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.	WEIRD TALES January, 1953 Vol. 44, No. 8 Title Issue: MULti-WT0269 Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith Price: $0.25 Pages: 96 Cover: Frank Kelly Freas		.
.	Novelettes: Once There Was a Little Girl..........Everil Worrell The Werewolf of Ponkert..........H. Warner Munn Short Stories: "Sexton, Sexton, in the Wall"..........August Derleth The Gloves..........Garnett Radcliffe Hand of Death..........Marjorie Murch Stanley I Can't Wear White..........Suzanne Pickett The Phantom Soldier at Ticonderoga..........Cyrus Macmillan Six Feet of Willow Green..........Carroll K. Michener Wet Straw..........Richard Matheson Essays/Articles: The Phantom Soldier at Ticonderoga..........Dr. Cyrus Macmillan Poems: Red Ghosts in Kentucky..........Leah Bodine Drake Interior art by Virgil Finlay, Frank Kelly Freas, Vincent Napoli and others. Weird Tales pulp horror magazine No 21 Jan 1953, very good plus condition, complete, clean - August Derleth, Worrell, Richard Matheson, Munn, published in Britain by Jenson Book Company		.


.	WEIRD TALES March, 1953 Vol. 45, No. 1 Title Issue: MULti-WT0270 Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith Price: $0.25 Pages: 96 Cover: Virgil Finlay		.
.	Novelettes: Night Court..........Mary Elizabeth Counselman Slime..........Joseph Payne Brennan Short Stories: Caveat Emptor..........L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt The Dream Merchant..........Harold Lawlor In Camera..........John Ward Mrs. Penleath's Stratagem..........T. W. Speight The Raft..........Kirk Shaw The Supreme Witch..........Appleby Terrill (reprint from the October 1926 issue) The Talkie Dolls..........Donald F. Vieweg Poems: Don Quixote on Market Street..........Clark Ashton Smith Who Are We?..........Frances Rogers Lovell Articles: The Eyrie Interior illustrations by Virgil Finlay, Jon Arfstrom, Joseph Eberle, and W. H. Silvey		.


.	WEIRD TALES May, 1953 Vol. 45, No. 2 Title Issue: MULti-WT0271 Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith Price: $0.25 Pages: 96 Cover: Joseph Eberle		.
.	Novelettes: Between Two Dreams..........Felix Marti-Ibanez Strange Harvest..........Donald Wandrei Short Stories: A Corner for Lucia..........August Derleth I'll Be Back..........David Eynon The Living Eyes..........Justin Dowling Mandrake..........Adam Hull Shirk Morthylla..........Clark Ashton Smith The Vengeance of Kali Mai..........Garnett Radcliffe Whisper Water..........Leah Bodine Drake Wife of the Dragon-Fly..........Paul Ernst Poems: A Fog Was Blowing..........Stanton A. Coblentz Requiem for a Sinner..........Pauline Booker Interior art by Virgil Finlay (on 3 stories). WEIRD TALES : MAY 1953 BRITISH EDITION [NO.22] PRICE 1/- Whisper Water...................................................Leah Bodine Drake The Living Eyes........................................................Justin Dowling I'll Be Back.................................................................David Eynon Strange Harvest......................................................Donald Wandrei Morthylla..........................................................Clark Ashton Smith A Corner For Lucia...................................................August Derleth Between Two Dreams..........................................Felix Marti Ibanez The Vengeance of Kali Mai.....................................Garnet Radcliffe Mandrake.............................................................Adam Hull Shirk Wife of the Dragon Fly....................................................Paul Ernst Though numbered 22,this issue is identical to the U.S.copy apart from the back and inner covers and a few of the full page ads.As usual also includes the Eyrie plus verse.Cover is by Joseph Eberle.		.


.	WEIRD TALES July, 1953 Vol. 45, No. 3 Title Issue: MULti-WT0272 Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith Price: $0.25 Pages: 96 Cover: W. H. Silvey		.
.	Novelettes: The House in the Valley..........August Derleth It is not commonly believed that the mind can duplicate a dream state. an experience which is utterly alien to it; this I had done. The Sea-Witch..........Nictzin Dyalhis ...One and all they turned their dead eyes on me with a curious fixity. Slaughter House..........Richard Matheson There had been rumors of ghosts about the old place, but neither of the brothers could credit that sort of thing. Short Stories: Dread Summons..........Paul Ernst The old butler heard a scaream; but it was muffled by street noises outside the deserted and ghostly old house. L'Affaire Verenekin..........David Eynon [as David Lewis Eynon] The colonel had a theory - that the beauty of dying young is that one doesn't have to face one's mistakes. The Missing Room..........Lyn Venable Just like any young couple looking over a house they'd love to own; how could they know it encompassed a secret room? On the Elevator..........Joseph Payne Brennan The storm-tossed waves beat against the boardwalk and the very foundations of the hotel itself. Was it that they churned up a secret long meant to lie buried at sea? The Source of It..........Glen Malin If only I knew the source of this evil on earth. It had spread malignantly in nearly all the people and is fishing for me this very moment... Poems: House of Life..........Dorothy Quick Articles and Features: The Eyrie		.


.	WEIRD TALES September, 1953 Vol. 45, No. 4 [1st digest issue] Title Issue: MULti-WT0273 Publisher: Short Stories, Inc. Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith Price: $0.35 Pages: 128 Cover: Jon Arfstrom		.
.	Novelettes: I Loved Her With My Soul..........Everil Worrell Short Stories: The Beetle..........Garnett Radcliffe The Devil's Cabin..........Vance Hoyt The Ebony Stick..........August Derleth The Man Who Walked on Air..........Michael Avallone An Offering to the Moon..........Clark Ashton Smith Parthenope..........Manly Wade Wellman The Tree-Man..........Henry S. Whitehead The Watcher Awakes..........Kirk Shaw Poems: The Dark Things..........Dorothy Quick Six Merry Farmers..........Leah Bodine Drake		.


.	WEIRD TALES November, 1953 Vol. 45, No. 5 Title Issue: MULti-WT0274 Publisher: Short Stories, Inc. Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith Price: $0.35 Pages: 128 Cover: Margaret Brundage Note: This cover is recycled from the January 1945 issue		.
.	Novelettes: The Man Upstairs..........Harry W. Currier No one else had seen him, yet the little professor could swear that three times he had been there. Thing of Darkness..........G. G. Pendarves A novelette of a Thing of Horror that brought death to Troon House. Short Stories: The Black Stone..........Robert E. Howard ...some unspeakable monster from the Elder World. The Crying Child..........Dorothea Gibbons It was two hundred years ago the plaything had been lost. The Disc Recorder..........August Derleth Can such contrivances be ghost-operated? The Legs That Walked..........Justin Dowling ...with every clap of thunder they came marching on. The Red Balloon..........Q. Patrick Something "awfully funny" had happened to those kids. Way Station..........Mary Elizabeth Counselman A haunted house is a poor place for a honeymoon.... Poems: Demon Lover..........Dorothy Quick Suspicion..........Harriet A. Bradfield Articles and Features: The Eyrie ..........2nd Cover		.

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