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Weird Tales
1940
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. WEIRD TALES
January / February, 1940 

Vol. 35, No. 1
Title Issue: MULti-WT0191
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.15
Pages: 128
Cover: Virgil Finlay

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
A Million Years in the Future [Part 1 of 4]..........Thomas P. Kelley

Short Fiction:
Forbidden Cupboard..........Frances Garfield
Lips of the Dead..........W. J. Stamper
Mortmain..........Seabury Quinn
Portrait of a Bride..........Earl Peirce, Jr.
Spotted Satan..........Otis Adelbert Kline and E. Hoffmann Price
Twister..........Mary Elizabeth Counselman
The Unveiling..........Alfred I. Tooke

Poems:
Realization..........Harry Warner, Jr.
 

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. WEIRD TALES 
March / April, 1940

Vol. 35, No. 2
Title Issue: MULti-WT0192
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.15
Pages: 128
Cover: Hannes Bok

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
A Million Years in the Future [Part 2 of 4]..........Thomas P. Kelley

Short Stories:
Bramwell's Guardian..........August Derleth
The Song of the Slaves..........Manly Wade Wellman

Short Fiction:
The Golden Spider..........Seabury Quinn
The Horror in the Glen..........Clyde Irvine
It Happened to Me: The Centurion's Prisoner..........Lindsay Nisbet
Slaves of the Gray Mold..........Thorp McClusky
The Specter of Virginia..........Clive Leonard
Train for Flushing..........Malcolm Jameson

Poems:
The Dweller..........H. P. Lovecraft
 

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. WEIRD TALES
May / June, 1940

Vol. 35, No. 3
Title Issue: MULti-WT0193
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith
Price: $0.15
Pages: 128
Cover: Hannes Bok

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
A Million Years in the Future [Part 3 of 4]..........Thomas P. Kelley

Short Stories:
The Automatic Pistol..........Fritz Leiber

Short Fiction:
Black Was the Night..........Laurence Bour, Jr.
The City from the Sea..........Edmond Hamilton
The Ghost-Writer..........Robert Bloch
Khosru's Garden..........E. Hoffmann Price
The Red Gibbet..........F. B. Ghensi
The Soul of Ra-Moses..........John Murray Reynolds
Wind in the Moonlight..........Gretchen Ruediger

Essays/Articles:
It Happened to Me:
A Weird Prophecy..........Ken Gary
It Happened to Me: San Francisco..........Caroline Evans
It Happened to Me: Winter Night..........Alice Olsen

Poems:
Awakening..........Willis Conover, Jr.
The Phoenix..........Clark Ashton Smith
 

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. WEIRD TALES
July / August, 1940

Vol. 35, No. 4
Title Issue: MULti-WT0194
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith
Price: $0.15
Pages: 128
Cover: Margaret Brundage

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
A Million Years in the Future [Part 4 of 4]..........Thomas P. Kelley
     - Planet ships are as common as the airplanes of this age.

Novelettes:
The Crystal Horde..........Harry Walton
     The crystal juggernauts had an insatiable and cannibal appetite.

Short Stories:
An Adventure of a Professional Corpse: 1. The Artificial Honeymoon..........H. Bedford-Jones
     A certain young man finds dying a profitable business.
Beyond the Frame..........Maria Moravsky
     The picture... was a gateway into a century time had forgotten.
The Dreadful Rabbits..........Manly Wade Wellman [as Gans T. Field]
     Their hunters became the hunted - and died horribly.
The Fiddler's Fee..........Robert Bloch
     He called the tune, and had to pay the piper.
The Gentle Werewolf..........Seabury Quinn
     A lovely girl... in wolf's clothing.
The Golden Chalice..........Frank Gruber
     Thousands doubted, but one thief knew the cup's secret.
On Pell Street..........Frank Owen
     Manhattan's Chinatown shows its teeth.

Essays/Articles:
It Happened to Me: Rabbit's Intuition..........Jim Price
It Happened to Me: The Cast-away Slave..........Thomas Trafton
It Happened to Me: Three Flowers..........F. T. Compton
The Eyrie - and Weird Tales Club

Poems:
Ears of the Dead..........James Arthur 
Inheritance..........Sudie Stuart Hager
 

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. WEIRD TALES
September / October, 1940

Vol. 35, No. 5
Title Issue: MULti-WT0195
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith
Price: $0.15
Pages: 128
Cover: Ray Quigley

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Novellas:
Seven Seconds of Eternity..........Robert H. Leitfred

Novelettes:
The Heart of Atlantan..........Nictzin Dyalhis
Sea Born..........Edmond Hamilton

Short Stories:
An Adventure of a Professional Corpse: 2. The Blind Farmer and the Strip Dancer..........H. Bedford-Jones
The Kings Do Battle Again..........H. Bedford-Jones [as Gordon Keyne]
Past Tense..........Harry Sivia
The Reward..........Robert Clancy
The Unusual Romance of Ferdinand Pratt..........Nelson S. Bond
The Valley of the Undead..........Helen Weinbaum

Essays/Articles:
It Happened to Me: They Lynched Him, and Then -..........Jack Kytle

Poems:
Enduring..........Maisie Nelson 
Temple in Samarkand..........Gerald Chan Sieg



Weird Tales coverUK Edition Released in 1942

Weird Tales (number 1) circa 1942-43: London: Gerald G. Swan (64pp+, 6¾" x 9¾", artist Ray Quigley) printed on wartime paper stock, a deep grey paper, though in a blue wash rather than full colour. 

Contents are as follows:
03--Seven Seconds Of Eternity--Robert H. Leitfred--novella
23--The Valley Of The Undead--Helen Weinbaum--short
31--An Adventure Of A Professional Corpse--The Blind Farmer And The Strip Dancer ---H. Bedford-Jones--short story
39--Heart Of Atlantan--Nictzin Dyalhis--short
49--Enduring--Maisie Nelson--poem
50--Sea Born--Edmond Hamilton--short
64--Temple In Samarkand--Gerald Chan Sieg--poem

Contents page credits last entry as by Maisie Nelson and spells the title as "Temple In Samakand", a verse. The cover borrowed from the US edition, credits Gordon Keyne as a contributor; the UK edition does not include this author.



Weird Tales coverThe cover image kind of reminds me of the Liberty Magazine cover of October 15, 1938, just two years earlier.  While it's not quite the match that the September 1944 Weird Tales cover shares with an earlier artist's work, this seems to be a case of creative inspiration.
 
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. WEIRD TALES
November / December, 1940 

Vol. 35, No. 6
Title Issue: MULti-WT0196
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith
Price: $0.15
Pages: 128
Cover: Margaret Brundage

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. Novelettes:
The Mound..........Zelia Bishop [with H. P. Lovecraft]
The Sandwin Compact..........August Derleth

Short Stories:
An Adventure of a Professional Corpse: 3. The Wife of the Humorous Gangster..........H. Bedford-Jones
The Green Invasion..........Denis Plimmer
The Impossible Adventure..........H. T. W. Bousfield
The Last Waltz..........Seabury Quinn
The Mirror..........Liam Kennedy
Turn Over..........Dorothy Quick
Wine of the Sabbat..........Robert Bloch

Essays/Articles:
It Happened to Me: Ghost Farm..........Dulcie Browne

Poems:
The Great God Death..........Edith Hurley
 

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