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Weird Tales
1923
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. WEIRD TALES
March, 1923

Vol. 1 , No. 1
Title Issue: MULti-WT0001
Publisher: The Rural Publishing Corp.; Chicago, IL
Editor: Edwin Baird
Price: $0.25
Pages: 192
Cover: R. R. Epperly

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
A Strange Novel in Two Parts
The Thing of a Thousand Shapes [Part 1 of 2]..........Otis Adelbert Kline
     Don't start this story late at night.

Novelettes:
The Chain..........Hamilton Craigie
      Craigie is at his best here.     
The Dead Man's Tale..........Willard Hawkins [as Willard E. Hawkins] 
      An astounding tale that will hold you spellbound and will make you breath fast with a new mental sensation.
Ooze..........Anthony M. Rud
     A Remarkable short novel by a master of "gooseflesh" fiction

Short Stories:
The Accusing Voice..........Meredith Davis 
     The singular experience of Allen Defoe.
The Ape-Man..........James B. M. Clark, Jr.
      A jungle tale that is somehow "different."
The Basket..........Herbert J. Mangham
      A queer little story about San Francisco.
Extraordinary Experiment of Dr. Calgroni.......... Joseph Faus and James Bennett
       An eccentric doctor creates a frightening living thing.
Fear..........David R. Solomon
       Showing how fear can drive a strong man to the edge of insanity.
The Gallows..........I. W. D. Peters
      An out-of-the-ordinary story.
The Ghost Guard..........Bryan Irvine
       A "spooky" tale with a grim background.
The Ghoul and the Corpse..........G. A. Wells
      An amazing yarn of weird adventure in the frozen North.
The Grave..........Orville R. Emerson 
       A soul gripping story of terror.
Hark!The Rattle!..........Joel Townsley Rogers
       An uncommon tale that will cling to your memory for many a day.
The House of Death..........F. Georgia Stroup
       The strange secret of a lonely woman.
The Mystery of Black Jean..........Julian Kilman 
       A story of blood curdling realism, with a smashing surprise at the end.
Nimba, the Cave Girl..........R. T. M. Scott
       An odd, fantastic little story of the Stone Age.
The Place of Madness..........Merlin Moore Taylor
       What two hours in a prison "solitary" did to a man.
The Return of Paul Slavsky..........George Warburton Lewis
       A "creepy" tale that ends in a shuddering, breath-taking way.
The Scarlet Night..........William Sanford
       A tale of an eerie thrill.
The Skull..........Harold Ward
       A grim tale with a terrifying end.
The Unknown Beast..........Howard Ellis Davis
       An unusual tale of a terrifying monster.
The Weaving Shadows..........W. H. Holmes
       Chet Burke's strange adventures in a haunted house.
The Young Man Who Wanted to Die..........Anonymous
       An anonymous author submits a startling answer to the question, "What comes after death?"

Short Fiction:
The Closing Hand..........Farnsworth Wright
     A brief story powerfully written.
The Sequel..........Walter Scott Story
     A new conclusion to Edgar Allen Poe's "Cask of Amontillado."

Articles/Features::
The Eyrie
..........The Editor
Also a number of odd facts and queer fancies, crowded in for good measure.


 

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Alternate Cover

There is rumor that an accidental run of the cover produced an alternate and rare version where the orange and black color plates were reversed. 

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. WEIRD TALES
April, 1923

Vol. 1 , No. 2
Title Issue: MULti-WT0002
Publisher: The Rural Publishing Corp.; Indianapolis, IN
Editor: Edwin Baird
Price: $0.25
Pages: 192
Cover: R. M. Mally 

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Thing of a Thousand Shapes [Part 2 of 2]..........Otis Adelbert Kline
The Whispering Thing [Part 1 of 2]..........Laurie McClintock and Culpeper Chunn

Novelettes:
The Bodymaster..........Harold Ward
The Scar..........Carl Rasmus

Short Stories:
The Affair of the Man in Scarlet..........Julian Kilman 
Beyond the Door..........J. Paul Suter
The Conquering Will..........Ted Olson
The Forty Jars..........Ray McGillivray 
Golden Glow..........Harry Irving Shumway
The Hall of the Dead..........Francis D. Grierson
The Hideous Face..........Victor Johns
The Incubus..........Hamilton Craigie 
Jungle Death..........Artemus Calloway
The Living Nightmare..........Anton M. Oliver
The Parlor Cemetery..........C. E. Howard 
Six Feet of Willow Green..........Carroll K. Michener
The Snake Fiend..........Farnsworth Wright
A Square of Canvas..........Anthony M. Rud
The Tortoise Shell Comb..........Roylston Markham

Short Fiction:
The Wish..........Myrtle Levy Gaylord

Essays/Articles:
A Photographic Phantasm..........Paul Crumpler, M.D. 
 

