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Weird Tales
1937
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. WEIRD TALES
January, 1937 

Vol. 29, No. 1
Title Issue: MULti-WT0156
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Margaret Brundage

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. Novelettes:
Children of the Bat..........Seabury Quinn
The Thing on the Door-step..........H. P. Lovecraft
The Woman in Room 607..........Thorp McClusky

Short Stories:
City in the Sea..........Edgar Daniel Kramer
The Dead Moan Low..........Paul Ernst
The Disinterment..........Duane W. Rimel
The Eater of Souls..........Henry Kuttner
The Eighth Green Man..........G. G. Pendarves
Fate Weaves a Web..........Alfred I. Tooke
The Headless Miller of Kobold's Keep..........G. Garnet
The House on Fifth Avenue..........Durbin Lee Horner

Poems:
Omega..........Howell Calhoun
 

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. WEIRD TALES
February, 1937

Vol. 29, No. 3
Title Issue: MULti-WT0157
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Virgil Finlay

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. Novelettes:
The Globe of Memories..........Seabury Quinn
The Poppy Pearl..........Frank Owen

Short Stories:
At the Time Appointed..........Loretta Burrough
Dig Me No Grave..........Robert E. Howard
A Gipsy Prophecy..........Bram Stoker
Glory Hand..........August Derleth 
I, the Vampire..........Henry Kuttner
Masquerade..........Mearle Prout
The Vaunsburg Plague..........Julius Long

Poems:
The Beggar..........Frances Elliott
Dead Singer..........Edgar Daniel Kramer
Song of the Necromancer..........Clark Ashton Smith
 

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. WEIRD TALES 
March, 1937 

Vol. 29, No. 3
Title Issue: MULti-WT0158
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Margaret Brundage

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. Novelettes:
The Dark Star..........G. G. Pendarves
The Guardian of the Book..........Henry Hasse
The Last Archer..........Earl Peirce, Jr.

Short Stories:
The Anatomy Lesson..........William J. Makin
The Brood of Bubastis..........Robert Bloch
The Elixir of Death..........[Earl Binder and Otto Binder] [as Eando Binder]
Eric Martin's Nemesis..........Jay Wilmer Benjamin
The Picture in the House..........H. P. Lovecraft
The Seeds from Outside..........Edmond Hamilton
Strange Orchids..........Dorothy Quick
The Werewolf Snarls..........Manly Wade Wellman

Poems:
Death of the Artist..........Felix Kowalewski
Rescued..........Edgar Daniel Kramer
Resting-Place..........Clarence Edwin Flynn
 

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  Guardian of the BookAt the left is an illustration by Virgil Finlay for Henry Hasse's "The Guardian of the Book" and on the right is one for Robert Bloch's "The Brood of Bubastis"  
. WEIRD TALES
April, 1937 

Vol. 29, No. 4
Title Issue: MULti-WT0159
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Virgil Finlay

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. Novelettes:
The Death Mask..........Earl Peirce, Jr.
Symphony of the Damned..........John R. Speer

Short Stories:
Black Gold..........Thorp McClusky
The Dead-Wagon..........Greye La Spina
The Execution of Lucarno..........Julius Long
Fangs of Vengeance..........Robert Bloch [as Nathan Hindin]
Fessenden's Worlds..........Edmond Hamilton
The Mannikin..........Robert Bloch
The Shuttered House..........August Derleth
So Very Strange!..........Arthur William Bernal
We Are the Dead..........Henry Kuttner

Poems:
The Witch Walks in Her Garden..........Lea Bodine Drake
 

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. WEIRD TALES
May, 1937

Vol. 29, No. 5
Title Issue: MULti-WT0160
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 Last Pharaoh [Part 1 of 4]..........Thomas P. Kelley

Novelettes:
Duar the Accursed..........Clifford Ball
The Horror on the Links..........Seabury Quinn
The Mark of the Monster..........Jack Williamson

