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Weird Tales [v45 #5, November 1953] (35¢, 128pp+, digest)

2 · Way Station · Mary Elizabeth Counselman · nv
24 · The Legs That Walked · Justin Dowling · ss
31 · The Red Balloon · Q. Patrick · ss
41 · Suspicion · Harriet A. Bradfield · pm
43 · The Man Upstairs · Harry W. Currier · ss
59 · The Black Stone [Cthulhu] · Robert E. Howard · nv Weird Tales Nov 1931
75 · The Crying Child · Dorothea Gibbons · ss
83 · Demon Lover · Dorothy Quick · pm
84 · Thing of Darkness · G. G. Pendarves · nv Weird Tales Aug 1937
117 · The Disc Recorder · August Derleth · ss
[letter] · Henry D. Barnett · lt
[letter] · Edward W. Hartung · lt
[letter] · Tommy Inge · lt
[letter] · M. McNeil · lt
[letter] · Charles D. Minogue · lt
[letter] · Joseph V. Wilcox · lt

Weird Tales [v45 #6, January 1954] (35¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by W. H. Silvey)

2 · Mop-Head · Leah Bodine Drake · nv
17 · Effie’s Pets · Suzanne Pickett · ss
26 · Black Heath · Farfal Delano · ss
39 · A Very Special Quality · David Lewis Eynon · ss
43 · Walpurgis Night · Dorothy Quick · pm
44 · Tiger Dust · Bassett Morgan · nv Weird Tales Apr 1933
65 · You Should Be Careful · Garnett Radcliffe · ss
70 · Atlantic Isle of Mystery · Dr. Cyrus Macmillan · ar
79 · Shadows of Blood · Eando Binder (by Earl Binder & Otto O. Binder) · ss Weird Tales Apr 1935
97 · The Calamander Chest · Joseph Payne Brennan · ss
105 · Reflections of an Egyptian Princess While Being Interred · Edith Ogutsch · pm
106 · The Stormcliff Papers · W. J. Suprenant · nv
[letter] · N. L. Davis · lt
[letter] · E. C. Lambert · lt
[letter] · Paul Mittelbuscher · lt
[letter] · Suzanne Pickett · lt

Weird Tales [v46 #1, March 1954] (35¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by Evan Singer)

2 · Call Not Their Names · Everil Worrell · nv
40 · The Arm · Justin Dowling · ss
47 · The Lily Maid · Dorothea Gibbons · ss
57 · Morpho on the Screen · Arthur J. Burks · ss
66 · Nepthae · Suzanne Pickett · ss
76 · The Ghost That Never Died · Elizabeth Sheldon · ss Weird Tales Nov 1931
87 · Witch’s Brew · Dorothy Quick · pm
89 · Brenda · Margaret St. Clair · ss
100 · Make Me a Child Again · David Lewis Eynon · ss
107 · Out! · Leah Bodine Drake · pm
108 · The Grave at Goonhilly · G. G. Pendarves · nv Weird Tales Oct 1930
[letter] · Justin Dowling · lt
[letter] · Mrs. T. W. Lancaster · lt
[letter] · Everil Worrell · lt

Weird Tales [v46 #2, May 1954] (35¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by W. H. Silvey)

2 · Song in the Thicket · Manly Banister · nv
38 · The Predestined · Q. Patrick · ss Britannia and Eve Aug 1953
49 · Lord of the Talking Hands · Arthur Woodward · ss Weird Tales Dec 1931, as “Lord of the Talking Heads”
60 · Prediction · Curtis W. Casewit · nv
84 · The Place in the Woods · August Derleth · ss
94 · The Return of Simon Carib · Frederick Sanders · ss
102 · Witch Woman · Dorothy Quick · pm
104 · The Banshee and Patrick O’Bannon · Joe Bishop · ss
114 · Beyond the Door · J. Paul Suter · ss Weird Tales Apr 1923
[letter] · Henry D. Barnett · lt
[letter] · Glassman · lt

Weird Tales [v46 #3, July 1954] (35¢, 128pp+, digest)

2 · The Survivor · H. P. Lovecraft & August Derleth · nv; written by Derleth from a fragment by Lovecraft.
22 · More Than Shadow · Dorothy Quick · ss
33 · Never Stop to Pat a Kitten · Miriam Allen deFord · ss
39 · Western Highway · Clarence Edwin Flynn · pm; given as by Clarence Edward Flynn.
40 · The Sin-Eater · G. G. Pendarves · nv Weird Tales Dec 1938
77 · Beware, of Vampire Women · Patricia Burgess · pm
78 · The Green Huntsman · Dorothea Gibbons · ss
86 · The Tree of Life · Paul Ernst · ss Weird Tales Sep 1930
92 · Guardian · W. J. Suprenant · ss
101 · Passing of a God [Gerald Canevin] · Henry S. Whitehead · ss Weird Tales Jan 1931
119 · Off the Map · Rex Dolphin · ss
[letter] · Sinclair James · lt
[letter] · M. McNeil · lt
[letter] · Ned Reece · lt

