Weird Tales/1938

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Weird Tales 1938

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Publisher: Popular Fiction, Chicago (to October); Weird Tales, Inc., New York - a subsidiary of Short Stories, Inc. - (from November 1938) Editor: Farnsworth Wright

January

Volume 31, Issue 1

Cover art by Margaret Brundage

• The Witch's Mark • Dorothy Quick • novelette
• The House of Living Music • Edmond Hamilton • short story
• Roads • Seabury Quinn • novelette
• The Hairy Ones Shall Dance [Part 1 of 3; *Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant] • Manly Wade Wellman [as Gans T. Field]] • [[Author:na
• Toean Matjan • Vennette Herron • short story
• The Voyage of the Neutralia [Part 3 of 3] • B. Wallis • novella
• The Light Was Green • John R. Speer • short story
• Valley of Bones • David H. Keller • short story
• The Third Interne • Idwal Jones • short story
• Ethan Brand [aka "The Unpardonable Sin"] • Nathaniel Hawthorne • short story
• The Canal • H. P. Lovecraft • verse
• Lost Dream • Emil Petaja • verse
• "Her Demon Lover" • Virgil Finlay • pictorial (illustration for a passage in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan")

February

Volume 31, Issue 2

Cover art by Virgil Finlay

• Frozen Beauty [*Jules de Grandin] • Seabury Quinn • novelette
• The Diary of Alonzo Typer • William Lumley [with H. P. Lovecraft] • novelette
• The Goddess Awakes [*Rald] • Clifford Ball • novelette
• The Strangling Hands • M. G. Moretti • short story
• World's End • Henry Kuttner • short story
• The Hairy Ones Shall Dance [Part 2 of 3; *Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant] • Manly Wade Wellman [as Gans T. Field]] • novella
• From Beyond • H. P. Lovecraft • short story
• The Piper from Bhutan • David Bernard • short story
• The Passing of Van Mitten • Claude Farrère translated by Roy Temple House • short story
• The Ghosts at Haddon-le-Green • Alfred I. Tooke • vignette
• Jumbee • Henry S. Whitehead • short story [Reprint]
• Ally of Stars • Irene Wilde • verse
• Haunting Columns • Robert E. Howard • verse (© Copyright Renewed: Mrs. P. M. Kuykendall (E); 27Sep65; R369099.)
• Old Cornish Litany • Virgil Finlay • article

March

Volume 31, Issue 3 (scan index)

Cover art by Margaret Brundage

• Incense of Abomination [*Jules de Grandin] • Seabury Quinn • novelette
• The Thing on the Floor [*Peters & Ethredge] • Thorp McClusky • novelette
• Dreadful Sleep [Part 1 of 3] • Jack Williamson • novella (© Copyright Renewed: Jack Williamson (A); 7Apr65; R358779.)
• The Shadow on the Screen • Henry Kuttner • short story
• Beyond the Wall of Sleep • H. P. Lovecraft • short story
• The Hairy Ones Shall Dance [Part 3 of 3; *Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant] • [[Author:Manly Wade Wellman [as Gans T. Field] • novella
• Guarded • Mearle Prout • short story
• The Teakwood Box • Johns Harrington • short story
• The Head in the Window • Wilhelm von Scholz translated by Roy Temple House • short story
• The Girl from Samarcand • E. Hoffmann Price| • short story [Reprint]
• The Poets • Robert E. Howard • verse (© Copyright Renewed: Mrs. P. M. Kuykendall (E); 27Sep65; R369100.)
• To Howard Phillips Lovecraft • Francis Flagg • verse
• "Like one, that on a lonesome road" • Virgil Finlay • pictorial (interpretation from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner")

