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Weird Tales
1934
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. WEIRD TALES
January, 1934 

Vol. 23, No. 1
Title Issue: MULti-WT0121
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:
The Solitary Hunters [Part 1 of 3]..........David H. Keller, M.D.
The Vampire Master [Part 4 of 4]..........Hugh Davidson

Novelettes:
Invaders of the Ice World..........Jack Williamson
The Red Knife of Hassan..........Seabury Quinn 
Rogues in the House..........Robert E. Howard
The Woman of the Wood..........A. Merritt

Short Stories:
In the Triangle..........Howard Wandrei
A Phantom in the Sky..........Dale Clark 
Possession..........Julius Long
The Weaver in the Vault..........Clark Ashton Smith

Poems:
Candles..........Dorothy Quick Place Names..........Katherine van der Veer 
Too Late..........Alfred I. Tooke 
 

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. WEIRD TALES
February, 1934

Vol. 23, No. 2
Title Issue: MULti-WT0122
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 Solitary Hunters [Part 2 of 3]..........David H. Keller, M.D.

Novelettes:
The Sapphire Siren [vt The Sapphire Goddess]..........Nictzin Dyalhis
The Valley of the Worm..........Robert E. Howard

Short Stories:
The Man Who Returned..........Edmond Hamilton
The Place of Hairy Death..........Anthony M. Rud [as Anthony Rud] 
The Witchcraft of Ulua..........Clark Ashton Smith

Short Fiction:
The Sixth Tree..........Edith Lichty Stewart 
Tarbis of the Lake..........E. Hoffmann Price
The Virus of Hell..........William H. Pope

Poems:
The Lantern..........Hung Long Tom 
Nocturne..........Herbert Kaufman, Jr.
The Star-Gazer Climbs..........Hazel Burden 
To a Bullet-Pierced Skull..........Alfred I. Tooke 
 

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. WEIRD TALES 
March, 1934 

Vol. 23, No. 3
Title Issue: MULti-WT0123
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 Solitary Hunters [Part 3 of 3]..........David H. Keller, M.D.

Novelettes:
The Charnel God..........Clark Ashton Smith 
Thundering Worlds..........Edmond Hamilton 
Winged Death..........H. P. Lovecraft [as Hazel Heald] 

Short Stories:
The Black Gargoyle..........Hugh B. Cave
The Clenched Hand..........Stuart Strauss 
Ghouls of the Sea..........J. B. S. Fullilove
Gray World..........Paul Ernst
The Nightmare Road..........Florence Crow

Short Fiction:
The Late Mourner..........Julius Long

Essays/Articles:
Why Weird Tales?..........Otis Adelbert Kline [as Anonymous] 

Poems:
Remembrance..........Mary C. Shaw 

 

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. WEIRD TALES
April, 1934 

Vol. 23, No. 4
Title Issue: MULti-WT0124
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:
Satan's Garden [Part 1 of 2]..........E. Hoffmann Price
     The story of a (-)rrific (-), (-) beautiful girls, (-) evil and sudden death

Novelettes:
Black Thirst..........C. L. Moore 
     An astonishing story of ultimate horror, by the author of "Shambleau"
Corsairs of the Cosmos..........Edmond Hamilton 
     A stupendous story of intersteller space - an amazing weird-scientific tale
Shadows in the Moonlight..........Robert E. Howard
     A thrilling tale of colossal iron statues that stand in a ghastly (-)

Short Stories:
Behind the Screen..........Dale Clark 
     The tale of a doomed man who experienced a terrible (-) in a (-) shop in Chinatown
Bells of Oceana..........Arthur J. Burks [reprint]
     An eery (-) tale from Weird Tales of seven years ago
The Cane..........Carl Jacobi
     A mad obsession caused the respectable Mr. Gr----leg suddenly to become a murderous fiend
The Death of Malygris..........Clark Ashton Smith
     A tale of weird imagery - even in death the mighty wizard proved himself better than his peers