Weird Tales [v46 #4, September 1954] (35¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by Virgil Finlay)

2 · Spawn of Darkness · Kirk Shaw · nv
21 · Dorgen · Suzanne Pickett · ss
31 · Moon Mist · Virgil Finlay · pm
32 · A Tomb in Malacor · Felix Marti-Ibanez · nv
53 · The Dark Man [Turlogh O’Brien] · Robert E. Howard · nv Weird Tales Dec 1931
77 · The Imitation Demon · Robert Kuttner · ss
86 · De Brignac’s Lady · Kirk Mashburn · na Weird Tales Feb 1933
127 · This Night · Dorothy Quick · pm
[letter] · Arthur Cameron · lt

Weird Tales [v47 #1, Summer 1973] (75¢, 96pp+, trimmed pulp, cover by Virgil Finlay)

ifc. · Fifty Years Young · Sam Moskowitz · ed
2 · The Watchers · Ray Bradbury · ss Weird Tales May 1945
9 · Perdita · Hildegarde Hawthorne · vi Harper’s New Monthly Magazine Mar 1897
12 · Spear and Fang · Robert E. Howard · ss Weird Tales Jul 1925
17 · Funeral in the Fog [Simon Ark] · Edward D. Hoch · ss
25 · The Guest of Honour · Frank Norris · ss Pilgrim Magazine Jul 1902
32 · The Sign of Venus · Robert W. Chambers · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine Dec 1903
38 · William Hope Hodgson—The Early Years · Sam Moskowitz · ar [William Hope Hodgson]
50 · The Woman in Red [The Woman in Red] · Muriel Campbell Dyar · ss The Black Cat Nov 1899
54 · Unmasked [The Woman in Red] · Muriel Campbell Dyar · ss The Black Cat Mar 1900
58 · The Serpent City · Edison Marshall · ss The Blue Book Magazine Nov 1919
66 · A Tropical Horror · William Hope Hodgson · ss The Grand Magazine Jun 1905
71 · Sylvane—The Silver Birches · A. Merritt · pm Nepenthe v1 #1 1940
72 · The Man with the Brown Beard · Nathaniel P. Babcock · ss Munsey’s Magazine Jan 1892; given as by Nathaniel T. Babcock.
80 · The Black Hands · Albert Bigelow Paine · ss Pearson’s Magazine (US) Aug 1903
89 · The Medici Boots · Pearl Norton Swet · ss Weird Tales Aug/Sep 1936
96 · The Canal · H. P. Lovecraft · pm Driftwind Mar 1932

Weird Tales [v47 #2, Fall 1973] (75¢, 96pp+, trimmed pulp, cover by Gary van der Steur)

ifc. · Reaching Our Audience · Sam Moskowitz · ed
2 · Eloi Eloi Lama Sabachthani · William Hope Hodgson · ss Nash’s Illustrated Weekly Sep 20 1919, as “The Baumoff Explosive”
12 · Atlantis · Stanton A. Coblentz · pm Weird Tales Nov 1947
13 · The Clash of Dishes · Ian Maclaren · ss The Windsor Magazine Dec 1902
18 · Eternal Rediffusion · Eric Frank Russell & Leslie J. Johnson · ss Harbottle Fantasy Booklet #3 1973
23 · Sword in the Snow [Malkar] · E. C. Tubb · nv Harbottle Fantasy Booklet #2 1973
31 · Funeral in Another Town · Jerry Jacobson · ss
42 · The Man in the Bottle · Gustav Meyrink · ss Library of the World’s Best Mystery and Detective Stories: German: Russian: Scandinavian, ed. Julian Hawthorne, The Review of Reviews 1907; translated from the German (“Der Mann auf der Flasche”).
46 · The Smiling People · Ray Bradbury · ss Weird Tales May 1946
52 · Supernatural Horror in Literature · H. P. Lovecraft · ar The Fantasy Fan Oct 1933 (+16); condensed.; revised from its original appearance in The Recluse, 1927.
57 · The Man on the Ground · Robert E. Howard · ss Weird Tales Jul 1933
61 · Song for Wood Horns · A. Merritt · pm The Smart Set Mar 1910, as “The Wind Trail”
62 · William Hope Hodgson—Novelist · Sam Moskowitz · ar [William Hope Hodgson]
74 · Virgil Finlay (A folio) · Virgil Finlay · pi
76 · The Utmost Abomination · Clark Ashton Smith & Lin Carter · ss
83 · The Buried Paradise · Felix Marti-Ibanez · ss
91 · The Fate of the “Senegambian Queen” · Wardon Allan Curtis · ss The Black Cat Nov 1900
93 · Great Ashtoreth · Frank Belknap Long · pm Weird Tales Nov 1930

