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. WEIRD TALES
January, 1945

Vol. 38, No. 3
Title Issue: MULti-WT0221
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith
Price: $0.15
Pages: 96
Cover: Margaret Brundage

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. Novelettes:
The Green God's Ring..........Seabury Quinn
Priestess of the Labyrinth..........Edmond Hamilton 
Revolt of the Trees..........Allison V. Harding

Short Stories:
The Inverness Cape..........August Derleth 
The Poems..........Ray Bradbury 
Tatiana..........Harold Lawlor
Thorne on the Threshold..........Manly Wade Wellman

Short Fiction::
Ship-in-a-Bottle..........P. Schuyler Miller

Poems:
The Castle..........Glenn Ward Dresbach
Grave Robbers..........Marvin Miller

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


Weird Tales coverWeird Tales coverThis cover is one which was recycled in a later edition of weird tales.  In November of 1953, just six issues before the demise of the original Weird Tales, the publisher reused the cover with slight changes.  
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. WEIRD TALES 
March, 1945

Vol. 38, No. 4
Title Issue: MULti-WT0222
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith
Price: $0.15
Pages: 96
Cover: A. R. Tilburne

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. Short Stories:
Alannah..........August Derleth [as Stephen Grendon]
A Birthday Present for Tommy..........Charles King
In the Beginning..........H. Bedford-Jones
Lords of the Ghostlands..........Seabury Quinn
The Peripatetic Corpse..........Harold Lawlor
Please Go 'Way and Let Me Sleep..........Helen W. Kasson
Second Childhood..........Jack Snow
The Shonokins..........Manly Wade Wellman
A Sip with Satan..........Roger S. Vreeland
The Tombstone..........Ray Bradbury

Poems:
Bewitched..........Willard N. Marsh
Quest Unhallowed..........Page Cooper
Wind Walks Not Alone..........Dan Kelly

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. WEIRD TALES
May, 1945 

Vol. 38, No. 5
Title Issue: MULti-WT0223
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith
Price: $0.15
Pages: 96
Cover: Pete Kuhlhoff

Weird Tales cover
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. Novelettes:
The Man Who Cried "Wolf!"..........Robert Bloch

Short Stories:
Blood from a Stone..........Manly Wade Wellman
The Legend of 228..........Harold Lawlor
The Lost Day..........August Derleth
The Music-Box from Hell..........Emil Petaja
The Shining Land..........Edmond Hamilton
Welcome Home!..........Charles King

Short Fiction::
The Ultimate Paradox..........Thorp McClusky
The Watchers..........Ray Bradbury
Men have spent lifetimes trying to discover who are the ‘watchers’ and who the ‘watched.’ When did you last kill a fly? Have a care . . . and listen.

Poems:
The Witch..........William DeLisle

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. WEIRD TALES
July, 1945 

Vol. 38, No. 6
Title Issue: MULti-WT0224
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith
Price: $0.15
Pages: 96
Cover: Lee Brown Coye

Weird Tales cover
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. Novelettes:
The Watcher from the Sky..........August Derleth

Short Stories:
Carnaby's Fish..........Carl Jacobi
The Dai Sword..........Manly Wade Wellman
The Dead Man..........Ray Bradbury
Devil Dog..........Manly Banister
Fog Country..........Allison V. Harding
The Inn Outside the World..........Edmond Hamilton
One Way to Mars..........Robert Bloch
Quaking Providence..........Reeder Gould

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. WEIRD TALES
September, 1945

Vol. 39, No. 1
Title Issue: MULti-WT0225
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith
Price: $0.15
Pages: 96
Cover: Pete Kuhlhoff

Weird Tales cover
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. Novelettes:
Take Back That Which Thou Gavest..........Seabury Quinn

Short Stories:
The Dark Brothers..........Harold Lawlor
The God-Box..........August Derleth
Mr. Lupescu..........Anthony Boucher
Night of Impossible Shadows..........Allison V. Harding
Outbound..........Paul Ernst Skeleton..........Ray Bradbury
The Skull of the Marquis de Sade..........Robert Bloch
The Thing from the Barrens..........Jim Kjelgaard
Votaress..........Emil Petaja

Poems:
Remorse..........Page Cooper
The Sorcerer to His Love..........Clark Ashton Smith



Weird Tales coverCanadian version released in November, 1945
 
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. WEIRD TALES
November, 1945 

Vol. 39, No. 2
Title Issue: MULti-WT0226
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith
Price: $0.15
Pages: 96
Cover: Lee Brown Coye

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. Novelettes:
Lost Elysium..........Edmond Hamilton
     There is a world congruent with Earth but existing on a different plane of vibration, a world of unearthly beauty--and horror!
The Murderous Steam Shovel..........Allison V. Harding
     A big steam shovel is stronger than any bull elephant, got a better memory and more killer in 'im!
The Mad Dancers..........Roger S. Vreeland
     ...Some were prone to delegate the new plague to one of the sub-sciences beneath the dignity of Medicine.

Short Stories:
The Cranberry Goblet..........Harold Lawlor
     There are all kinds of macabre secrets in this world--goblins and goblets!
The Fangs of Tsan-Lo..........Jim Kjelgaard
     The air was charged with hate and viciousness in its most primitive and elemental form.
The Mirror..........Charles King
     See, it was quite evident!  The mirror was actually defying him!
Mrs. Lannisfree..........August Derleth
     By and by you'll see a figure, white in the moonlight, walking relentlessly toward the sea.
Soul Proprietor..........Robert Bloch
     "One human soul, in reasonable condition,to highest bidder.... Owner must dispose of same at once!"

Poems:
Midnight Moon..........Stanton A. Coblentz

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

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