Weird Tales/1950

January

Weird Tales cover image for January 1950

Volume 42, Issue 2

Cover art by Matt Fox

• Black Harvest of Moraine • Arthur J. Burks • novelette
• The Ormolu Clock • August Derleth • short story (© Copyright renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden Derleth (C); 28Apr77; R660486.)
• In that Same Moment • Manly Wade Wellman • short story (© Copyright renewed: Manly Wade Wellman (A); 16Jun77; R666171.)
• The Smiling Face • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • short story
• The Urbanite • Ewen Whyte • short story
• The Mysterious Miss Maltra • Stanton A. Coblentz • short story
• The Last Train • Fredric Brown • short story
• The Mask of Don Alfredo • Mal Bissell • short story
• Outside of Time • Carroll John Daly • short story
• The Family • Margaret St. Clair • vignette
• The Cactus • Mildred Johnson • short story
• Dark Rosaleen • Seabury Quinn • short story
• Sea King's Daughter • Dorothy Quick • verse
• The Vision • Leah Bodine Drake • verse

March

Weird Tales cover image for March 1950

Volume 42, Issue 3

Cover art by Lee Browne Coye

• Home to Mother • Manly Wade Wellman • novelette (© Copyright renewed: Manly Wade Wellman (A); 16Jun77; R666173.)
• Two Face • Frank Belknap Long • short story
• The Shadow of Saturn • E. Hoffmann Price • short story
• The Tree's Wife • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • short story
• The Corn Dance • Margaret St. Clair • short story (© Copyright renewed: Margaret Saint Clair (A); 25Oct77; R675073.)
• Take the Z Train • Allison V. Harding • short story
• Stay with Me • Shelby Steger • short story
• The Hungry Ghost • Emil Petaja • short story
• Dead Man's Shoes • Day Keene • short story
• Do You Forget, Enchantress? • Clark Ashton Smith • verse

May

Weird Tales cover image for May 1950

Volume 42, Issue 4 (transcription project)

Cover art by Boris Dolgov

• Tell Your Fortune • Robert Bloch • novelette (© Copyright renewed: Robert Bloch (A); RE0000005722 / 1978-03-06.)
• Djinn and Bitters • Harold Lawlor • short story
• The Round Tower • Stanton A. Coblentz • short story
• The Last Man • Seabury Quinn • short story
• The Triangle of Terror • William F. Temple • short story
• The Monkey Spoons • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • short story
• The Last Three Ships • Margaret St. Clair • short story (© Copyright renewed: Margaret Saint Clair (A); 12Aug77; R668968.)
• At the End of the Corridor • Evangeline Walton • short story
• The Man on B-17 • August Derleth [as Stephen Grendon] • short story (© Copyright renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden Derleth (C); 28Apr77; R660488.)
• Mr. Hyde—and Seek [*Thomas Chadwick] • Malcolm M. Ferguson • short story
• Luna Aeternalis • Clark Ashton Smith • verse

July

Weird Tales cover image for July 1950

Volume 42, Issue 5

Cover art by Matt Fox

• The Weird Tailor • Robert Bloch • novelette (© Copyright renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 7Oct77; R674059.)
• Shallajai • Arthur J. Burks • novelette
• The Rhythm of the Rats • Eric Frank Russell • short story
• Rebels' Rest • Seabury Quinn • short story
• Woe Water • H. Russell Wakefield • short story
• Cordona's Skull • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • short story
• The Closing Door • August Derleth • short story (© Copyright renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden Derleth (C); 28Apr77; R660489.)
• Mrs. Hawk • Margaret St. Clair • short story (© Copyright renewed: Margaret Saint Clair (A); 7Oct77; R674060 AND © Copyright renewed: Margaret Saint Clair (A); 25Oct77; R675076.)
• Fly Down Death • Cleve Cartmill • short story
• The City • H. P. Lovecraft [as Ward Phillips] • verse
• Pattern • Dorothy Quick • verse

September

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Volume 42, Issue 6 (transcription project)

Cover art by Bill Wayne

• Legal Rites • Isaac Asimov & Frederik Pohl [as James MacCreigh] • novelette (© Copyright renewed: Isaac Asimov & James McCreagh, pseud. of Frederik Pohl (A); 8Jul77; R666481.)
• The Pineys • Manly Wade Wellman • short story
• The Shadow from the Steeple • Robert Bloch • novelette (© Copyright renewed: Robert Bloch (A); RE0000005722 / 1978-03-06.)
• The Mirror • Mildred Johnson • short story
• Unknown Lady • Harold Lawlor • short story
• Potts' Triumph • August Derleth • short story (© Copyright Renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden W. Derleth (C); 27Apr78; RE0000002581.)
• The Spanish Camera • Carl Jacobi • short story
• The Three Pools and the Painted Moon • Frank Owen • short story
• The Insistent Ghost • Emil Petaja • short story
• Incantation • Page Cooper • verse

November

Weird Tales cover image for November 1950

Volume 43, Issue 1

Cover art by Kelly Freas

• The Dead Man • Fritz Leiber • novelette (© Copyright Renewed: Fritz Leiber (A); 1Dec78; RE0000008850.)
• The Third Shadow • H. Russell Wakefield • short story
• The Body-Snatchers [*Jules de Grandin] • Seabury Quinn • novelette
• Grotesquerie • Harold Lawlor • short story
• Something Old • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • short story
• The Invisible Reweaver • Margaret St. Clair • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Margaret Saint Clair (A); 6Mar78; RE0000003571.)
• Blue Peter • Murray Sanford • short story
• They Worked the Oracle • H. S. W. Chibbett • short story
• The Haunted • Stanton A. Coblentz • verse

External links

• Collector's Showcase (French) Contents for 1949-50
• Miskatronic University Press Contents for 1950
• Galactic Central Publications Weird Tales Checklist