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Monday, January 2, 2023

The Complete Weird Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft (PDF)

 
The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (PDF)

The Complete Weird Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft (PDF)

 

 In the 1920s and '30s, H.P. Lovecraft pioneered a new type of weird fiction that fused elements of supernatural horror with the concepts of visionary science fiction. Lovecraft's tales of cosmic horror revolutionized modern horror fiction and earned him the reputation of the most influential American writer of weird tales since Edgar Allan Poe.

Table of Contents 

 
Preface ..... 2 
The Tomb ..... 5 
Dagon ..... 12 
Polaris ..... 16 
Memory ..... 26 
Old Bugs ..... 27 
The White Ship ....... 37 
The Tree ..... 51 
The Temple ..... 56 
The Street ....... 70 
Celephaïs ....... 74 
From Beyond ..... 78 
Nyarlathotep ..... 83 
Ex Oblivione ..... 90 
The Quest of Iranon ...... 100 
The Moon-Bog ...... 104 
The Outsider ..... 109 
The Other Gods ..... 113 
Hypnos ..... 139 
Azathoth ....... 146 
The Hound ..... 147 
The Lurking Fear ..... 152 
The Unnamable ..... 177 
The Festival ..... 182 
The Shunned House ..... 188 
He ..... 217 
In the Vault .... 224 
The Descendant ..... 229 
Cool Air ..... 232 
The Call of Cthulhu ....... 238 
Pickman's Model ..... 256 
The Silver Key ...... 264 
The Very Old Folk ..... 431 
Ibid ..... 439 
The Dunwich Horror ..... 442 
The Evil Clergyman ...... 651 
The Book ...... 654 


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 About the Author

H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft was born in 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island, where he lived most of his life. He wrote many essays and poems early in his career, but gradually focused on the writing of horror stories, after the advent in 1923 of the pulp magazine Weird Tales, to which he contributed most of his fiction. His relatively small corpus of fiction--three short novels and about sixty short stories--has nevertheless exercised a wide influence on subsequent work in the field, and he is regarded as the leading twentieth-century American author of supernatural fiction. H. P. Lovecraft died in Providence in 1937.

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Sunday, January 1, 2023

Various Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 4, June, 1923: The Unique Magazine by Various, Complete Magazine

 

Various Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 4, June, 1923: The Unique Magazine by Various, Complete Magazine

 

Various Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 4, June, 1923: The Unique Magazine by Various, Complete Magazine

 

Contents for June, 1923
Sixteen Thrilling Short Stories
Two Complete Novelettes
Two Two-Part Stories
Interesting, Odd and Weird Happenings



THE EVENING WOLVES    PAUL ELLSWORTH TRIEM    5
An Exciting Tale of Weird Events   
DESERT MADNESS    HAROLD FREEMAN MINERS    19
A Fanciful Novel of the Red Desert   
THE JAILER OF SOULS    HAMILTON CRAIGIE    32
A Powerful Novel of Sinister Madmen that Mounts to an Astounding Climax   
JACK O’ MYSTERY    EDWIN MacLAREN    49
A Modern Ghost Story   
OSIRIS    ADAM HULL SHIRK    55
A Weird Tale of an Egyptian Mummy   
THE WELL    JULIAN KILMAN    57
A Short Story   
THE PHANTOM WOLFHOUND    ADELBERT KLINE    60
A Spooky Yarn by the Author of “The Thing of a Thousand Shapes”   
THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE    EDGAR ALLAN POE    64
A Masterpiece of Weird Fiction   
THE MOON TERROR    A. G. BIRCH    72
Final Thrilling Installment of the Mysterious Chinese Moon Worshipers   
THE MAN THE LAW FORGOT    WALTER NOBLE BURNS    81
A Remarkable Story of the Dead Returned to Life   
THE BLADE OF VENGEANCE    GEORGE WARBURTON LEWIS    86
A Powerful, Gripping Story Well Told   
THE GRAY DEATH    LOUAL B. SUGARMAN    91
Horrifying and Incredible Tale of the Amazon Valley   
THE VOICE IN THE FOG    HENRY LEVERAGE    95
Another Thriller by the Author of “Whispering Wires”   
THE INVISIBLE TERROR    HUGH THOMASON    100
An Uncanny Tale of the Jungle   
THE ESCAPE    HELEN ROWE HENZE    103
A Short Story   
THE SIREN    TARLETON COLLIER    105
A Storiette That Is “Different”   
THE MADMAN    HERBERT HIPWELL    107
A Night of Horror in the Mortuary   
THE CHAIR    DR. HARRY E. MERENESS    109
An Electrocution Vividly Described by an Eyewitness   
THE CAULDRON    PRESTON LANGLEY HICKEY    111
True Adventures of Terror   
THE EYRIE    BY THE EDITOR    113

