Weird Tales/1938

January

Weird Tales cover image for January 1938

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) • Manly Wade Wellman (as Gans T. Field) • novella (Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant series)
• 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 (Reprint)
• 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

Weird Tales cover image for February 1938

Volume 31, Issue 2 (transcription project)

Cover art by Virgil Finlay

• Frozen Beauty • Seabury Quinn • novelette (Jules de Grandin series)
• The Diary of Alonzo Typer • William Lumley (with H. P. Lovecraft) • novelette
• The Goddess Awakes • Clifford Ball • novelette (Rald series)
• The Strangling Hands • M. G. Moretti • short story
• World's End • Henry Kuttner • short story
• The Hairy Ones Shall Dance (part 2 of 3) • Manly Wade Wellman (as Gans T. Field) • novella (Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant series)
• From Beyond • H. P. Lovecraft • short story (Dream Cycle series)
• 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

Weird Tales cover image for March 1938

Volume 31, Issue 3 (transcription project)

Cover art by Margaret Brundage

• Incense of Abomination • Seabury Quinn • novelette (Jules de Grandin series)
• The Thing on the Floor • Thorp McClusky • novelette (Peters & Ethredge series)
• 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) • Manly Wade Wellman (as Gans T. Field) • novella (Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant series)
• 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

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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 • Clark Ashton Smith • short story (Zothique series)
• The Temple Dancer • Seabury Quinn • novelette
• The Eyes of the Mummy • Robert Bloch • short story (Sebek series; © 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 (Reprint)
• 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

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Volume 31, Issue 5

Cover art by Margaret Brundage

• Thunder in the Dawn (part 1 of 2) • Henry Kuttner • novella (Elak series)
• 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 (Reprint; © Copyright Renewed: Steinberg Press, Inc., as part of Weird Tales, vol. 11, no. 4; 6Feb56; R164273.)
• Where Once Poe Walked • H. P. Lovecraft • verse

June

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Volume 31, Issue 6

Cover art by Margaret Brundage

• Suicide Chapel • Seabury Quinn • novelette (Jules de Grandin series)
• 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) • Manly Wade Wellman (as Gans T. Field) • novella (Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant series)
• 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) • Henry Kuttner • novella (Elak series)
• The Doom That Came to Sarnath • H. P. Lovecraft • short story (Dream Cycle series)
• Death Dallies Awhile • Leslie F. Stone • short story
• The Gray Champion • Nathaniel Hawthorne • short story (Reprint)
• 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

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Volume 32, Issue 1 (transcription project)

Cover art by Virgil Finlay

• Spawn of Dagon • Henry Kuttner • short story (Elak series)
• 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) • Manly Wade Wellman (as Gans T. Field) • novella (Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant series)
• He That Hath Wings • Edmond Hamilton • novelette
• Mother of Toads • Clark Ashton Smith • short story (Averoigne series)
• Escape • Paul Ernst • short story
• Return to the Sabbath • Robert Bloch (as 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

Weird Tales cover image for August 1938

Volume 32, Issue 2

Cover art by Margaret Brundage

• The Wolf-Girl of Josselin • Arlton Eadie • novelette
• The Venomed Breath of Vengeance • Seabury Quinn • novelette (Jules de Grandin series)
• The Fire Princess (part 1 of 3) • Edmond Hamilton • novel
• Green Horror • H. Thompson Rich • short story
• The Black Drama (part 3 of 3) • Manly Wade Wellman (as Gans T. Field) • novella (Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant series)
• 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; © Copyright Renewed: Weird Tales, as part of Weird Tales, vol. 5, no. 1; 24Mar52; R92333.)
• 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

Weird Tales cover image for September 1938

Volume 32, Issue 3

Cover art by Margaret Brundage

• As 'Twas Told to Me • Seabury Quinn • novelette
• The Magic Mirror • Algernon Blackwood • short story (© Copyright Restored due to URAA; first published in UK; The Bystander, March 16 1938.)
• 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 (Reprint)
• 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

Weird Tales cover image for October 1938

Volume 32, Issue 4

Cover art by Margaret Brundage

• Beyond the Phoenix • Henry Kuttner • short story (Elak series)
• Black Moon • Seabury Quinn • vignette (Jules de Grandin series)
• 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") • Clark Ashton Smith • short story (Maal Dweb series)
• The Black Monk • G. G. Pendarves • short story
• The Other Gods • H. P. Lovecraft • short story (Dream Cycle series)
• Up Under the Roof • Manly Wade Wellman • short story
• The Oldest Story in the World • Murray Leinster • short story (Reprint; © Copyright Renewed: Weird Tales, as part of Weird Tales, vol. 6, no. 2; 25Feb53; R107985.)
• Death (from Measure for Measure) • William Shakespeare • verse
• Witches on the Heath • Leah Bodine Drake • verse

November

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Volume 32, Issue 5 (transcription project)

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 (Cthulhu Mythos series)
• Leonora • Everil Worrell • short story (Reprint)
• Recompense • Robert E. Howard • verse (© Copyright Renewed: Mrs. P. M. Kuykendall (E); 19Nov65; R373264.)

December

Weird Tales cover image for December 1938

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 • Henry S. Whitehead • novelette (Gerald Canevin series; Reprint; (© Copyright Restored due to URAA; first published in UK; At Dead of Night, 1931)
• 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