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. WEIRD TALES
January, 1951 

Vol. 43, No. 2
Title Issue: MULti-WT0257
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith
Price: $0.25
Pages: 96
Cover: Charles A. Kennedy

Weird Tales cover
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. Novelettes:
The Hand of Saint Ury..........Gordon MacCreagh

Short Stories:
The Fisherman at Crescent Beach..........Allan Masterson
The Old Gentleman with the Scarlet Umbrella..........Frank Owen
Professor Kate..........Margaret St. Clair
Scope..........Allison V. Harding
The Sixth Gargoyle..........David Eynon
Something from Out There..........August Derleth
The Unwanted..........Mary Elizabeth Counselman

Poems:
For a Sea Lover..........Dorothy Quick
My Timid Soul..........Page Cooper


Weird Tales pulp horror magazine no 9 Jan 1951, vg++, complete, clean - Counselman, St Clair, published in Britain by Thorpe & Porter Company


 

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. WEIRD TALES 
March, 1951 

Vol. 43, No. 3
Title Issue: MULti-WT0258
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith
Price: $0.25
Pages: 96
Cover: Bill Wayne

Weird Tales cover
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. Short Stories:
A Black Solitude..........H. Russell Wakefield
Dearest..........H. Beam Piper
Each Man Kills..........Victoria Glad
The Invaders..........Benjamin Ferris
The Mississippi Saucer..........Frank Belknap Long
Old Mr. Wiley..........Greye La Spina
The White Feather Hex..........Don Peterson

Poems:
Revenant..........Leah Bodine Drake
Weirditties of Science..........Hannes Bok



Weird Tales pulp horror magazine No 10 from 1951, Frank Belnap Long, Petaja, Piper, Le Spina, Wakefield, British edition published by Thorpe & Porter


 

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. WEIRD TALES
May, 1951 

Vol. 43, No. 4
Title Issue: MULti-WT0259
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith
Price: $0.25
Pages: 96
Cover: Lee Brown Coye

Weird Tales cover
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. Novelettes:
The Keeper of the Key..........August Derleth
Notebook Found in a Deserted House..........Robert Bloch

Short Stories:
The Bradley Vampire..........Roger M. Thomas
The Cuckoo Clock..........David Eynon
The Isle of the Sleeper..........Edmond Hamilton
The Last Grave of Lill Warran..........Manly Wade Wellman

Short Fiction::
These Doth the Lord Hate..........Manly Wade Wellman [as Gans T. Field]

Poems:
Star of Joy..........Robert Forrest
Swan-Maiden..........Leah Bodine Drake

Black & white illustrations by M.J. Baylor, Matt Fox,Lee Brown Coye, etc.
 

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. WEIRD TALES
July, 1951

Vol. 43, No. 5
Title Issue: MULti-WT0260
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith
Price: $0.25
Pages: 96
Cover: Charles A. Kennedy

Weird Tales cover
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Novellas:
The Skull of Barnaby Shattuck..........Merle Constiner
     Caught up in a maelstrom of tragedy and murder – could those be credentials for asking questions bound to be resented?

Short Stories:
Amok!..........Harold Lawlor
     Could one argue with a madman's dream?

Chinook..........Mary Elizabeth Counselman
      Urbane, sophisticated, he tried every way on earth to forget the family curse.

Flame Birds of Angala..........E. Everett Evans
       The queen would ascend her throne of honor, the gorgeous birds would circle - and then with every observence of taditionthe mighty bonfire would be laid.

A Knocking in the Wall..........August Derleth
     No one could be inside the wall, yet the knocking came from there... polite, diffident but determined.

The Little Red Owl..........Margaret St. Clair
      ... Had the Vulture Man really caught him and broken the bones in both his wings?

The Priceless Polescu..........David Eynon
     A legend of the Gypsies, has it that in a violin is imprisoned a soul, a sould that is let out when the violin is played.

Short Fiction::
Date in the City Room..........Talbot Johns (reprinted from the January 1939 issue)
     As the old friends walked out of the city room arm in arm, the clock said a quarter after twelve.

Poems:
The Haunted Ghost..........Clarence Edwin Flynn
Three Men..........Dorothy Quick

Articles:
The Eyrie
Weird Tales Club
Weirdisms.
.........Lee Brown Coye

Art by Charles Kennedy, Boris Dolgov, Vincent Napoli, Matt Fox, Joseph Eberle, and Lee Brown Coye.
 

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. WEIRD TALES
September, 1951

Vol. 43, No. 6
Title Issue: MULti-WT0261
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith
Price: $0.25
Pages: 96
Cover: Lee Brown Coye

Weird Tales cover
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. Novelettes:
Gimlet Eye Gunn..........H. Bedford-Jones
The Metamorphosis of Earth..........Clark Ashton Smith

Short Stories:
Camel Vengeance..........Garnett Radcliffe
Church in the Jungles..........Arthur J. Burks
Rapport..........Mary Elizabeth Counselman
The Ring of Bastet..........Seabury Quinn
A Square of Canvas..........Anthony M. Rud

Essays/Articles:
Weird Crossword..........Charles A. Kennedy

Poems:
Sleepers..........Dorothy Quick

Art by Lee Brown Coye, Fred Humiston and others.
 

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WEIRD TALES : SEPTEMBER 1951

BRITISH EDITION [NO.13], PRICE 1/6d

Gimlet Eye Gunn...................................................H.Bedford-Jones

The Metamorphosis of Earth...............................Clark Ashton Smith

Rapport................................................Mary Elizabeth Counselman

The Ring of Bastet....................................................Seabury Quinn

Camel Vengeance..................................................Garnett Radcliffe

Church in the Jungles................................................Arthur J.Burks

A Square of Canvas..............................................Anthony M.Rudd

Plus all the normal features such as The Eyrie,Verse and a Weird crossword puzzle.

British edition of Weird Tales,numbered 13 but the same cover,contents and page count as the U.S edition for September 1951.Quite a clean copy with some minor chipping to the front cover.Cover is very clean with some very minor creasing to the left hand side and the bottom couple of inches split from the spine.Spine is very clean and unfaded but with minor chipping to the bottom.Binding is tight with no loose pages but the edges have become somewhat browned.All the major adverts are British but the small ads at the back of the mag are the original U.S.ads.Striking cover by Lee Brown Coye.Cover overprinted with British price of 1/6d.

 
. WEIRD TALES
November, 1951

Vol. 44, No. 1
Title Issue: MULti-WT0262
Publisher: Weird Tales, New York, NY
Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith
Price: $0.25
Pages: 96
Cover: Frank Kelly Freas

Weird Tales cover
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. Novelettes:
Hideaway..........Everil Worrell
Pigeons from Hell..........Robert E. Howard

Short Stories:
The Bird..........Margaret St. Clair
The Brides of Baxter Creek..........C. J. Barr
Dagon..........H. P. Lovecraft
Fling the Dust Aside..........Seabury Quinn
Hector..........Michael West
Methought I Heard a Voice [vt When the Night Wind Howls]..........L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt
The Night They Crashed the Party..........Robert Bloch
Was It Murder?..........H. C. McNeile

Poems:
Hallowe'en Candle..........Yetza Gillespie
Unexpiated..........Harriet A. Bradfield
 

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