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Weird Tales
1938
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. WEIRD TALES
January, 1938 

Vol. 31, No. 1
Title Issue: MULti-WT0168
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Year: 1938
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Margaret Brundage
     "The Witch's Mark" - "He saw behind the loveliness that was hers, and knew her for a witch."

Weird Tales cover
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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Hairy Ones Shall Dance [Part 1 of 3]..........Manly Wade Wellman [as Gans T. Field]
     A tale of terror and sudden death, and the frightful thing that laired in the Devil's Croft.
      Illustrated by Virgil Finlay
The Voyage of the Neutralia [Part 3 of 3]..........Bruce Wallis
     An epic of weird adventure and a strange curise to other planets.

Novelettes:
Roads..........Seabury Quinn
     A reverent weird tale of Yuletide and the Crucifixion, and a gladiator from the Northland.
The Witch's Mark..........Dorothy Quick
     Shamus O'Brien risked his very soul for the red lips of Cecily Maltby - a strange and courious tale

Short Stories:
Ethan Brand [vt The Unpardonable Sin]..........Nathaniel Hawthorne [reprint]
     A chapter from an abortive romance
The House of Living Music..........Edmond Hamilton
     A tragic weird-scientific tale about a composer who could re-create all visible things in sound
The Light Was Green..........John R. Speer
     A brief weird railroad story by the author of "Symphony of the Damned"
The Third Interne..........Idwal Jones 
     A brief tale of a surgical horror in the Asiatic wastes of northern Russia
Toean Matjan..........Vennette Herron 
     A story of Java, and the incredible thing that the natives implicitly believe.
Valley of Bones..........David H. Keller, M.D.
     What weird tragedy took place in that African graveyard of a murdered people?

Verse:
The Canal..........H. P. Lovecraft
Lost Dream..........Emil Petaja
     In memory of the late H. P. Lovecraft

Artwork:
"Her Demon Lover"..........Virgil Finlay
     Illustration for a passage in Coleridge's "Kubla Khan"

Articles:
The Eyrie
     Our readers dicuss the magazine
 

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. WEIRD TALES
February, 1938

Vol. 31, No. 2
Title Issue: MULti-WT0169
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Virgil Finlay
Illustrating a scene in "Frozen Beauty."

Weird Tales cover
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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Hairy Ones Shall Dance [Part 2 of 3]..........Manly Wade Wellman [as Gans T. Field]
     A serial novel of a hideous horror- a tale of terror and sudden death.

Novelettes
The Diary of Alonzo Typer..........William Lumley [and H. P. Lovecraft]
      What dead occult evil lurked beyond the iron door in that old mansion?
Frozen Beauty..........Seabury Quinn
     A story of Jules de Grandin and the daring experiments of a gret Russian surgeon.
The Goddess Awakes..........Clifford Ball
     A striking novelette about a roving solider of fortune and the stone image of a gigantic cat.

Short Stories:
From Beyond..........H. P. Lovecraft 
     A posthumous story by a great master of fantastic literature.
Jumbee..........Henry S. Whitehead [Weird Story Reprint]
     A West Indian story from an early issue of Weird Tales.
The Passing of Van Mitten..........Claude Farrère
     A weird yarn by a French Academician - translated by Ray Temple House.
The Piper from Bhutan..........David Bernard
     An eery wailing floated from the old piper's hands, with startling results.
The Strangling Hands..........M. G. Moretti
     A weird doom pursued the stealers of the eye from an idol in a jungle shrine.
World's End..........Henry Kuttner
     A weird-scientific tale of the terrible Black Doom, spawned in the heart of a mereorite.

Short Fiction:
The Ghosts at Haddon-le-Green..........Alfred I. Tooke
     A graveyard tale that sound suspiciously like verse.

Verse:
Ally of Stars..........Irene Wilde
Haunting Columns..........Robert E. Howard
     Posthumous verse be a master of weird writing.

Articles:
The Eyrie
     A department in which the readers discuss weird tales.
Old Cornish Litany..........Virgil Finlay
     Pictorial interpretation.
 

