Vol. 45, No. 6
Title Issue: MULti-WT0275
Publisher: Short Stories, Inc.
Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith
Price: $0.35
Pages: 128
Cover: W. H. Silvey

Short Stories:
Black Heath..........Farfal Delano
     Since man can run, walk, jump, swim and crawl, then why not fly?
The Calamander Chest..........Joseph Payne Brennan
     The finger kept beckoning, beckoning
Effie's Pets..........Suzanne Pickett
     Eons and eons-a long time to be hemmed in by a strong, wholly invisible wall
Mop-Head..........Leah Bodine Drake
     Its mockery of speech it had made from fox's bark, owl's cry, rains patter
Shadows of Blood..........[Earl Binder and Otto Binder] [as Eando Binder]
     It was Ceasar's own wish to speak with the barbarian
A Very Special Quality..........David Eynon [as David Lewis Eynon]
     Caveat Emptor-and most especially when bartering with the DEVIL
You Should Be Careful..........Garnett Radcliffe
     How long does it take for a ghost to find itself?

Short Fiction::
Tiger Dust..........Bassett Morgan
     Terrible magic in the hills

Essays/Articles:
Atlantic Isle of Mystery..........Dr. Cyrus Macmillan
     About the sea, and the mocking fugitive horizon, there is always mystery

Verse:
Reflections of an Egyptian Princess While Being Interred..........Edith Ogutsch
Walpurgis Night..........Dorothy Quick
 

Vol. 46, No. 1
Title Issue: MULti-WT0276
Publisher: Short Stories, Inc.
Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith
Price: $0.35
Pages: 128
Cover: Evan Singer

Short Stories:
The Arm..........Justin Dowling
     "Right arm, what are you?  Ugly, they will say - like uncooked meat..."
Brenda..........Margaret St. Clair
     What, after all, was entombed in the eery quarry?
The Lily Maid..........Dorothea Gibbons
     What was it my crzed mind tried to remeber among the sahdows?
Make Me a Child Again..........David Eynon [as David Lewis Eynon]
     Something that varous people have sighed for at one time or another.
Morpho on the Screen..........Arthur J. Burks
     ...straight away to the Valley of the Amazon to research my dreams.
Nepthae..........Suzanne Pickett
     Blown in with the salt spray and the very essence of love.

Poems:
Out!..........Leah Bodine Drake
Witch's Brew..........Dorothy Quick

Matches with the UK Volume 1 Number 4
 

Vol. 46, No. 2
Title Issue: MULti-WT0277
Publisher: Short Stories, Inc.
Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith
Price: $0.35
Pages: 128
Cover: W. H. Silvey

Short Stories:
The Banshee and Patrick O'Bannon..........Joe Bishop
     Though usually silent, the Banshee's wail could not be stopped; it meant death - maybe that of the man who tried it.
Beyond the Door..........J. Paul Suter
     The whole affair had been a mystery of lips which closed and faces which were averted at my approach.
Lord of the Talking Heads [vt Lord of the Talking Hands]..........Arthur Woodward
     An unusual man, indeed, and his statements were as unusual as his looks and manners.
The Place in the Woods..........August Derleth
     In isolated country places, one is alone with sky, earth, and water - and any invisible dwellers there may be in the trees.
The Predestined..........Q. Patrick
     It seemed as if the horror of his predestination had dogged him all his life.
Prediction..........Curtis W. Casewit
     ...not a story of murder, though there's a corpse in it; nor a love story, though a blond actress plays a role in it.
The Return of Simon Carib..........Frederick Sanders
     The hospitable lights of an old inn shone over the snowy street. How long had they thus shone?

Poems:
Witch Woman..........Dorothy Quick

Articles:
The Eyrie
 

BRITISH EDITION : PRICE 1/6d

Song in the Thicket...................................................Manly Banister

The Predestined...............................................................Q.Patrick

Lord of the Talking Hands....................................Frederick Sanders

Prediction.............................................................Curtis W.Casewit

The Place in the Woods............................................August Derleth

The Banshee and Patrick O'Bannon...............................Joe Bishop

Beyond the Door.............................................................Paul Suter

British edition issued in 1954 when Weird Tales had reduced the size down to digest format.Only two more issues published after this one.The magazine is in clean condition.Cover has a little creasing at the top right but otherwise is O.K.Spine is complete but rather browned and creased with all writing clearly visible.Interior pages all very clean with no tears or creasing.Cover,which is original to this issue is by W.H.Silvey.

Weird Tales pulp horror magazine Vol 1 No 5, 1950s digest size, August Derleth, Casewit, Suter published in Britain by Strato Publications

Vol. 46, No. 3
Title Issue: MULti-WT0278
Publisher: Short Stories, Inc.
Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith
Price: $0.35
Pages: 128
Cover: Harold S. De Lay
(uncredited reuse of image)

Short Stories:
The Green Huntsman..........Dorothea Gibbons
Guardian..........W. J. Suprenant
More Than Shadow..........Dorothy Quick
Never Stop to Pat a Kitten..........Miriam Allen deFord
Off the Map..........Rex Dolphin
Passing of a God..........Henry S. Whitehead
The Tree of Life..........Paul Ernst

Poems:
Beware of Vampire Women..........Patricia Burgess
Western Highway..........Clarence Edwin Flynn

This is a reused cover image by Harold S. De Lay from the January, 1944 issue shown here on the right. As things were winding to a finish at Weird Tales, it must have been time to conserve costs and reuse old covers. De Lay appears to be uncredited in the July, 1954 issue.  

Vol. 46, No. 4
Title Issue: MULti-WT0279
Publisher: Short Stories, Inc.
Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith
Price: $0.35
Pages: 128
Cover: Virgil Finlay

Short Stories:
Dorgen..........Suzanne Pickett
     Yes, Indeed; he'd heard of precious things being lost by a hair
The Imitation Demon..........Robert Kuttner 
     Being a modern and practical young man, the heir knew, of course, that dead protoplasm was simply so much inert chemical
Spawn of Darkness..........Kirk Shaw
     It was hard for the traveller to believe that an ancient curse could still hang over the countryside
A Tomb in Malacor..........Felix Marti-Ibanez
     How strange actually to meet those who remembered the life I'd always wanted to live, the man I'd always wanted to be.

Verse:
Moon Mist..........Virgil Finlay
This Night..........Dorothy Quick