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. WEIRD TALES
January, 1946

Vol. 39, No. 3
Title Issue: MULti-WT0227
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith
Price: $0.15
Pages: 96
Cover: A. R. Tilburne

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. Novelettes:
Kurban..........Seabury Quinn
     Like Pharoah's necromancers, he could cast his rod upon the earth and it became a live, hissing serpent.

Short Stories:
All the Time in the World..........Charles King
     The mass of bloated flesh that could be formed into different shapes by kneading with the fingers - was me!
Chariots of San Fernando..........Malcolm Jameson
     There are many unsolved mysteries in this strange world of ours - like the bizarre adventures at the Amazon's headwaters!
The Diversions of Mme. Gamorra..........Harold Lawlor
     What, pray, would people be life if they were reduced to their lowest common denominator?
Mr. Bauer and the Atoms..........Fritz Leiber
     If a person suddenly becomes radio active, with all that energy inside his body...
Pikeman..........August Derleth
     The tombstone warned "Prepare for death and follow me!"
Satan's Phonograph..........Robert Bloch
     Have you ever heard of a recording machine so delicate that it captures the human soul?
Seed..........Jack Snow
     How thin is the veneer of modern learning.  And how little it take to shake one's faith!
Sin's Doorway..........Manly Wade Wellman
     A soul is free to enter heaven if its burden of sin is borne by a living person.

Poems:
Recapture..........H. P. Lovecraft

Articles and Features:
The Eyrie and the Weird Tales Club
Superstitions and Taboos..........Irwin J. Weill 
 

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. WEIRD TALES 
March, 1946 

Vol. 39, No. 4
Title Issue: MULti-WT0228
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith
Price: $0.15
Pages: 96
Cover: Lee Brown Coye

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. Novelettes:
The Man in Crescent Terrace..........Seabury Quinn
     The thing used its spear like a woman testing cake with a broomstraw - only the "cake" was a human!
Twice Cursed..........Manly Wade Wellman
     Do you know of those who are afraid of memory shadows and those who never fear the devil except on a dark night?

Short Stories:
The Bogey Man Will Get You..........Robert Bloch
     That was what was nice about him - the mystery, the not knowing...
Chanu..........Jim Kjelgaard
     Look closely at his cultured face and you will discern to your amazement a snarling mouth and great fangs.
Dead Man's Shoes..........August Derleth [as Stephen Grendon]
     Those who are stricken with that curious and terrible hallucination should be thankful - for it warns of something far more terrible.
The Jonah..........Emil Petaja
     Remember the "Marie Celeste"?  Here's an explanation for that and other sea mysteries that could not be explained!
The Traveller..........Ray Bradbury
     A strange family, with no real life to any of them!
Tunnel Terror..........Allison V. Harding
     Strange things can happen in a vehicular tube - especially when the tunnel goes places it isn't supposed to!

Poems:
Forgetful Hour..........Yetza Gillespie
Tree Woman..........Dorothy Quick

Articles: 
Superstitions and Taboos.....Irwin J. Weill



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Additional story in the 20 cent Canadian version:

The Dead Man's Hand..........T. K. Whitely
Beware the hand of a dead murderer - and certain strange words that give it evil power
 
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. WEIRD TALES
May, 1946 

Vol. 39, No. 5
Title Issue: MULti-WT0229
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith
Price: $0.15
Pages: 96
Cover: Ronald Clyne

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. Novelettes:
Three in Chains..........Seabury Quinn
The Valley of the Gods..........Edmond Hamilton

Short Stories:
Frozen Fear..........Robert Bloch
The Man in Purple..........Dorothy Quick
Midnight..........Jack Snow
Once There Was an Elephant..........R. H. Phelps
Rain, Rain, Go Away!..........Gardner F. Fox
The Silver Highway..........Harold Lawlor
The Smiling People..........Ray Bradbury

Poems:
The Haunted Stairs..........Yetza Gillespie
The Nixie's Pool..........Leah Bodine Drake 



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in July of 1946
 
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. WEIRD TALES
July, 1946

Vol. 39, No. 6
Title Issue: MULti-WT0230
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith
Price: $0.15
Pages: 96
Cover: Matt Fox

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. Novelettes:
Shonokin Town..........Manly Wade Wellman
     The Shonokins are real - real almost-man with peculiar knowledges and sciences, fearing only their own dead

Short Stories:
Catspaws..........Seabury Quinn
     A girl attacked by night by some creature, not human, not animal, but monster
The Cinnabar Redhead..........Harold Lawlor
     Life is full of problems and in the lonely hush of a foggy night ghosts become one of them.
For Love of a Phantom..........Stanton A. Coblentz
     The room was a [---sty] six-by-eight where unearthly shadows seemed to dance in the gas-light.
Ghost..........P. Schuyler Miller
     It is a pleasure sometimes to remember how certain people died.
I'll Be Glad When I'm Dead..........Charles King
     It's written that pint-sized demons can only give out with vest-pocket spells!
The Man Who Told the Truth..........Jim Kjelgaard and Robert Bloch
     "From this night on everything you say will come true, so watch your language."
The Night..........Ray Bradbury
     This was a summer night that waded deep in time and stars and warm eternity - a night when reason ended and universal evil took over.
The Shingler..........E. L. Wright
     Next time you have work done on your house be sure you don't get the Shingler!
The Wings..........Allison V. Harding
     One never knows what incredible forces are ready to loose themselves upon the world at any moment

Poems:
Long Watch..........Dorothy Quick
Moon Phantoms..........Dorothy Haynes Madle

Articles:
Superstitions and Taboos..........Irwin J. Weill
The Eyrie and the Weird Tales Club
 

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. WEIRD TALES
September, 1946

Vol. 39, No. 7
Title Issue: MULti-WT0231
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith
Price: $0.15
Pages: 96
Cover: Pete Kuhlhoff

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. Novelettes:
Lotte..........Seabury Quinn

Short Stories:
Alice and the Allergy..........Fritz Leiber
Day of Judgment..........Edmond Hamilton
Enoch..........Robert Bloch
The Horn..........Charles King
The Machine..........Allison V. Harding
Not Human..........Bert David Ross
The Polar Vortex..........Malcolm Ferguson
Six Flights to Terror..........Manly Banister
Threshold of Endurance..........Betsy Emmons 
Xerxes' Hut..........Harold Lawlor

Poems:
The Port..........H. P. Lovecraft
 

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. WEIRD TALES
November, 1946

Vol. 39, No. 8
Title Issue: MULti-WT0232
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith
Price: $0.15
Pages: 96
Cover: Boris Dolgov

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. Novelettes:
Eyes in the Dark..........Seabury Quinn
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Shipmate..........Allison V. Harding
     Your shipmates are picked by chance or fate--to sail with you toward some shrouded doom beyond the farthest horizon!
Spawn of the Green Abyss..........C. Hall Thompson
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Short Stories:
A Collector of Stones..........August Derleth
     You don't always worry about ethics if you're a fanatical collector. But you should worry about the dead!
Frogfather..........Manly Wade Wellman
     The oldest ones say Khomgabassi dug the waterways, planted the trees and fathered the frogs.
Let's Play "Poison"..........Ray Bradbury
     Children--little monsters thrust out of hell because the devil could no longer cope with them.
Lizzie Borden Took an Axe.............Robert Bloch
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Mayaya's Little Green Men..........Harold Lawlor
     Things happen in rambling, reconverted farmhouses, things that make you wish you weren't twenty miles from the nearest neighbor.

Poems:
The Door..........Harriet A. Bradfield
Heard on the Roof at Midnight..........Leah Bodine Drake

Articles:
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