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. WEIRD TALES
January, 1948 

Vol. 40, No. 2
Title Issue: MULti-WT0239
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith
Price: $0.20
Pages: 96
Cover: Boris Dolgov

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. Novelettes:
The Deadly Ratio..........Theodore Sturgeon
     No man has greater love than that he feels for his Dream Girl.  But what if she suddenly, actually mateializes?
The Frightened Engineer..........Allison V. Harding
     No wonder he was frightened.  For when a dreadful guess becomes a certainty...
Serpent Princess..........Edmond Hamilton
     A place dedicated to death is unwholsome for the living until they, too, join the restless legions of the Beyond.

Short Stories:
And Give Us Yesterday..........Seabury Quinn
     Only beyond-normal fources can cancel out the last bugle call of death.  What can dare the ageless evil of those forces?
Grandfather McGraw..........Roger S. Vreeland
     The condemned man had but one request before he went to the gallows.  A requst as simple as life itself.
The Green Brothers Take Over..........Maria Moravsky
     Other forms of life live differently.  And they revenge themselves on their enemies differently.
The Lorenzo Watch..........Carl Jacobi
     He had a knack for that short of thing, was all.  Anything in Blackwell Marsh alive or - more likely -- dead, he could find.
The Night Train to Lost Valley..........August Derleth [as Stephen Grendon]
     Trains go a lot of strange places, some places where they never should go.

Poems:
Moon-Marked..........S. Omar Barker

Articles:
Weirdisms..........Lee Brown Coye
The Eyrie
The Weird Tales Club


NOTE: The Canadian issues from January, 1948 on to November, 1951 were identical to the U.S. issues and were distributed at the same time.  The covers and contents matched.
 

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. WEIRD TALES 
March, 1948

Vol. 40, No. 3
Title Issue: MULti-WT0240
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith
Price: $0.20
Pages: 96
Cover: Lee Brown Coye

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. Novelettes:
The Coming of M. Alkerhaus..........Allison V. Harding
     Boy meets girl, how many millions of times has that happened since the world began ? But this was somehow so very different
The Might-Have-Been..........Edmond Hamilton
     The universe is but one of many different branches in the road of time, seperated one from the other by an extra-dimensional abyss

Short Stories:
Catnip..........Robert Bloch Ghost Hunt..........H. Russell Wakefield
The La Prello Paper..........Carl Jacobi
The Leonardo Rondache..........Manly Wade Wellman
The Master of the Crabs..........Clark Ashton Smith
The Merrow..........Seabury Quinn
The October Game..........Ray Bradbury
The Professor's Teddy-Bear..........Theodore Sturgeon
Roman Remains..........Algernon Blackwood
Something in Wood..........August Derleth

Poems:
The House..........H. P. Lovecraft [as Ward Phillips]

Cover illustrated by Lee Brown Coye. Black & white illustrations by Lee Brown Coye,Boris Dolgov,John Giunta, etc.
 

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. WEIRD TALES
May, 1948

Vol. 40, No. 4
Title Issue: MULti-WT0241
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith
Price: $0.20
Pages: 96
Cover: Matt Fox

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. Novelettes:
City of Lost People..........Allison V. Harding
Clay..........C. Hall Thompson

Short Stories:
The Black Ferris..........Ray Bradbury
A Death Crown for Mrs. Hapworthy..........Mary Elizabeth Counselman
The Grotto of Cheer..........Stanton A. Coblentz
Nemesis..........Harold Lawlor
No Silence for Maloeween..........Peter Phillips
One Foot in the Grave..........Dave Grubb
Pamola's Caribou..........Roger S. Vreeland
Saunder's Little Friend..........August Derleth

Poems:
Demon Lover..........Harriet A. Bradfield
The Eldritch One..........Pauline Booker
 

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. WEIRD TALES
July, 1948

Vol. 40, No. 5
Title Issue: MULti-WT0242
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith
Price: $0.20
Pages: 96
Cover: Matt Fox

Weird Tales cover
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. Novelettes:
Isle of Women..........Allison V. Harding
Twilight of the Gods..........Edmond Hamilton

Short Stories:
Abreaction..........Theodore Sturgeon
Croatan..........Malcolm M. Ferguson
Dhoh..........Manly Wade Wellman
The Tsanta in the Parlor..........August Derleth [as Stephen Grendon]
The Undead Die..........E. Everett Evans and Ray Bradbury
What Beckoning Ghost?..........Harold Lawlor

Black & white illustrations by Vincent Napoli, John Giunta,Lee Brown Coye, etc.
 

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. WEIRD TALES
September, 1948

Vol. 40, No. 6
Title Issue: MULti-WT0243
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith
Price: $0.20
Pages: 96
Cover: Lee Brown Coye

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. Long Novelette:
The Whippoorwills in the Hills..........August Derleth
     The ghastly sound swelled from the black hills into the valley, surrounding the house with waves of cacophonous horror.

Novelettes:
The Follower..........Allison V. Harding
     A trail that begins in life and ends only with death.

Short Stories:
The Beasts That Tread the World..........Harold Lawlor
     A woman pursued by monsters, but only in a nightmare, should not have scars to show for it in the morning.
The Cracks of Time..........Dorothy Quick
     She was fascinated the cracks of the tiles - heedless of the danger.
The Daughter of Urzun..........Stanton A. Coblentz
     Decisions made on other days, in other lives can affect now and today.
Death's Bouquet..........Peter Phillips
     Lebrun's cider possessed a curious quality.  Delightful until you knew the ingredients.
The Devil's Lottery..........Mary Elizabeth Counselman
     Everyone agreed that the strange man was there, but no two people agreed on what he looked like
Displaced Person..........Eric Frank Russell
     Our troubled world is full of displaced persons but the man in the black coat was surely the strangest.
Fever Dream..........Ray Bradbury
     We know the way germs multiply - suppose the go on and grow big and bigger!
The Hidden Talent of Artist Bates..........Snowden T. Herrick
     The most unusual, unheard of and deadly kind of strange talent.
The Watcher of the Ages..........Edmond Hamilton
     Many ahd sought the dead metropolis but all had been defeated by the dark jungle and darker forces within.

Verse:
The River..........Dorothy Quick
To the Chimera..........Clark Ashton Smith

Articles:
The Eyrie and Wierd Tales Club
Weirdisms
 

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. WEIRD TALES
November, 1948 

Vol. 41, No. 1
Title Issue: MULti-WT0244
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith
Price: $0.20
Pages: 96
Cover: John Giunta

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. Long Novelette:
The Perfect Host..........Theodore Sturgeon

Novelette:
The House on Forest Street..........Allison V. Harding

Short Stories:
Blessed Are the Meek..........August Derleth [as Stephen Grendon]
Incident at the Galloping Horse..........Carl Jacobi
The Indian Spirit Guide..........Robert Bloch
The Ponderer..........Eric Frank Russell
Such Stuff as Dreams..........Seabury Quinn
Tryst Beyond the Years..........Malcolm Kenneth Murchie

Poems:
Ghostlings..........Dorothy Quick

Articles:
Eyrie
 

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