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Weird Tales
1930
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. WEIRD TALES
January, 1930

Vol. 15, No. 1
Title Issue: MULti-WT0076
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 144
Cover: C. C. Senf   - Illustrating a scene from "The Curse of the House of Phipps"

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
Behind the Moon [Part 2 of 3]..........W. Elwyn Backus
     A three-part weird-scientific serial story of eery peril and blood-freezing horros encountered on the moon.

Novelettes:
The Bird-People..........Otis Adelbert Kline
     Something new in weird-scientific tales- the sotry of a country lying in a different angle of vibration.
The Curse of the House of Phipps..........Seabury Quinn
     A fascinating narration of eery happenings and blood-hilling excitement - a tale of jules de Grandin
The Life-Masters..........Edmond Hamilton
     Great masses of protoplasm formed in the seas and advanced upon the land in a wave of destruction and death.

Short Stories:
Dead Girl Finotte..........H. de Vere Stacpoole
     A story of the West Indies of Zombies, of dead men risen from their graves to become mindless robots.
A Descent into the Maelström..........Edgar Allan Poe [Weird Story Reprint]
     One of the earliest of weird-scientific tales, about the great whirlpool off the north coast of Europe.
A Matter of Sight..........August Derleth
     A curious story about a man who possesses strange vision that was not hampered by Time.
The Murderer..........Murray Leinster
     Terrible was the murderers fright as he saw his victim move and sweep into his pocket the evidence of guilt!
The Net of Shamlegh..........Edgar Gardiner 
     A tale of Thuggee and eery adventure in the hills of India - and a giant spider.
Newgate Ghost..........William R. Hickey
     A tale of old pirate days - a surprizing tale of Captain Kidd, who was hanged as a buckaneer,
The Red Fetish..........Frank Belknap Long
     Weird adventures among savage head-hunters - a red-headed man runs afoul of cannibals.
The Tabernacle..........Henry S. Whitehead
     A very ancient tale, reworked in a modern setting by a favorite master of weird stories.

Poems:
Circe..........A. Leslie 
     Verse: decoration by Hugh Rankin
Dead Man's Hate..........Robert E. Howard 
Ougabalys..........Clark Ashton Smith 

Articles & Features: 
The Eyrie
     A chat with the readers
 

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. WEIRD TALES
February, 1930

Vol. 15, No. 2
Title Issue: MULti-WT0077
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:
Behind the Moon [Part 3 of 3]..........W. Elwyn Backus
The Black Monarch [Part 1 of 5]..........Paul Ernst

Novelettes:
The Comet-Drivers..........Edmond Hamilton 
Thirsty Blades..........Otis Adelbert Kline and E. Hoffmann Price

Short Stories:
An Apparition [vt A Ghost]..........Guy de Maupassant
The Curse Kiss..........Theodore Roscoe
The Daughter of Isis..........Hal K. Wells
The Falling Knife..........Harold Markham
The Fearsome Touch of Death..........Robert E. Howard 
Piecemeal..........Oscar Cook

Short Fiction:
The Lilac Bush..........August Derleth

Poems:
At Eventide..........Hanna Baird Campbell
The Horror on Dagoth Wold..........Frank Belknap Long 
Shadows..........Clark Ashton Smith
 

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. WEIRD TALES 
March, 1930 

Vol. 15, No. 3
Title Issue: MULti-WT0078
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 Black Monarch [Part 2 of 5]..........Paul Ernst

Novelettes:
The Drums of Damballah..........Seabury Quinn
The Flowing Death..........Arlton Eadie

Short Stories:
Gerard 7932..........Sarah Newmeyer
The Haunted Chessmen..........E. R. Punshon 
In Letters of Fire..........Gaston Leroux
The Pacer..........August Derleth and Marc R. Schorer
The Sunken Land..........George W. Bayly
The Third Man..........George Norsworthy
The Thought-Monster..........A. R. Long [as Amelia Reynolds Long] 

Poems
The Ancient Track..........H. P. Lovecraft 
Masquerade..........R. Jere Black, Jr. 
Swamp Symphony..........Cristel Hastings 
Witches' Eve..........A. Leslie
 

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. WEIRD TALES
April, 1930 

Vol. 15, No. 4
Title Issue: MULti-WT0079
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 Black Monarch [Part 3 of 5]..........Paul Ernst

Novelettes:
The Dust of Egypt..........Seabury Quinn
The Plant Revolt..........Edmond Hamilton
The Shut Room..........Henry S. Whitehead

Short Stories:
Creation Unforgivable..........David H. Keller, M.D. 
Dread at Darracombe..........Violet M. Methley
The Portrait..........August Derleth
The Signal-Man..........Charles Dickens 
Silver Bullets..........Jeremy Ellis 
Sola..........W. K. Mashburn, Jr. 
Suzanne..........J. Joseph-Renaud

