Weird Tales - 1942

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	*Weird Tales* *1942* *...*


.	WEIRD TALES January, 1942 Vol. 36, No. 3 Title Issue: MULti-WT0203 Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith Price: $0.15 Pages: 128 Cover: Gretta		.
	The same issue was released in Canada in May, 1942 with a different cover. This is the first issue of the American News Company's second attempt at a Canadian version of Weird Tales.
.	Novelettes: Parasite Mansion..........Mary Elizabeth Counselman A Curse - Vicious, Soul Destroying - Was Upon the Beautiful Old House The Shadow Over Innsmouth..........H. P. Lovecraft Malignant Nightmare - Dancing in Grotesque, Fantastic Saraband - Surges Trhough the Streets of a Horror-Ridden Seaport! Who Can Escape.............Seabury Quinn Death Seems so Certain, so Final - But the Land ofthe Unquiet DeadHas Many Exits... Short Stories: Death Thumbs a Ride..........Robert Arthur Introducing the Very Latest Things in Phantoms ... a Hitch-Hiking Ghost - an Ectoplasmic Hobo! The Ghost of Lancelot Biggs..........Nelson S. Bond Featuring the Resurrection of the Crackpot, Crackjack Mechani of the Spaceways! The Phantom Slayer..........Fritz Leiber He Slew Wantonly - for the Sheer Hellish Fun of It! The White Lady..........Dorothy Quick For a Mere Cock and Bull Yark - the Tall Trees Ghost Did a Remarkably Thorough Job of Haunting! Short Fiction:: Table for Two..........Arthur Leo Zagat "Maybe I'm Nuts - but I Thought I Heard Someone Whisper 'Good-by'!" Poems: The Curse..........Page Cooper Articles: The Eyrie Superstitions and Taboos..........Irwin J. Weill Weird Tales Club		.


.	WEIRD TALES March, 1942 Vol. 36, No. 4 Title Issue: MULti-WT0204 Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith Price: $0.15 Pages: 128 Cover: Hannes Bok		.
.	Serials/Complete Novels: Herbert West: Reanimator: I. From the Dark..........H. P. Lovecraft Novelettes:: Hell on Earth..........Robert Bloch Tibetan Vengeance..........Stafford Aylmer Short Stories: Child's Play..........Alice Mary Schnirring Death of the Kraken..........David H. Keller, M.D. Here, Daemos!..........August Derleth The March of the Trees..........Frank Owen The Rat Master..........Greye La Spina The Superfluous Phantom..........Malcolm Jameson The Treasure of Red-Ash Desert..........Stanton A. Coblentz Poems: Garden at Lu..........Gerald Chan Sieg Hunger..........Page Cooper The Wood-Wife..........Leah Bodine Drake		.


.	WEIRD TALES May, 1942 Vol. 36, No. 5 Title Issue: MULti-WT0205 Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith Price: $0.15 Pages: 128 Cover: Ray Quigley		.
	The American News Company began printing Weird Tales in Canada for the first time since July, 1936. The issues ran about three months behind the U.S. versions and had unique covers and additional stories by Canadian writers. The U.S. May issue came out in Canada in September, 1942.
.	Novelettes: Stoneman's Memorial..........Seabury Quinn Short Stories: Black Bargain..........Robert Bloch The Concrete Phantom..........Weston Parry Crystal Vision..........Alice-Mary Schnirring The Deadly Theory..........Greye La Spina The Enchanted River..........Dorothy Quick Ghost for a Night..........Robert Arthur The Giant in a Test Tube..........George Armin Shaftel The Gipsy's Hand..........Alonzo Deen Cole Masquerade..........Henry Kuttner Vengeance in Her Bones..........Malcolm Jameson Poems: The Dreamer in the Desert..........Francis Flagg		.


.	WEIRD TALES July, 1942 Vol. 36, No. 6 Title Issue: MULti-WT0206 Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith Price: $0.15 Pages: 128 Cover: Margaret Brundage		.
.	Serials/Complete Novels: Herbert West: Reanimator: II.The Plague-Demon..........H. P. Lovecraft Novelettes:: Coven..........Manly Wade Wellman Is the Devil a Gentleman?..........Seabury Quinn Short Stories: Dead Silence..........Leonard Lee Charlot For Tomorrow We Die..........Frank Owen The High Tower..........Everil Worrell Lansing's Luxury..........August Derleth Poor Little Tampico..........Hannes Bok The Redoubtable Horace Goppendyke..........John Broome Short Fiction:: The Gun..........Frank Gruber Poems: A Mangrove Swamp..........William de Lisle Moonlight..........Paul Verlaine		.


