Weird Tales 1973 Fall. Contains THE MAN ON THE GROUND. is a short story by Robert Ervin Howard where two men are fighting a final duel. First published in Weird Tales 1933 July. It is a brief short story (under 2200 words) set in Texas about two men (Cal Reynolds & Esau Brill) who have been feuding for so long that no one really knows how their feud began.
Contents
- fep • Reaching Our Audience • essay by Sam Moskowitz
- 1 • Weird Tales (masthead) • (1941) • interior artwork by Hannes Bok
- ‘2 • Eloi Eloi Lama Sabachthani • short story by William Hope Hodgson (variant of The Baumoff Explosive 1919)
- 3 • Eloi Eloi Lama Sabachthani • interior artwork by uncredited
- 12 • Atlantis • (1947) • poem by Stanton A. Coblentz
- 13 • The Clash of Dishes • (1903) • short story by Ian Maclaren
- 19 • Eternal Rediffusion • short story by Leslie J. Johnson and Eric Frank Russell
- 23 • Sword in the Snow • novelette by E. C. Tubb
- 31 • Funeral in Another Town • short story by Jerry Jacobson
- 37 • Funeral in Another Town • interior artwork by uncredited
- 42 • The Man in the Bottle • short story by Gustav Meyrink (trans. of Der Mann auf der Flasche 1904)
- 46 • The Smiling People • (1946) • short story by Ray Bradbury
- 47 • The Smiling People • interior artwork by uncredited
- 52 • Supernatural Horror in Literature • [Supernatural Horror in Literature] • (1927) • essay by H. P. Lovecraft
- 52 • Introduction: Supernatural Horror in Literature • essay by Willis Conover
- 57 • The Man on the Ground • (1933) • short story by Robert E. Howard
- 61 • Song for Wood Horns • (1910) • poem by A. Merritt
- 61 • Song for Wood Horns • interior artwork by uncredited
- 62 • William Hope Hodgson – Novelist • [William Hope Hodgson • 2] • essay by Sam Moskowitz
- 74 • Virgil Finlay (A folio) • essay by Virgil Finlay
- 74 • Virgil Finlay (A folio) • interior artwork by Virgil Finlay
- 76 • The Utmost Abomination • short story by Lin Carter and Clark Ashton Smith
- 77 • The Utmost Abomination • interior artwork by uncredited
- 83 • Felix Marti-Ibanez, M.D. (obituary) • essay by Sam Moskowitz
- 84 • The Buried Paradise • (1963) • short story by Felix Marti-Ibanez
- 85 • The Buried Paradise • interior artwork by uncredited
- 91 • The Fate of the “Senegambian Queen” • (1900) • short story by Wardon Allan Curtis
- 93 • Great Ashtoreth • (1930) • poem by Frank Belknap Long
- 94 • The Eyrie (Weird Tales, Fall 1973) • [The Eyrie] • essay by uncredited
- 94 • The Eyrie • (1924) • interior artwork by Andrew Brosnatch
- 94 • Letter (Weird Tales, Fall 1973): A Good Friend • essay by Carl Jacobi
- 95 • Letter (Weird Tales, Fall 1973): Suggestions Made • essay by Crispin Burnham
- 95 • Letter (Weird Tales, Fall 1973): Certainty Expressed • essay by G. M. Farley [as by Reverend G. M. Farley]
- 95 • Letter (Weird Tales, Fall 1973): Contributor Promises • essay by Howell Calhoun [as by Howell Vincent Calhoun]
- 96 • Letter (Weird Tales, Fall 1973): Suggestions for the Future • essay by Edward S. Lauterbach
| Publisher : | Weird Tales, Los Angeles |
| Year : | Fall 1973 |
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| Format : | Periodical (6.25 x 9.38, perfect bound) |
| Pages : | 96 |
| Cover : | Gary van der Steur (after Hannes Bok) |
| Illustrations : | Virgil Finlay |
Notes
Volume 47, Number 2.
The homage cover is described as being (after Hannes Bok).
“Supernatural Horror in Literature” is described as ‘The Unpublished 1936 Condensed Final Version’.
“The Utmost Abomination” is expanded from a 400-word outline by Clark Ashton Smith.
The Virgil Finlay folio contains 8 badly reproduced and substantially reduced pieces of artwork with dates between 1936 and 1939.
“The Man in the Bottle” is accidentally listed as “The Man on the Bottle” on the title and header pages of the story but is listed as “The Man in the Bottle” in the title of contents and the introduction to the story.
The interior art for “The Eyrie” matches art from earlier issues credited to Brosnatch in The Collector’s Index to Weird Tales by Jaffery & Cook
The art on the contents page (1) matches art from earlier issues signed by Bok.
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