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. WEIRD TALES
January, 1944 

Vol. 37, No. 3
Title Issue: MULti-WT0215
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith
Price: $0.15
Pages: 112
Cover: Harold S. De Lay

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They must have liked Harold S. De Lay's cover since it will reappear on the July, 1954 issue.

Novelettes:
Dimensional Doors..........Hannes Bok
The Master of Cotswold..........Nelson S. Bond

Short Stories:
Bon Voyage, Michele..........Seabury Quinn
The Golden Goblins..........Manly Wade Wellman
He Came at Dusk..........Frank Belknap Long
The Hidden Player..........Roger S. Vreeland
House of Hate..........Allison V. Harding
The Sea Shell..........Ray Bradbury
 

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WEIRD TALES
May, 1945

This issue was released in Canada in May, 1945 with different cover art.

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. WEIRD TALES 
March, 1944 

Vol. 37, No. 4
Title Issue: MULti-WT0216
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith
Price: $0.15
Pages: 112
Cover: John Giunta

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October 22, 1943 letter from Associate Editor Lamont Buchanan to Stanton A. Coblentz accepting his stories "The Shoes of Judge Nichols" and The Man Who Wouldn't Hang."

Novelettes:
The Trail of Cthulhu..........August Derleth
..... Come to the land of the Deep Ones... those great, dread beings who forever walk in the watery places under the earth!

Short Stories:
From the House of the Rat Catcher..........H. Bedford-Jones
..... The airborne Yank soldier never expected to find Carthaginian agents, envious nobles and traitor guards - all centuries old.

Hoofs..........Manly Wade Wellman
..... Her husband was to be there - but not necessarily in human form.

The Marmot..........Allison V. Harding
..... Some unpleasant people get just what they deserve... but this was too horrible, too diabolical to be deserved by any human!

The Peeper..........Frank Belknap Long
..... Have you murdered the person you might have been? Take care, there are dire consequences.

Reunion..........Ray Bradbury
..... If you could put together all the things people were, perhaps you could make them live again.

The Shoes of Judge Nichols..........Stanton A. Coblentz
..... How often we say "I'd like to be in his shoes." Watch out... you might get your wish!

Tragic Magic..........Hannes Bok
..... Witchcraft may be a science - but it's certainly a crude one.

The Unbeliever..........Seabury Quinn
..... He found himself in a land of gray, translucent mists, beyond which lay shining towers and rounded domes.

Poems:
Ghouls Feeding..........Damon Knight

Features:
Superstitions and Taboos..........Irwin J. Weill
The Eyrie and Weird Tales Club


Other illustrations by Elton Fax,John Giunta,Boris Dolgov,etc.


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. released in Canada
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WEIRD TALES
July, 1944

This issue was released in Canada in July, 1944 with different cover art.

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. WEIRD TALES
May, 1944

Vol. 38, No. 1
Title Issue: MULti-WT0217
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith
Price: $0.15
Pages: 96
Cover: Margaret Brundage

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. Novelettes:
The Day the World Stood Still..........Allison V. Harding
Iron Mask..........Robert Bloch

Short Stories:
The Dear Departed..........Alice-Mary Schnirring
The Gothic Window..........Dorothy Quick
The Lake..........Ray Bradbury
The Letters of Cold Fire..........Manly Wade Wellman
Man in a Hurry..........Alan Nelson
Unpublished Story..........H. Bedford-Jones

Poems:
Fungi from Yuggoth: Evening Star..........H. P. Lovecraft
Fungi from Yuggoth: Homecoming..........H. P. Lovecraft
Fungi from Yuggoth: St. Toad's..........H. P. Lovecraft
Fungi from Yuggoth: The Well..........H. P. Lovecraft
Fungi from Yuggoth: The Window..........H. P. Lovecraft
 

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. WEIRD TALES
July, 1944 

Vol. 37, No. 6
Title Issue: MULti-WT0218
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith
Price: $0.15
Pages: 96
Cover: A. R. Tilburne
 

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. Novelettes:
The Beasts of Barsac..........Robert Bloch

Short Stories:
Death's Bookkeeper..........Seabury Quinn
John Thunstone's Inheritance..........Manly Wade Wellman
Lady Macbeth of Pimley Square..........August Derleth
The Man Who Wouldn't Hang..........Stanton A. Coblentz
Plane and Fancy..........P. Schuyler Miller
The Spare Room..........Crawford Sullivan
Stranger in the Mirror..........George N. Lars
There Was an Old Woman..........Ray Bradbury

Short Fiction::
Guard in the Dark..........Allison V. Harding

Poems:
A Charm..........Page Cooper
Weirditties..........Hannes Bok and Nichol
 

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. WEIRD TALES
September, 1944

Vol. 38, No. 1
Title Issue: MULti-WT0219
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith
Price: $0.15
Pages: 96
Cover: A. R. Tilburne

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. Short Stories:
Bang! You're Dead!..........Ray Bradbury
The Devil's Ticket..........Robert Bloch
The Long Still Streets of Evening..........Frank Owen
Monsieur Bluebeard..........Emil Petaja Pacific 421..........August Derleth
The Seven Seas Are One..........Allison V. Harding
The Shadow Folk..........Edmond Hamilton
Sorcery from Thule..........Manly Wade Wellman
The Wayward Skunk..........Harold Lawlor
The Weirds of the Woodcarver..........Gardner F. Fox

Poems:
The Path Through the Marsh..........Leah Bodine Drake
Rats..........Glenn Ward Dresbach
To the Moon..........Stanton A. Coblentz


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. released in Canada
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WEIRD TALES
January, 1945

This issue was released in Canada in January, 1945 with different cover art.

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Weird Tales coverOn the left is the American Weekly Magazine from October 1931 with an article about the work of painter Jose Segrelles.  There is a strong similarity between this Weird Tales cover by A. R. Tilburne and the painting on the cover in 1931.
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. WEIRD TALES
November, 1944 

Vol. 38, No. 2
Title Issue: MULti-WT0220
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith
Price: $0.15
Pages: 96
Cover: Matt Fox
 

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. Novelettes:
The Dweller in Darkness..........August Derleth

Short Stories:
The Bat Is My Brother..........Robert Bloch
Dark Mummery..........Thorp McClusky
The Dead Man's Hand..........Manly Wade Wellman
A Gentleman from Prague..........August Derleth [as Stephen Grendon]
The Ghost Punch..........Hannes Bok
The Jar..........Ray Bradbury
Ride the El to Doom..........Allison V. Harding
 

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