]--------] fought against the Thing.
The Garret of Madame Lemoyne..........W. K. Mashburn, Jr.
     The black [------] of Madame Lemoyne [-------] a {-------] that not even death could kill - a ghost-tale of New Orleans.
Metzengerstein..........Edgar Allan Poe [Weird Story Reprint]
     The great horse of the C[-----] B[----------] galloped, full-tilt, into the flames, bearing Metsengerstein to his doom.
While the Lamps Hissed..........Arthur W. Davenport
     Adalish the Arab coveted the immense diaomonds that were the teeth of the idol of D[-------], but they were guarded well.

Short Fiction:
In Amundsen's Tent..........John Martin Leahy
     A horror lurked in Roald Amundsen's tent at the South Pole - an utterly abominable and terrifying monstrosity.

Essays/Articles:
The Eyrie
     A chat with the readers
Folks Used to Believe: Conceptions of Deity..........Alvin F. Harlow
     Curious concepts of God held by our ancestors

Poems:
The Chant of the Grave-Digger..........Robert S. Carr 
Folk of the Dark..........N. L. Brewer 
Haunted Island..........Wilfred Blanch Talman
The Riders of Babylon..........Robert E. Howard 
 

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. WEIRD TALES
February, 1928

Vol. 11, No. 2
Title Issue: MULti-WT0053
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 144
Cover: C. C. Senf  - Illustrating a scene from "The Ghost-Table"

Weird Tales cover
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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Giant World [Part 2 of 3]..........Ray Cummings
     A three-part weird-scientific serial - a distant world - giants growing into largeness unfathomable -  gooseflesh adventures.

Novelettes:
The Call of Cthulhu..........H. P. Lovecraft 
     Slithering through the earth came the thoughts of Cthulhu, and mankind feared the rule of an obscene and incredible monstrosity.
Clarimonde..........Théophile Gautier [Weird Story Reprint]
     "Le Morte Amoureusse," the most exquisitely beautiful of all vampire tales, translated by Lafcadio Hearn.
Mephistopheles and Company, Ltd...........Seabury Quinn
     Jules de Grandin rescues an Austrian girl from the fiendish grasp of a heartless devil syndicate.

Short Stories:
The Curse of Alabad, Ghinu and Aratza..........Wilfred Blanch Talman
     "If she sinks she is innocent, but if she floats, she is a wtich and must die!" - a tale of old New York.
The Dream Snake..........Robert E. Howard
     An eery snake story - an unusual tale - night by night the horror grew, until it completely emeshed the doomed man.
The Ghost-Table..........Elliot O'Donnell
     An exciting tale of occult phenomena - a rampant beast, lusing to kill, [----] this table with the tiger-claws.
The Isle of the Fairy Morgana..........John Martin Leahy
     A cruel murder took place of Flang Island, hidden from the world, yet Guy Osford saw every frightful  detail of the murder.
The Mist-Monster..........Granville S. Hoss
     A weird mist billowed up from the [----] - and horrible was the thing that it hid.
The Purple Sea..........Frank Owen
     Another exquisite Chinese fantasy, as full of color as the [----[ "The Wind That Tramps the World."
The Shadow on the Moor..........Stuart Strauss
     A creepy tale of the pre-druidistic ruins of England - out on the moor were dacning and strange wild music and death.

Essays/Articles:
The Eerie
     A chat with the readers
Folks Used to Believe: The Barnacle Goose..........Alvin F. Harlow
     One of the curious superstitions of our ancestors.

Poems:
The Three Witches..........Ernest Dowson 
 

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. WEIRD TALES 
March, 1928

Vol.11 , No. 3
Title Issue: MULti-WT0054
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 144
Cover: C. C. Senf 

Weird Tales cover
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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Giant World [Part 3 of 3]..........Ray Cummings
The Strange People [Part 1 of 3]..........Murray Leinster

Novelettes:
The Curse of a Song..........Eli Colter
The Twin Soul..........A. R. Long [as Amelia Reynolds Long] 

Short Stories:
The Black Angel..........C. Ed Rowley 
Ebony Magic..........Stella Wynne
The Eighth Green Man..........G. G. Pendarves 
Flames of Destiny..........Arlton Eadie
The Hyena..........Robert E. Howard
The Legend of the Moor's Legacy..........Washington Irving
The Tenant..........August Derleth
The Tree-Man Ghost..........Percy B. Prior

Essays/Articles:
Folks Used to Believe:
The Vampire..........Alvin F. Harlow

Poems:
Night Trees..........Frank Belknap Long
The Poet..........A. Leslie 
Épigraphe Pour un Livre Condamné..........Charles P. Baudelaire 
 

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. WEIRD TALES
April, 1928

Vol. 11, No. 4
Title Issue: MULti-WT0055
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 144
Cover: C. C. Senf - Illustrating a scene from "The Jewel of seven Stones."

