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Weird Tales
1933
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. WEIRD TALES
January, 1933 

Vol. 21, No. 1
Title Issue: MULti-WT0109
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 144
Cover: J. Allen St. John 

Weird Tales cover
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. Serials/Complete Novels:
Buccaneers of Venus [Part 3 of 6]..........Otis Adelbert Kline

Novelettes:
A Gamble in Souls..........Seabury Quinn
The Monsters..........Murray Leinster
The Scarlet Citadel..........Robert E. Howard

Short Stories:
Chinese Processional..........Arthur J. Burks
The Night Wire..........H. F. Arnold
The Ruby..........Brandon Fleming 
Snake-man..........Hugh Davidson

Short Fiction:
What Is It?..........Charles M. Morris

Poems:
The Dead Are in the Hillside Clay..........Anthony F. Klinkner
 

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. WEIRD TALES
February, 1933

Vol. 21, No. 2
Title Issue: MULti-WT0110
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 144
Cover: J. Allen St. John 
Illustrating a scene in "Bucaneer of Venus"

Weird Tales cover
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. Serials/Complete Novels:
Buccaneers of Venus [Part 4 of 6]..........Otis Adelbert Kline
.....Breath-taking adventures amid the eery perils of another planet.

Novelettes:
De Brignac's Lady..........Kirk Mashburn
.....A sensational goose-flesh story of baby vampires.

Short Stories:
The Mandrakes..........Clark Ashton Smith
.....A tale of sorcery, and and weird homunculi that grow in the grave of a murdered man.

Short Fiction:
The Cats of Ulthar..........H. P. Lovecraft [WEIRD STORY REPRINT]
.....A brief masterpiece from one of the early issues of WEIRD TALES.
The Chadbourne Episode..........Henry S. Whitehead
.....A shuddery graveyard tale - ghastly happenings - half-gnawed bones.
The Cripple..........Maurice Level
.....A grim, tragic story of a French peasant who stood helpless while a girl drowned.
The Cult of the White Ape..........Hugh B. Cave
.....A horror story of the Dark Continent, where evil magic is still worked.
The Fire Vampires..........Donald Wandrei
.....A scourge struck from the sky, killing countless thousands.
The Head of Wu-fang..........Don C. Wiley
.....A Chinese mandarin exacts a fearful punishment upon those who brought him to death.
The Mirror..........George Burrowes
.....A strange story of a weird happening in the depths of a looking glass.
The Vanishing of Simmons..........August Derleth 
.....A strange tale of voodoo and the malevolent power of a jealous mulatto woman. 

Features:
The Eyrie
.....A chat with the readers

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. WEIRD TALES 
March, 1933 

Vol. 21, No. 3
Title Issue: MULti-WT0111
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 144
Cover: Margaret Brundage 

Weird Tales cover
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. Serials/Complete Novels:
Buccaneers of Venus [Part 5 of 6]..........Otis Adelbert Kline

Novelettes:
The Thing in the Fog..........Seabury Quinn
     a powerful werewolf story by Seabury Quinn
The Tower of the Elephant..........Robert E. Howard

Short Stories:
Akkar's Moth..........Paul Ernst
The Devil's Tower..........Arlton Eadie 
Germs of Death..........Harold Ward
The Isle of the Torturers..........Clark Ashton Smith
The Letter..........S. Gordon Gurwit
The Look..........Maurice Level

Essays/Articles:
In Memoriam: Henry St. Clair Whitehead..........Anonymous

Poems:
A Witch Passes..........M. C. Bodkin
 

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. WEIRD TALES
April, 1933 

Vol. 21, No. 4
Title Issue: MULti-WT0112
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 144
Cover: J. Allen St. John 

Weird Tales cover
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. Serials/Complete Novels:
Buccaneers of Venus [Part 6 of 6]..........Otis Adelbert Kline 
Golden Blood [Part 1 of 6]..........Jack Williamson

Novelettes:
The Return of Balkis..........E. Hoffmann Price 
Revelations in Black..........Carl Jacobi
The Star-Roamers..........Edmond Hamilton

Short Stories:
The Ice-Demon..........Clark Ashton Smith 
Over an Absinthe Bottle [vt The Pale Dice-Thrower]..........W. C. Morrow
The White Moth..........August Derleth

Short Fiction:
The House of Shadows..........Mary Elizabeth Counselman 
Tiger Dust..........Bassett Morgan

Poems:
Autumn..........Robert E. Howard


This St.John painting is considered one of the finest ever done in the genre and Jack Williamson (who wrote this story over 71 years ago and is STILL writing!) said he always regretted not accepting this painting when Farnsworth Wright offered to give it to him by telling Wright he didn't have the room for it!!