April

Volume 31, Issue 4

Cover art by Virgil Finlay

• The Devil Deals [aka "The King and the Knave"] • Carl Jacobi • short story
• The Garden of Adompha [*Zothique] • Clark Ashton Smith • short story
• The Temple Dancer • Seabury Quinn • novelette
• The Eyes of the Mummy [*Sebek (unnamed narrator)] • Robert Bloch • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 7Jul65; R364298.)
• Forest of Evil • John Murray Reynolds • novelette
• Dreadful Sleep [Part 2 of 3] • Jack Williamson • novella (© Copyright Renewed: Jack Williamson (A); 7Apr65; R358780.)
• The House of Ecstasy • Ralph Milne Farley • short story
• Death Is a Temporary Indisposition • Max Brod • short story
• Feathertop • Nathaniel Hawthorne • short story
• Abandoned Bog • Joseph C. Kempe • verse
• Cordelia's Song • Vincent Starrett • verse
• The Singer in the Mist • Robert E. Howard • verse (© Copyright Renewed: Mrs. P. M. Kuykendall (E); 27Sep65; R369101.)
• To Clark Ashton Smith • H. P. Lovecraft • verse

May

Volume 31, Issue 5

Cover art by Margaret Brundage

• Thunder in the Dawn [Part 1 of 2; *Elak] - Henry Kuttner|]] • novella
• Pigeons from Hell • Robert E. Howard • novelette (© Copyright Renewed: Mrs. P. M. Kuykendall (E); 27Sep65; R369102.)
• Goetterdaemmerung • Seabury Quinn • novelette
• The Secret of the Vault • J. Wesley Rosenquest • short story
• The Isle of the Sleeper • Edmond Hamilton • short story
• Dreadful Sleep [Part 3 of 3] • Jack Williamson • novella (© Copyright Renewed: Jack Williamson (A); 7Apr65; R358781.)
• Medusa • Royal W. Jimerson • short story
• Where Once Poe Walked • H. P. Lovecraft • verse

June

Volume 31, Issue 6

Cover art by Margaret Brundage

• Suicide Chapel [*Jules de Grandin] • Seabury Quinn • novelette
• From the Beginning • Earl Binder & Otto Binder [as by Eando Binder] • novelette (© Copyright Renewed: Otto Oscar Binder (A); 7Sep65; R367843.)
• The Black Drama [Part 1 of 3; *Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant] • Manly Wade Wellman [as Gans T. Field] • novella
• Slave of the Flames • Robert Bloch • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 7Jul65; R364299.)
• Song of Death • A. W. Calder • short story
• Thunder in the Dawn [Part 2 of 2; *Elak] • Henry Kuttner • novella
• The Doom That Came to Sarnath • H. P. Lovecraft • short story
• Death Dallies Awhile • Leslie F. Stone • short story
• The Gray Champion • Nathaniel Hawthorne • short story
• Farewell to Eros • Clark Ashton Smith • verse
• H.P. Lovecraft • Frank Belknap Long • verse
• The Last Hour • Robert E. Howard • verse (© Copyright Renewed: Mrs. P. M. Kuykendall (E); 19Nov65; R373259.)
• Outlanders • Clark Ashton Smith • verse

July

Volume 32, Issue 1

Cover art by Virgil Finlay

• Spawn of Dagon [*Elak] • Henry Kuttner • short story
• Fortune's Fools • Seabury Quinn • novelette
• Dust in the House • David H. Keller • short story
• The Defense Rests • Julius Long • short story
• The Black Drama [Part 2 of 3; *Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant] • Manly Wade Wellman [as Gans T. Field] • novella
• He That Hath Wings • Edmond Hamilton • novelette
• Mother of Toads • Clark Ashton Smith • short story
• Escape • Paul Ernst • short story
• Return to the Sabbath • Robert Bloch [as by Tarleton Fiske] • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 7Jul65; R364300.)
• Saladin's Throne-Rug • E. Hoffmann Price| • novelette [Reprint]
• The Messenger • H. P. Lovecraft • verse
• Microcosms • Edgar Daniel Kramer • verse
• Ships • Robert E. Howard • verse (© Copyright Renewed: Mrs. P. M. Kuykendall (E); 19Nov65; R373260.)

August

Volume 32, Issue 2

Cover art by Margaret Brundage

• The Wolf-Girl of Josselin • Arlton Eadie • novelette
• The Venomed Breath of Vengeance [*Jules de Grandin] • Seabury Quinn • novelette
• The Fire Princess [Part 1 of 3] • Edmond Hamilton • novel
• Green Horror • H. Thompson Rich • short story
• The Black Drama [Part 3 of 3; *Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant] • Manly Wade Wellman [as Gans T. Field] • novella
• Dead Dog • Manly Wade Wellman • short story
• Three Gentlemen in Black • August W. Derleth| • short story (© Copyright Renewed: August Derleth (A); 12Jan66; R378246.)
• The Tree • H. P. Lovecraft • short story
• Invaders from Outside • J. Schlossel • short story [Reprint]
• Empty House • Cristel Hastings • verse
• In November Only • Marion Doyle • verse
• Lines Written in the Realization that I Must Die • Robert E. Howard • verse (© Copyright Renewed: Mrs. P. M. Kuykendall (E); 19Nov65; R373261.)

