Weird Tales/1936

January

Weird Tales cover image for January 1936

Volume 27, Issue 1 (transcription project)

Cover art by Margaret Brundage

• A Rival from the Grave [*Jules de Grandin] • Seabury Quinn • novelette
• The Satin Mask • August W. Derleth • short story (© Copyright Renewed: August Derleth (A); 9Apr63; R313732.)
• Horror Insured [*Dr. Satan] • Paul Ernst • novelette
• The Dark Land [*Jirel of Joiry] • C. L. Moore • novelette
• The Hour of the Dragon [Part 2 of 5; *Conan] • Robert E. Howard • novel
• Rendezvous • Richard H. Hart • short story
• Return to Death • J. Wesley Rosenquest • short story
• They • Robert Barbour Johnson • vignette
• Dagon • H. P. Lovecraft • short story
• Gray Ghosts • Clarence Edwin Flynn • verse
• In Davy Jones's Locker • Alfred I. Tooke • verse

February

Weird Tales cover image for February 1936

Volume 27, Issue 2 (transcription project)

Cover art by Margaret Brundage

• Coils of the Silver Serpent • Forbes Parkhill • novelette
• Yvala [*Northwest Smith] • C. L. Moore • novelette
• Wife of the Dragon-Fly • Paul Ernst • short story
• The Man Who Would Not Die • Frank Owen • short story
• The Hour of the Dragon [Part 3 of 5; *Conan] • Robert E. Howard • novel
• Norn • Everil Worrell [as by Lireve Monet] • novelette
• A Visitor from Far Away • Loretta G. Burrough • short story
• The Man on the Platform • Theodore Tinsley • vignette
• A Dream of Death • Andrew Daw • short story
• The Temple • H. P. Lovecraft • short story
• Ballad of the Gods • Henry Kuttner Fear • verse
• A Fantasy • Wilma Dorothy Vermilyea • verse
• Jorgas • Robert William Nelson • verse
• Salvage • Alfred I. Tooke • verse

March

Weird Tales cover image for March 1936

Volume 27, Issue 3

Cover art by Margaret Brundage

• The Albino Deaths • Ronal Kayser • novelette
• The Crystal Curse • Earl Binder & Otto Binder [as by Eando Binder] • novelette
• Beyond Death's Gateway [*Dr. Satan] • Paul Ernst • novelette
• The Black Abbot of Puthuum [*Zothique] • Clark Ashton Smith • novelette
• The Hour of the Dragon [Part 4 of 5; *Conan] • Robert E. Howard • novella
• In the World's Dusk • Edmond Hamilton • short story
• The Ship that Committed Suicide • A. J. Mordtmann • short story
• The Graveyard Rats • Henry Kuttner • short story
• Homecoming Day • Jay Wilmer Benjamin • short story
• A Masterpiece of Crime • Jean Richepin • short story [Reprint]
• The Creaking House • Clarence Edwin Flynn • verse
• The Devil's Swamp • Robert Avrett • verse
• Haunted • Alfred I. Tooke • verse

April

Weird Tales cover image for April 1936

Volume 27, Issue 4

Cover art by Margaret Brundage

• The Ruler of Fate [Part 1 of 3] • Jack Williamson • novella (© Copyright Renewed: Jack Williamson (A); 19Mar64; R333989.)
• The Face in the Wind • Carl Jacobi • novelette
• Son of Satan • Arlton Eadie • novelette
• They Shall Rise • August W. Derleth & • Mark Schorer • short story (© Copyright Renewed: August Derleth (A); 9Apr63; R313733.)
• The Hour of the Dragon [Part 5 of 5; *Conan] • Robert E. Howard • novella
• The Druidic Doom • • Robert Bloch • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 20May63; R316005.)
• The Call in the Night • Chandler H. Whipple • short story
• The Rajah's Gift • E. Hoffmann Price • short story [Reprint]
• Painted Cave • Julia Boynton Green • verse
• The Seance • Ronal Kayser • verse
• The Sick Muse • Charles P. Baudelaire • verse

May

Weird Tales cover image for May 1936

Volume 27, Issue 5

Cover art by Margaret Brundage

• The Devil's Double [*Dr. Satan] • Paul Ernst • novelette
• The Room of Shadows • Arthur J. Burks • novelette
• The Ruler of Fate [Part 2 of 3] • Jack Williamson • novella (© Copyright Renewed: Jack Williamson (A); 19Mar64; R333989.)
• The Faceless God • Robert Bloch • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 20May63; R316006.)
• Strange Interval • Seabury Quinn • novelette
• Child of the Winds • Edmond Hamilton • short story
• The Horror Undying • Manly Wade Wellman • short story
• Attorney for the Damned • Renier Wyers • short story
• Lesandro's Familiar • August W. Derleth • short story (© Copyright Renewed: August Derleth (A); 6May63; R315351.)
• The Red Brain • Donald Wandrei • short story
• Bride of Baal • Edgar Daniel Kramer • verse
• Ennui • Clark Ashton Smith • verse