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Strange People [Part 2 of 3]..........Murray Leinster
     A three-part serial of mystery and adventure among a people who guarded with their lives a ghastly secret.

Novelettes:
The Jewel of Seven Stones..........Seabury Quinn
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The Legend of St. Julian [the Hospitable]..........Gustave Flaubert [Weird Story Reprint]
     A fascinating story by a famous French author - about a parricide who becomes a saint.
The Magic of Chac-Mool..........Clyde Criswell
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Short Stories:
The Chain..........H. Warner Munn
     A grim, terrible story of fortune unendurable - a tale of frightful vengeance in a medieval oubliette.
The Fantasmal Terror..........Willis Overton 
     Sometimes a writer of fiction creates entities that he can not easily destroy - this one threatened to destroy its author.
From Beyond..........Everil Worrell 
     A strange gift of of occult sensitivness was Kheila's, and strange were the consequences of her weird clairvoyance.
Medusa..........Royal W. Jimerson
     Marian Bardwell's snaky hair led to a weird tragedy when her husband tried to cut it off - a tale of [atavism].
The Spectral Lover..........R. Anthony
     Barney came back from the grave to terrify the girl that had refused his love when he was alive.
The Time Will Come..........Will MacMahon 
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Whispers..........Robert S. Carr
     Creeping horror slithers through this strange tale by the young author of "The Rampant Age."

Essays/Articles:
The Eyrie
Folks Used to Believe: The Familiar..........Alvin F. Harlow
     One of the weird concepts held by our ancestors.

Poems:
The Haunted Castle..........Lilla Price Savino
The Phantom..........Cristel Hastings 
Remembrance..........Robert E. Howard 
 

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. WEIRD TALES
May, 1928

Vol. 11, No. 5
Title Issue: MULti-WT0056
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 144
Cover: C. C. Senf 

Weird Tales cover
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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Bat-Men of Thorium [Part 1 of 3]..........Bertram Russell
The Strange People [Part 3 of 3]..........Murray Leinster

Novelettes:
Rappaccini's Daughter..........Nathaniel Hawthorne Three Coffins..........Arthur J. Burks

Short Stories:
The Black Madonna..........A. W. Wyville
The Doomed Treveans..........G. G. Pendarves
The Hand of the Invisible..........E. Irvine Haines 
Malchior Makes Magic..........Charles Henry Mackintosh 
Riders in the Sky..........Marc R. Schorer and August Derleth 
Sea Curse..........Robert E. Howard
The Skeleton Under the Lamp..........Bassett Morgan 
Through the Veil..........Anne M. Bilbro
A Wager in Candlesticks..........Robert T. Griebling

Essays/Articles:
Folks Used to Believe:
The Basilisk..........Alvin F. Harlow

Poems:
Clair de Lune..........Minnie Faegre Knox
Dream-Horror..........Donald Wandrei
The Hungry Flowers..........Donald Wandrei 
 

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. WEIRD TALES 
June, 1928

Vol. 11, No. 6
Title Issue: MULti-WT0057
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 144
Cover: C. C. Senf 

Weird Tales cover
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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Bat-Men of Thorium [Part 2 of 3]..........Bertram Russell

Novelettes:
The Dimension Terror..........Edmond Hamilton
The Elemental Law..........Everil Worrell
The Serpent Woman..........Seabury Quinn

Short Stories:
The Blue Lizard..........Fiswoode Tarleton
The Devil's Martyr..........Signe Toksvig
The Last Laugh..........C. Franklin Miller
The Lurking Fear..........H. P. Lovecraft
The Phantom Fiddler..........Arlton Eadie
The Spectre Bridegroom..........Washington Irving

Short Fiction:
The Hate..........Wilford Allen
The Philosophers' Stone..........August Derleth

