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Weird Tales
1929
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. WEIRD TALES
January, 1929 

Vol. 13, No. 1
Title Issue: MULti-WT0064
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 144
Cover: C. C. Senf

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Serials/Complete Novels:
The Isle of Lost Souls (Part 2 of 3)..........Joel Martin Nichols, Jr. 

Novelettes:
Bimini ..........Bassett Morgan 
The Black Master ..........Seabury Quinn 
The Demon of Tlaxpam ..........Otis Adelbert Kline 

Short Stories:
The Chemical Brain ..........Francis Flagg 
The Devil's Finger ..........A. A. Irvine 
The Ghost of Mad Laveen ..........Robert Watson 
The Jelly-Fish ..........David H. Keller, M.D. 
An Occurrence in an Antique Shop ..........August Derleth 
The Silver Key ..........H. P. Lovecraft 
Skulls in the Stars ..........Robert E. Howard 
When the Green Star Waned ..........Nictzin Dyalhis 

Essays/Articles:
Folks Used to Believe: The Resurrecting Snake ..........Alvin F. Harlow 

Poems:
Let Night Have Sway ..........Leavenworth Macnab 
Old Ghosts ..........Maud E. Uschold 
Sonnets of the Midnight Hours: 10. The Red Specter ..........Donald Wandrei 
 

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. WEIRD TALES
February, 1929

Vol. 13, No. 2
Title Issue: MULti-WT0065
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 144
Cover: Hugh Rankin 

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Isle of Lost Souls [Part 3 of 3]..........Joel Martin Nichols, Jr.
The Vengeance of the Dead [Part 1 of 2]..........Eli Colter

Novelettes:
The Devil-People..........Seabury Quinn
The Star-Stealers..........Edmond Hamilton
The Tall Woman..........Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
A Witch's Curse..........Paul Ernst

Short Stories:
An Adventure in Anesthesia..........Everil Worrell
The Brass Key..........Hal K. Wells
The Ghost Ship..........Arlton Eadie 
Highwaymen..........W. Benson Dooling
The Three..........Louise Van De Verg

Short Fiction:
"Melodie in E Minor"..........August Derleth

Essays/Articles:
Folks Used to Believe: Pope Joan..........Alvin F. Harlow

Poems:
Crete..........Robert E. Howard
The Ghosts of the Gods..........E. M. Hill 
Sonnets of the Midnight Hours: 11. Doom..........Donald Wandrei 
 

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. WEIRD TALES 
March, 1929 

Vol. 13, No. 3
Title Issue: MULti-WT0066
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 144
Cover: C. C. Senf 
     illustrating a scene in "The People of Pan."

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The City of Iron Cubes [Part 1 of 2]..........H. F. Arnold
     A two-part weird-scientific serial by the author of "The Night Wire" - strange invaders from space land in Peru.
The Vengeance of the Dead [Part 2 of 2]..........Eli Colter
     A two-part serial of a strange monstrosity whose ghastly depredations terrified the guests at Waggener Wilds.

Novelettes:
The People of Pan..........Henry S. Whitehead
      Under the surface of a West Indian island Caneriu found a strange people who worhsiped Pan- then the catastrophy.
The Phantom Farmhouse..........Seabury Quinn
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The Sea Horror..........Edmond Hamilton
     In their cities in the ocean depths the slug-people launched their war against the civilization of man.

Short Stories:
The Celadon Vase..........John Murray Reynolds
     The alchemist devised an ingenious trap in which to catch his lady and test her faithfulness.
The Deserted Garden..........August Derleth
     He investigated the mysterious death of his predecessor - and himself fell victim to an elemental spirit.
The Hounds of Tindalos..........Frank Belknap Long
     A tale of unutterable horror - of a pursuit by loathsome entities through the ages and through the dimensions.
The Immortal Hand..........Arlton Eadie
     A ghost-story of Shakespeare and Stratford-on-Avon - three tourists make a startling discovery.
The Rat..........S. Fowler Wright
     The surgeon experimented on a blind rat, the committed a strange murder - a story by the author of "The Deluge."

Short Fiction:
Left By the Tide..........Edward E. Schiff
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Essays/Articles:
Folks Used to Believe: May Dew..........Alvin F. Harlow

Poems:
Ballade of Wandering Ghosts..........Hanna Baird Campbell 
Sonnets of the Midnight Hours: 12. A Vision of the Future..........Donald Wandrei 
Visions in Smoke..........Rufus W. Landon 



One of my favorite is "The Sea Horror" by Edmond Hamilton where " in their cities in the ocean depths, the slug-people launched their war against the civilization of man.