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. WEIRD TALES 
March, 1938 

Vol. 31, No. 3
Title Issue: MULti-WT0170
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Margaret Brundage

Weird Tales cover
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. Serials/Complete Novels:
Dreadful Sleep [Part 1 of 3]..........Jack Williamson
    A romantic and tragic tale of fearsome beings that lay in slumber under the antarctic ice
The Hairy Ones Shall Dance [Part 3 of 3]..........Manly Wade Wellman [as Gans T. Field]
     A tale of terror and sudden death, and the frightened thing that laired in the Devil's Croft

Novelettes:
The Incense of Abomination..........Seabury Quinn
     A daring story of Devil-worship, strange suicides. and Jules de Grandin
The Thing on the Floor..........Thorp McClusky
     The story of an unscrupulous hypnotist, and the thing called S(-)

Short Stories:
Beyond the Wall of Sleep..........H. P. Lovecraft
     What splendid yet terrible experiences came to the (-) entertainer while he slept
The Girl from Samarcand..........E. Hoffmann Price [reprint]
     A favorite tale by a master of fantasy, reprinted by popular demand
Guarded..........Mearle Prout
     A weird tale of murder - by the author of "The House of the Worm"
The Head in the Window..........Roy Temple House [translator]
     A weird tale, adapted from the German of Wilhelm von Scholz
The Shadow on the Screen..........Henry Kuttner
     A weird story of Hollywood and the silver screen
The Teakwood Box..........Johns Harrington
     (-) (-) (-) found the secret(s?) to (-) intricately carved Oriental box

Verse:
The Poets..........Robert E. Howard
     Posthumous verse, by a late master of weird literature
To Howard Phillips Lovecraft..........Francis Flagg
     Sonnet to a late master of weird literature

Pictorial:
"Like one, that on a lonesome road"..........Virgil Finlay
     Pictorial interpretation from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
 

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. WEIRD TALES
April, 1938 

Vol. 31, No. 4
Title Issue: MULti-WT0171
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Year: 1938
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Virgil Finlay
 

Weird Tales cover
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. Serials/Complete Novels:
Dreadful Sleep [Part 2 of 3]..........Jack Williamson

Short Stories:
The Eyes of the Mummy..........Robert Bloch
The Garden of Adompha..........Clark Ashton Smith
     a strange tale of the fantastic sorceries of a dwarfish wizard
The House of Ecstasy..........Ralph Milne Farley

Short Fiction:
Death Is a Temporary Indisposition..........Max Brod
The Devil Deals..........Carl Jacobi
Feathertop..........Nathaniel Hawthorne
Forest of Evil..........John Murray Reynolds
The Temple Dancer..........Seabury Quinn

Verse:
Abandoned Bog..........Joseph C. Kempe
Cordelia's Song..........Vincent Starrett
The Singer in the Mist..........Robert E. Howard
To Clark Ashton Smith..........H. P. Lovecraft



NOTES:  Did you know that Max Brod was Franz Kafka's friend and executor? The House of Ecstacy is considered Ralph Milne Farley best story ever.  E. Hoffman Price, Emil Petaja, and Robert Lowndes all appear in the letter column. Cover and all interior illustrations by Virgil Finlay. 
 
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. WEIRD TALES
May, 1938

Vol. 31, No. 5
Title Issue: MULti-WT0172
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Margaret Brundage

Weird Tales cover
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. Serials/Complete Novels:
Dreadful Sleep [Part 3 of 3]..........Jack Williamson
Thunder in the Dawn [Part 1 of 2]..........Henry Kuttner

Novelettes:
Goetterdaemmerung..........Seabury Quinn
Pigeons from Hell..........Robert E. Howard

Short Stories:
The Isle of the Sleeper..........Edmond Hamilton
Medusa..........Royal W. Jimerson
The Secret of the Vault..........J. Wesley Rosenquest

Verse:
Where Once Poe Walked..........H. P. Lovecraft (an acrostic poem)
 

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. WEIRD TALES
June, 1938

Vol. 31, No. 6
Title Issue: MULti-WT0173
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Margaret Brundage

Weird Tales cover
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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Black Drama [Part 1 of 3]..........Manly Wade Wellman [as Gans T. Field]
Thunder in the Dawn [Part 2 of 2]..........Henry Kuttner

Novelettes:
From the Beginning..........[Earl Binder and Otto Binder] [as Eando Binder]
Suicide Chapel..........Seabury Quinn