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. WEIRD TALES
May, 1933

Vol. 21, No. 5
Title Issue: MULti-WT0113
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 144
Cover: J. Allen St. John 
illustrating a scene in

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
Golden Blood [Part 2 of 6]..........Jack Williamson

Novelettes:
Dead Man's Belt..........Hugh B. Cave
The Girl With the Green Eyes..........Mary Elizabeth Counselman 
Spawn of the Sea..........Donald Wandrei

Short Stories:
The Beast of Averoigne..........Clark Ashton Smith
The Carven Image..........August Derleth and Mark Schorer 
Nomadic Skull..........Nard Jones
The Pot of Tulips..........Fitz-James O'Brien
The Wheel..........H. Warner Munn
The Word of Bentley..........E. Hoffmann Price

Poems:
The Money-Lender..........Alfred I. Tooke 
Moonlight on a Skull..........Robert E. Howard
 

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. WEIRD TALES
June, 1933

Vol. 21, No. 6. 
Title Issue: MULti-WT0114
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Margaret Brundage 
illustrating a scene from "Black Colossus"

Weird Tales cover
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. Serials/Complete Novels:
Golden Blood [Part 3 of 6]..........Jack Williamson
.....A powerful novel of weird adventures in the hidden golden land of Arabia.

Novelettes:
The Dwellers in the House..........Sophie Wenzel Ellis

Short Stories:
Black Colossus..........Robert E. Howard
.....A mighty story of a barbarian mercenary who saved a nation from shuddery evil.
The Crawling Curse..........Hugh B. Cave
The Floor Above..........M. Humphreys 
Genius Loci..........Clark Ashton Smith
The Iron Man..........Paul Ernst
.....A [ ] weird scientific story of a robot that ran amuck in the city streets.
The Last Drive..........Carl Jacobi 
Nellie Foster..........August Derleth
A Sprig of Rosemary..........H. Warner Munn
 

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. WEIRD TALES
July, 1933

Vol. 22, No. 1
Title Issue: MULti-WT0115
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 144
Cover: Margaret Brundage 

Weird Tales cover
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. Serials/Complete Novels:
Golden Blood [Part 4 of 6]..........Jack Williamson

Novelettes:
The Dreams in the Witch-House..........H. P. Lovecraft
The Fire Creatures..........Edmond Hamilton 
Green Tea..........Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Hand of Glory..........Seabury Quinn
The Horror in the Museum..........H. P. Lovecraft [as Hazel Heald] 

Short Stories
The Man on the Ground..........Robert E. Howard
The Thing From the Grave..........Harold Ward 
Ubbo-Sathla..........Clark Ashton Smith

Poems:
The Dance of the Dead..........Robert B. Gray 
Pirates' Cave..........Alfred I. Tooke 
Voodoo Song..........Mary Elizabeth Counselman
 

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. WEIRD TALES 
August, 1933 

Vol. 22, No. 2
Title Issue: MULti-WT0116
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Margaret Brundage Illustrating a scene from "The Chosen of Vishnu"

Weird Tales cover
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. Serials/Complete Novels:
Golden Blood [Part 5 of 6]..........Jack Williamson
     A powerful novel of weird adventure in the hidden golden land of Arabia.

Novelettes:
The Chosen of Vishnu..........Seabury Quinn 
     A blood-chilling story of venemous cobras, Hindoo vengeance, and a beautiful dancing-girl.
Dead Men Walk..........Harold Ward
     A gripping, spine-freezing story of evil powers and the fearsome happeneings at [Sist----] Lake.
The Vampire Airplane..........Arlton Eadie
     A Magyar war ace, shot down from the sky, returns to shatter the peace of an English country home.

Short Stories:
The Door..........Henry S. Whitehead [Weird Story Reprint]
     A strange weird story from WEIRD TLES of nine years ago.
The Owl..........F. A. M. Webster
     A shivery story of one who delved into forbidden magic and hidden lore.
The Superior Judge..........J. Paul Suter
     A compelling story of the days when little children could be hanged by English law.

Short Fiction:
An Elegy for Mr. Danielson..........August Derleth
     What strange power did the thing that called itself Mortimer Flacces have over the corpse that lay in the front room?
A Pair of Swords..........Carl Jacobi
     A brief tale about a strange adventure in in broad daylight in the sword room of the art museum.

Poems:
Ashes of Eden..........Kirk Mashburn
The Green Sea..........Hung Long Tom
The House by the Sea..........Frances Elliott 

Articles and Features:
The Eyrie
     A chat with the readers.

