Weird Tales - 1950

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.	WEIRD TALES January, 1950 Vol. 42, No. 2 Title Issue: MULti-WT0251 Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith Price: $0.25 Pages: 96 Cover: Matt Fox		.
.	Novelettes: Black Harvest of Moraine..........Arthur J. Burks When the Ice Age retreated, who could know the forces it left bheind to plague and outwit men of the scientific age? Short Stories: The Cactus..........Mildred Johnson The police rout something from another universe, another stratum of existence; the law commanded the supernatural? Dark Rosaleen..........Seabury Quinn Was he flesh and blood--an artist's concrete conception of something abstract, tenuous, allegorical? The Family..........Margaret St. Clair ...flooded by an emotion, even more poignant because he could not be sure if it were anguish or bliss. In That Same Moment..........Manly Wade Wellman Conquered time is your doormat, your toy, your pocket piece... The Last Train..........Fredric Brown There comes a time in every man's life when he decides to break with the past-how complete the break depends on the man and the state of the world! The Mask of Don Alfredo..........Mal Bissell Of the husband and wife, one had died fifty years ago, one only last night. But which...? The Mysterious Miss Maltra..........Stanton A. Coblentz Auction sales fascinate a lot of folks; who can resist the "Going, Going, gone!"--even to death? The Ormolu Clock..........August Derleth Hatcher felt nothing in his past could account for the mystery; but could a clock have a past? Outside of Time..........Carroll John Daly Let it be said everlastingly that the "impossible" of today may well be the commonplace of tomorrow. The Smiling Face..........Mary Elizabeth Counselman The deep Brazilian jungle had swallowed up the woman he loved and the man he hated-the crippled explorer could only wait. The Urbanite..........Ewen Whyte The terrible, meaningless scream and cry of the City, its endless vibrations, at last have brought forth upon itself this ultimate inevitable product of itself. Poems: Sea King's Daughter..........Dorothy Quick The Vision..........Leah Bodine Drake		.


.	WEIRD TALES March, 1950 Vol. 42, No. 3 Title Issue: MULti-WT0252 Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith Price: $0.25 Pages: 96 Cover: Lee Brown Coye		.
.	Novelettes: Home to Mother..........Manly Wade Wellman Whatever was to live through man-made catastrophe on earth would be bound to be delivered into the sort of monster that alone could survive--horror piled on horror. Short Stories: The Corn Dance..........Margaret St. Clair To see the Corn Dance--and talk about it afterwards--that was an experience few terrestrilas could have. Dead Man's Shoes..........Day Keene He had never killed anyone, blasphemed, nor stolen and what had it got him? A sentence of death at forty. The Hungry Ghost..........Emil Petaja "He's come back, Doctor! He won't let me eat because I starved him to death!" The Shadow of Saturn..........E. Hoffmann Price Wish is a firecracker, will is an A-bomb. Wishing is an emotional muddle; willing is pure force. Stay with Me..........Shelby Steger It was a comforting assurance that one need not be afraid either of living or dying. Take the Z-Train..........Allison V. Harding At the end of a hot monotonous day at work do you dare long for something truly different? The Tree's Wife..........Mary Elizabeth Counselman Her young husband shot, her Paw in a hospital, how could she do anything else but marry a tree? Two Face..........Frank Belknap Long Until now we have been free to speculate on the planetary mysteries of the universe, but on some great tomorrow these mysteries shall be known-for better or worse. Poems: Do You Forget, Enchantress?..........Clark Ashton Smith		.