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Saturday, December 31, 2022

Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 3, May, 1923: The Unique Magazine by Various, Complete Magazine

 

 

Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 3, May, 1923: The Unique Magazine by Various, Complete Magazine

 

Contents for May, 1923

Nineteen Thrilling Short Stories

Two Complete Novelettes

Two Two-Part Stories

Interesting, Odd and Weird Happenings


THE MOON TERROR    A. G. BIRCH    5
A Remarkable Novel   
THE SECRET FEAR    BY KENNETH DUANE WHIPPLE    22
A “Creepy” Detective Story   
JUNGLE BEASTS    WILLIAM P. BARRON    23
A Complete Novelette   
THE GOLDEN CAVERNS    JULIAN KILMAN    30
A Condensed Novel   
VIALS OF INSECTS    PAUL ELLSWORTH TRIEM    39
Short Story   
AN EYE FOR AN EYE    G. W. CRANE    49
Short Story   
THE FLOOR ABOVE    M. HUMPHREYS    52
A Short Story with a Horrifying Climax   
PENELOPE    VINCENT STARRETT    57
A Fantastic Tale   
THE PURPLE HEART    HERMAN SISK    61
The Story of a Haunted Cabin   
FELINE    BRUCE GRANT    62
A Whimsical Storiette   
TWO HOURS OF DEATH    E. THAYLES EMMONS    64
A Ghost Story   
MIDNIGHT BLACK    HAMILTON CRAIGIE    67
Short Story   
THE HAUNTED AND THE HAUNTERS    BULWER LYTTON    70
An Old Masterpiece   
THE WHISPERING THING    LAURIE McCLINTOCK AND CULPEPER CHUNN    78
The Conclusion of a Frightful Mystery Novel   
THE DEATH CELL    F. K. MOSS    85
A Weird Short Story   
THE DEVIL PLANT    LYLE WILSON HOLDEN    89
A Story of Ghastly Retribution   
THE THUNDER VOICE    F. WALTER WILSON    92
The Story of a Hairy Monster   
CASE NO. 27    MOLLIE FRANK ELLIS    96
A Few Minutes in a Madhouse   
THE FINALE    WILLIAM MERRIT    99
A Short Story   
THE CLOSED CABINET        101
A Story of the Eighteenth Century   
THE EYRIE    BY THE EDITOR    113

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Friday, December 30, 2022

Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 1, March 1923: The Unique Magazine by Various, Complete Magazine

Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 1, March 1923: The Unique Magazine by Various, Complete Magazine

 

Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 1, March 1923: The Unique Magazine by Various, Complete Magazine

 

Weird Tales Volume 1 Number 1
The Strange Magazine
March 1923
[Transcriber's Note: The original magazine's advertisements for future stories have been preserved.]

Contents for March, 1923
Twenty-Two Remarkable Short Stories


“The Mystery of Black Jean”    Julian Kilman
A story of blood-curdling realism, with a smashing surprise at the end.
“The Grave”    Orville R. Emerson
A soul-gripping story of terror.
“Hark! The Rattle!”    Orville R. Emerson
An uncommon tale that will cling to your memory for many a day.
“The Ghost Guard”    Bryan Irvine
A “spooky” tale with a grim background.
“The Ghoul and the Corpse”    G. A. Wells
An amazing yarn of weird adventure in the frozen North.
“Fear”    David R. Solomon
Showing how fear can drive a strong man to the verge of insanity.
“The Place of Madness”    Merlin Moore Taylor
What two hours in a prison “solitary” did to a man.
“The Closing Hand”    Farnsworth Wright
A brief story powerfully written.
“The Unknown Beast”    Howard Ellis Davis
An unusual tale of a terrifying monster.
“The Basket”    Herbert J. Mangham
A queer little story about San Francisco.
“The Accusing Voice”    Meredith Davis
The singular experience of Allen Defoe.
“The Sequel”    Walter Scott Story
A new conclusion to Edgar Allen Poe’s “Cask of Amontillado”
“The Weaving Shadows”    W. H. Holmes
Chet Burke’s strange adventures in a haunted house.
“Nimba, the Cave Girl”    R. T. M. Scott
An odd, fantastic little story of the Stone Age.
“The Young Man Who Wanted to Die”    ? ? ?
An anonymous author submits a startling answer to the question, “What comes after death?”
“The Scarlet Night”    William Sanford
A tale with an eerie thrill.
“The Extraordinary Experiment of Dr. Calgroni”    Joseph Faus and James Bennett Wooding
An eccentric doctor creates a frightful living thing.
“The Return of Paul Slavsky”    Capt. George Warburton Lewis
A “creepy” tale that ends in a shuddering, breath-taking way.
“The House of Death”    F. Georgia Stroup
The strange secret of a lonely woman.
“The Gallows”    I. W. D. Peters
An out-of-the-ordinary story.
“The Skull”    Harold Ward
A grim tale with a terrifying end.
“The Ape-Man”    James B. M. Clark, Jr.
A Jungle tale that is somehow “different.”
“The Eyrie”    The Editor
A Letter from the Editor.