Poems:
In Mayan Splendor..........Frank Belknap Long 
 

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. WEIRD TALES
May, 1934

Vol. 23, No. 5
Title Issue: MULti-WT0125
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:
Satan's Garden [Part 2 of 2]..........E. Hoffmann Price 
Vampires of the Moon [Part 1 of 3]..........Arthur William Bernal

Novelettes:
Queen of the Black Coast..........Robert E. Howard
The Satanic Piano..........Carl Jacobi

Short Stories:
Bellowing Bamboo..........Anthony Rud
The Gray Death..........Loual B. Sugarman
The Tomb-Spawn..........Clark Ashton Smith

Short Fiction:
Scarlet Dream..........C. L. Moore

Poems:
Atavism..........A. Leslie Incubus..........August Derleth 
Mementos..........Marie W. Linne 


RE: THE COVER: An excellent example of Margaret Brundage's pastel artwork and the first time Robert E. Howard's character, Conan the Barbarian, appears on the cover.

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. WEIRD TALES
June, 1934

Vol. 23, No. 6
Title Issue: MULti-WT0126
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Margaret Brundage
     Illustrating "Wizard's Isle" 

Weird Tales cover
 
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. Serials/Complete Novels:
Vampires of the Moon [Part 2 of 3]..........Arthur William Bernal
     A sensational weird-scientific novel of a terrific threat against mankind.

Novelettes:
The Colossus of Ylourgne..........Clark Ashton Smith
     A powerful novelette of animated corpses and a homicidal robot.
Wizard's Isle
..........Jack Williamson
     A swift-moving, vivid tale of a dreadful menace to the world.

Short Stories:
Colonel Markesan..........August Derleth and Mark Schorer
     A grim tale of corpses that walked and talked, and a man who was dead, but lived.
The Haunter of the Ring
..........Robert E. Howard
     A strange strange story of dark powers and occult evil, by the author of "The Slithering Shadow."
He Walked by Day..........Julius Long
     A strange story about a man who declared he was a ghost - a story that is off the beaten path.
Maese Pérez, the Organist..........Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer [Weird Story Reprint]
     A weird story by a Spanish author.
They Called Him Ghost..........Laurence J. Cahill
     An untterly different story - what was the strange being that stormed into Goeste Hall every thirty years?

Short Fiction:
Mandolin..........Will Oursler
     A brief weird story about a composer who thought his inspiration had gone for ever.

Poems:
The Woods of Averoigne..........Grace Stillman

Features:
The Eyrie
     A chat with the readers

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. WEIRD TALES
July, 1934

Vol. 24, No. 1
Title Issue: MULti-WT0127
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:
The Trail of the Cloven Hoof [Part 1 of 7]..........Arlton Eadie 
Vampires of the Moon [Part 3 of 3]..........Arthur William Bernal

Novelettes:
The Master of Souls..........Harold Ward 
Through the Gates of the Silver Key..........H. P. Lovecraft and E. Hoffmann Price

Short Stories:
The Dead Man's Tale..........Willard Hawkins [as Willard E. Hawkins] 
The Disinterment of Venus..........Clark Ashton Smith 
Drowned Argosies..........Jay Wilmer Benjamin
The Illusion of Flame..........Paul Ernst 
One Christmas Eve..........Elliot O'Donnell
The Thunderstones of Nuflo..........Ralph Allen Lang

Short Fiction:
Wild Grapes..........August Derleth

Poems:
Magic Carpets..........Ethel Morgan-Dunham 
 

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. WEIRD TALES 
August, 1934 

Vol. 24, No. 2
Title Issue: MULti-WT0128
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 Trail of the Cloven Hoof [Part 2 of 7]..........Arlton Eadie

Novelettes:
Dust of Gods..........C. L. Moore
The Isle of Dark Magic..........Hugh B. Cave

Short Stories:
The Beast-Helper..........Frank Belknap Long
The Devil in Iron..........Robert E. Howard
The Distortion Out of Space..........Francis Flagg
The Marvelous Knife..........Paul Ernst
The Parasitic Hand..........R. Anthony
The Three Marked Pennies..........Mary Elizabeth Counselman

Poems:
In Slumber..........Clark Ashton Smith
A Ship Is Sailing..........Katherine van der Veer 
 