Essays/Articles:
Folks Used to Believe:
The Fad for Relics..........Alvin F. Harlow

Poems:
Purple..........Donald Wandrei
The White Road..........Manly Wade Wellman
Wild Horses..........Eugene C. Dolson 
 

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. WEIRD TALES
July, 1928

Vol. 12, No. 1
Title Issue: MULti-WT0058
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 144
Cover: C. C. Senf 

Weird Tales cover
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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Bat-Men of Thorium [Part 3 of 3]..........Bertram Russell
The Witches' Sabbath [Part 1 of 2]..........Stephen Bagby

Novelettes:
The Space-Eaters..........Frank Belknap Long

Short Stories:
The Grappling Ghost..........Capwell Wyckoff
The Green Monster..........Arthur Macom
The Little Husbands..........David H. Keller, M.D.
The Man Who Remembered..........Willis Knapp Jones 
On a Far World..........Wilford Allen
The Statue of Anuta..........Arthur W. Davenport 
Symphonic Death..........Fred R. Farrow, Jr.
The Three-Storied House..........August Derleth 
Tony the Faithful..........W. K. Mashburn, Jr.

Short Fiction:
The Bowmen..........Arthur Machen

Essays/Articles:
Folks Used to Believe: Weird Recipes..........Alvin F. Harlow

Poems:
The Eye..........Donald Wandrei
The Gates of Nineveh..........Robert E. Howard 
Under the Noon..........Eugene C. Dolson 
 

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. WEIRD TALES 
August, 1928

Vol. 12, No. 2
Title Issue: MULti-WT0059
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 144
Cover: C. C. Senf  - Illustrating a scene from "Red Shadows"

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
Crashing Suns [Part 1 of 2]..........Edmond Hamilton
     A two-part tale of a [---] [---] [years] int he future [--] where the universe is threatened with destruction.
The Witches' Sabbath [Part 2 of 2]..........Stephen Bagby
     A two-part serial story of devil-worship, witchcraft, and the Black Mass.

Novelettes:
The Man in the Green Coat..........Eli Colter 
     A fascinating story of the supernatural [------] in the best [style] of this well-known author.
Red Shadows..........Robert E. Howard 
     Thrilling adventures and blood-freezing perils - evil shadows on black treails - savage witchcraft and the Black God.
Vulture Crag..........Everil Worrell
     A weird-scientific tale of projection to other planets by the author of "Bird of Space" and "Call[--] of P[----]."

Short Stories:
The Demoiselle d'Ys..........Robert W. Chambers [reprint]
     A strange tale of reincarnation and [f------ry], and the love of a stranger for a [N-----] [---].
The Justice of the Czar..........George Fielding Eliot
     A grisly tale of torture in the prison of the Czar Peter the Great - and the fate suffered by the executioner.
Red Shadows 2The Rose Window..........Charlton Lawrence Edholm
     Back in the old town of [T--binge-], a [fatile] murder took place - a tale of treachery, superstition, and reincarnation.
The Vengeance of Nitocris..........Tennessee Williams [as Thomas Lanier Williams] 
     [----] [----] [----] [----] by the [-----] of the Pharoah [----] [----] [----] [----] [----] [----]- a true story of old Egypt.
You Can't Kill a Ghost..........Frank Belknap Long
     An eerie ghost-tale of Haiti - a weird adventure in a [----]less land in which a phantom is the [key]

Essays/Articles:
Folks Used to Believe: Wonderfully Preserved Relics..........Alvin F. Harlow 
     Strange beliefs regarding the [----] of the [-----]
Three Poems in Prose..........Charles P. Baudelaire
     Translated by Clark Ashton Smight from the French.
The Eyrie
     A chat with the readers.