 

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Thursday, December 29, 2022

Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 2, April, 1923: The Unique Magazine by Various, Complete Magazine

Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 2, April, 1923: The Unique Magazine by Various, Complete Magazine

Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 2, April, 1923: The Unique Magazine by Various, Complete Magazine

 

Contents for April, 1923

SIXTEEN THRILLING SHORT STORIES

TWO COMPLETE NOVELETTES

TWO TWO-PART STORIES

INTERESTING, ODD AND WEIRD HAPPENINGS


The Scar    Carl Rasmus    7
A Thrilling Novelette.   
Beyond the Door    Paul Suter    23
A Short Story of Gripping Interest.   
The Tortoise Shell Comb    Roylston Markham    34
A Fantasy of a Mad Brain.   
A Photographic Phantasm    Paul Crumpler    37
The Living Nightmare    Anton M. Oliver    38
A Night in a House of Death.   
The Incubus    Hamilton Craigie    42
A Frightful Adventure in an Ancient Tomb.   
The Bodymaster    Harold Ward    49
An Amazing Novelette.
Jungle Death    Artemus Calloway    70
A Story in Which Crocodiles and Voodooism Play the Stellar Roles.   
The Snake Fiend    Farnsworth Wright    75
A Tale of Diabolic Terror.   
A Square of Canvas    Anthony M. Rud    81
A Story of an Insane Artist.   
The Affair of the Man in Scarlet    Julian Kilman    91
A Weird Story of the Thirteenth Century.   
The Hideous Face    Victor Johns    99
A Grim Tale of Frightful Revenge.   
The Forty Jars    Ray McGillivray    105
A Strange Story of the Orient.   
The Whispering Thing    Laurie McClintock and Culpeper Chunn    116
A Two-part Novel of Death and Terror.   
The Thing of a Thousand Shapes    Otis Adelbert Kline    139
The Concluding Chapters of a Weird Novel.   
The Conquering Will    Ted Olson    152
Do the Dead Return to Life?   
Six Feet of Willow    Carrol F. Michener    157
The Strange Tale of a Yellow Man and His Beloved Reptile.   
The Hall of the Dead    Francis D. Grierson    163
An Occult Story of Ancient Egypt.   
The Parlor Cemetery    C. E. Howard    169
A Grisly Satire.   
Golden Glow    Harry Irving Shumway    173
A “Haunted House” Story with a Touch of Humor.   
The Eyrie    By The Editor    179


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Thursday, November 17, 2022

Weird Tales, Apr 1939, Volume 33, Number 4, Complete Magazine

Weird Tales, Apr 1939, Volume 33, Number 4

 

Weird Tales, Apr 1939, Volume 33, Weird Tales, Apr 1939, Volume 33, Number 4, Complete Magazine

 

Contents

The Red God Laughed by Thorp McClusky
Trinities by Edgar Daniel Kramer
"Their eyes upturned and begged and burned" by Virgil Finlay
Susette by Seabury Quinn
Hellsgarde by C. L. Moore
Armies of the Past by Edmond Hamilton
The Red Swimmer by Robert Bloch
In an Old Street by Vincent Starrett
Hydra by Henry Kuttner
Fearful Rock (End) by Manly Wade Wellman
The High Places by Frances Garfield
Mommy by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
Will-o'-the-wisp by Charles Sloan Reid
The Wicked Clergyman by H. P. Lovecraft
Special News Bulletin by Vincent Gaddis
The Curse of Yig by Z. B. Bishop
The Eyrie

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Monday, July 11, 2022

The Time-Raider by Edmond Hamilton

 

The Time-Raider by Edmond Hamilton

The TIME-RAIDER

By EDMOND HAMILTON

[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
Weird Tales October, November December 1927 and January 1928.
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

The Time-Raider by Edmond Hamilton


 "He dangled helplessly in the thing's embrace."

