Weird Tales, September 1923, Version 02, Number 02 1923-09, Complete Magazine

Table of Contents

3 • The People of the Comet (Part 1 of 2) • serial by Austin Hall
17 • The Black Patch • short story by Julian Kilman
19 • The Soul of Peter Andrus • short story by Hubert La Due
23 • The Case of Dr. Johnstone • short story by Burton Peter Thom
26 • The Dead-Naming of Lukapehu • short fiction by P. D. Gog
27 • The Cup of Blood • short story by Otis Adelbert Kline
33 • Black Magic • essay by Eliphas Levi (trans. of Black Magic 1860) [as by Alphonse Louis Constant]
35 • The Devil's Cabin • short story by Vance Hoyt
35 • After Reading "The Devil's Cabin" • essay by Rupert Hughes
39 • The Old Burying Ground • novelette by Edgar Lloyd Hampton
47 • Sisters Prefer Death to Charity • essay by uncredited
47 • Female Buddha Slain • essay by uncredited
48 • Sunfire (Part 2 of 2) • serial by Francis Stevens
59 • The Gorilla • short story by Horatio Vernon Ellis
62 • The Talisman • short story by Nadia Lavrova
64 • The Autobiography of a Blue Ghost • short story by Don Mark Lemon
70 • The Damned Thing • (1893) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
72 • Rare Animals Discovered on Dipsomania Isle • essay by uncredited
73 • The Teak-Wood Shrine • short story by Farnsworth Wright
75 • The Money Lender • short story by Vincent Starrett
77 • The Bloodstained Parasol • short story by James Ravenscroft
79 • The Eyrie (Weird Tales, September 1923) • [The Eyrie] • essay by The Editor
79 •  Letter (Weird Tales, September 1923) • essay by Zahrah E. Preble
79 •  Letter (Weird Tales, September 1923) • essay by F. A. Ells-Over
80 •  Letter (Weird Tales, September 1923) • essay by Curtis F. Day
80 •  Letter (Weird Tales, September 1923) • essay by Catherine H. Griggs
80 •  Letter (Weird Tales, September 1923) • essay by Paul Ellsworth Triem
80 •  Letter (Weird Tales, September 1923) • essay by H. P. Lovecraft
82 •  Letter (Weird Tales, September 1923) • essay by Just Another Weird One
82 •  Letter (Weird Tales, September 1923) • essay by Charles White
82 •  Letter (Weird Tales, September 1923) • essay by Maxine Worthington
82 •  Letter (Weird Tales, September 1923) • essay by Paul Bratton
84 •  Letter (Weird Tales, September 1923) • essay by Richard Tooker [as by Dick P. Tooker]
84 •  Letter (Weird Tales, September 1923) • essay by Mrs. E. L. Depew
84 •  Letter (Weird Tales, September 1923) • essay by John James Arthur, Jr.
84 •  Letter (Weird Tales, September 1923) • essay by William Moesel
84 •  Letter (Weird Tales, September 1923) • essay by V. Van Blascom Parke
84 •  Letter (Weird Tales, September 1923) • essay by C. D. Bradley
84 •  Letter (Weird Tales, September 1923) • essay by R. Linwood Lancaster
84 •  Letter (Weird Tales, September 1923) • essay by H. Cusick
84 •  Letter (Weird Tales, September 1923) • essay by V. H. Bethell
86 • The Cauldron (Weird Tales, September 1923) • [The Cauldron (Weird Tales)] • essay by Preston Langley Hickey
86 •  Letter (Weird Tales, September 1923): Pat McClosky's Ghost • essay by J. P. Cronister
86 •  Letter (Weird Tales, September 1923): The Velvet Death • essay by Henry Trefon
87 • Arthur Armstrong's Predicament • essay by D. G. Prescott, Jr.