Poems:
On Icy Kinarth..........Frank Belknap Long
A Song Out of Midian..........Robert E. Howard 
Voodoo..........A. Leslie
 

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. WEIRD TALES
May, 1930

Vol. 15, No. 5
Title Issue: MULti-WT0080
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 Black Monarch [Part 4 of 5]..........Paul Ernst

Novelettes:
The Brain-Thief..........Seabury Quinn
The End of the Story..........Clark Ashton Smith
The Sun People..........Edmond Hamilton

Short Stories:
The Footprint..........G. G. Pendarves
The Land of Lur..........Earl Leaston 
Bell Light-Echoes..........Everil Worrell
The Magic Egg..........Frank R. Stockton 
River of Lost Souls..........R. C. Sandison 
Seven Drops of Blood..........H. F. Jamison
The Whistler..........August Derleth

Poems:
Marmora..........Donald Wandrei 
Recapture..........H. P. Lovecraft
Shadows on the Road..........Robert E. Howard
 

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. WEIRD TALES
June, 1930

Vol. 15, No. 6.
Title Issue: MULti-WT0081
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 144
Cover: Hugh Rankin 

Weird Tales cover
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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Black Monarch [Part 5 of 5]..........Paul Ernst
The Moon of Skulls [Part 1 of 2]..........Robert E. Howard

Novelettes:
The Priestess of the Ivory Feet..........Seabury Quinn

Short Stories:
Across the Hall..........August Derleth
The Empty Road..........Wallace West
The Frog..........Granville S. Hoss 
Haunted Hands..........Jack Bradley 
In the Borderland..........Pedro Diaz 
James Lamp..........E. F. Benson
The Last Incantation..........Clark Ashton Smith
The Magic-Maker..........A. R. Long [as Amelia Reynolds Long] 
The Planet of Horror..........Wilford Allen
The Rats in the Walls..........H. P. Lovecraft

Poems:
The Crow..........Lida Wilson Turner 
Sonnet of Death..........Edith Hurley
The Worm-King..........Donald Wandrei 
 

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. WEIRD TALES
July, 1930

Vol. 16, No 1
Title Issue: MULti-WT0082
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 144
Cover: C. C. Senf - Illustrating a scene "The Bride of Dewer."

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
Earthworms of Karma [Part 1 of 3]..........Lon Dexter
     A three-part serial story about a trip to Mars and the strange adventures on that planet.
The Moon of Skulls [Part 2 of 2]..........Robert E. Howard
     An adventurous story of mystery and horror in the nightmare valley of Negari - a tale of a mad people.

Short Stories:
The Black Druid..........Frank Belknap Long
     A short tale that compresses a world of cosmic horror in its few pages.
A Child's Dream of a Star..........Charles Dickens [Weird Story Reprint]
     At night the child dreamed of the star, and the vision comforted him all through life.
Sadastor..........Clark Ashton Smith
     A prose poem of unutterable beauty - an interplanetary story that is different from any you have ever read.

Short Fiction:
The Bagheeta..........Val Lewton
     A fascinating tale of the Caucasus Mountains and a {---] superstition about a were-leopard.
The Bride of Dewer..........Seabury Quinn 
     This story of the goblin huntsman of the Northis the weirdest story yet writtien about Jules de Grandin.
Dead Man's Fingers..........Harold Simpson
     As the woman fled through the night, she knew that her husband would hold her in death as he had done in life.
The Death Lord..........Edmond Hamilton
     All life in Chicago was blotted out by a viralent plague - a tory of a bacterialologists lust for power.
The Green Flame..........Donald Wandrei
     A brief story about a living jewel that glowed with a bright green flame.
The Haunted Wood of Adoure..........Elliot O'Donnell
     It was the ghost of the  [--------]
The Man Who Walked Upon the Air..........Charles Hilan Craig
     The aviator had a weird experience, and on its heels followed realization of the truth.
The Ruling Passion..........C. Henry
     The head master of the school insisted that his orders be obeyed even in death.