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. WEIRD TALES
May, 1923

Vol. 1 , No. 3
Title Issue: MULti-WT0003
Publisher: The Rural Publishing Corp.; Indianapolis, IN
Editor: Edwin Baird
Price: $0.25
Pages: 120
Cover: Heitman 

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Moon Terror [Part 1 of 2]..........A. G. Birch
The Whispering Thing [Part 2 of 2]..........Laurie McClintock and Culpeper Chunn

Novelettes:
The Closed Cabinet..........Anonymous
The Golden Caverns..........Julian Kilman
The Haunted and the Haunters; or,
The House and   the Brain..........Edward Bulwer-Lytton 
Penelope..........Vincent Starrett

Short Stories:
Case No. 27..........Mollie Frank Ellis
The Death Cell..........F. K. Moss
The Devil Plant..........Lyle Wilson Holden 
An Eye for an Eye..........G. W. Crane
The Finale..........William Merrit
The Floor Above..........M. Humphreys 
Jungle Beasts..........William P. Barron 
Midnight Black..........Hamilton Craigie
The Purple Heart..........Herman Sisk
The Secret Fear..........Kenneth Duane Whipple
The Thunder Voice..........F. Walter Wilson 
Two Hours of Death..........E. Thayles Emmons 
Vials of Insects..........Paul Ellsworth Triem

Short Fiction:
Feline..........Bruce Grant 
Hootch..........William Sanford 
 

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. WEIRD TALES
June, 1923

Vol. 1 , No. 4
Title Issue: MULti-WT0004
Publisher: The Rural Publishing Corp.; Indianapolis, IN
Editor: Edwin Baird
Price: $0.25
Pages: 120
Cover: Heitman 

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Evening Wolves [Part 1 of 2]..........Paul Ellsworth Triem
The Moon Terror [Part 2 of 2]..........A. G. Birch

Novelettes:
Desert Madness..........Harold Freeman Miners
The Jailer of Souls..........Hamilton Craigie
The Murders in the Rue Morgue..........Edgar Allan Poe

Short Stories:
The Blade of Vengeance..........George Warburton Lewis
The Chair..........Dr. Harry E. Mereness
The Escape..........Helen Rowe Henze
The Gray Death..........Loual B. Sugarman
The Invisible Terror..........Hugh Thomason 
Jack O' Mystery..........Edwin McLaren
The Madman..........Herbert Hipwell
The Man the Law Forgot..........Walter Noble Burns 
Osiris..........Adam Hull Shirk
The Phantom Wolfhound..........Otis Adelbert Kline
The Siren..........Tarleton Collier
The Voice in the Fog..........Henry Leverage
The Well..........Julian Kilman 
 

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. WEIRD TALES
July-August, 1923 

Vol. 2 , No. 1
Title Issue: MULti-WT0005
Publisher: The Rural Publishing Corp.; Indianapolis, IN
Editor: Edwin Baird
Price: $0.25
Pages: 96
Cover: R. M. Mally 

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Evening Wolves [Part 2 of 2]..........Paul Ellsworth Triem 
Sunfire [Part 1 of 2]..........Francis Stevens [Mrs Gertrude Bennett, nee Barrows 1884?-1939] 

Novelettes:
The Strange Case of Jacob Arum..........John Harris Burland
The Two Men Who Murdered Each Other..........Valma Clark

Short Stories:
Black Cunjer..........Isabel Walker
The Corpse on the Third Slab..........Otis Adelbert Kline 
Doctor X..........Culpeper Chunn
The Guard of Honor..........J. Paul Suter 
Mandrake..........Adam Hull Shirk
The Outcasts..........George Warburton Lewis 
People vs. Bland..........Theodore Snow Wood 
Riders in the Dark..........Vincent Starrett
The Room in the Tower..........D. L. Radway
The Room of the Black Velvet Drapes..........B. W. Sliney 
Senorita Serpente..........Earl Wayland Bowman 
Shades..........Bryan Irvine

