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Weird Tales is remembered as the great fantasy/horror (predominantly horror) magazine of the pulp era which published work by H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, C. L. Moore, Manly Wade Wellman, Seabury Quinn and many more writers from that period, some now widely reprinted and read, others now nearly forgotten (though since this anthology was compiled, a number of the ones its introduction describes as forgotten have been revived.) The book's format is a bit unusual in that it includes one story from each of the 32 years the magazine was published, providing a much wider chronological range, and a wider variety of authors, than other anthologies based on similar material. The overall tendency of the collection (like the magazine itself) tends toward the darker horror end of the horror/fantasy spectrum, and I tend to prefer the lighter fantasy side, or at least tales in which the heroes defeat the horrors. Nonetheless, there are a number of good and unfamiliar stories here. ( )
The idea behind this book is very simple: A good story bears retelling. (Foreword)
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An anthology of 32 stories from the magazine, Weird tales, one for each year the magazine was published (1923-1954).
Contents:
Forward Introduction by Robert Bloch A Square of Canvas - Anthony M. Rud The Loved Dead - C.M. Eddy When the Green Star Waned - Nictzin Dyalhis The Parasitic Hand - R. Anthony Evolution Island - Edmond Hamilton The Chain - H. Warner Munn The Shadow Kingdom - Robert E. Howard The Shut Room - Henry S. Whitehead Satan's Stepson - Seabury Quinn The Wand of Doom - Jack Williamson The Isle of the Torturers - Clark Ashton Smith Dust of the Gods - C.L. Moore Charon - Laurence J. Cahill The Room of Shadows - Arthur J. Burks The Black Stone Statue - Mary Elizabeth Counselman The Hairy Ones Shall Dance - Gans T. Field Far Below - Robert Barbour Johnson The Automatic Pistol - Fritz Leiber The Case of Charles Dexter Ward - H.P. Lovecraft Masquerade - Henry Kuttner Black Barter - Robert Bloch The Peeper - Frank Belknap Long Carnaby's Fish - Carl Jacobi Let's Play Poison - Ray Bradbury The Will of Claude Ashur - C. Hall Thompson The Professor's Teddy Bear - Theodore Sturgeon Come and Go Mad - Fredric Brown Legal Rites - Isaac Asimov and James MacCreigh Something Out There - August Derleth The Green Parrot - Joseph Payne Brennan Slaughter House - Richard Matheson Call Not Their Names - Everil Worrell
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