Short Stories:
Death Dallies Awhile..........Leslie F. Stone
The Doom That Came to Sarnath..........H. P. Lovecraft
The Gray Champion..........Nathaniel Hawthorne
Slave of the Flames..........Robert Bloch
Song of Death..........A. W. Calder

Verse:
Farewell to Eros..........Clark Ashton Smith
H.P. Lovecraft..........Frank Belknap Long
The Last Hour..........Robert E. Howard
Outlanders..........Clark Ashton Smith
 

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. WEIRD TALES
July, 1938

Vol. 32, No. 1
Title Issue: MULti-WT0174
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Virgil Finlay

Weird Tales cover
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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Black Drama [Part 2 of 3]..........Manly Wade Wellman [as Gans T. Field]

Short Stories
Escape..........Paul Ernst
He That Hath Wings..........Edmond Hamilton
Mother of Toads..........Clark Ashton Smith
Return to the Sabbath..........Robert Bloch [as Tarleton Fiske]
Spawn of Dagon..........Henry Kuttner

Short Fiction:
The Defense Rests..........Julius Long
Dust in the House..........David H. Keller, M.D. 
Fortune's Fools..........Seabury Quinn
Saladin's Throne-Rug..........E. Hoffmann Price

Verse:
The Messenger..........H. P. Lovecraft
Microcosms..........Edgar Daniel Kramer
Ships..........Robert E. Howard
 

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. WEIRD TALES 
August, 1938 

Vol. 32, No. 2
Title Issue: MULti-WT0175
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Margaret Brundage
Illustrating "The Wolf-Girl of Josselin."

Weird Tales cover
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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Black Drama [Part 3 of 3]..........Manly Wade Wellman [as Gans T. Field]
     An eldritch tale about the eery personality that was called Varduk - a story about Lord Byron.
The Fire Princess [Part 1 of 3]..........Edmond Hamilton
     A thrill-tale of the dreadful valley of Kours and the Place of Power that was the tomb of the Ancient Ones.

Novelettes:
The Venomed Breath of Vengeance..........Seabury Quinn
     A curious tale about Jules de Grandin, occult detective, and an East Indian whose very breath was lethal.
The Wolf-Girl of Josselin..........Arlton Eadie
     An engrossing novelette of the Barking Women of Josselin, the Ghoul Pack, and the struggle between a mother's love and an anceint curse.

Short Stories:
Dead Dog..........Manly Wade Wellman
     A large black dog it was, that lived for the sole purpose of avenging its master.
Green Horror..........H. Thompson Rich
     What was the hideous apparition that lured Jean to the greenhouse and [----ed] by her father as he worked?
Invaders from Outside..........J. Schlossel  [Weird Story Reprint]
     A weird-scientific story from an early issue of WEIRD TALES.
Three Gentlemen in Black..........August Derleth
     Harper felt sae in his [-----] retreat, but he had not counted on the presence of three [------] gentlemen in black.
The Tree..........H. P. Lovecraft
     A brief weird fantasy by the late master of weird fiction.

Verse:
Empty House..........Cristel Hastings
In November Only..........Marion Doyle
Lines Written in the Realization that I Must Die..........Robert E. Howard

Articles and Features:
The Eyrie
     Department wherein our readers exchange comments.
 

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. WEIRD TALES
September, 1938

Vol. 32, No. 3
Title Issue: MULti-WT0176
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Year: 1938
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Margaret Brundage
 

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Fire Princess [Part 2 of 3]..........Edmond Hamilton

Novelettes:
As 'Twas Told to Me..........Seabury Quinn
A Witch's Curse..........Paul Ernst

Short Stories:
The Cavern..........Manly Wade Wellman and Gertrude Gordon
The Eyes of Ustad Isa..........Charles Henry Mackintosh
The Magic Mirror..........Algernon Blackwood
The Mandarin's Canaries..........Robert Bloch
A Thunder of Trumpets..........Robert E. Howard and Frank Thurston Torbett
The White Rat..........Earl Peirce, Jr. and Bruce Bryan
The Witch in the Fog..........Harry Altshuler [as Alexander Faust]

Poems
The Jolly Hangman..........Edgar Daniel Kramer
The Prophet Speaks..........Clark Ashton Smith
The Wood..........H. P. Lovecraft [as Lewis Theobald, Jr.]
The Wreck..........Alfred I. Tooke
 

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. WEIRD TALES 
October, 1938

