Volume four and the last in a collection of various stories that is called Weird Tales #4. Edited by Lin Carter. It’s a revival of the classic fantasy and horror magazine Weird Tales. It is also numbered vol. 48, no. 4 (Fall 1981) in continuation of the numbering of the original magazine. The anthology was first published in paperback by American publisher Zebra Books in 1983.

It contains the poem THE DOOM CHANT OF THAN-KUL by Howard.

The book collects thirteen 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 #4) • [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
• 9 • The Next Glade • (1980) • novelette by Robert Aickman
• 55 • Crocuses • novelette by Charles Sheffield
• 83 • The Belfry • short story by James Arthur Anderson [as by James Anderson]
• 103 • There Are No Ghosts in Catholic Spain • (1981) • poem by Ray Bradbury
• 109 • Homecoming • novelette by Frank Belknap Long
• 137 • Compliments of the Season • short story by John Brizzolara
• 153 • The City of Dread • (1955) • novella by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach
• 201 • The Doom Chant of Than-Kul • (1983) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 205 • Save the Children! • short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• 215 • The Sea-Gods • (1923) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 219 • Ooze • (1923) • novelette by Anthony M. Rud
• 253 • Late Night Final • short story by Stuart H. Stock
• 275 • The Vengeance of Yig • short story by Lin Carter

Notes

Edited by Lin Carter
Associate editors: Roy Torgeson and Robert Weinberg
Volume 48 Number 4, Summer 1983