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Weird Tales
1936
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. WEIRD TALES
January, 1936 

Vol. 27, No. 1
Title Issue: MULti-WT0145
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Margaret Brundage 

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Hour of the Dragon [Part 2 of 5]..........Robert E. Howard

Novelettes:
The Dark Land..........C. L. Moore 
Horror Insured..........Paul Ernst
A Rival from the Grave..........Seabury Quinn
     creeping horror!! ...weird terror!!

Short Stories:
Dagon..........H. P. Lovecraft 
Rendezvous..........Richard H. Hart 
Return to Death..........J. Wesley Rosenquest
The Satin Mask..........August Derleth

Short Fiction:
They..........Robert Barbour Johnson

Poems:
Gray Ghosts..........Clarence Edwin Flynn 
In Davy Jones's Locker..........Alfred I. Tooke
 

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. WEIRD TALES
February, 1936

Vol. 27, No. 2
Title Issue: MULti-WT0146
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Margaret Brundage 
     Illustrating a scene from "Coils of the Silver Serpent."

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Hour of the Dragon [Part 3 of 5]..........Robert E. Howard

Novelettes:
Coils of the Silver Serpent..........Forbes Parkhill 
     A story of thrills and chills - a huge anaconda loose in a New York street.
Norn..........Lireve Monet
Yvala..........C. L. Moore

Short Stories:
A Dream of Death..........Andrew Daw
The Man Who Would Not Die..........Frank Owen
The Temple..........H. P. Lovecraft
A Visitor from Far Away..........Loretta G. Burrough
Wife of the Dragon-Fly..........Paul Ernst

Short Fiction:
The Man on the Platform..........Theodore Tinsley

Poems:
Ballad of the Gods..........Henry Kuttner Fear:
A Fantasy..........Wilma Dorothy Vermilyea 
Jorgas..........Robert Nelson 
Salvage..........Alfred I. Tooke
 

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. WEIRD TALES 
March, 1936 

Vol. 27, No. 3
Title Issue: MULti-WT0147
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Margaret Brundage 

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Hour of the Dragon [Part 4 of 5]..........Robert E. Howard
     A vivid goose-flesh novel of a thousand eery thrills - a tale of Conan the barbarian.

Novelettes:
The Albino Deaths..........Ronal Kayser 
     A grim weird story of tortue on the Wheel of Death in a fantastic dungeon.
Beyond Death's Gateway..........Paul Ernst
     Doctor Satan, the world's weirdest criminal, seeks out a temporary death.
The Crystal Curse..........[Earl Binder and Otto Binder] [as Eando Binder] 
     A veritable rhapsody in blue - a curious tale of other dimensions.

Short Stories:
The Black Abbot of Puthuum..........Clark Ashton Smith
     A tale of gruesome horror in an unsavory monastery in the desert. 
The Graveyard Rats..........Henry Kuttner 
     A ghastly fate befell the caretaker of the cemetery in the horrible burrows beneath the graves.
Homecoming Day..........Jay Wilmer Benjamin 
     The old colonel and his chum of former days were united at last.
In the World's Dusk..........Edmond Hamilton
     A gripping tale of the last survivor of the human race and his attempts to repopulate the world.
A Masterpiece of Crime..........Jean Richepin [Weird Story Reprint]
     An eery yarn by a famous French author - translated by H. Twitebell.
The Ship that Committed Suicide..........A. J. Mordtmann
     A tender and pathetic story about a weird experiecne in the Antarctic. 

Poems:
The Creaking House..........Clarence Edwin Flynn
The Devil's Swamp..........Robert Avrett 
Haunted..........Alfred I. Tooke 

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. WEIRD TALES
April, 1936 

Vol. 27, No. 4
Title Issue: MULti-WT0148
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Margaret Brundage 

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Hour of the Dragon [Part 5 of 5]..........Robert E. Howard
The Ruler of Fate [Part 1 of 3]..........Jack Williamson
    utterly strange and uncanny is this fascinating weird thriller!

