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Weird Tales
1939
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. WEIRD TALES
January, 1939 

Vol. 33, No. 1
Title Issue: MULti-WT0180
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Virgil Finlay

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
I Found Cleopatra [Part 3 of 4]..........Thomas P. Kelley

Novelettes:
Waxworks..........Robert Bloch

Short Stories:
A Rendezvous in Averoigne..........Clark Ashton Smith

Short Fiction:
Bride of the Lightning..........Edmond Hamilton
Date in the City Room..........Talbot Johns
The Fifth Candle..........Cyril Mand
Medusa's Coil..........H. P. Lovecraft [as Zealia Bishop]
The Silver Coffin..........Robert Barbour Johnson
These Doth the Lord Hate..........Manly Wade Wellman [as Gans T. Field]

Poems
And Thus I Knew..........Dorothy Agard Ansley
Othello Time..........Vincent Starrett
The Warrior..........Emil Petaja
 

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. WEIRD TALES
February, 1939

Vol. 33, No. 2
Title Issue: MULti-WT0181
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Virgil Finlay

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
Fearful Rock [Part 1 of 3]..........Manly Wade Wellman
I Found Cleopatra [Part 4 of 4]..........Thomas P. Kelley

Novelettes:
The Last Horror..........Eli Colter
The Poltergeist of Swan Upping..........Seabury Quinn

Short Stories:
Death Is an Elephant..........Robert Bloch [as Nathan Hindin]
The Double Shadow..........Clark Ashton Smith
The Drifting Snow..........August Derleth [as Stephen Grendon]
Giant-Plasm..........Donald Wandrei
The Transgressor..........Henry Kuttner

Poems:
The City of Death..........Edith Hurley
Crazy Nell..........Edgar Daniel Kramer
The King and the Oak..........Robert E. Howard
The Lamp..........H. P. Lovecraft
Zaman's Hill..........H. P. Lovecraft
 

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. WEIRD TALES 
March, 1939 

Vol. 33, No. 3
Title Issue: MULti-WT0182
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 160
Cover: Virgil Finlay

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
Fearful Rock [Part 2 of 3]..........Manly Wade Wellman

Novelettes:
The House Where Time Stood Still..........Seabury Quinn
The Return of Hastur..........August Derleth [as August W. Derleth]
The Swine of Ææa..........Clifford Ball

Short Fiction:
Comrades of Time..........Edmond Hamilton
The Devils of Po Sung..........Bassett Morgan
The Metal Chamber..........Duane W. Rimel
The Quest of Iranon..........H. P. Lovecraft
Smoke Fantasy..........Thomas R. Jordan
The Stratosphere Menace..........Ralph Milne Farley
The Swine of AEaea..........Clifford Ball

Poems:
Desert Dawn..........Robert E. Howard
Introduction to a Stranger..........David Wright O'Brien



Contents:
Cover Design by Virgil Finlay, Illustrating "The Swine of AEaea"
The Metal Chamber by Duane W. Rimel, A curious tale about a scientist who contacted another planet telepathically
The Swine of AEaea by Clifford Ball, A bizarre and fantastic sea-tale about an island not charted on any map
The Return of Hastur by August W. Derleth, An eldritch story of the incredible horror that terrified a quiet countryside
Fearful Rock (Part 2) by Manly Wade Wellman, An eery novel of the American Civil War, and dark powers
Desert Dawn by Robert E. Howard, Verse
Virgil Finlay's "Satan" art mentioned above
Comrades of Time by Edmond Hamilton, A thrill-tale of the far future, and the aged Wise One who craved death
Introduction to a Stranger by David Wright O'Brien, Verse
The Quest of Iranon by H.P. Lovecraft, A fascinatingly beautiful early story by a late master of weird fiction
The Stratosphere Menace by Ralph Milne Farley, A brief science-story of a terrible doom that menaced mankind
Smoke Fantasy by Thomas R. Jordan, What was that grisly creature seen in the swirling cigarette smoke?
Weird Story Reprint: The Devils of Po Sung by Bassett Morgan, An amazing story of brain surgery
The Eyrie, a department in which the readers express their opinions


 

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. WEIRD TALES
April, 1939 

Vol. 33, No. 4
Title Issue: MULti-WT0183
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 160
Cover: Virgil Finlay

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
Fearful Rock [Part 3 of 3]..........Manly Wade Wellman