June

Weird Tales cover image for June 1936

Volume 27, Issue 6

Cover art by Margaret Brundage

• Loot of the Vampire [Part 1 of 2; *Peters & Ethredge] • Thorp McClusky • novella
• Black Canaan • Robert E. Howard • novelette
• The House of the Evil Eye • Hugh Davidson • novelette
• The Telephone in the Library • August W. Derleth • short story (© Copyright Renewed: August Derleth (A); 12Feb64; R331912.)
• The Grinning Ghoul • Robert Bloch • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 25May64; R338611.)
• The Ruler of Fate [Part 3 of 3] • Jack Williamson • novella (© Copyright Renewed: Jack Williamson (A); 19Mar64; R333989.)
• Mordecai's Pipe • A. V. Milyer • vignette
• Lethe • Author:Harold G. Shane • short story
• The Harbor of Ghosts • M. J. Bardine • short story
• The Brain in the Jar • Norman Elwood Hammerstrom & Richard F. Searight • short story
• Ballad of the Wolf • Henry Kuttner • verse

July

Weird Tales cover image for July 1936

Volume 28, Issue 1

Cover art by Margaret Brundage

• Necromancy in Naat [*Zothique] • Clark Ashton Smith • short story
• Red Nails [Part 1 of 3; *Conan] • Robert E. Howard • novella
• When the World Slept • Edmond Hamilton • short story
• The Unborn • Ronal Kayser • short story
• Loot of the Vampire [Part 2 of 2; *Peters & Ethredge] • Thorp McClusky • novella
• Lost Paradise [*Northwest Smith] • C. L. Moore • novelette
• The Return of Sarah Purcell • August W. Derleth • short story (© Copyright Renewed: August Derleth (A); 12Feb64; R331913.)
• Kharu Knows All • Renier Wyers • short story
• The Kelpie • Manly Wade Wellman • short story
• The Snakeskin Cigar-Case • Bodo Wildberg translated by Roy Temple House • short story
• The Ring of Thoth • Arthur Conan Doyle • short story
• Death • Alfred I. Tooke • verse
• Dream Sepulture • C. A. Butz • verse
• Hagar • Edgar Daniel Kramer • verse

August-September

Weird Tales cover image for August-September 1936

Volume 28, Issue 2 (transcription project)

Cover art by Margaret Brundage

• The Door into Infinity • Edmond Hamilton • novelette
• Mask of Death [*Dr. Satan] • Paul Ernst • novelette
• Werewolf of the Sahara • G. G. Pendarves • novelette
• The Medici Boots • Pearl Norton Swet • short story
• Red Nails [Part 2 of 3; *Conan] • Robert E. Howard • novella
• Death Holds the Post • August W. Derleth & Mark Schorer • short story (© Copyright Renewed: August Derleth (A); 12Feb64; R331914.)
• The Diary of Philip Westerly • Paul Compton • short story
• In the Dark • Ronal Kayser • short story
• Four Wooden Stakes • Victor Rowan • short story
• Lycanthropus • C. Edgar Bolen • verse
• Swamp Demons • C. A. Butz • verse

October

Weird Tales cover image for October 1936

Volume 28, Issue 3 (transcription project)

Cover art by J. Allen St. John

• Isle of the Undead • Lloyd Arthur Eshbach • novelette
• The Opener of the Way • Robert Bloch • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 25May64; R338612.)
• The Lost Door • Dorothy Quick • novelette
• Doom of the House of Duryea • Earl Peirce, Jr. • short story
• The Tree of Life [*Northwest Smith] • C. L. Moore • novelette
• Red Nails [Part 3 of 3; *Conan] • Robert E. Howard • novella
• The Doors of Death • Arthur B. Waltermire • short story
• The Secret of Kralitz • Henry Kuttner • short story
• The Great Keinplatz Experiment • Arthur Conan Doyle • short story
• The Lost Temples of Xantoos • Howell Calhoun • verse
• R. E. H. • R. H. Barlow • verse
• Witch-Burning • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • verse

November

Weird Tales cover image for November 1936

Volume 28, Issue 4

Cover art by Margaret Brundage

• Witch-House [*Jules de Grandin] • Seabury Quinn • novelette
• Black Hound of Death • Robert E. Howard • novelette
• The Crawling Horror • Thorp McClusky • novelette
• The Man in Black • Paul Ernst • short story
• The Dark Demon • Robert Bloch • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 25May64; R338613.)
• Midas • Bassett Morgan • short story
• Mice • Robert Barbour Johnson • short story
• The Blue Room • Gordon Philip England • short story
• Brother Lucifer • Chandler H. Whipple • short story
• Pickman's Model • H. P. Lovecraft • short story
• The Black Gang • Edgar Daniel Kramer • verse
• The Wizard's Death • Richard F. Searight • verse

December

Weird Tales cover image for December 1936

Volume 28, Issue 5

Cover art by J. Allen St. John

• The Fire of Asshurbanipal • Robert E. Howard • short story
• Out of the Sun • Granville S. Hoss • short story
• The Haunter of the Dark • H. P. Lovecraft • novelette
• Portrait of a Murderer • John Russell Fearn • short story
• Mother of Serpents • Robert Bloch • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 25May64; R338614.)
• The Cyclops of Xoatl [*Bart Leslie] • Otis Adelbert Kline & E. Hoffmann Price • novelette
• The Woman at Loon Point • August W. Derleth & • Mark Schorer • short story (© Copyright Renewed: August Derleth (A); 12Feb64; R331915.)
• The Album • Amelia Reynolds Long • short story
• The Theater Upstairs • Manly Wade Wellman • short story
• It Walks by Night • Henry Kuttner • short story
• A Passion in the Desert • Honoré de Balzac • short story
• Vespers • Edgar Daniel Kramer • verse

External links

• Collector's Showcase (French) Contents for 1936
• Miskatronic University Press Contents for 1936
• Galactic Central Publications Weird Tales Checklist