Weird Tales [v47 #3, Winter 1973] (75¢, 96pp+, trimmed pulp, cover by Bill Edwards)

ifc. · In the Beginning... · Sam Moskowitz · ed
2 · The Balloon Tree · Edward Page Mitchell · ss The Sun Feb 25 1883; given as by Albert Page Mitchell.
7 · Sea Curse [Faring Town] · Robert E. Howard · ss Weird Tales May 1928
11 · The Terror of the Water-Tank · William Hope Hodgson · ss The Blue Book Magazine Sep 1907
19 · Chicken Soup · Katherine MacLean & Mary Kornbluth · ss
23 · The Figure with the Scythe · August W. Derleth & Mark Schorer · ss The Tryout Jan 1927
25 · The House · H. P. Lovecraft · pm National Enquirer Dec 11 1919
26 · How We Found Circe · A. Merritt · ar The Story Behind the Story, A. Merritt 1942
29 · The Cats of Rome · Miriam Allen deFord · ss
32 · Ghostly Hands · Miriam Allen deFord · vi Westminster Magazine 1924, as “The Neatness of Ann Rutledge”
34 · Time · Olaf Stapledon · pm Latter-Day Psalms, Henry Young 1914
35 · William Hope Hodgson—The Final Years · Sam Moskowitz · ar [William Hope Hodgson]
49 · The Double Tower · Clark Ashton Smith & Lin Carter · ss
53 · The Mysterious Card [Mysterious Card] · Cleveland Moffett · ss The Black Cat Feb 1896
58 · The Mysterious Card Unveiled [Mysterious Card] · Cleveland Moffett · ss The Black Cat Aug 1896
68 · The Splendid Apparition [Bronx Park Zoological Society; Gilland the Zoologist] · Robert W. Chambers · nv The Saturday Evening Post Oct 28 1899, as “The Spirit of the North”
84 · The Dramatic in My Destiny · Emma Frances Dawson · nv The Californian Jan 1880
92 · Challenge · Virgil Finlay · pm

Weird Tales [v47 #4, Summer 1974] (75¢, 96pp+, trimmed pulp)

ifc. · He Was the Legend, Too! · Sam Moskowitz · ed
2 · The Music Lover · Carl Jacobi · ss
8 · August · H. P. Lovecraft · pm The Tryout Aug 1918
9 · Generation Gap · Leo P. Kelley · ss
15 · Lethal Labels · Ray Russell · vi
17 · Long Watch · Dorothy Quick · pm Weird Tales Jul 1946
18 · The Finding of the Graiken [Sargasso Sea] · William Hope Hodgson · nv The Red Magazine Feb 15 1913
30 · Monsieur De Guise · Perley Poore Sheehan · ss The Scrap Book Jan 1911
34 · The Lost Elixir · George Griffith · ss The Pall Mall Magazine Oct 1903
44 · In the Cathedral · A. Merritt · pm
46 · The Chain of Aforgomon · Clark Ashton Smith · nv Weird Tales Dec 1935
56 · The Haunted Burglar · W. C. Morrow · ss Lippincott’s Magazine Jul 1897
59 · A Man from Genoa · Frank Belknap Long · pm A Man from Genoa and Other Poems, W. Paul Cook 1926
60 · The Dead Smile · F. Marion Crawford · ss Ainslee’s Magazine Aug 1899
72 · Timmy · Susan C. Lette · ss
75 · The Devilish Rat · Edward Page Mitchell · ss The Sun Jan 27 1878; given as by Albert Page Mitchell.
80 · The Son of the Wild Thing · Edison Marshall · ss The Blue Book Magazine Oct 1919

Weird Tales (anthology)
For a short period from 1981 to 1983, Weird Tales continued as an original anthology edited by Lin Carter, rather than as a magazine.

Weird Tales #1 ed. Lin Carter (Zebra, $2.50, 268pp, pb, cover by Tom Barber)
Given as “v48 #1, Spring 1981” in the Table of Contents.