Poems:
Night Terror..........Sarah Henderson Hay

Articles and Features:
The Eyrie
     A chat with the readers
 

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. WEIRD TALES 
August, 1930 

Vol. 16, No. 2
Title Issue: MULti-WT0083
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 144
Cover: Hugh Rankin 

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. SSerials/Complete Novels:
Earthworms of Karma [Part 2 of 3]..........Lon Dexter

Novelettes:
Daughter of the Moonlight..........Seabury Quinn
The Electric Executioner [rev]..........H. P. Lovecraft and Adolphe de Castro
The Hills of the Dead..........Robert E. Howard 
Pigmy Island..........Edmond Hamilton

Short Stories:
"Just a Song at Twilight"..........August Derleth
The Curse of Ximu-tal..........Harry Noyes Pratt
The Hound of Duncardin..........Arlton Eadie
The Law of the Hills..........Grace M. Campbell
The Permanent Stiletto [vt A Peculiar Case of Surgery]..........W. C. Morrow

Poems:
Dream Strife..........Bill Crosby 
Ghosts..........Jewell Bothwell Tull 
Mammy, on Ghos'es..........W. K. Mashburn, Jr.
The Pirate..........R. Jere Black, Jr. 
 

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. WEIRD TALES
September, 1930

Vol. 16, No. 3
Title Issue: MULti-WT0084
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:
Another Dracula? [Part 1 of 2]..........Ralph Milne Farley 
Earthworms of Karma [Part 3 of 3]..........Lon Dexter

Novelettes:
The Invading Madness..........H. F. Scotten

Short Stories:
Beyond the Door..........J. Paul Suter
The Flame Fiend..........N. J. O'Neail 
Gesture..........Gertrude Macaulay Sutton 
Guardians of the Guavas..........Charles Henry Mackintosh
The House of the Golden Eyes..........Theda Kenyon
The Invisible Bond..........Arlton Eadie
The Phantom Bus..........W. Elwyn Backus
The Phantoms of the Fire..........Clark Ashton Smith
The Tree of Life..........Paul Ernst
A Visitor from Egypt..........Frank Belknap Long

Poems:
Black Chant Imperial..........Robert E. Howard 
Fungi from Yuggoth: 1. The Courtyard..........H. P. Lovecraft 
Fungi from Yuggoth: 2. Star-Winds..........H. P. Lovecraft 
Heliodore's Beads..........Marvin Luter Hill 
 

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. WEIRD TALES 
October, 1930

Vol. 16, No. 4
Title Issue: MULti-WT0085
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:
Another Dracula? [Part 2 of 2]..........Ralph Milne Farley
The Portal to Power [Part 1 of 4]..........Greye La Spina

Novelettes:
The Druid's Shadow..........Seabury Quinn
The Grave at Goonhilly..........G. G. Pendarves

Short Stories:
The Bride Well..........David H. Keller, M.D.
A Dying Man's Confession..........Mark Twain
The House of the Skull..........Arlton Eadie
The Last Incarnation..........Wallace West
The Mind-Master..........Edmond Hamilton 
Mrs. Bentley's Daughter..........August Derleth
The Silver Curse of Yarlik..........V. K. Kaledin

Short Fiction:
The Jelly-Fish..........Francis Flagg

Poems:
Fellowship..........Clark Ashton Smith 
Fungi from Yuggoth: 3. Hesperia..........H. P. Lovecraft
The Hills of Discontent..........Louis E. Thayer 
 

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. WEIRD TALES
November, 1930

Vol. 16, No. 5
Title Issue: MULti-WT0086
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 Portal to Power [Part 2 of 4]..........Greye La Spina

Novelettes:
The Cosmic Cloud..........Edmond Hamilton 
Kings of the Night..........Robert E. Howard 
Stealthy Death..........Seabury Quinn

Short Stories:
The Debt..........Eric A. Leyland
The Master Strikes..........H. Warner Munn
A Message From Mars..........Derek Ironside
A Million Years After..........Katharine Metcalf 
Roof Siesta..........Alexander L. Kielland
The Uncharted Isle..........Clark Ashton Smith

Poems:
The Cypress-Bog..........Donald Wandrei 
Fungi from Yuggoth: 4. Antarktos..........H. P. Lovecraft 
Great Ashtoreth..........Frank Belknap Long 
Teotihuacan..........Alice I'Anson
 

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. WEIRD TALES 
December, 1930 

Vol.16 , No. 6
Title Issue: MULti-WT0087
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 Portal to Power [Part 3 of 4]..........Greye La Spina

Novelettes:
The Master Fights..........H. Warner Munn
The Primeval Pit..........Bruce Wallis 
Something from Above..........Donald Wandrei
The Wolf of St. Bonnot..........Seabury Quinn

Short Stories:
The Boat on the Beach..........Kadra Maysi 
Burnt Things..........Robert C. Sandison
The Crime on Christmas Night..........Gaston Leroux 
Lucifer..........John D. Swain 
Men of Steel..........Ainslee Jenkins

Poems:
Death..........Alice Pickard
A Dream of Bubastis..........Harvey W. Flink 
Fungi from Yuggoth: 5. The Bells..........H. P. Lovecraft 
 

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