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. WEIRD TALES
September, 1933

Vol. 22, No. 3
Title Issue: MULti-WT0117
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Margaret Brundage
illustrating a scene in "The Slithering Shadow"

Weird Tales cover
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. Serials/Complete Novels:
Golden Blood [Part 6 of 6]..........Jack Williamson

Novelettes:
Malay Horror..........Seabury Quinn
The Slithering Shadow..........Robert E. Howard
.....An eerie thrill-tale of the weird city of Xutbal and a black monstrosity that slithered through the streets in search of human prey.

Short Stories:
The Dead Man's Story..........Julius Long 
Death-Waters..........Frank Belknap Long
The Horror on the Asteroid..........Edmond Hamilton
.....An amazing weird-scientific story of a space-ship that was wrecked by meteors.
The Return of Andrew Bentley..........August Derleth and Mark Schorer
A Vintage from Atlantis..........Clark Ashton Smith
The Watcher in the Green Room..........Hugh B. Cave

Poems:
Ballade of Creatures Abroad by Night..........Wilfred Blanch Talman
Deserted House..........Marion Doyle 
Nostalgia..........Mary Elizabeth Counselman 
Rain..........Hung Long Tom 
 

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. WEIRD TALES 
October, 1933

Vol. 22, No. 4
Title Issue: MULti-WT0118
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Margaret Brundage 

Weird Tales cover
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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Vampire Master [Part 1 of 4]..........Hugh Davidson

Novelettes:
The House of the Worm..........Mearle Prout
The Mansion of Unholy Magic..........Seabury Quinn
The Pool of the Black One..........Robert E. Howard

Short Stories:
The Black, Dead Thing..........Frank Belknap Long
The Festival..........H. P. Lovecraft [Weird Tales Reprint]
The Plutonian Terror..........Jack Williamson
The Seed from the Sepulcher..........Clark Ashton Smith

Short Fiction:
The Cat-Woman..........Mary Elizabeth Counselman

Poems:
The Ultimate Word..........Marion Doyle 
 

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. WEIRD TALES
November, 1933 

Vol. 22, No. 5
Title Issue: MULti-WT0119
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Margaret Brundage

Weird Tales cover
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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Vampire Master [Part 2 of 4]..........Hugh Davidson

Novelettes:
Lord of the Fourth Axis..........E. Hoffmann Price 
Shambleau..........C. L. Moore

Short Stories:
The Accursed Isle..........Mary Elizabeth Counselman
The Holiness of Azédarac..........Clark Ashton Smith
The Man Who Saw Red..........J. Wilmer Benjamin
The Premature Burial..........Edgar Allan Poe

Short Fiction:
On Top..........Ralph Allen Lang
The War of the Sexes..........Edmond Hamilton

Poems:
Ghost Town..........Cristel Hastings 
Sic Transit Gloria..........Brooke Byrne 

Features:
The Eyrie
.....A chat with the readers.


NOTE: It is believed that Margaret Brundage's model for this cover was her daughter.
 

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. WEIRD TALES 
December, 1933 

Vol. 22, No. 6
Title Issue: MULti-WT0120
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Margaret Brundage 

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Vampire Master [Part 3 of 4]..........Hugh Davidson
     A novel of corpses that would not stay dead, and a gruesome horror in the New York hills

Novelettes:
Abd Dhulma, Lord of Fire..........G. G. Pendarves 
     A shivery story of an evil Arab who contrived to postpone death for many centuries
King Cobra..........Joseph O. Kesselring 
     A horrifying story of the East Indies a tale of venemous serpernts
Red Gauntlets of Czerni..........Seabury Quinn
     A breathtaking story of the little French occultist and ghost-breaker, Jules de Grandin

Short Stories:
The Closed Door..........Harold Ward
     A brief story of a terrible retribution and the malignant hate of a dying man
The Lady in Gray..........Donald Wandrei 
     A strange story of a strange woman and the loathsome grey slug that came to a sleeper in his dreams
Monkeys..........E. F. Benson 
     A peculiar story of a great English surgeon and the curse that attended the rifling of an Egyptian tomb
Old Garfield's Heart..........Robert E. Howard
     A strange story of a heart that would not stop beating, even in death
The Ox-Cart..........Frank Owen
     A bizarre fantasy about an aged Chinaman - a fascinating weird love-tale.
The Secret of the Growing Gold..........Bram Stoker [reprint]
     A story by the author of "Dracula"

Verse:
A Dead House..........Clarence Edwin Flynn 

Articles:
The Eyrie
Weird Tales Welcomes a new Author..........Alonzo Leonard
     A communication from one of our readers 
 

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