Short Stories:
Anton's Last Dream..........Edwin Baird
The Horror in the Burying-Ground..........H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald
The Salem Horror..........Henry Kuttner
Vallisneria Madness..........Ralph Milne Farley
The Wind from the River..........August Derleth

Poems:
Edgar Allan Poe..........Adolphe de Castro
Ultimate..........Edgar Daniel Kramer
Unsought Advice..........Dorothy Quick
 

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. WEIRD TALES
June, 1937

Vol. 29, No. 6
Title Issue: MULti-WT0161
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Margaret Brundage
Illustrating a scene from "The Carnal God"

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Last Pharaoh [Part 2 of 4]..........Thomas P. Kelley

Novelettes:
The Carnal God..........John R. Speer and Carlisle Schnitzer
A strange story of a golden idol that was instinct with evil life.

Short Stories:
The Black Kiss..........Henry Kuttner and Robert Bloch
Clicking Red Heels..........Paul Ernst
The red heels of his murdered sweetheart tapped a march of death wherever he went.
The Life-Eater..........Harold Ward
Murder Mask..........Edgar Daniel Kramer
The Ocean Leech..........Frank Belknap Long [as Frank Belknap Long, Jr.]
Return to Earth..........Willis Knapp Jones

Essays/Articles:
Telegraphy and Telepathy..........Roy Temple House

Poems:
Death Is a Woman..........Felix Kowalewski
Hymn to Beauty..........Charles P. Baudelaire 
Ragnarok..........Henry Kuttner
 

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. WEIRD TALES
July, 1937

Vol. 30, No. 1
Title Issue: MULti-WT0162
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Virgil Finlay
Illustrating a scene in "The Thief of Forthe"

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Last Pharaoh [Part 3 of 4]..........Thomas P. Kelley
     A story of the weird doom that enmeshed two lovers in a castle of gloom on the African coast.

Short Stories:
The Creeper in the Crypt..........Robert Bloch
     A tale of stark horror in the dread cellar of an evil house in legend-haunted Arkham.
The Hounds of Tindalos..........Frank Belknap Long [Weird Story Reprint]
     An eery tale reprinted from Weird Tales of eight years ago.

Short Fiction:
The Interview..........H. Sivia
     An astonishing surprize awaited the young reporter when he returned to his newspaper's city room.
Jail-break..........Paul Ernst
     The aftermath of Littell's escape from prison was far worse then the prison itself.
The Ocean Ogre..........Dana Carroll
     A tale of the thing called Alain Gervais that came aboard a ship at sea.
Raider of the Spaceways..........Henry Kuttner
     A startling weird-scientific story about a vampiric entity on the Night Side of the planet Venus.
The Thief of Forthe..........Clifford Ball
    The story of a thief who coveted a kingdom, and the appalling secret of an old magician.
     Story page line: a shuddery story of the dreadful weird magic of a treacherous aged sorcerer

The Whistling Corpse..........G. G. Pendarves
     A gripping weird novelette of the sea, by the author of "The Eight Green Man."

Poems:
To Howard Phillips Lovecraft..........Clark Ashton Smith
     Verse, a memorial tribute to a supreme master of weird and outré literature.
To Virgil Finlay..........H. P. Lovecraft
     Verse, written on seeing Mr. Finley's illustration for "The Faceless God."

Articles:
The Eyrie
     The readers discuss the merits and demerits of this magazine.

 

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. WEIRD TALES 
August, 1937 

Vol. 30, No. 2
Title Issue: MULti-WT0163
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Margaret Brundage - Illustrating a scene in "Thing of Darkness."

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Abyss Under the World [Part 1 of 2]..........J. Paul Suter
     Three men were precipitated in an adventure as astounding as ever befrell mortal men.
The Last Pharaoh [Part 4 of 4]..........Thomas P. Kelley
     A story of the weird doom that enmeshed two lovers in the Pharoah's castle of gloom.