Short Stories:
The Curse of Yig..........H. P. Lovecraft [as Zealia Brown Reed]
Hydra..........Henry Kuttner

Short Fiction:
Armies from the Past..........Edmond Hamilton
Hellsgarde..........C. L. Moore
The High Places..........Frances Garfield
Mommy..........Mary Elizabeth Counselman
The Red God Laughed..........Thorp McClusky
The Red Swimmer..........Robert Bloch
Special News Bulletin..........Vincent Gaddis
Susette..........Seabury Quinn
The Wicked Clergyman..........H. P. Lovecraft

Poems:
In an Old Street..........Vincent Starrett
Trinities..........Edgar Daniel Kramer
Will-o'-the-Wisp..........Charles Sloan Reid
 

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. WEIRD TALES
May, 1939

Vol. 33, No. 5
Title Issue: MULti-WT0184
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 160
Cover: Harold S. De Lay

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
Almuric [Part 1 of 3]..........Robert E. Howard

Novelettes:
The Dark Isle..........Robert Bloch
The Hollow Moon..........Everil Worrell Washington
Nocturne..........Seabury Quinn

Short Stories:
"Not Both!"..........Frances Garfield
Cross of Fire..........Lester del Rey
The Dead Soul..........Raoul Lenoir
The Face at Death Corner..........Paul Ernst
The Phantom Island..........Arlton Eadie
The Thinking Machine..........J. J. Connington
The Watcher at the Door..........Henry Kuttner
Witch's Hair..........Mearle Prout

Poems:
The Dead Host's Welcome..........John Fletcher
Dust..........Edgar Daniel Kramer
Harbor Whistles..........H. P. Lovecraft
In a Dark Wood..........Marion Doyle
The Plumed Serpent..........Howell Calhoun
 

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. WEIRD TALES
June, 1939

No issue this month

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. WEIRD TALES
July, 1939

Vol. 34, No. 1
Title Issue: MULti-WT0185
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 160
Cover: Virgil Finlay

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
Almuric [Part 2 of 3]..........Robert E. Howard

Short Stories:
Celephais..........H. P. Lovecraft
The Death Watch..........Hugh B.
Cave Far Below..........Robert Barbour Johnson
Imprisoned with the Pharaohs..........H. P. Lovecraft [as Harry Houdini]
The Willow Landscape..........Clark Ashton Smith

Short Fiction:
Giants of Anarchy..........[Earl Binder and Otto Binder] [as Eando Binder]
Headache..........Paul Ernst Lens-Shy..........W. M. Clayton
The Man Who Came Back..........Frederic Arnold Kummer, Jr.
Mansions in the Sky..........Seabury Quinn
The Phantom Werewolf..........Montague Summers
The Sitter in the Mound..........Bruce Bryan
The Stroke of Twelve..........Earl Peirce, Jr.

Poems:
Circe..........Edgar Daniel Kramer
The Hills of Kandahar..........Robert E. Howard
The Howler..........H. P. Lovecraft
They Run Again..........Leah Bodine Drake
 

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. WEIRD TALES 
August, 1939

Vol. 34, No. 2
Title Issue: MULti-WT0186
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 160
Cover: Virgil Finlay

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
Almuric [Part 3 of 3]..........Robert E. Howard

Novelettes:
Spawn..........P. Schuyler Miller

Short Stories:
Giants in the Sky..........Frank Belknap Long [as Frank Belknap Long, Jr.]
The Valley Was Still..........Manly Wade Wellman

Short Fiction:
Apprentice Magician..........E. Hoffmann Price
The Fall of the House of Usher..........Edgar Allan Poe
The Fisherman's Special..........H. L. Thomson
The House of the Three Corpses..........Seabury Quinn
The Laugh..........Richard H. Hart
The Little Man..........Clifford Ball
Return from Death..........Bruce Bryan
The Totem-Pole..........Robert Bloch

Poems:
Dupin and Another..........Vincent Starrett
The Gardens of Yin..........H. P. Lovecraft
My Tomb..........James E. Warren, Jr.
Voice in a Veteran's Ear..........Manly Wade Wellman [as Gans T. Field]
 

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. WEIRD TALES
September, 1939

Vol. 34, No. 3
Title Issue: MULti-WT0187
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 160
Cover: Virgil Finlay

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
King of the World's Edge [Part 1 of 4]..........H. Warner Munn

Novelettes:
The Door Without a Key..........Seabury Quinn
While Zombies Walked..........Thorp McClusky