.	WEIRD TALES September, 1942 Vol. 36, No. 7 Title Issue: MULti-WT0207 Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith Price: $0.15 Pages: 128 Cover: A. R. Tilburn		.
	This issue was released in Canada in January, 1943 with a different cover. Also it contains two additional stories by Alonzo Deen Cole and Robert Arthur and one additional brief story or verse by Alice Olsen without a description. It also drops the Seabury Quinn story "Never the Twain" which appeared in the U.S. version. Additional in Canadian version: The Gipsy's Hand..........Alonzo Deen Cole Truly it is said that madness and genius are twins. And when a genius seeks revenge, mad and incredible indeed are the things that come to pass! Ghost for a Night..........Robert Arthur So you don't beleive in ghosts? Well, well... maybe you can learn something from this unpleasant lesson taught to the author ofthis tale! Winter Night..........Alice Olsen
.	Serials/Complete Novels: Herbert West: Reanimator: III. Six Shots by Moonlight..........H. P. Lovecraft Episode third in this series. A scientist conitnues his experiments with eternity...outrageous, abominable experiments! Novelettes: Never the Twain.............Seabury Quinn [-] Satan's Bondage..........Manly Banister Different, super-thrilling - A werewolf western. Short Stories: The Bridle..........David H. Keller, M.D. Hellish force lurked in that very ancient piece of equipment. Death Has Red Hair..........Greye La Spina In her eyes was something elfish, unearthly... Eyes of the Panther..........Kuke Nichols Through the chinks and crevices of man's world peer the creatures of the pit - longing for their own... A Question of Etiquette..........Robert Bloch Nightmare itself will perch on your shoulder and whisper in your ear - lisping unspeakable vileness! Spider Mansion..........Fritz Leiber Loathosme indeed was the power that ruled this house of monstrous growth and forbidden secrets. Visibility: Zero..........Nelson S. Bond Confusing. Isn't it. Talking to an optical illusion? Who Are the Living? [vt The Epiphany of Death]..........Clark Ashton Smith He maintained that the dead are not; nor the living the living. For that matter... Poems: Changeling..........Leah Bodine Drake Articles and Features: The Eyrie Weird Tales Club		.


.	WEIRD TALES November, 1942 Vol. 36, No. 8 Title Issue: MULti-WT0208 Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith Price: $0.15 Pages: 128 Cover: Richard Bennett		.
.	Serials/Complete Novels: Herbert West: Reanimator: IV. The Scream of the Dead..........H. P. Lovecraft The scientist finds that the quest for the secret of life leads surely through the grave." The fourth episode in this spine-refrigerating series - in which a young scientist fights a duel to the death . . . with death! Novelettes:: Nursemaid to Nightmares..........Robert Bloch Short Stories: The Candle..........Ray Bradbury On the bronze candle was inscribed: ‘The man who will in trouble be, soon sees the light in me.' The proprietor pronounced the candle an implement of destruction. The Crooked House..........Thorne Lee The Evil Doll..........Hannes Bok The Ghost of the Model T..........Betsy Emmons The Golden Bough..........David H. Keller, M.D. The Hound..........Fritz Leiber The Lips of Caya Wu..........Frank Owen The Possessed..........Alice-Mary Schnirring The Victory of the Vita-Ray..........Stanton A. Coblentz Poems: The Dead World..........Clarence Edwin Flynn Into Fantasy..........Maria Moravsky Contents: Novelette "Nursemaid to Nightmares" by Robert Bloch, Julius Margate collects horrors the way some people collect stamps Short Stories "The Hound" by Fritz Leiber, These monsters feed on our fears, they haunt us, terrorize us "The Crooked House" by Thorne Lee, A hunchbacked, brooding monster, this house with the twisted soul "The Victory of the Vita-Ray" by Stanton A. Coblentz, Twenty bloodstained bigshots of history are recalled from eternity "The Golden Bough" by David H. Keller, In the moonlight the laughing man would come, playing his Pan-like music--and she knew she must dance or die "The Ghost of the Model T" by Betsy Emmons, This man was stalked by a phantom, the specter of his first car "The Candle" by Ray Bradbury, The proprietor pronounced the candle an implement of destruction "The Lips of Caya Wu" by Frank Owen, There was no escape, for octopus-like, the Chinaman's schemes spread out everywhere "Herbert West: Reanimator" by H.P. Lovecraft, The scientist finds that the quest for the secret of life leads surely through the grave "The Possessed" by Alice-Mary Schnirring, Some macabre horror was here, changing this town and the people in it in appearance as night drew near "The Evil Doll" by Hannes Bok, Was it hypnotism or witchcraft--she must know for her sanity; her very life depended on the answer Verse "The Dead World" by Clarence Edwin Flynn "Into Fantasy" by Maria Moravsky Superstitions and Taboos by Irwin J. Weill The Eyrie and Weird Tales Club		.


.	WEIRD TALES United Kingdom Edition 1942 No. 1 Title Issue: MULti-WT---- Publisher: Gerald G. Swan, London Editor: Price: 6p Pages: 64 Cover: Ray Quigley		.
.	Novelettes:: Seven Seconds Of Eternity..........Robert H. Leitfred [p 3] Short Stories: The Valley Of The Undead..........Helen Weinbaum [p 23] An Adventure Of A Professional Corpse--The Blind Farmer And The Strip Dancer..........H. Bedford-Jones [p31] Heart Of Atlantan..........Nictzin Dyalhis [p 39] Sea Born..........Edmond Hamilton [p 50] Poems: Enduring..........Maisie Nelson [p 49] Temple In Samarkand..........Gerald Chan Sieg [p 64] Weird Tales (number 1) circa 1942-43: London: Gerald G. Swan (64pp+, 6¾" x 9¾", artist Ray Quigley) printed on wartime paper stock, a deep grey paper, though in a blue wash rather than full colour. Extremely rare and well sought after by Weird Tales enthusiasts and completists. A shortened version of the September 1940 Weird Tales (Vol. 35, No. 5). Contents page credits last entry as by Maisie Nelson and spells the title as "Temple In Samakand", a verse. The cover borrowed from the US edition, credits Gordon Keyne (a pseudonym of H. Bedford-Jones) as a contributor; the UK edition does not include this author.		.

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