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Weird Tales, July-August 1923 Volume 2 Number 1, Complete Magazine (PDF)

Weird Tales, July-August 1923 Volume 2 Number 1, Complete Magazine (PDF)

 

Table of Contents

2 • Sunfire (Part 1 of 2) • serial by Francis Stevens
14 • The Outcasts • short story by George Warburton Lewis
18 • The Room of the Black Velvet Drapes • short story by B. W. Sliney
21 • Doctor X • short story by Culpeper Chunn
22 • British-American Exploring Party Discovers Ancient Temple of Moon God • essay by uncredited
23 • The Two Men Who Murdered Each Other • novelette by Valma Clark
32 • A Weird Prophetic Dream and Its Gruesome Fulfillment • essay by uncredited
32 • Savages Burn Man Alive to Appease "Goddess" • essay by uncredited
33 • The Strange Case of Jacob Arum • novelette by Harris Burland [as by John Harris Burland]
46 • Black Cunjer • short story by Isabel Walker
48 • American Has 1,500,000 Dope Fiends • essay by uncredited
48 • Monte Carlo Casino Yields Huge Annual Profit • essay by uncredited
48 • Girl Afflicted with Strange Malady • essay by uncredited
48 • The Red Moon • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
48 • Woman Weds Twins; Can't Tell Them Apart • essay by uncredited
48 • Caterpillar Army Halts Train • essay by uncredited
48 • Man Is Tried for Thirty-Three Murders • essay by uncredited
48 • Author Sues "Egyptian Spook" • essay by uncredited
49 • Shades • short story by Bryan Irvine
54 • Lecturer Derides Material Theories of Evolution • essay by uncredited
55 • Voodooism • essay by Will W. Nelson
57 • Senorita Serpente • short story by Earl Wayland Bowman
61 • The Room in the Tower • short story by D. L. Radway
63 • Riders in the Dark • short story by Vincent Starrett
65 • Will Tombs of Old Mexico Outrival King Tut's? • essay by uncredited
66 • Mandrake • short story by Adam Hull Shirk
68 • The Garden of Evil • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
68 • Deed 2,230 Years Old Unearthed • essay by uncredited
69 • People vs. Bland • short story by Theodore Snow Wood
73 • The Evening Wolves (Part 2 of 2) • serial by Paul Ellsworth Triem
76 • The Corpse on the Third Slab • short story by Otis Adelbert Kline
79 • The Guard of Honor • short story by J. Paul Suter [as by Paul Suter]
85 • The Cauldron • [The Cauldron] • essay by Preston Langley Hickey
85 • The Lesson in Anatomy • essay by John R. Palmer
85 • The Black Nun • essay by H. F. K.
86 • The Phantom Train • essay by Charles White
86 • A Strange Manifestation • essay by Matt. Byrne Ap'rhys, C.E.
87 • The Eyrie • [The Eyrie] • essay by The Editor
87-91 • Letters
91 • Woman and Girl Fight Bloody Duel • essay by uncredited
91 • Spirit Objects to Holding Hands • essay by uncredited
96 • Death Held No Terror fro Bernhardt • essay by uncredited

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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 

Beyond the Wall of Sleep ....... 19 

Memory ..... 26 

Old Bugs ..... 27 

The Transition of Juan Romero ...... 32 

The White Ship ....... 37 

The Doom That Came to Sarnath ..... 41 

The Statement of Randolph Carter ..... 45 

The Terrible Old Man ...... 49 

The Tree ..... 51 

The Cats of Ulthar ..... 54 

The Temple ..... 56 

Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family ...... 64 

The Street ....... 70 

Celephaïs ....... 74 

From Beyond ..... 78 

Nyarlathotep ..... 83 

The Picture in the House ..... 85 

Ex Oblivione ..... 90 

The Nameless City ..... 92 

The Quest of Iranon ...... 100 

The Moon-Bog ...... 104 

The Outsider ..... 109 

The Other Gods ..... 113 

The Music of Erich Zann ....... 116 

Herbert West — Reanimator ..... 121 

Hypnos ..... 139 

What the Moon Brings ..... 144 

Azathoth ....... 146 

The Hound ..... 147 

The Lurking Fear ..... 152 

The Rats in the Walls ..... 165 

The Unnamable ..... 177 

The Festival ..... 182 

The Shunned House ..... 188 

The Horror at Red Hook ....... 204 

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 Strange High House in the Mist ..... 272 

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath ...... 278

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward ..... 338 

The Colour Out of Space ...... 414 

The Very Old Folk ..... 431 

The Thing in the Moonlight ..... 435 

The History of the Necronomicon ..... 437 

Ibid ..... 439 

The Dunwich Horror ..... 442 

The Whisperer in Darkness ..... 469 

At the Mountains of Madness ....... 510 

The Shadow Over Innsmouth ....... 572 

The Dreams in the Witch House ..... 612 

The Thing on the Doorstep ... 634 

The Evil Clergyman ...... 651 

The Book ...... 654 

The Shadow Out of Time ...... 656 

The Haunter of the Dark ....... 694

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 About the Author

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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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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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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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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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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