Volume three in a collection of various stories that is called Weird Tales #3. Edited by Lin Carter. It’s a revival of the classic fantasy and horror magazine Weird Tales. It is also numbered vol. 48, no. 3 (Fall 1981) in continuation of the numbering of the original magazine. The anthology was first published in paperback by American publisher Zebra Books in 1981.

It contains the story THE GUARDIAN OF THE IDOL. Originally an unfinished 700 word manuscript, with a synopses, this version is completed by Gerald W. Page.

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.

Contents

• [1] • The Eyrie (Weird Tales #3) • [The Eyrie] • essay by The Editor
• [1] •  The Eyrie (variant) • (1943) • interior artwork by Andrew Brosnatch
• [5] •  Weird Tales (masthead) • (1941) • interior artwork by Hannes Bok
• 7 • The Chinese Woman • novella by Evangeline Walton
• 78 • The Messenger • short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• 83 • To the Nightshade • (1970) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 84 • The Opposite House • novelette by Diane Brizzolara and John Brizzolara
• 124 • The Guardian of the Idol • short story by Robert E. Howard and Gerald W. Page
• 139 • The Black Garden • novelette by Carl Jacobi
• 164 • The House of the Temple • (1980) • novelette by Brian Lumley
• 217 • The Red Brain • (1927) • short story by Donald Wandrei
• 230 • The Summons • [Annals of Arkya • 5] • poem by Robert A. W. Lowndes
• 231 • The Viola • [Annals of Arkya • 6] • poem by Robert A. W. Lowndes
• 232 • Nobody Ever Goes There • [John the Balladeer] • short story by Manly Wade Wellman
• 249 • The Summons of Nuguth-Yug • short story by Marc Laidlaw and Gary Myers
• 257 • The Wind That Tramps the World • [John Steppling] • (1925) • short story by Frank Owen
• 275 • The Winfield Heritance • novelette by Lin Carter
• 316 •  Letter (Weird Tales #3) • [Letters: Robert A. W. Lowndes] • essay by Robert A. W. Lowndes
• 317 •  Letter (Weird Tales #3) • essay by David Mallory
• [319] • Coming Next Issue (Weird Tales #3) • essay by uncredited

Notes

Edited by Lin Carter
Associate editors: Roy Torgeson and Robert Weinberg
Volume 48 Number 3, Fall 1981