5 · Editorial · Lin Carter · ed
9 · Scarlet Tears · Robert E. Howard · nv
47 · Down There · Ramsey Campbell · ss
65 · The Light from the Pole · Clark Ashton Smith & Lin Carter · ss
86 · Someone Named Guibourg · Hannes Bok · nv
116 · Annals of Arkya 1. The Courier · Robert A. W. Lowndes · pm Annals of Arkya, The Phantagraph Press 1944
116 · Annals of Arkya 2. The Worshippers · Robert A. W. Lowndes · pm Annals of Arkya, The Phantagraph Press 1944
117 · Bat’s Belfry · August W. Derleth · ss Weird Tales May 1926
130 · The Pit · Carl Jacobi · ss
149 · When the Clock Strikes · Tanith Lee · ss
174 · Red Thunder · Robert E. Howard · pm JAPM: The Poetry Weekly Sep 16 1929
175 · Some Day I’ll Kill You! · Seabury Quinn · ss Strange Stories Feb 1941
194 · Healer · Mary Elizabeth Counselman · nv
219 · The House Without Mirrors · David H. Keller, M.D. · ss
230 · Dreams in the House of Weir · Lin Carter · nv
[letter] · Ray Bradbury · lt
[letter] · Robert Bloch · lt
[letter] · Theodore Sturgeon · lt
[letter] · Sam Moskowitz · lt

Weird Tales #2 ed. Lin Carter (Zebra, $2.50, 265pp, pb, cover by Tom Barber)
Given as “v48 #2, Spring 1981” in the Table of Contents.

7 · Introduction · Lin Carter · in
9 · The Night Ocean · H. P. Lovecraft & Robert H. Barlow · nv The Californian Win 1936, as by Robert H. Barlow
43 · Boy Blue · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss
59 · Fear [Lucius Leffing] · Joseph Payne Brennan · nv
86 · Valse Triste · R. Faraday Nelson · ss
103 · The Song of the Gallows Tree · Robert E. Howard · pm
104 · The Feast in the Abbey · Robert Bloch · ss Weird Tales Jan 1935
114 · The Lamashtu Amulet · Mary Elizabeth Counselman · nv
139 · Something in the Moonlight · Lin Carter · nv
160 · Trick or Treat · Ramsey Campbell · nv
183 · Annals of Arkya 3. Liberation · Robert A. W. Lowndes · pm Annals of Arkya, The Phantagraph Press 1944
183 · Annals of Arkya 4. The Guardian · Robert A. W. Lowndes · pm Annals of Arkya, The Phantagraph Press 1944
184 · The Descent Into the Abyss · Clark Ashton Smith & Lin Carter · nv
198 · The Sapphire Siren · Nictzin Dyalhis · nv Weird Tales Feb 1934, as “The Sapphire Goddess”
243 · The Sombrus Tower · Tanith Lee · ss

Weird Tales #3 ed. Lin Carter (Zebra, $2.50, 318pp, pb, cover by Tom Barber)
Given as “v48 #3, Fall 1981” in the Table of Contents.

1 · The Eyrie · Lin Carter · in
_ · [letter] · Robert A. W. Lowndes · lt
_ · [letter] · David Mallory · lt
7 · The Chinese Woman · Evangeline Walton · na
78 · The Messenger · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss
83 · To the Nightshade · Clark Ashton Smith · pm The Palace of Jewels, Roy A. Squires 1970
84 · The Opposite House · John & Diane Brizzolara · nv
124 · The Guardian of the Idol [James Allison] · Robert E. Howard & Gerald W. Page · ss; completed by Gerald W. Page from a fragment and synopsis by Howard
139 · The Black Garden · Carl Jacobi · nv
164 · The House of the Temple [Cthulhu] · Brian Lumley · na Kadath Nov 1980
217 · The Red Brain · Donald Wandrei · ss Weird Tales Oct 1927
230 · Annals of Arkya 5. The Summons · Robert A. W. Lowndes · pm Annals of Arkya, The Phantagraph Press 1944
231 · Annals of Arkya 6. The Viola · Robert A. W. Lowndes · pm Annals of Arkya, The Phantagraph Press 1944
232 · Nobody Ever Goes There [Silver John] · Manly Wade Wellman · ss
249 · The Summons of Nuguth-Yug · Gary Myers & Marc Laidlaw · ss
257 · The Wind That Tramps the World [John Steppling] · Frank Owen · ss Weird Tales Apr 1925
275 · The Winfield Inheritance · Lin Carter · nv

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