Weird Tales

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Weird Tales 1931 April and May

Popular Fiction Publishing Company

1931

Material type

Pulp magazine

Publication categories

Pulps: Weird Tales

Publication date: April and May 1931

Introduction

The Children of the Night is a 1931 short story by Robert E. Howard, belonging to the Cthulhu Mythos. It was first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in the April/May 1931 issue. Howard earned $60 for this publication.

The story starts with six people sitting in John Conrad's study: Conrad himself, Clemants, Professor Kirowan, Taverel, Ketrick and the narrator John O'Donnel. O'Donnel describes them all as Anglo-Saxon with the exception of Ketrick. Ketrick, although he possesses a documented pure Anglo-Saxon lineage, appears to have slightly Mongolian-looking eyes and an odd lisp that O'Donnel finds distasteful.

Notes

Month from table of contents. The cover states only "May 1931".
Volume XVII, Number 3.
Page numbers run from 289-432 excluding covers.
Canada price C$0.30.
Interior art credits for "The Eyrie" and "Fungi from Yuggoth" per Jaffery & Cook The Collector's Index to Weird Tales.

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Edition and production details

Format: Pulp
Publication date: April and May 1931
Pages: 144
Publisher / imprint: Popular Fiction Publishing Company
Cover art: Curtis C. Senf
Illustrations: See above

1 linked Howard work

The Children of the Nightstory

52 contents entries

"The Children of the Night"
The Eyrie • (1924) • interior artwork by Andrew Brosnatch 292 · artwork
Non-REH Content
The Eyrie (Weird Tales, April-May 1931) • [The Eyrie] • essay by The Editor 292 · essay
The Eyrie (letter column)
Letter (Weird Tales, April-May 1931) • essay by Robert W. Nelson 292 · essay
"The Piper of the Pines" by Marjorie Holmes (poem)
Letter (Weird Tales, April-May 1931) • essay by Bernie Willbanks 294 · essay
"Ten Million Years Ahead" by Edmond Hamilton
Letter (Weird Tales, April-May 1931) • essay by Mrs. Amos Lockard 294 · essay
"The Dust of Death" by Hugh Jeffries
Letter (Weird Tales, April-May 1931) • essay by Nim Keng Eok 294 · essay
"Futility" by C. A. Livingston (poem)
Letter (Weird Tales, April-May 1931) • essay by J. E. Roper 294 · essay
"A Rendezvous in Averoigne" by Clark Ashton Smith
Letter (Weird Tales, April-May 1931) • essay by Kadra Maysi 294 · essay
"Fungi from Yuggoth: 10. Alienation" by H. P. Lovecraft (poem)
Letter (Weird Tales, April-May 1931) • essay by Emily Wolff 296 · essay
"The Dead-Alive" by Nat Schachner & Arthur Leo Zagat
Letter (Weird Tales, April-May 1931) • essay by Ralph M. Melster 296 · essay
"The Phantom Flight" by Arlton Eadie
Letter (Weird Tales, April-May 1931) • essay by William P. Brewster 296 · essay
"The Treasure of Almeria" by Marian Thornton
Letter (Weird Tales, April-May 1931) • essay by Ben Belitt 296 · essay
Letter (Weird Tales, April-May 1931) • essay by Clark Ashton Smith 296 · essay
Letter (Weird Tales, April-May 1931) • essay by Mrs. Maude K. Spangler 298 · essay
Letter (Weird Tales, April-May 1931) • essay by Allan Farwell 298 · essay
Letter (Weird Tales, April-May 1931) • essay by H. L. Harmon 298 · essay
Letter (Weird Tales, April-May 1931) • essay by J. H. Zichterman 298 · essay
The Piper of the Pines • poem by Marjorie Holmes 302 · poem
The Piper of the Pines • interior artwork by C. C. Senf 302 · artwork
Ten Million Years Ahead • novelette by Edmond Hamilton 304 · novelette
Ten Million Years Ahead • interior artwork by C. C. Senf 305 · artwork
The Dust of Death • novella by Hugh Jeffries 320 · novelette
The Dust of Death • interior artwork by C. C. Senf 320 · artwork
Weird Tales, April-May 1931 • [Weird Tales Decorations] • interior artwork by uncredited (variant of Weird Tales, March 1925 [2] 1925) 352 · artwork
The Children of the Night • [Cthulhu Mythos Tales] • short story by Robert E. Howard 353 · story
The Children of the Night • interior artwork by C. C. Senf 353 · artwork
Futility • poem by C. A. Livingston 363 · poem
A Rendezvous in Averoigne • [Averoigne] • short story by Clark Ashton Smith 364 · story
A Rendezvous in Averoigne • interior artwork by C. C. Senf 365 · artwork
Fungi from Yuggoth • (1930) • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 374 · artwork
Alienation • [Fungi from Yuggoth • 32] • poem by H. P. Lovecraft 374 · poem
The Dead-Alive • novelette by Nat Schachner and Arthur Leo Zagat [as by Nat Schachner and Arthur L. Zagat] 375 · novelette
The Dead-Alive • interior artwork by C. C. Senf 375 · artwork
The Phantom Flight • short story by Arlton Eadie 400 · story
The Phantom Flight • interior artwork by C. C. Senf 401 · artwork
The Dragoman's Secret • interior artwork by Joseph Doolin 409 · artwork
The Dragoman's Secret (excerpt) • short fiction by Otis Adelbert Kline 409 · story
Coming Next Issue (Weird Tales, April-May 1931) • essay by uncredited 413 · essay
The Treasure of Almeria • short story by Marian Thornton 414 · story
The Treasure of Almeria • interior artwork by C. C. Senf 414 · artwork

Contributors

Curtis C. Senf: Cover artist
Hugh Rankin , Curtis C. Senf , Andrew Brosnatch: Illustrator
See above: Illustrator

Additional related terms

Preserved from the former REH World tagging system; these terms have not yet been assigned as contributors, characters or subjects.

C. C. Senf Clark Ashton Smith H. P. Lovecraft Pulp Robert E. Howard Weird Tales

Bibliographic and editorial layers

Howard Works source layer

Title: Weird Tales Volume 17 Number 3
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Company
Date: April-May 1931
Source file: weirdtalesV17N3-April1931.html

REH World editorial layer

Title: Weird Tales 1931 April and May
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Company
Date: April and May 1931