Novelettes:
The Face in the Wind..........Carl Jacobi 
Son of Satan..........Arlton Eadie

Short Stories:
The Call in the Night..........Chandler H. Whipple
The Druidic Doom..........Robert Bloch
The Rajah's Gift..........E. Hoffmann Price 
They Shall Rise..........August Derleth and Mark Schorer

Poems:
Painted Cave..........Julia Boynton Green
The Seance..........Ronal Kayser
The Sick Muse..........Charles P. Baudelaire

The Rajah's Gift is a reprint from January 1925
 

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. WEIRD TALES
May, 1936

Vol. 27, No. 5
Title Issue: MULti-WT0149
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Margaret Brundage 

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Ruler of Fate [Part 2 of 3]..........Jack Williamson

Novelettes:
The Devil's Double..........Paul Ernst
The Room of Shadows..........Arthur J. Burks 
Strange Interval..........Seabury Quinn

Short Stories:
Attorney for the Damned..........Renier Wyers 
Child of the Winds..........Edmond Hamilton
The Faceless God..........Robert Bloch
The Horror Undying..........Manly Wade Wellman 
Lesandro's Familiar..........August Derleth
The Red Brain..........Donald Wandrei

Poems:
Bride of Baal..........Edgar Daniel Kramer 
Ennui..........Clark Ashton Smith



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. WEIRD TALES
June, 1936

Vol. 27, No. 6
Title Issue: MULti-WT0150
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Margaret Brundage 

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
Loot of the Vampire [Part 1 of 2]..........Thorp McClusky
The Ruler of Fate [Part 3 of 3]..........Jack Williamson

Novelettes:
Black Canaan..........Robert E. Howard
The House of the Evil Eye..........Hugh Davidson

Short Stories:
The Brain in the Jar..........Norman Elwood Hammerstrom and Richard F. Searight
The Grinning Ghoul..........Robert Bloch
The Harbor of Ghosts..........M. J. Bardine 
Lethe..........Harold G. Shane
The Telephone in the Library..........August Derleth

Short Fiction:
Mordecai's Pipe..........A. V. Milyer

Poems:
Ballad of the Wolf..........Henry Kuttner 
 

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. WEIRD TALES
July, 1936

Vol. 28, No. 1
Title Issue: MULti-WT0151
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Year: 1936
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Margaret Brundage
     Illustrating a scene from "Red Nails." 

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
Loot of the Vampire [Part 2 of 2]..........Thorp McClusky 
     An eery novel about a monstrosity that was dead, yet lived a ghastly life in death.
Red Nails [Part 1 of 3]..........Robert E. Howard
     The tale of a weird reefed city and the strangest people ever spawned.

Novelettes:
Lost Paradise..........C. L. Moore 
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Necromancy in Naat..........Clark Ashton Smith
     A strange and curious tale about the maiden Dalili, and the dead men who dived into the sea.

Short Stories:
The Kelpie..........Manly Wade Wellman
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Kharu Knows All..........Renier Wyers
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The Return of Sarah Purcell..........August Derleth
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The Ring of Thoth..........A. Conan Doyle
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The Snakeskin Cigar-Case..........Bodo Wildberg
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The Unborn..........Ronal Kayser 
     A vivid story of a weird pursuit that dogged a man's footsteps with doom inescapable.
When the World Slept..........Edmond Hamilton
     A thrilling weird-scientific story about a catastrophe that put the whole world to sleep.

Poems:
Death..........Alfred I. Tooke 
Dream Sepulture..........C. A. Butz 
Hagar..........Edgar Daniel Kramer 


July, 1936 was the last of the first run of American News Company - Canadian versions of Weird Tales which had begun in June of 1935.  They began again publishing Weird Tales in Canada in May of 1942 and continued on until November of 1951.
 