 

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. WEIRD TALES
April, 1929 

Vol. 13, No. 4
Title Issue: MULti-WT0067
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 144
Cover: Hugh Rankin 

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The City of Iron Cubes [Part 2 of 2]..........H. F. Arnold
The World-Wrecker [Part 1 of 3]..........Arlton Eadie

Novelettes:
The Devil's Rosary..........Seabury Quinn
The Diamond Lens..........Fitz-James O'Brien
The Dunwich Horror..........H. P. Lovecraft

Short Stories:
The Damsel and Her Cat..........David H. Keller, M.D.
A Dinner at Imola..........August Derleth
The Goddess of the Painted Priests..........Drury D. Sharp
The Hermit of Chemeketa Mountain..........Thomas de V. Harper 
In a Dead Man's Shoes..........Harold Markham 
Up Irriwaddy Way..........Edgar Gardiner

Essays/Articles:
Folks Used to Believe: The Unicorn..........Alvin F. Harlow

Poems:
Moon Mockery..........Robert E. Howard 
Neptune's Neighbors..........Cristel Hastings 
Sonnet..........Clark Ashton Smith 
 

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. WEIRD TALES
May, 1929

Vol. 13, No. 6
Title Issue: MULti-WT0068
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 144
Cover: C. C. Senf 

Weird Tales cover
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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The World-Wrecker [Part 2 of 3]..........Arlton Eadie

Novelettes:
The Cloth of Madness..........Seabury Quinn
The Scourge of B'Moth..........Bertram Russell
The Thing in the House..........H. F. Scotten 
Within the Nebula..........Edmond Hamilton

Short Stories:
The Bed of Shadows..........Fred R. Farrow, Jr.
The Girl from Samarcand..........E. Hoffmann Price
The Laughing Thing..........G. G. Pendarves
The Pearl of a Queen..........A. A. Irvine
The Shadow of a Nightmare..........Donald Wandrei

Short Fiction:
The Inn in the Wood..........C. I. Martin

Essays/Articles:
Folks Used to Believe: The Cockatrice..........Alvin F. Harlow

Poems:
The Haunted House..........Cristel Hastings 
Le Revenant..........Charles P. Baudelaire
The Witch Girl..........A. Leslie 
 

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. WEIRD TALES
June, 1929

Vol. 13, No. 6
Title Issue: MULti-WT0069
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 144
Cover: Hugh Rankin 

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Last of the Mayas [Part 1 of 2]..........Arthur Thatcher
The World-Wrecker [Part 3 of 3]..........Arlton Eadie

Novelettes:
The Abysmal Invaders..........Edmond Hamilton
The House of Golden Masks..........Seabury Quinn
The Rosicrucian Lamp..........Stephen Bagby

Short Stories:
Black Tancrède..........Henry S. Whitehead 
Rattle of Bones..........Robert E. Howard 
When the Sea Gives Up Its Dead..........Robert Peery
The Wind That Tramps the World..........Frank Owen

Short Fiction:
The House on the Highway..........August Derleth
The Legend of Denarius..........Louis Sarno

Essays/Articles:
Folks Used to Believe:
The Mouse Legend..........Alvin F. Harlow

Poems:
The Doomed..........Dorothy Marie Peterkin 
Vampire..........Bertrande Harry Snell
 

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. WEIRD TALES
July, 1929

Vol.14 , No. 1
Title Issue: MULti-WT0070
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 144
Cover: C. C. Senf 

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Last of the Mayas [Part 2 of 2]..........Arthur Thatcher 
Outside the Universe [Part 1 of 4]..........Edmond Hamilton

Novelettes:
The Corpse-Master..........Seabury Quinn
The Death Touch..........Chester L. Saxby

Short Stories:
The Cruise of the Vega..........Edgar Gardiner 
Doctor Pichegru's Discovery..........Carl F. Keppler
The Guillotine Club..........Capwell Wyckoff 
Night-Thing..........Wilford Allen 
Sweet Grass..........Henry S. Whitehead
The White Old Maid [vt The Old Maid in the Winding Sheet]..........Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Wishing-Well..........E. F. Benson

Essays/Articles:
Folks Used to Believe: Salty Superstitions..........Alvin F. Harlow

Poems:
Forbidden Magic..........Robert E. Howard
The Haunted Forest..........Edith Hurley
 

