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Weird Tales: The Magazine That Never Dies

Since its first issue in March 1923, Weird Tales - "The Unique Magazine" - has provided countless readers with the most innovative and offbeat fantasy, suspense and horror stories. Almost every important writer of fantastic fiction in the first half of this century - including H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Fritz Lieber - and countless other notables have had their works showcased in its pages.

Now, in this special volume compiled by popular anthologist Marvin Kaye, some of the most memorable horrific, bizarre tales ever published are assembled, all of which have appeared in various incarnations of Weird Tales over the years.

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Skulls in the Stars by 

The Terror of the Water Tank by 

The Lost Club by 

The Hoax of the Spirit Lover by 

Masked Ball by 

Why Weird Tales by 

The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan by 

The House of Ecstasy by 

The Woman with the Velvet Collar by 

The Judge's House by 

Mistress Sary by 

Ghost Hunt by H.R. Wakefield

He by [author:H.P. Lovecraft

The Sorcerer's Apprentice by 

The Dead Smile by 

The Brotherhood of Blood by 

Men Who walk Upon the Air by 

The Stolen Body by 

The Scrawny One by 

Interim by 

Eena by 

The Look by 

Methought I Heard A Voice by 

Off the Map by 

The Last Train by 

Ti Michel by 

In the X-Ray by 

Speak by 

The Pale Criminal by 

The Sombrus Tower by 

Mr George by 

The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller by 

Seed by 

The Bagheeta by 

Funeral in the Fog by 

The Damp Man by 

Wet Straw by 

Mysteries of the Faceless King by 

More Than Shadow by 

Chicken Soup by 

The Haunted Burglar by 

Never Bet the Devil Your Head by 

A Child's Dream of a Star by 

The Perfect Host by 

The Sorcerer's Apprentice by 

Dust jacket illustration by Richard Kriegler, based on Howard's "Skulls in the Stars." Weird Tales has always been the most popular and sought-after of all pulp magazines. A mix of exotic fantasy, horror, science fiction, suspense, and the just plain indescribable.

Genre
horrorfantasyscience fictionweird fiction
Audience
adult
Length
long · 582 pages
Form
short stories

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