Kensington Publishing, with editor Lin Carter, revived the pulp in 1980.  To bring it out of the pulp stigma they turned to the paperback format.   Like Moskowitz before him, Carter only made it to four issues.  Unlike the second incarnation's problem with interest, the paperback project fell afoul of contractual problems over the title and ceased operation.  Title rights would plague potential publishers and editors for some time to come.

Novelettes:
Dreams in the House of Weir..........Lin Carter 
Healer..........Mary Elizabeth Counselman 
Scarlet Tears..........Robert E. Howard 
Someone Named Guibourg..........Hannes Bok 

Short Stories:
Bat's Belfry..........August Derleth 
Down There..........Ramsey Campbell 
The House Without Mirrors..........David H. Keller, M.D. 
The Light From the Pole..........Clark Ashton Smith and Lin Carter 
The Pit..........Carl Jacobi 
Some Day I'll Kill You!..........Seabury Quinn 
When the Clock Strikes..........Tanith Lee 

Essays/Articles:
Editorial (Weird Tales #1)..........Lin Carter 

Poems:
Annals of Arkya: 1. The Courier..........Robert A. W. Lowndes 
Annals of Arkya: 2. The Worshippers..........Robert A. W. Lowndes 
Red Thunder..........Robert E. Howard 

WEIRD TALES was the first and most famous of all the fantasy-fiction pulp magazines. It featured tales of the strange, the marvelous, and the supernatural by the finest authors of the macabre and the fantastic, old and new, from its first issue in 1923 until its 279th and last consecutive issue in 1954.
Now it is back, with all new stories-and even such an exciting find as Scarlet Tears, a recently discovered and never before published novelette by Robert E. Howard.
Over the years many great writers were published in the pages of WEIRD TALES, and now a great tradition is being continued into its second half-century.

Novelettes:
The Descent Into the Abyss..........Clark Ashton Smith  and
                                            Lin Carter 
Fear..........Joseph Payne Brennan 
The Lamashtu Amulet..........Mary Elizabeth Counselman 
The Night Ocean..........(H. P. Lovecraft and Robert H. Barlow) (as Robert H. Barlow) 
The Sapphire Siren [vt The Sapphire Goddess]..........Nictzin Dyalhis 
Something in the Moonlight..........Lin Carter 
Trick or Treat..........Ramsey Campbell 

Short Stories:
Boy Blue..........Steve Rasnic Tem 
The Feast in the Abbey..........Robert Bloch 
The Sombrus Tower..........Tanith Lee 
Valse Triste..........Ray Nelson (as R. Faraday Nelson)

Essays/Articles:
Introduction (Weird Tales #2)..........Lin Carter 

Poems:
Annals of Arkya: 3. Liberation..........Robert A. W. Lowndes 
Annals of Arkya: 4. The Guardian..........Robert A. W. Lowndes 
The Song of the Gallows Tree..........Robert E. Howard 

Novellas:
The Chinese Woman..........Evangeline Walton 
The House of the Temple..........Brian Lumley 

Novelettes:
The Black Garden..........Carl Jacobi 
The Opposite House..........John Brizzolara and Diane Brizzolara 
The Winfield Inheritance..........Lin Carter 

Short Stories:
The Guardian of the Idol..........Robert E. Howard and Gerald W. Page 
The Messenger..........Steve Rasnic Tem 
Nobody Ever Goes There..........Manly Wade Wellman 
The Red Brain..........Donald Wandrei 
The Summons of Nuguth-Yug..........Gary Myers and Marc Laidlaw 
The Wind That Tramps the World..........Frank Owen 

Essays/Articles:
The Eyrie..........Lin Carter 

Poems:
Annals of Arkya: 5. The Summons..........Robert A. W. Lowndes 
Annals of Arkya: 6. The Viola..........Robert A. W. Lowndes 
To the Nightshade..........Clark Ashton Smith

Novellas:
The City of Dread..........Lloyd Arthur Eshbach

Novelettes:
Crocuses..........Charles Sheffield
Homecoming..........Frank Belknap Long 
The Next Glade..........Robert Aickman 
Ooze..........Anthony M. Rud 

Short Stories:
The Belfry..........James Anderson 
Compliments of the Season..........John Brizzolara 
Late Night Final..........Stuart H. Stock 
Save the Children!..........Steve Rasnic Tem 
The Vengeance of Yig..........Lin Carter 

Essays/Articles:
The Eyrie..........Lin Carter 

Poems:
The Doom Chant of Than-Kul..........Robert E. Howard 
The Sea-Gods..........Clark Ashton Smith 
There Are No Ghosts in Catholic Spain..........Ray Bradbury