Poems:
Black Mora..........A. Leslie 
     Decoration by Hugh Rankin
Dirge..........Leavenworth Macnab
Sonnets of the Midnight Hours: The Grip of Evil Dream..........Donald Wandrei 
     Decoration by Hugh Rankin

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. WEIRD TALES
September, 1928

Vol. 12, No. 3
Title Issue: MULti-WT0060
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 144
Cover: C. C. Senf 

Weird Tales cover
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. Serials/Complete Novels:
Crashing Suns [Part 2 of 2]..........Edmond Hamilton
Invisible Threads [Part 1 of 2]..........Arthur J. Burks

Novelettes:
Body and Soul..........Seabury Quinn
The Burial of the Rats..........Bram Stoker
The Oath of Hul Jok..........Nictzin Dyalhis

Short Stories:
The Devil-Plant..........John Murray Reynolds
The Dogs of Salem..........David H. Keller, M.D.
The Fates..........John Dwight
The Ninth Skeleton..........Clark Ashton Smith
The Owl on the Moor..........Marc R. Schorer and August Derleth
The Rays of the Moon..........Everil Worrell
The White Vampire..........Arlton Eadie

Essays/Articles:
Folks Used to Believe:
The Serpent in Eden..........Alvin F. Harlow

Poems:
As I Remember..........Donald Wandrei 
Cravetheen the Harper..........A. Leslie
The Harp of Alfred..........Robert E. Howard
 

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. WEIRD TALES 
October, 1928

Vol. 12, No. 4
Title Issue: MULti-WT0061
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright 
Price: $0.25
Pages: 144
Cover: C. C. Senf 

Weird Tales cover
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. Serials/Complete Novels:
Invisible Threads [Part 2 of 2]..........Arthur J. Burks 
The Werewolf's Daughter [Part 1 of 3]..........H. Warner Munn 

Novelettes:
The Dancing Death..........Theodore Roscoe 
Restless Souls..........Seabury Quinn 
The Specter of Tappington..........Richard Harris Barham [as Thomas Ingoldsby] 

Short Stories:
Carnate Crystal..........Mayo Reiss 
The City of Lost Souls..........Genevieve Larsson 
The Dream Chair..........Leroy Ernest Fess 

Short Fiction:
The Conradi Affair..........August Derleth and Carl W. Ganzlin 
The Incubator Man..........Wallace West 
The Temple of Serpents..........Paul Ernst 

Essays/Articles:
Folks Used to Believe: The Phoenix..........Alvin F. Harlow 

Poems:
Dregs..........Joseph Upper 
Ol' Black Sarah..........Bernard Austin Dwyer 
The Statues..........Donald Wandrei 
Warning..........Clark Ashton Smith
 

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. WEIRD TALES
November, 1928 

Vol. 12, No. 5
Title Issue: MULti-WT0062
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 144
Cover: C. C. Senf 

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Werewolf's Daughter [Part 2 of 3]..........H. Warner Munn Novellas
The Last Test..........Adolphe de Castro and H. P. Lovecraft

Novelettes:
The Flying Death..........Bruce Wallis
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow..........Washington Irving
The Polar Doom..........Edmond Hamilton

Short Stories:
The Cave of Spiders..........William R. Hickey 
Flame of the Ages..........Robert Choate Albright
The Head From Ecuador..........Robert Lee Heiser
The Mystery in Acatlan..........Rachael Marshall and Maverick Terrell
The Tenant at Number Seven..........August Derleth
The Tryst in the Tomb..........M. J. Cain

Essays/Articles:
Folks Used to Believe:
The Fairy Court..........Alvin F. Harlow

Poems:
The Creatures..........Donald Wandrei
Haunted..........Earl W. Scott 
Satan and Lilith..........George Sterling 
 

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. WEIRD TALES 
December, 1928

Vol. 12, No. 6
Title Issue: MULti-WT0063
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 144
Cover: Hugh Rankin

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Isle of Lost Souls [Part 1 of 3]..........Joel Martin Nichols, Jr.
The Werewolf's Daughter [Part 3 of 3]..........H. Warner Munn

Novelettes:
The Chapel of Mystic Horror..........Seabury Quinn

Short Stories:
Beyond Power of Man..........Paul Ernst
The Copper Bowl..........George Fielding Eliot
The Cult of the Skull..........Henry S. Whitehead
The Monster-Maker [vt The Surgeon's Experiment]..........W. C. Morrow 
Poison..........Jack Snow
The Soul Tube..........Stuart Strauss
The Statement of Justin Parker..........August Derleth
The Tinkle of the Camel's Bell..........Frank Owen

Essays/Articles:
Folks Used to Believe: Lilith..........Alvin F. Harlow

Poems:
Easter Island..........Robert E. Howard 
Lyonesse..........R. Jere Black, Jr. 
Promise for My Enemy..........C. T. Lanham 
Sonnets of the Midnight Hours: 9. The Head..........Donald Wandrei 

 

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