.	WEIRD TALES May, 1950 Vol. 42, No. 4 Title Issue: MULti-WT0253 Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith Price: $0.25 Pages: 96 Cover: Boris Dolgov		.
.	Novelettes: Tell Your Fortune..........Robert Bloch Short Stories: At the End of the Corridor..........Evangeline Walton Djinn and Bitters..........Harold Lawlor The Last Man..........Seabury Quinn The Last Three Ships..........Margaret St. Clair The Man on B-17..........August Derleth [as Stephen Grendon] The Monkey Spoons..........Mary Elizabeth Counselman Mr. Hyde - and Seek..........Malcolm M. Ferguson The Round Tower..........Stanton A. Coblentz The Triangle of Terror..........William F. Temple Poems: Luna Aeternalis..........Clark Ashton Smith		.
	WEIRD TALES : MAY 1950 BRITISH EDITION : PRICE 1/- Tell your fortune.........................................................Robert Bloch Djinn and Bitters.......................................................Harold Lawlor The Round Tower..............................................Stanton A.Coblentz TheLast Man............................................................Seabury Quinn The Triangle of Terror..........................................William F.Temple The Monkey Spoons..............................Mary Elizabeth Counselman The Last Three Ships.............................................Margaret St.Clair At the end of the Corridor....................................Evangeline Walton The Man on B-17........................Stephen Grendon [August Derleth] Mr. Hyde - and seek........................................Malcolm M.Ferguson Luna Aeternalis [verse].......................................Clark Ashton Smith British issues of Weird Tales generally only differed in minor detail from the U.S editions. British edition published by Thorpe & Porter. One bonus was that although it didn't quite "feel" the same as it was not printed in the U.S,the quality of the paper was far superior and now half a century on this is beginning to show.Many of the U.S. copies are now badly browned and sometimes very brittle whilst the British copies are still much more supple and white.This issue only differs with the rear cover and inner cover adverts so you can still get the pleasure of reading the original U.S.adverts for Drunkenness,Rupture,Asthma,Giving up smoking,Leg Sores,Piles & Colon troubles,Rheumatism plus mail order Tombstones.If you still had time to spare after treating this lot you could join the Rosicrucians and take a High School Course at home.Just what sort of person read Weird Tales is a bit scary!.The condition of this copy is very good.Covers are very clean with no damage apart from a little creasing along the spine.Spine is complete and unfaded with just a little chipping at the extremeties.The striking cover illustration is by Boris Dolgov,another popular illustrator of the period.Cover and contents same as U.S.issue except that the cover is overprinted with British price.All pages are clean with very minor browning to the edges and the binding is nice and tight.Don't be too dismissive of the British issues as they are quite hard to find in this condition and are very much easier to read than the often fragile U.S.copies.


.	WEIRD TALES July, 1950 Vol. 42, No. 5 Title Issue: MULti-WT0254 Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith Price: $0.25 Pages: 96 Cover: Matt Fox		.
.	Novelettes: Shallajai..........Arthur J. Burks The Weird Tailor..........Robert Bloch Short Stories: The Closing Door..........August Derleth Cordona's Skull..........Mary Elizabeth Counselman Fly Down Death..........Cleve Cartmill Mrs. Hawk..........Margaret St. Clair Rebels' Rest..........Seabury Quinn The Rhythm of the Rats..........Eric Frank Russell Woe Water..........H. Russell Wakefield Poems: The City..........H. P. Lovecraft [as Ward Phillips] Pattern..........Dorothy Quick Cover illustrated by Matt Fox. Black & white illustrations by Matt Fox, Vincent Napoli, Fred Humiston, Charles A. Kennedy, etc.. British edition published by Thorpe & Porter		.


.	WEIRD TALES September, 1950 Vol. 42, No. 6 Title Issue: MULti-WT0255 Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith Price: $0.25 Pages: 96 Cover: Bill Wayne		.
.	Novelettes: Legal Rites..........Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl [as James MacCreigh] The Shadow from the Steeple..........Robert Bloch Short Stories: The Insistent Ghost..........Emil Petaja The Mirror..........Mildred Johnson The Pineys..........Manly Wade Wellman Potts' Triumph..........August Derleth The Spanish Camera..........Carl Jacobi The Three Pools and the Painted Moon..........Frank Owen Unknown Lady..........Harold Lawlor Poems: Incantation..........Page Cooper Articles and Features: The Eyrie The Weird Tales Club Cover story by Isaac Asimov and James MacCreagh [Frederik Pohl]. This was Asimov's only appearance in Weird Tales and interestingly the cover illustrator, Bill Wayne has put Asimov on the cover sitting opposite the ghost. At this late stage in it's life Weird Tales must have found it increasingly hard to attract authors of Isaac Asimov's stature and one wonders if the ever modest Mr.Asimov might not have requested this. Probably the only instance of a contributor enjoying this honour in Weird Tales.		.


.	WEIRD TALES November, 1950 Vol. 43, No. 1 Title Issue: MULti-WT0256 Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith Price: $0.25 Pages: 96 Cover: Frank Kelly Freas		.
.	Novelettes: The Dead Man..........Fritz Leiber Short Stories: Blue Peter..........Murray Sanford The Body-Snatchers..........Seabury Quinn Grotesquerie..........Harold Lawlor The Invisible Reweaver..........Margaret St. Clair Something Old..........Mary Elizabeth Counselman They Worked the Oracle..........H. S. W. Chibbett The Third Shadow..........H. Russell Wakefield Poems: The Haunted..........Stanton A. Coblentz		.

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