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. WEIRD TALES
September, 1934

Vol. 24, No. 3
Title Issue: MULti-WT0129
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 People of the Black Circle [Part 1 of 3]..........Robert E. Howard
The Trail of the Cloven Hoof [Part 3 of 7]..........Arlton Eadie

Novelettes:
The Jest of Warburg Tantavul..........Seabury Quinn 
Vine Terror..........Howard Wandrei

Short Stories:
A Cloak From Messer Lando..........August Derleth
The Coming of Abel Behenna..........Bram Stoker 
Naked Lady..........Mindret Lord
The Pale Man..........Julius Long
The Sinister Painting..........Greye La Spina

Poems:
The Return..........Julia Boynton Green
Sable Revery..........Robert Nelson 
 

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. WEIRD TALES 
October, 1934

Vol. 24, No. 4
Title Issue: MULti-WT0130
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 People of the Black Circle [Part 2 of 3]..........Robert E. Howard
The Trail of the Cloven Hoof [Part 4 of 7]..........Arlton Eadie

Novelettes:
Black God's Kiss..........C. L. Moore
The Seven Geases..........Clark Ashton Smith

Short Stories:
At the Bend of the Trail..........Manly Wade Wellman 
Fioraccio..........Giovanni Magherini-Graziani 
Old Sledge..........Paul Ernst
The Pistol..........S. Gordon Gurwit
The Sleeper..........H. Bedford-Jones 
Supper for Thirteen..........Julius Long
The White Prince..........Ronal Kayser

Poems:
Children of the Moon..........A. Leslie
The Hill Woman..........Frances Elliott 
Old House..........Marvin Luter Hill 
 

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. WEIRD TALES 
November, 1934

Vol. 24, No. 5
Title Issue: MULti-WT0131
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 People of the Black Circle [Part 3 of 3]..........Robert E. Howard
The Trail of the Cloven Hoof [Part 5 of 7]..........Arlton Eadie

Novelettes:
The Golden Glow..........S. Gordon Gurwit 
Queen of the Lilin..........E. Hoffmann Price
     the story of a gloriously beautiful and evil ghost-woman

Short Stories:
Concert to Death..........Paul Ernst 
Feigman's Beard..........August Derleth
The Music of Erich Zann..........H. P. Lovecraft 
Nude With a Dagger..........John Flanders 
Voodoo Vengeance..........Kirk Mashburn

Poems:
Anne Boleyn..........Dorothy Quick 
Mist on the Meadows..........Marion Doyle
 

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. WEIRD TALES 
December, 1934

Vol. 24, No. 6.
Title Issue: MULti-WT0132
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Margaret Brundage - Illustrating a scene in "A Witch Shall be Born"

Weird Tales cover
 
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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Trail of the Cloven Hoof [Part 6 of 7]..........Arlton Eadie
     An astounding weird mystery by a British master of thrilling fiction

Novelettes:
Black God's Shadow..........C. L. Moore
     Another fascinating story about Jirel of Joiry, who went down into the darkness to release a soul from torment.
A Witch Shall Be Born..........Robert E. Howard 
     A tale of old - a vivid weird novelette of runaway power (dark magic..mad passion...red carnage)
Xeethra..........Clark Ashton Smith
     An exquisite tale of a goatherd who gained and lost a kingdom

Short Stories:
The Graveyard Duchess..........John Flanders
     The story of a ghastly horror that stalked through a cemetery at night
A Matter of Faith..........August Derleth and Mark Schorer
     An African story of native magic and the ghastly Blue Death
Pale Pink Porcelain..........Frank Owen [Weird Tale Reprint]
     An eery Chinese tale by a favorite WEIRD TALES master of fantastic fiction
The Vengeance of Ti Fong..........Bassett Morgan
     A tale of the weird genius of a Chinese scientist who had mastered too many of Nature's laws
The Werewolf's Howl..........Brooke Byrne
     A weird story of the eldritch doom that awaited the [baron] when his time came to die

Verse:
Fog..........Mary C. Shaw 
Solitude..........Roderic Papineau 

Articles:
The Eyrie
     An informal chat with the readers
 

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