Weird Tales/1952

January

Weird Tales cover image for January 1952

Volume 44, Issue 2

Cover art by Jon Arfstrom

• The Black Island [*Laban Shrewsbury] • August Derleth • novelette (© Copyright Renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden W. Derleth (C); 21Jun79; RE0000027680.)
• Lucy Comes to Stay • Robert Bloch • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 1979-11-01; RE0000036952.)
• The Seamstress • E. Everett Evans • short story
• The Guard of Honor • J. Paul Suter • short story
• Lovers' Meeting • Harold Lawlor • short story
• Cat's Cradle • E. W. Tomlinson • short story
• The Iron Hand of Katzaveere • David Eynon [as David Lewis Eynon] • short story
• Ooze • Anthony M. Rud • novelette
• Cat-Eyes • Harriet A. Bradfield • verse
• Not Altogether Asleep • Clark Ashton Smith • verse
• Sonnet for the Psychoanalysts • Clark Ashton Smith • verse

March

Weird Tales cover image for March 1952

Volume 44, Issue 3

Cover art by Joseph Eberle

• Morne Perdu • Alice Drayton Farnham • novelette
• The Monkey Ship • Garnett Radcliffe • short story
• The Mask • Curtis W. Casewit • short story
• The Scarred Soul • Seabury Quinn • short story
• The Prism • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • short story
• The Horror at Red Hook • H. P. Lovecraft • novelette
• The Place of Desolation • August Derleth • short story (© Copyright Renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden W. Derleth (C); 21Jun79; RE0000027673.)
• Jungle Beasts • William P. Barron • short story
• The Bride of Death • Joseph Howard Krucher • verse
• O Golden-Tongued Romance • Clark Ashton Smith • verse

May

Weird Tales cover image for May 1952

Volume 44, Issue 4

Cover art by Virgil Finlay

• The Lamia in the Penthouse • Thorp McClusky • novelette
• Rhythmic Formula • Arthur J. Burks • short story
• A Bit of Moss • Suzanne Pickett • short story
• The Eighth Green Man • G. G. Pendarves • short story
• She Wore a Black Rose • Frederick Sanders • short story
• Dark Laughter • Garnett Radcliffe • short story
• The Fifth Candle • Cyril Mand • short story
• The Little Tree • C. F. Birdsall • short story
• The Night Road • August Derleth • short story (© Copyright Renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden W. Derleth (C); 8Jul80; RE0000062838.)
• The Devil of Maniara • Douglas Leach • short story (© Copyright Renewed as part of Short Stories, February 25, 1933; Blanchard Press, Inc. (PCW); 25Jan6l; R270002-270023.)
• Father's Vampire • Alvin Taylor & Len J. Moffatt • short story
• Double Haunt • Joseph Howard Krucher • article
• Ghost Port • Pauline Booker • verse
• Out of Space • Dorothy Quick • verse

July

Weird Tales cover image for July 1952

Volume 44, Issue 5

Cover art by Jon Arfstrom

• Hell's Bells • Eric Frank Russell [as Duncan H. Munro] • short story
• Which's Witch? • Harold Lawlor • short story
• The Emperor's Letter • David Eynon [as David Lewis Eynon] • short story
• Elmer Bittersnitt and the Three Bears • Harry Botsford • short story
• There Was Soot on the Cat • Suzanne Pickett • short story
• The Green Parrot • Joseph Payne Brennan • short story
• The Temple of Serpents • Paul Ernst • short story
• The Plaid • Abrach • short story
• Live Evil • Emil Petaja • short story
• The Lakes of Nai Loodie • Donald F. Vieweg • short story
• Alethia Phrikodes • H. P. Lovecraft • verse
• Black Candles • Yetza Gillespie • verse

September

Weird Tales cover image for September 1952

Volume 44, Issue 6

Cover art by Virgil Finlay

• Island of the Hands • Margaret St. Clair • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Margaret Saint Clair (A); 2May1980; RE0000057714.)
• Table Number Sixteen • Curtis W. Casewit • short story
• One Fantastic Day • Frederick Sanders • short story
• A Habit Out of History • David Eynon • short story
• Where to, Please? [*Gavagan's Bar] • L.Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt • short story
• The Phantom Express • H. Thompson Rich • vignette
• Sa'antha • E. Everett Evans • short story
• The Lost Path • August Derleth • short story (© Copyright Renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden W. Derleth (C); 8Jul80; RE0000062845.)
• The Sin-Eater • G. G. Pendarves • novelette [Reprint from December 1938]
• The Archive • Henry T. Simmons • verse
• Hallowe'en in a Suburb [aka "In a Suburb"] • H. P. Lovecraft • verse
• The Singing Shadow • Yetza Gillespie • verse

November

Weird Tales cover image for November 1952

Volume 44, Issue 7 (transcription project)

Cover art by Anthony Di Giannurio

• Black as the Night • Alice Farnham • short story
• The Unicorn • Frank Owen • short story
• Astra • Arthur J. Burks • short story
• The Artist and the Door • Dorothy Quick • short story
• The Japanese Tea Set • Francis J. O'Neil • short story
• Fermentation • Curtis W. Casewit • short story
• The Chapel of Mystic Horror [*Jules de Grandin] • Seabury Quinn • novelette [Reprint from December 1928]
• The Chain • Hamilton Craigie • short story [Reprint from March 1923]
• Weird Crossword • Charles A. Kennedy • article
• The Mermaid • Leah Bodine Drake • verse

External links

• Collector's Showcase (French) Contents for 1951-52
• Miskatronic University Press Contents for 1952
• Galactic Central Publications Weird Tales Checklist