 

CHAPTER 1

THE CANNELL MYSTERY

In beginning this account of our great adventure, it must be understood that I attempt no complete history of the matter. There will be gaps, many gaps, in the continuity of my story, for that story remains, after all, simply a record of my own contacts with the Raider, and with those people whose lives he entered and darkened. So that my tale here is necessarily one of personal experience, except for a few places where I have summarized general knowledge.

Besides this history of what I may term the more human side of our experience, Dr. Lantin has dealt with its scientific aspects in his epochal work on time-displacement and in our joint monograph on electronic acceleration. Although several salient features of the affair have been omitted, for reasons that will figure later, yet the two works mentioned and the present record give a broad outline of the whole matter, from the beginning.

From the beginning! But where was that beginning? Ages back in the past, or ages ahead in the future? To place the true beginning of it all would be to know much about it that we do not know. So I start at the point where the matter definitely entered my own life and world. And that point, that event, is the Cannell Mystery, as it was then termed.

You will find it in the newspapers of the day, the bare facts wrapped in clouds of speculation. Professor Ferdinand Cannell, of New York, disappearing inexplicably in the jungles of Indo-China, vanishing from the world of men as though blotted out.

At that time, Cannell was undoubtedly one of the very greatest of living archeologists. Nominally attached to a great New York museum, he was really a free-lance student and excavator, roaming about the world in search of proof for his numerous and startling theories. His first fame had been established by his researches into the Dravidian remnants in lower India, and he had followed that brilliant achievement by another as great, the monumental Warren Society investigation into the walled ruins of Zimbabwe, in South Africa.

With two such successes behind him, Cannell then boldly proposed to make the subject of his next researches the mighty ruined city of Angkor, in the heart of the Cambodian jungle. Angkor has long been a colossal challenge to modern wisdom, a gigantic, towered metropolis of gray stone, once noisy with the life of swarming millions, but silent and dead now, unutterably dead. A thousand years the huge ruin has lain in the jungle, wrapped in silence, inhabited only by snakes and bats and tigers. Its past, the history of its builders, has been a vast enigma always, which Cannell had determined to solve.

So he sailed for Hongkong, and Dr. Lantin and I were on the dock when his ship cleared. My own acquaintance with Cannell was recent, but Lantin and he had been close friends for years. Their friendship dated back to their university days, and had continued after they diverged into different lines of work, Cannell's taking him to the remnants of past peoples, while Lantin's interest in radio-chemistry had brought him to the great New York laboratories of the Downe Foundation, with myself as his laboratory assistant.

For all their warm friendship, there was a strong contrast between the two men. Cannell was the younger by a few years, a blond giant of thirty-five or thirty-five or thirty-six, with snapping blue eyes and a habit of talking with machine-gun rapidity. Altogether the antithesis of Dr. Lantin, who was dark, medium of stature and quiet of manner, with friendly gray eyes that could take on the glint of steel, at times.

Together we had waved farewell to Cannell and a few weeks later had received a cable from Saigon, in Indo-China, briefly announcing his arrival. He had then proceeded up the Mekong River into the wilderness of the interior, and finally over a network of winding creeks to Angkor itself. The latter stage of the journey was made in canoes, some seven or eight natives poling along Cannell and his outfit, but no other white man was in the party.

No more was heard of the venture until a week later, when the natives of Cannell's party straggled into a little up-river village, without him. They explained, volubly, that on the third night after reaching Angkor, the white man had been seized and carried away by the devils of the ruins. None of them had actually seen this but they had heard his scream, from a distance, and when they conquered their fears enough to search the ruins, had found no trace of him. It was clear that the powerful spirits of the dead city were angered, and had snatched away the white man who dared to disturb them, so the terror-stricken natives had at once fled from the place with all speed.

On hearing this tale, several French planters made their way to Angkor, forcing the unwilling natives to accompany them, but they found no trace of Cannell, who seemed to have vanished completely. His tent and outfit were found, quite undisturbed, which tended to corroborate the natives' story regarding their sudden flight.

So when the little search-party returned, it was advanced as its opinion that Cannell had been seized and carried away by a roving tiger, his scream and disappearance being interpreted by the natives as a visitation of demons, since they were known to be extremely superstitious in regard to the dead city. While this explanation was faulty enough, it seemed the only rational one available, and was accepted by the authorities at Saigon.

And so the matter rested. Cannell's only relatives had been distant connections, and except for Lantin he had had scarcely one intimate friend, so after the first shock of surprize his passing caused little stir. The newspapers speculated briefly, and the archeological journals expressed regrets, referring to his splendid achievements. But that was all. New stars soon rose to fill his place in the scientific firmament. And Cannell was forgotten.

Time drove on. Days ... months ... years....


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