Novelettes:
World of the Dark Dwellers..........Edmond Hamilton
     A thrilling weird-scientific story of the dreadful creatures that trannized over a distant world.

Short Stories:
Gica Lacilu, the Magician..........Ernst Wurm
     Retribution overtook the boyard who oppressed his serfs intolerably.
The Jest of Droom-Avista..........Henry Kuttner
     A brief, poetic tale about an alien city and a metallic doom.
The Mandarin's Ear..........Frank Owen
     A curious abouta Chinese mandarin who had the ear of a thief grafted in place of his own.
The Statement of Randolph Carter..........H. P. Lovecraft [Weird Tales Reprint]
     Reprinted by popular request from an old issue of WEIRD TALES
The Terrible Parchment..........Manly Wade Wellman
     The author describes this as "the Necronomicon story to end all Necrnomicon stories."
Thing of Darkness..........G. G. Pendarves
     A [destroying], [hovering] Thing brought death and terror to Traen House.
The Will of the Dead..........Loretta Burrough
     An unusual weird tale of a mother's malign resentment of her son wife's. 

Poems:
Ghost Shadows..........Clarence Edwin Flynn
Sea-Wind..........Minna Irving
The Soul-Eater..........Robert E. Howard
     A posthumous poem  by a popular writer of weird tales.

Articles and Features:
The Eyrie
     A department wherein the readers express their opinions.
 

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. WEIRD TALES
September, 1937

Vol. 30, No. 3
Title Issue: MULti-WT0164
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Margaret Brundage
     Illustrating a scene from "Satan's Palimpsest"

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Abyss Under the World [Part 2 of 2]..........J. Paul Suter
     Three men were precipitated into an adventure as amazing as ever befell mortal men
The Lake of Life [Part 1 of 3]..........Edmond Hamilton
     A weird-scientific story replete with thrills, adventure, mystery and romance

Novelettes:
The Ho-Ho-Kam Horror..........Bruce Bryan
     It was a real and very tangible horror that descended on the archeologist in the goose-flesh story
     Illustrated by Virgil Finlay
Satan's Palimpsest..........Seabury Quinn
     A tale of weird eveil and sudden death - a story of Jules de Grandin

Short Stories:
The Death of Ilalotha..........Clark Ashton Smith
     What horrible fate awaited Thules as he went to keep his love-tryst in the tomb?
Malay Love Magic..........Paul Morand
     A brief tale about a quaint and curious custom in the Netherland's East Indies
McGovern's Obsession..........August Derleth
     The story of a crime that occurred in an old hearse-a crime and a retribution
School for the Unspeakable..........Manly Wade Wellman
     Into what frightful horror did young Setwick blunder that night?
When the Graves Were Opened..........Arthur J. Burks [reprint]
     A story from an early issue of Weird Tales, reprinted by request

Verse:
The Dream and the Shadow..........Robert E. Howard
     Posthumous verse by a genius of weird literature
H.P.L...........Henry Kuttner
     An (acrostic?) tribute in verse to the late Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Night of Unrest..........Robert Nelson
     Posthumous verse, by a young Illinois poet
Psychopompos..........H. P. Lovecraft
     A weird tale in rime, by a late great master of fantastic fiction

Articles:
The Eyrie
     A department wherein readers express their opinions
 

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. WEIRD TALES 
October, 1937

Vol. 30 , No. 4
Title Issue: MULti-WT0165
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 Lake of Life [Part 2 of 3]..........Edmond Hamilton

Novelettes:
Pledged to the Dead..........Seabury Quinn
The Shunned House..........H. P. Lovecraft

Short Stories:
The Golgotha Dancers..........Manly Wade Wellman
Here Lies..........Howard Wandrei [as H. W. Guernsey]
The Homicidal Diary..........Earl Peirce, Jr.
The Last of Mrs. DeBrugh..........H. Sivia
The Long Arm..........Franz Habl
The Purple Cincture..........H. Thompson Rich
Tiger Cat..........David H. Keller, M.D.

