Weird Tales - 1947

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.	WEIRD TALES January, 1947 Vol. 39, No. 9 Title Issue: MULti-WT0233 Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith Price: $0.15 Pages: 96 Cover: A. R. Tilburne		.
.	Novelettes: The Hog..........William Hope Hodgson The dream is always the same - the sinister noise of pigs grunting in some labyrinth of hell The House Beyond Midnight..........Allison V. Harding Strange things cavort in the hours and dimensions beyond midnight and the grave! Shadow of Melas..........Roger S. Vreeland A person's normal existence can depend on something as wearing a yellow garnet Short Stories: Cellmate..........Theodore Sturgeon You ever see a dead man pulled out of a river? This guy looks a lot worse! The Extra Passenger..........August Derleth [as Stephen Grendon] (-) The Final Hour..........Chester S. Geier Must existence always end like a song broken off in mid-chorus? The Handler..........Ray Bradbury He came at night to the pale things recumbent under sheets in the dimness The King of Shadows..........Edmond Hamilton Some say the great rebel against the Gods, the lord of evil whose name is Erlik, is right here on earth There Was an Old Woman..........Charles King (-) Poems: The Familiars..........H. P. Lovecraft The Pigeon-Flyers..........H. P. Lovecraft The Seal-Woman's Daughter..........Leah Bodine Drake Canadian version of this issue appeared in March, 1947 (added stories): The Nameless City..........H. P. Lovecraft It lay silent and dead under the cold desert moon, but what strange race inhabited the abyss beneath those cyclopean ruins? Leonora..........Everil Worrel NOTE: The stories "The Extra Passenger" and "There Was an Old Woman" were omitted along with the verse "The Seal-Woman's Daughter"		.


.	WEIRD TALES March, 1947 Vol. 39, No. 10 Title Issue: MULti-WT0234 Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith Price: $0.15 Pages: 96 Cover: Boris Dolgov		.
.	Novelettes: Mr. George..........August Derleth [as Stephen Grendon] A child must be guarded in its tender years against those who follow false gods down dim paths to oblivion The Terror in Teakwood..........Harold Lawlor What was the macabre secret of the black casket, more precious than life, more dangerous than death? Venturer of the Martian Mimics [vt I, Spy!] [vt Spiro]..........Eric Frank Russell Our young sciences, like our imaginings, have limits but where facts end possibilities start - and they are truly endless Short Stories: Fluffy..........Theodore Sturgeon Don't make enemies with a cat. Why? Well, try it, and find out! Hoodooed..........Seabury Quinn When the time comes to fix the hoodoo there is no power in heaven or earth to avert it The Immortal Lancer..........Allison V. Harding There are places in this world and out of it that you have never dreamed of in your wildest nightmares! Sweets to the Sweet..........Robert Bloch She wanted a broomstick and a black cat; after all, don't witches have both? Verse: Continuity..........H. P. Lovecraft A Memory..........H. P. Lovecraft On a Weird Planet..........Stanton A. Coblentz Canadian verson of this issue appeared in May, 1947 (added story): Lizzie Borden Took an Axe..........Herbert Scanlon A locked room, mouldering books, muttered curses in a rotting hulk of a house - add up to tragedy NOTE: the issue also omitted the two Lovecraft poems		.


.	WEIRD TALES May, 1947 Vol. 39, No. 11 Title Issue: MULti-WT0235 Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith Price: $0.15 Pages: 96 Cover: Matt Fox		.
.	Novelettes: The Place with Many Windows..........Allison V. Harding Short Stories: The Black Madonna..........Harold Lawlor The Corbie Door..........Carl Jacobi The Lifted Veil..........Ray Cummings Loup-Garou..........Manly Banister Masked Ball..........Seabury Quinn Mistress Sary..........William Tenn The Trap..........Walter Harwood		.


