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Weird Tales
1988
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. WEIRD TALES
Spring, 1988 

Sixty-fifth Anniversary Issue
Vol. 50, No. 1
Title Issue: MUPti-WT0290
Publisher: Terminus Publishing Co.; Philadelphia, PA
Editor: George H. Scithers, Darrell Schweitzer, John Gregory Betancourt
Price: $3.50
Pages: 146
"Gene Wolfe" issue
illustrated by George Barr

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. Novelettes: 
Menage a Trois..........F. Paul Wilson

Short Stories:
Boiled Alive..........Ramsey Campbell
Death Dances..........Tanith Lee
Mary Beatrice Smoot Friarly, Spy..........Gene Wolfe
The Mysteries of the Faceless King..........Darrell Schweitzer
The Other Dead Man..........Gene Wolfe
Sister Abigail's Collection..........Lloyd Arthur Eshbach
The Unlawful Hunter..........Keith Taylor
Well-Connected..........T. E. D. Klein
What Can a Child Do? by Chet Williamson
The Wonderful Wallstretcher..........Felix C. Gottschalk

Short Fiction:
At The Point of Capricorn..........Gene Wolfe
The Boy Who Hooked the Sun..........Gene Wolfe
The Dead Man..........Gene Wolfe
John K. (Kinder) Price..........Gene Wolfe

Verse:
Had I Approached My Discovery in a More Noble Spirit..........Ruth Berman
Improbable Bestiary: The Bigfoot..........F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre 
John Mason Sidd..........Joseph Payne Brennan 
Old Gods Prowl..........Nancy Springer 

Essays/Articles:
The Eyrie..........George H. Scithers, Darrell Schweitzer, John Gregory
Betancourt 
Profile: Gene Wolfe..........David G. Hartwell 
Reviews (Weird Tales, Spring 1988)..........John Gregory Betancourt 
Interviews By Darrell Schweitzer Weird Tales Talks with Gene Wolfe..........Gene Wolfe 

Interior Art: 
George Barr
 

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. WEIRD TALES
Summer, 1988

Vol. 50, No. 2
Issue: # 291
Title Issue: MUPti-WT0291
Publisher: Terminus Publishing Co.; Philadelphia, PA
Editor: George H. Scithers, Darrell Schweitzer, John Gregory Betancourt
Price: $3.50
Pages: 130

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. Novelettes:
Fruiting Bodies..........Brian Lumley 
The Kingdoms of the Air..........Tanith Lee 

Short Stories:
After the Last Elf Is Dead..........Harry Turtledove 
Bad Lands..........Nancy Springer 
The Initiate..........Ronald Anthony Cross 
My Mother's Purse..........Ken Wisman 
Princess..........Morgan Llywelyn 
The Unrequited Glove..........Tanith Lee 

Verse:
Because..........Joseph Payne Brennan 
A Cautionary Note to Travelers through the Mutant Rain Forest..........Robert Frazier 
The Communal Nightmare..........Robert Frazier 
Haunted House..........Joseph Payne Brennan 
Improbable Bestiary: The Ghoul..........F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre 
Telepathy..........Janet Fox 
Thanatopsis..........Marvin Kaye 

Essays/Articles:
The Den (Weird Tales, Summer 1988)..........John Gregory Betancourt 
Profile: Tanith Lee..........Donald A. Wollheim 
Tanith Lee: A Selected Bibliography..........uncredited 
Interviews By Darrell Schweitzer Weird Tales Talks with Tanith Lee..........Tanith Lee
 

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. WEIRD TALES 
Fall, 1988 

Vol. 50, No. 3
Issue: # 292
Title Issue: MUPti-WT0292
Publisher: Terminus Publishing Co.; Philadelphia, PA
Editor: 
"Keith Taylor" issue
pages: 146
Price: $4.00
art by Carl Lundgren studios

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. Novelettes:
Child of an Ancient City..........Tad Williams
Emma's Daughter..........Alan Rodgers

Short Stories: 
Avatar..........Lois Tilton
The Fool..........Ronald Anthony Cross
The Haunting of Mara..........Keith Taylor
Men From the Plain of Lir..........Keith Taylor
The Ordeal Stone..........Keith Taylor
Still the Same Old Story..........W. T. Quick

Short Fiction:
Little Once..........Nina Kiriki Hoffman

Verse:
Curse of the Werewolf's Wife..........Bruce Boston 
Psyche in the Night, Cupid by Lamplight..........Ace G. Pilkington 
Star-Treader..........Walter Shedlofsky 
Walpurgisnacht..........Lin Carter 

Nonfiction:
The Den: book reviews by Betancourt
Interviews By Robert Morrish Weird Tales Talks with Clive Barker..........Clive Barker 
Letters from readers
Profile: Keith Taylor..........Cherry Weiner
 

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. WEIRD TALES
Winter, 1988-1989 

Vol. 50, No. 4
Issue # 293
Title Issue: MUPti-WT0293
"Avram Davidson" issue
Publisher: Terminus Publishing Co.; Philadelphia, PA
Editor: George H. Scithers, Darrell Schweitzer, John Gregory Betancourt
Price: $4.00
Pages: 146
art by Hank Jankus

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. Novelettes: 
Magician in the Dark..........Robert Sampson

Short Stories:
The Odd Old Bird..........Avram Davidson
Kaeti and the Village..........Keith Taylor
Instrument of Allah..........Robert E. Metzger
Nothing Like a Clean Weapon..........Avram Davidson
The Frog Prince That Ate Cranford New Jersey, by Jay Sheckley
The Ones Who Turn Invisible..........F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
The Tunnel..........Carl Jacobi
Knox's 'Nga..........Avram Davidson
Message from Hell..........Robert Sheckley
The Dimension Weasel..........Jefferson Swycaffer

Short Fiction:
Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot, by Grendel Briarton
When Jesus Comes Down the Chimney..........Ian Watson

Verse:
Armageddon Out There..........F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre 
A Holiday in the Park..........John M. Ford 
Mu..........Lin Carter 
Sabbat Eve..........Lin Carter 
Salem..........Brett Rutherford 
The Sins of My Fathers..........Bruce Boston 
The Time Barrier..........Janet Fox 
Witch's Progress..........Ace G. Pilkington 

Nonfiction:
Adventures in Unhistory: The Great Rough Beast, by Avram Davidson
Avram Davidson: The Fish Unturned..........Gene Wolfe
The Den: book reviews by Betancourt
The Eyrie: editorial comments and letters from readers
The Inchoation of Eszterhazy..........Avram Davidson

Interior Art:
Cover artist Hank Jankus 



Cover and interior artist Hank Jankus passed away without seeing this issue in print. The back cover art is nice, too, but I don't know who did it; it's a book advertisement for the Marvin Kaye Weird Tales collection.
 
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