This collection of various stories is called Weird Tales #1 and was edited by Lin Carter, the first in his paperback revival of the classic fantasy and horror magazine Weird Tales. It is also numbered vol. 48, no. 1 (Spring 1981) in continuation of the numbering of the original magazine. The anthology was first published in paperback by American publisher Zebra Books in December 1980, and reprinted in 1983.

It contains SCARLET TEARS (an extensively rewritten story by Lin Carter, based on Howard’s HAND OF THE BLACK GODDESS), and the poem RED THUNDER by Robert E. Howard.

The book collects fourteen novelettes, short stories, and poems by various fantasy authors, including both new works by various fantasy authors and reprints from authors associated with the original Weird Tales, together with an editorial and introductory notes to the individual pieces by the editor. The pieces include a “posthumous collaboration” (the story by Smith and Carter).

Contents

• [1] • The Eyrie (Weird Tales #1) • [The Eyrie] • essay by Lin Carter
• [1] •  The Eyrie (variant) • (1943) • interior artwork by Andrew Brosnatch
• [6] •  Weird Tales (masthead) • (1941) • interior artwork by Hannes Bok
• 9 • Scarlet Tears • novelette by Robert E. Howard
• 47 • Down There • (1978) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
• 65 • The Light from the Pole • short story by Lin Carter and Clark Ashton Smith
• 86 • Someone Named Guibourg • novelette by Hannes Bok
• 116 • The Worshippers • [Annals of Arkya • 2] • poem by Robert A. W. Lowndes
• 116 • The Courier • [Annals of Arkya • 1] • poem by Robert A. W. Lowndes
• 117 • Bat’s Belfry • (1926) • short story by August Derleth
• 130 • The Pit • short story by Carl Jacobi
• 149 • When the Clock Strikes • short story by Tanith Lee
• 174 • Red Thunder • (1929) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 175 • Some Day I’ll Kill You! • (1941) • short story by Seabury Quinn
• 194 • Healer • novelette by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
• 219 • The House Without Mirrors • short story by David H. Keller, M.D.
• 230 • Dreams in the House of Weir • short story by Lin Carter
• 262 •  Letter (Weird Tales #1) • essay by Ray Bradbury
• 263 •  Letter (Weird Tales #1) • [Letters: Robert Bloch] • essay by Robert Bloch
• 264 •  Letter (Weird Tales #1) • essay by Theodore Sturgeon
• 265 •  Letter (Weird Tales #1) • [Letters: Sam Moskowitz] • essay by Sam Moskowitz
• 267 • Coming Next Issue (Weird Tales #1) • essay by uncredited

Notes

Edited by Lin Carter
Associate editors: Roy Torgeson and Robert Weinberg
Volume 48 Number 1, Spring 1981
Second printing in 1983