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. WEIRD TALES 
August, 1929 

Vol. 14, No. 2
Title Issue: MULti-WT0071
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 144
Cover: Hugh Rankin 

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
Outside the Universe [Part 2 of 4]..........Edmond Hamilton

Novelettes:
Demon Doom of N'Yeng Sen..........Bassett Morgan
The Inn of Terror..........Gaston Leroux
The Shadow Kingdom..........Robert E. Howard

Short Stories:
An Examination in Diplomacy..........Edith M. Almedingen
The Hanging of Alfred Wadham..........E. F. Benson 
His Unconquerable Enemy [vt The Rajah's Nemesis]..........W. C. Morrow
The Idol-Chaser..........Barry Scobee 
Old Mark..........August Derleth
The Purple Sedan..........Lois Lane
The Speared Leopard..........John Horne

Essays/Articles:
Folks Used to Believe:
The Murderer's Touch..........Alvin F. Harlow

Poems:
Ballad of Winds..........Paul Francis Sutton
The Sorceress..........C. Noir
 

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. WEIRD TALES
September, 1929

Vol.14 , No. 3
Title Issue: MULti-WT0072
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 144
Cover: C. C. Senf   - Illustrating a scene in "The White Wizard"

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
Outside the Universe [Part 3 of 4]..........Edmond Hamilton
     The wonders of the Andromeda universe and its gaseous inhabitants are described in this installment.

Novelettes:
Automata..........S. Fowler Wright 
     A tale of the last man on earth, and the triumph of the Machine Age - by the author of "The Deluge."
Trespassing Souls..........Seabury Quinn
     A devil tale of Pontou, right hand man of Gilles de Retz in his diabolical villainies - a weird adventure of Jules de Grandin.
The White Wizard..........Sophie Wenzel Ellis 
     An eery tale of the jungles of South America and a scientist who robbed the dead brains of the world's master-minds. 
Winged Vengeance..........Bruce Wallis
     Little scarlet flies whipped through the air, and where they struck life was wiped out, and death and terror stalked. 

Short Stories:
The Echoing-Point..........Kirk Meadowcroft
     A brief story of the fourth dimension, and a scientist who delved in forbidden subjects. 
The Hound..........H. P. Lovecraft [reprint]
     A story from one of the earlier issues of WEIRD TALES an eldritch horror-tale of a Dutch graveyard.
A Jest and a Vengeance..........E. Hoffmann Price
     A bizarre orientale breathing the witchery of the East - a story of the Dreamer of Atlanaat.
The Lips..........Henry S. Whitehead
     A powerful story of a slave-ship in the West Indies and a savage hurt inflicted by African witchcraft.
The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune..........Robert E. Howard 
     Another weird tale of Kull the King and Brule the Spear-slayer - by the author of "The Shadow Kingdom."
Warning Wings..........Arlton Eadie
     The master of the vessel heede the warning in the white wings of the moth that fluttered over the compass.

Verse:
But Was It?..........Otis Adelbert Kline 
Lillith in the Red Land..........Harvey W. Flink
The Living..........Louise Garwood
The Moor Ghost..........Robert E. Howard 

Essays/Articles:
The Eyrie
     A chat with the readers
Folks Used to Believe: The Salamander..........Alvin F. Harlow
     One of the curious monsters believed in by our ancestors.
 

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. WEIRD TALES 
October, 1929

Vol.14 , No. 4
Title Issue: MULti-WT0073
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 144
Cover: Hugh Rankin  - Illustrating a scene from "The Woman With the Velvet Collar"

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
Outside the Universe [Part 4 of 4]..........Edmond Hamilton 
     Three universes come to death grips in the thrilling conclusion to this epic weird-scientific serial.
Skull-FaceSkull-Face [Part 1 of 3]..........Robert E. Howard
     An astounding and fascinating story of London's Limehouse quarter and a dire threat against all humanity.

Novelettes:
The Silver Countess..........Seabury Quinn
     An eery exploit of the French ghost-breaker, Jules de Grandin, in his warfare against occult evil - a gripping vampire tale.