September

Volume 32, Issue 3

Cover art by Margaret Brundage

• As 'Twas Told to Me • Seabury Quinn • novelette
• The Magic Mirror • Algernon Blackwood • short story
• The White Rat • Earl Peirce, Jr. & Bruce Bryan • short story
• A Thunder of Trumpets • Robert E. Howard & Frank Thurston Torbett • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Mrs. P. M. Kuykendall (E); 19Nov65; R373262.)
• The Mandarin's Canaries • Robert Bloch • short story
• The Fire Princess [Part 2 of 3] • Edmond Hamilton • novel
• The Witch in the Fog • Harry Altshuler [as Alexander Faust] • short story
• The Cavern • Manly Wade Wellman & Gertrude Gordon • short story
• The Eyes of Ustad Isa • Charles Henry Mackintosh • short story
• A Witch's Curse • Paul Ernst • novelette
• The Jolly Hangman • Edgar Daniel Kramer • verse
• The Prophet Speaks • Clark Ashton Smith • verse
• The Wood • H. P. Lovecraft [as Lewis Theobald, Jr.] • verse
• The Wreck • Alfred I. Tooke • verse

October

Volume 32, Issue 4

Cover art by Margaret Brundage

• Beyond the Phoenix [*Elak] • Henry Kuttner • short story
• Black Moon [*Jules de Grandin] • Seabury Quinn • vignette
• The Isle of Abominations • Kadra Maysi • novelette
• Jekal's Lesson • David Bernard • short story
• The Fire Princess [Part 3 of 3] • Edmond Hamilton • novel
• The Maze of Maal Dweb [aka "The Maze of the Enchanter"; *Maal Dweb] • Clark Ashton Smith • short story
• The Black Monk • G. G. Pendarves • short story
• The Other Gods • H. P. Lovecraft • short story
• Up Under the Roof • Manly Wade Wellman • short story
• The Oldest Story in the World • Murray Leinster • short story
• Death [from Measure for Measure] • William Shakespeare • verse
• Witches on the Heath • Leah Bodine Drake • verse

November

Volume 32, Issue 5

First issue published by Weird Tales, Inc., New York

Cover art by A.R. Tilburne

• I Found Cleopatra [Part 1 of 4] • Thomas P. Kelley • novella
• Fothergill's Jug • Thorp McClusky • short story
• The Hound of Pedro • Robert Bloch • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Robert Albert Bloch (A); 29Aug66; R392721.)
• The Thing in the Trunk • Paul Ernst • novelette
• Lynne Foster Is Dead! • Seabury Quinn • novelette
• The Nameless City • H. P. Lovecraft • short story
• Leonora • Everil Worrell • short story
• Recompense • Robert E. Howard • verse (© Copyright Renewed: Mrs. P. M. Kuykendall (E); 19Nov65; R373264.)

December

Volume 32, Issue 6

Cover art by Ray Quigley

• More Lives Than One • Seabury Quinn • novelette
• I Found Cleopatra [Part 2 of 4] • Thomas P. Kelley • novella
• The Sin-Eater • G. G. Pendarves • novelette
• The Snowman • Loretta Burrough • short story
• Beetles • Robert Bloch • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Robert Albert Bloch (A); 29Aug66; R392722.)
• Passing of a God [*Gerald Canevin] • Henry S. Whitehead • novelette [Reprint]
• The Ghost Kings • Robert E. Howard • verse (© Copyright Renewed: Mrs. P. M. Kuykendall (E); 19Nov65; R373265.)
• The Blessed Damozel • Virgil Finlay • article (pictorial impression of a poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti)

External links

• Collector's Showcase (French) Contents for 1938
• Miskatronic University Press Contents for 1938
• Galactic Central Publications Weird Tales Checklist