Short Stories:
Cool Air..........H. P. Lovecraft
A Night in Malnéant..........Clark Ashton Smith
Spanish Vampire..........E. Hoffmann Price
Spawn of the Maelstrom..........August Derleth and Mark Schorer

Short Fiction:
Gray Ghouls..........Bassett Morgan
 

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. WEIRD TALES 
October, 1939

Vol. 34, No. 4
Title Issue: MULti-WT0188
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Year: 1939
Price: $0.25
Pages: 128
Cover: Harold S. De Lay - "An old alchemist"

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
King of the World's Edge [Part 2 of 4]..........H. Warner Munn
     The odyssey of the strange voyage to America in King Arthur's time, and eerie adventures.

Novelettes:
In the Walls of Eryx..........Kenneth Sterling and H. P. Lovecraft
     Two earthmen are trapped in an invisible maze on the planet Venus.
The Lady of the Bells..........Seabury Quinn
     A romantic weird tale which spans the shodowy centuries.
Worms of the Earth..........Robert E. Howard [reprint]
    A shuddery story out of the past, reprinted by request.

Short Stories:
Mystery of the Missing Magnate..........Ralph Milne Farley
     The tale of a man who found himself in two cities at once.
The Witch's Cat..........Manly Wade Wellman [as Gans T. Field]
     A curious tale of the skinny black cat that lived in the witch's house.

Short Fiction:
Finished Game..........Harry Butman
     What weird compulsion guided the player's hands in that archaoic chess game?
The Sorcerer's Apprentice..........Lucian
     The origin of a weird legend

Poems:
The Dead Speak..........Vivian Stratton
The Dream..........Edith Hurley

Pictorial:
The Hasish-Eater..........Virgil Finley
     Pictorial interpretation of a poem by Clark Ashton Smith

Articles:
The Eyrie
     Our readers exchange opinions
 

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. WEIRD TALES
November, 1939 

Vol. 34, No. 5
Title Issue: MULti-WT0189
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.15
Pages: 128
Cover: Virgil Finlay

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
King of the World's Edge [Part 3 of 4]..........H. Warner Munn

Short Stories:
Uncanonized..........Seabury Quinn

Short Fiction:
The Haunted Car..........David Bernard
The Hunch..........Gene Lyle, III
The Man Who Died Twice..........Eli Colter
The Phantom Drug..........A. W. Kapfer
Towers of Death..........Henry Kuttner
The Web of Silence..........Mary Elizabeth Counselman
The Withered Heart..........G. G. Pendarves

Poems:
Bogey-Man..........Charles Sloan Reid
 

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. WEIRD TALES 
December, 1939 

Vol. 34, No. 6
Title Issue: MULti-WT0190
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.15
Pages: 128
Cover: Hannes Bok
Cover Design: "Lordsof the Ice", horrors of a war-mad world

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. Serials/Complete Novels:
King of the World's Edge [Part 4 of 4]..........H. Warner Munn (85)
     Saga of a weird voyage to America in King Arthur's time

Novelettes:
Lords of the Ice..........David H. Keller, M.D. (38)
     A war-mad world, and a strange city in the Antarctic

Short Stories:
The Considerate Hosts..........Thorp McClusky (23)
     The man and his wife told their guest that they were ghosts
The Copper Bowl..........Major George Fielding Eliot [Weird Tales Reprint] (112)
     A grimtale of terror - from an early issue of WEIRD TALES
Dead Man's Schooner..........André Linville (8?)
     An arresting tale of a radio broadcast, and the sailor who played the Flute of Death
Escape from Tomorrow..........Frank Belknap Long (6?)
     A tale fo the distant future - an artificial brain rebels against its enslavement
Glamour..........Seabury Quinn (5)
      An intriguing story of modern witchcraft
Mannikins of Horror..........Robert Bloch (71)
     A story of dreadful doom, and tiny artificial men who actually lived
Nymph of Darkness..........C. L. Moore and Forrest J. Ackerman (49)
     A tale of Northwest Smith and a [weird] woman who appealed to him for help

Poems:
Bacchante..........Clark Ashton Smith
Night Gaunts..........H. P. Lovecraft (5?)
Weird Things..........Vivian Stratton (111)

Articles:
The Eyrie..........Our readers exchange opinions (119)
"Deep Night, Dark Night"..........Virgil Finlay
     Pictorial interpretation of an excerpt from Shakespeare's "King Henry VI" (79)
 

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