Essays/Articles:
Voodooism..........Will W. Nelson

Poems:
The Garden of Evil..........Clark Ashton Smith
The Red Moon..........Clark Ashton Smith 
 

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WEIRD TALES
September, 1923

Vol. 2 , No. 2
Title Issue: MULti-WT0006
Publisher: The Rural Publishing Corp.; Indianapolis, IN
Editor: Edwin Baird
Price: $0.25
Pages: 96
Cover:

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The People of the Comet [Part 1 of 2]..........Austin Hall [1885-1933]
Sunfire [Part 2 of 2]..........Francis Stevens [Mrs Gertrude Bennett, nee Barrows 1884?-1939] 

Novelettes:
The Old Burying Ground..........Edgar Lloyd Hampton

Short Stories:
The Autobiography of a Blue Ghost..........Don Mark Lemon
The Black Patch..........Julian Kilman
The Bloodstained Parasol..........James Ravenscroft
The Case of Dr. Johnstone..........Burton Peter Thom
The Cup of Blood..........Otis Adelbert Kline
The Damned Thing..........Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's Cabin..........Vance Hoyt
The Gorilla..........Horatio Vernon Ellis
The Money Lender..........Vincent Starrett
The Soul of Peter Andrus..........Hubert La Due
The Talisman..........Nadia Lavrova
The Teak-Wood Shrine..........Farnsworth Wright

Short Fiction:
The Dead-Naming of Lukapehu..........P. D. Gog

Essays/Articles:
Black Magic..........Alphonse Louis Constant 
 

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. WEIRD TALES
October, 1923

Vol. 2 , No. 3
Title Issue: MULti-WT0007
Publisher: The Rural Publishing Corp.; Indianapolis, IN
Editor: Edwin Baird
Price: $0.25
Pages: 96
Cover:

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Amazing Adventure of Joe Scranton [Part 1 of 2]..........Effie W. Fifield
The People of the Comet [Part 2 of 2]..........Austin Hall

Novelettes:
An Adventure in the Fourth Dimension..........Farnsworth Wright 
Devil Manor..........E. B. Jordan
The Phantom Farmhouse..........Seabury Quinn

Short Stories:
After the Storm..........Sarah Harbine Weaver
The Case of the Golden Lilly..........Francis D. Grierson 
Dagon..........H. P. Lovecraft 
Grey Sleep..........Charles Horn
The Hairy Monster..........Neil Miller
The Inn of Dread..........Arthur Edwards Chapman
The Man Who Owned the World..........Frank Owen
The Pit and the Pendulum..........Edgar Allan Poe
The Sign from Heaven..........A. Havdal

Essays/Articles:
Bluebeard..........Seabury Quinn 
 

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. WEIRD TALES
November, 1923

Vol. 2 , No. 4
Title Issue: MULti-WT0008
Publisher: The Rural Publishing Corp.; Indianapolis, IN
Editor: Edwin Baird
Price: $0.25
Pages: 96
Cover:

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Amazing Adventure of Joe Scranton [Part 2 of  2]..........Effie W. Fifield 
Draconda [Part 1 of 6]..........John Martin Leahy

Novelettes:
The Crawling Death..........P. A. Connolly
The Death Pit..........Oscar Schisgall

Short Stories:
The Closed Room..........Maebelle McCalment
The Invisible Monster..........Sonia Greene [ghostwritten by H. P. Lovecraft]
The Iron Room..........Francis D. Grierson 
Lucifer..........John D. Swain
The Magic Mirror..........Mary S. Brown
The Pebble Prophecy..........Valens Lapsley
The Phantom Violinist..........Walter F. McCanless 
Poisoned..........Farnsworth Wright 
Prisoners of the Dead..........J. Paul Suter
The Spider..........Arthur Edwards Chapman
The Tell-Tale Heart..........Edgar Allan Poe
The Wax Image..........Burton Harcourt

Short Fiction:
The Survivor..........Edwin G. Wood

Essays/Articles:
The Grave Robbers..........Seabury Quinn 
 

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. WEIRD TALES
December, 1923
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