Vol. 32, No. 4
Title Issue: MULti-WT0177
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Margaret Brundage

Weird Tales cover
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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Fire Princess [Part 3 of 3]..........Edmond Hamilton

Short Stories:
Beyond the Phoenix..........Henry Kuttner
The Black Monk..........G. G. Pendarves
The Maze of Maal Dweb..........
[vt
The Maze of the Enchanter]..........Clark Ashton Smith

Short Fiction:
Black Moon..........Seabury Quinn
The Isle of Abominations..........Kadra Maysi
Jekal's Lesson..........David Bernard
The Oldest Story in the World..........Murray Leinster
The Other Gods..........H. P. Lovecraft
Up Under the Roof..........Manly Wade Wellman

Poems:
Death..........William Shakespeare
Witches on the Heath..........Leah Bodine Drake
 

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. WEIRD TALES
November, 1938 

Vol. 32, No. 5
Title Issue: MULti-WT0178
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: A. R. Tilburne

Weird Tales cover
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. Serials/Complete Novels:
I Found Cleopatra [Part 1 of 4]..........Thomas P. Kelley

Novelettes:
Lynne Foster Is Dead!..........Seabury Quinn
The Thing in the Trunk..........Paul Ernst

Short Stories:
Fothergill's Jug..........Thorp McClusky
The Hound of Pedro..........Robert Bloch
Leonora..........Everil Worrell
The Nameless City..........H. P. Lovecraft

Poems:
Recompense..........Robert E. Howard



Contents:
Cover Design by A.R. Tilburne, Illustrating a scene in "I Found Cleopatra"
"I Found Cleopatra" (Part I) by Thomas P. Kelley, A weird tale of many thrills, by the author of "The Last Pharoah"
"Fothergill's Jug" by Thorpe McClusky, A fascinating story about a strange jug dug up out of the sands of Mesopotamia, and the weird entity that reached forth its dread hands from within the jug
"The Hound of Pedro" by Robert Bloch, A tale of old Mexico under the Spaniards, of an evil black Moor from Granada, and a ghastly game of ten-pins played on the desert sands
"The Thing in the Trunk" by Paul Ernst, A grim, absorbing tale about a heinous crime and its strange aftermath, by the author of "The Witch's Curse" and other eery thrill-stories
"Lynne Foster Is Dead" by Seabury Quinn, The strangest adventure that ever befell a man happened in the handsome young American after the ill-starred traffic accident in the streets of Cairo
"The Nameless City" by H.P. Lovecraft, It lay silent and dead under the cold desert moon, but what strange race inhabited the abyss beneath those cyclopean ruin?
"Recompense" by Robert E. Howard, Verse
Weird Story Reprint:
"Leonora" by Everil Worrell, An eldritch tale, reprinted from an early issue of Weird Tales
The Eyrie, The readers express their opinions


 

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. WEIRD TALES
December, 1938

Vol. 32, No. 6
Title Issue: MULti-WT0179
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Ray Quigley
Illustrating a scene from "The Sin-Eater."

Weird Tales cover
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. Serials/Complete Novels:
I Found Cleopatra [Part 2 of 4]..........Thomas P. Kelley
     A weird tale of many thrills, about the startling and almost incredible adventure that befell a young American who went to meet his Midnight Lady.

Novelettes:
More Lives Than One..........Seabury Quinn
     The odyssey of a soul - an unusual weird story that skips through the ages and ends at last in present-day America.
The Sin-Eater..........G. G. Pendarves
     A strange and powerful novelette of possession and dual personality, by the author of "Things of Darkness."

Short Stories:
Beetles..........Robert Bloch
     A tale of the ghastly fate that pursued an archeologist who had stolen an Egyptian mummy protected by the sacred Scarab.
Passing of a God..........Henry S. Whitehead [Weird Story Reprint]
     An odd and curious story of Haiti, reprinted from an early issue of WEIRD TALES.
The Snowman..........Loretta Burrough
     Her first husband lay at the bottom of a Swiss glacier - but why should a snow image in his likeness strike her with such an eery terror?

Poems:
The Ghost Kings..........Robert E. Howard

Articles and Features:
The Blessed Damozel..........Virgil Finlay
     Pictorial Impression of a poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
The Eyrie
     The readers express their opinions.
 

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