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. WEIRD TALES 
August, 1936 

Vol. 28, No. 2
Title Issue: MULti-WT0152
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Margaret Brundage 

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
Red Nails [Part 2 of 3]..........Robert E. Howard

Novelettes:
The Door into Infinity..........Edmond Hamilton 
Mask of Death..........Paul Ernst 
Werewolf of the Sahara..........G. G. Pendarves

Short Stories:
Death Holds the Post..........August Derleth and Mark Schorer
The Diary of Philip Westerly..........Paul Compton 
Four Wooden Stakes..........Victor Rowan 
In the Dark..........Ronal Kayser
The Medici Boots..........Pearl Norton Swet

Poems:
Lycanthropus..........C. Edgar Bolen 
Swamp Demons..........C. A. Butz
 

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. WEIRD TALES
September, 1936
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. WEIRD TALES
October, 1936

Vol. 28, No. 3
Title Issue: MULti-WT0153
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: J. Allen St. John 

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
Red Nails [Part 3 of 3]..........Robert E. Howard

Novelettes:
Isle of the Undead..........Lloyd Arthur Eshbach
The Lost Door..........Dorothy Quick
The Tree of Life..........C. L. Moore

Short Stories:
Doom of the House of Duryea..........Earl Peirce, Jr.
The Doors of Death..........Arthur B. Waltermire
The Great Keinplatz Experiment..........Arthur Conan Doyle
The Opener of the Way..........Robert Bloch
The Secret of Kralitz..........Henry Kuttner

Poems:
The Lost Temple of Xantoos..........Howell Calhoun 
R.E.H...........R. H. Barlow 
Witch-Burning..........Mary Elizabeth Counselman
 

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. WEIRD TALES
November, 1936 

Vol. 28, No. 4
Title Issue: MULti-WT0154
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Margaret Brundage

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. Novelettes:
Black Hound of Death..........Robert E. Howard
The Crawling Horror..........Thorp McClusky 
Witch-House..........Seabury Quinn

Short Stories:
The Blue Room..........Gordon Philip England 
Brother Lucifer..........Chandler H. Whipple
The Dark Demon..........Robert Bloch
The Man in Black..........Paul Ernst 
Mice..........Robert Barbour Johnson
Midas..........Bassett Morgan 
Pickman's Model..........H. P. Lovecraft

Poems:
The Black Gang..........Edgar Daniel Kramer
The Wizard's Death..........Richard F. Searight
 

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. WEIRD TALES 
December, 1936 

Vol. 28, No. 5
Title Issue: MULti-WT0155
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: J. Allen St. John 
     Illustrating a scene from "The Fire of Asshurbanipal."

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. Novelettes:
The Cyclops of Xoatl..........Otis Adelbert Kline and E. Hoffmann Price
     What was the weird monster that spread death and panic over a peaceful Mexican countryside?

Short Stories:
The Album..........A. R. Long [as Amelia Reynolds Long] 
     A strange doom lurked within the pages of an old book bound in human skin.
The Fire of Asshurbanipal..........Robert E. Howard
     A posthumous tale about a skeleton that sat upon a throne and a gem that shone with living fire.
The Haunter of the Dark..........H. P. Lovecraft 
     A powerful story about an old church that was shunned and feared by everybody.
It Walks by Night..........Henry Kuttner 
     A ghastly horror stalked through the old crypts beneath the graveyard.
Mother of Serpents..........Robert Bloch 
     A tale about a Haitian president who discovered his mother, and the terrible curse uttered by a voodoo woman.
Out of the Sun..........Granville S. Hoss
     An absorbing tale about a scientist who tried to find out if there is life in the swirling heat of the sun.
A Passion in the Desert..........Honoré de Balzac [Weird Story Reprint]
     The story of a strange infatuation of a panther for a French soldier.
Portrait of a Murderer..........John Russell Fearn
     An odd story of hypnotic power and a gruesome tragedy in the hills.
The Theater Upstairs..........Manly Wade Wellman
     An uncanny tale of a picture show in which dead actors flickered across the silver screen.
The Woman at Loon Point..........August Derleth and Mark Schorer
     The story of a snarling thing that growled and cowered in a lonely lodge in the woods guarded by a hysterical girl.

Poems:
Vespers..........Edgar Daniel Kramer

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Virgil Finlay illustration for Derleth and Schorer's
The Woman at Loon Point.
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