.	WEIRD TALES July, 1947 Vol. 39, No. 11 Title Issue: MULti-WT0236 Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith Price: $0.15 Pages: 96 Cover: Lee Brown Coye		.
.	Novelettes: The Damp Man..........Allison V. Harding A relentless pursuit instituted by a a beyond-normal moster with a loathsome scheme hinted at only in nightmares The Will of Claude Ashur..........C. Hall Thompson A mind in league withthe powers of darkness, attuned to the whimperings of lost, forbidden rites can travel strange dark paths of evil Short Stories: The Breeze and I..........Mary Elizabeth Counselman Our learned scientists have barely stumbled upon an inkling of what the ancients knew The Churchyard Yew..........August Derleth [as Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu] After all a tree is just a tree - not a no-man's land between the dead and the living The Digging at Pistol Key..........Carl Jacobi Buried treasure, buried secrets, things that should forever remian buried but would not The Dog that Came Back..........Stanton A. Coblentz The living may die but do not rest with a purpose to carry out in life Parrington's Pool..........August Derleth [as Stephen Grendon] Only two came to this place, and then one, and then none - but that was only the beginning The Robe of Forgetfulness..........Roger S. Vreeland Each moment has an importance until relegated to its proper place in the past by the future Short Fiction:: Interim..........Ray Bradbury Life starts, and ends, in darkness with movement and the lack of movement, the beginning and the end. [For after all, are not the secrets of life and death inextricably woven together?] Verse: Resurrection..........Clark Ashton Smith Additional in the Canadian issue released September, 1947: Verse: Futility..........Marvin Miller The Devil's Tree..........Denis Plimmer Recompense..........Robert E. Howard Non-Fiction: Superstitions and Taboos..........[Irwin J.] Weill		.


.	WEIRD TALES September, 1947 Vol. 39, No. 12 Title Issue: MULti-WT0237 Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith Price: $0.20 Pages: 96 Cover: Boris Dolgov		.
.	Novelettes: The Damp Man Returns..........Allison V. Harding The mind must reflect certain possibilities as impossible - even when they are certainties Mrs. Pellington Assists..........Seabury Quinn There is always "another woman" in the case - but this was patrician, almost royal, mysterious as night-weiled Isis herself The Pale Criminal..........C. Hall Thompson A pale criminal is a poor criminal. The paleness may be because he is appalled or frightened by what he has done. Or it may be the paleness of death. Short Stories: Eena..........Manly Banister When the lake is tinged with blood, that is the time human must change to wolf The Girdle of Venus..........Harold Lawlor It was a narrow jeweled belt of gold mesh, heavily encrusted with sparkling gems, possessed by streng properties The House of Cards..........Malcolm M. Ferguson You must not profane the dignity of a medium by calling her back from the spirit world to get coffee or toast The Occupant of the Crypt..........August Derleth and Mark Schorer A determined man will do anything, even delve into a proposition that was preposterous as it was deadly Quest of the Gazolba..........Clark Ashton Smith Strenge things come of that realm where dawn the sunset meet Verse: The Others Said..........Katherine Simons The Stranger..........Leah Bodine Drake Non-Fiction: The Eyrie This Canadian version released in November, 1947 seems to be almost exact to the U.S. version. Note: note that the U.S. version has gone up to $.20 and the Canadian version has not had to cover the cost with a patch.		.


.	WEIRD TALES November, 1947 Vol. 40, No. 1 Title Issue: MULti-WT0238 Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith Price: $0.20 Pages: 96 Cover: Matt Fox		.
.	Novelettes: The Cheaters..........Robert Bloch Clair De Lune..........Seabury Quinn Short Stories: Castaway..........A. Bertram Chandler [as George Whitley] The Ghost Walk..........August Derleth [as Stephen Grendon] The Inn by Doomsday Falls..........Allison V. Harding The Last Adam and Eve..........Bert David Ross The Lens..........Mary Elizabeth Counselman Portrait in Moonlight..........Carl Jacobi Poems: Atlantis..........Stanton A. Coblentz The Steps in the Field..........Leah Bodine Drake		.

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