Short Stories:
The Battle of the Toads..........David H. Keller, M.D.
     A whimsical weird story telling of Cecil, son of James, who became Overlord of Cornwall.
The Gray Lady..........Flavia Richardson 
     A strange apparition appeared in the house, and grisly was the mystery which the specter revealed.
In the Toils of the Black Kiva..........D. D. Sharp
     Another compelling snake story of the Southwest - by the author of "The Goddess of the Painted Priests."
The Lost Room..........Fitz-James O'Brien [Weird Story Reprint]
     A fascinating story by one of the early American weird-story writers.
The Palace of the Dead..........Robert Peery
     A brutal killing in the passion of battle has its aftermath in an eery obsession.
The Scourge of Egypt..........Arlton Eadie
     A strange tale of a mummy, a scarab, amd Kephen-Ophis, slave-driver for that Pharoah who opressed the Israelites.
The Witch-Ball..........E. F. Benson
     A strange tale of clairvoyance and occult mysteries by a well-known British writer of weird fiction.
The Woman with the Velvet Collar..........Gaston Leroux
     A vivid story of a weird Corsican vendetta and a ghastly revenge - by the author of "The Phantom of the Opera."

Short Fiction:
The Phantom Barber..........E. W. Mayo
     A very brief ghost story.

Essays/Articles:
The Eyrie
     A chat with the readers
Folks Used to Believe: The Roc..........Alvin F. Harlow
     A giant bird of ancient Jewish and Arabic legend.

Poems:
Fate..........Thelma E. Johnson 
Nyctalops..........Clark Ashton Smith 
Transformation..........Harvey W. Flink 
 

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. WEIRD TALES
November, 1929 

Vol. 14, No. 5
Title Issue: MULti-WT0074
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 144
Cover: C. C. Senf 

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
Skull-Face [Part 2 of 3]..........Robert E. Howard

Novelettes:
The Gray Killer..........Everil Worrell
The House Without a Mirror..........Seabury Quinn
The Roc Raid..........George B. Tuttle

Short Stories:
The Bed by the Window..........E. F. Benson
The Curse of Yig..........H. P. Lovecraft [as Zealia Brown Reed] 
Lindenborg Pool..........William Morris 
Mummy..........Kelsey Percival Kitchel 
Scarlatti's Bottle..........August Derleth
The Tailed Man of Cornwall..........David H. Keller, M.D. 
Thrice Dead..........Alston Lovejoy 
Whispering Death..........John Impola

Poems:
Death-Gate..........Monroe D. McGibeny
The Haunted Lake..........A. Leslie
The Nightmare Tarn..........Clark Ashton Smith 
 

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. WEIRD TALES 
December, 1929 

Vol. 14, No. 6
Title Issue: MULti-WT0075
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 144
Cover: Hugh Rankin  -  Illustrating a scene from "The Mystery of the Four Husbands"

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
Behind the Moon [Part 1 of 3]..........W. Elwyn Backus 
     A three-part weird-scientific serial story of eery perils and the blood-freezing horror encountered on the moon.
Skull-Face [Part 3 of 3]..........Robert E. Howard
     This swift-moving three-part serisl rises to a crashing climax in these concluding chapters.

Novelettes:
Children of Ubasti..........Seabury Quinn
     An uncanny adventure of Jules de Grandin - a tale of a ghoulish pair who were neither brute nor human.

Short Stories:
The Dancer in the Crystal..........Francis Flagg
     Horror and panic seized the world when the crystal was broken and the blck spot liberated.
The Depths of the Lens..........N. R. McFarland
     A short weird-scientific story involving a fantastic experience with a microscope.
The Gallows Tree..........N. J. O'Neail
     A powerful ----- story of a spectral tree that stood out in the moor and lured the doomed man to it.
The Inheritors..........August Derleth
     A brief story about a ghastly curse that [_____] on a city in [____] year
The Mystery of the Four Husbands..........Gaston Leroux
     A vivid weird mystery story of a gloriously beautiful woman and her four murdered husbands.
No Other Man..........David H. Keller, M.D.
     Another whimsical story about Cecil, son of James, Overlord of Cornwall.
The Shuttered Room..........E. F. Benson
     A ghastly horror hovered over the house -  a tale of clairvoyance, by a well-known British writer of weird stories.
The Stranger from Kurdistan..........E. Hoffmann Price [reprint]
     One of the most popular stories from WEIRD TALES is reprinted here.
The Ticking of the Clock..........A. Greatraikes and H. Greatraikes
     Cold terror chilled the bound man as the inexorable seconds ticked off his doom.

Verse:
Fantaisie d'Antan..........Clark Ashton Smith 
     Verse: decoration by Hugh Rankin
In the Valley..........Bertrande Harry Snell
A King in Babylon..........W. E. Henley 

Features:
The Eyrie
     A chat with the readers.
 

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