Poems:
After Two Nights of the Ear-ache..........Francis Hard
To a Skull on My Bookshelf..........Elizabeth Virgina Raplee
Which Will Scarcely Be Understood..........Robert E. Howard
 

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. WEIRD TALES
November, 1937 

Vol. 30, No. 5
Title Issue: MULti-WT0166
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Margaret Brundage
Illustrating "Living Budhess."

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Lake of Life [Part 3 of 3]..........Edmond Hamilton
     A weird-scientific story replete with thrills, adventure, mystery and romance.
The Voyage of the Neutralia [Part 1 of 3]..........Bruce Wallis
     A saga of weird adventures and a strange voyage to other planets.

Novelettes:
Living Buddhess..........Seabury Quinn
     A tale of Jules de Grandin a dire lama in devil-ridden Asia, and the dreadful change that befell a lovely American girl.
Quest of the Starstone..........C. L. Moore and Henry Kuttner
     Across the far-flung centuries, Jirel and Northwest Smith meet.

Short Stories:
The Case of Herbert Thorp..........Henry Kuttner
     A short tale about an editor who was altogether too skeptical.
Dread Summons..........Paul Ernst 
     When the old butler investigated the scream, he found that a dread summons had been answered.
Hypnos..........H. P. Lovecraft [Weird Story Reprint]
     A story fron an early issue of WEIRD TALES, by a late great master of eery fiction.
The Inn..........Rex Ernest
     A brief story with a real shudder.
The Man in the Taxi..........Leslie Gordon Barnard
     Enderby had to live with his conscience - but who was the man beside him in the taxicab?
The Secret of Sebek..........Robert Bloch
     What grisly horror, spawned in ancient Egypt, stalked through that weird house in New Orleans?

Poems:
Futility [vt Moonlight on a Skull]..........Robert E. Howard
Grave-Stones..........Edgar Daniel Kramer

Articles and Features:
The Eyrie
     A department in which the  readers discuss weird tales.

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. WEIRD TALES 
December, 1937 

Vol. 30, No. 6
Title Issue: MULti-WT0167
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Virgil Finlay
Illustrating "The Sea-Witch"

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
The Voyage of the Neutralia [Part 2 of 3]..........Bruce Wallis
.....An epic of weird adventures and a strange voyage to other planets.

Novelettes:
Child of Atlantis..........Edmond Hamilton
.....What brooding shape of horror dwels (sic) in the black castle that topped the sinister island?
Flames of Vengeance..........Seabury Quinn
.....Adread horror spawned in India menaced young Pemberton with a strange doom.
The Sea-Witch..........Nictzin Dyalhis
.....A saga of Heldra the lovely, Heldra the wicked, who came from the sea to compact a weird revenge.

Short Stories:
Fane of the Black Pharaoh..........Robert Bloch
.....Terrible was the destiny revealed on the walls of the red-litten corridors.
The Keen Eyes and Ears of Kara Kedi..........Claude Farrère
.....An odd little story about a cat that was telepathic - by a member of the French Academy.
Laocoon..........Bassett Morgan  [WEIRD TALES REPRINT]
.....A story from an old number of WEIRD TALES reprinted by request.
Uneasy Lie the Drowned..........Donald Wandrei
.....A stark, hideous horror crept over the side of Morse's canoe.

Short Fiction:
The Black Stone Statue..........Mary Elizabeth Counselman
.....A story of a weird deception practised by an obscure sculptor.
Polaris..........H. P. Lovecraft
.....The star-watcher could not tell which was dream and which was reality - a brief weird fantasy.

Poems:
Fragment..........Robert E. Howard
.....Posthumous verse, by a late great master of weird literature.
The Old House on the Hill..........Winona Montgomery Gilliland

Features:
The Eyrie
.....A department in which readers discuss weird tales.
 

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