Weird Tales: The Best of the 1920s

Edition and production details

Language

English

3 linked Howard works

• Forbidden Magic verse Publications
• The Harp of Alfred verse Publications
• The Shadow Kingdom story Howard writing Publications

72 contents entries

1. " The Shadow Kingdom "
2. "Forbidden Magic" (poem)
3. "The Harp of Alfred" (poem)
4. Non-REH Content
5. Fiction
6. " Ooze " by Anthony M. Rud
7. " Beyond the Door " by Paul Suter
8. " The Loved Dead " by C. M. Eddy, Jr.
9. " Imprisoned with the Pharaohs " by Houdini
10. " The Malignant Entity " by Otis Adelbert Kline
11. " The Stranger From Kurdistan " by E. Hoffmann Price
12. " The Werewolf of Ponkert " by H. Warner Munn
13. " The Oldest Story in the World " by Murray Leinster
14. " Lukundoo " by Edward Lucas White
15. " When the Graves Were Opened " by Arthur J. Burks
16. " The Fair Pastie Pye " by Arthur Edwards Chapman
17. " The Outsider " by H. P. Lovecraft
18. " The Silent Trees " by Frank Owen
19. " Through the Vortex " by Donald Edward Keyhoe
20. " The Monster-God of Mamurth " by Edmond Hamilton
21. " The Woman of the Wood " by A. Merritt
22. " The Night Wire " by H. F. Arnold
23. " Jumbee " by Henry S. Whitehead
24. " Ye Goode Olde Ghoste Storie " by William A.P. White
25. " The Dead-Wagon " by Greye La Spina
26. " The Red Brain " by Donald Wandrei
27. " The Canal " by Everil Worrell
28. " In Amundsen's Tent " by John Martin Leahy
29. " The Eighth Green Man " by G. G. Pendarves
30. " The Devil's Martyr " by Signe Toksvig
31. " The Copper Bowl " by George Fielding Eliot
32. " The Chapel of Mystic Horror " by Seabury Quinn
33. "The Rat " by S. Fowler Wright
34. " The Hounds of Tindalos " by Frank Belknap Long
35. " The Hanging of Alfred Wadham " by E. F. Benson
36. " The Gray Lady " by Flavia Richardson
37. Verse
38. " Two Crows " by Francis Hard
39. " Fear " by Cristel Hastings
40. " Fate " by Thelma E. Johnson
41. " Astarte " by E. Hoffmann Price
42. " The Nightmare Tarn " by Clark Ashton Smith
43. " Yule-Horror " by H. P. Lovecraft
44. "November" by A. Leslie
45. " Ghost Lore " by Gertrude Wright
46. " The Eye " by Donald Wandrei
47. " Ballade of Phantom Ships " by William James Price
48. " The Chant of the Grave-Digger " by Robert Spencer Carr
49. " Transformation " by Harvey W. Flink
50. " The Haunted Castle " by Lilla Price Savino
51. " The White Road " by Manly Wade Wellman
52. " Stallions of the Moon " by Frank Belknap Long
53. " Le Revenant " by Charles Baudelaire
54. " The Sorceress " by C. Noir
55. " A Vision of the Future " by Donald Wandrei
56. " Ghost Lore " by Gertrude Wright
57. " Vampire " by Bertrande Harry Snell
58. " Ballade of Wandering Ghosts " by Hanna Baird Campbell
59. " The Witch Girl " by A. Leslie
60. " Danse Macabre " by Jean Lahors
61. " Nyctalops " by Clark Ashton Smith
62. " The Inland Sea " by Frank Belknap Long
63. Non-Fiction
64. "Introduction" by Darrell Schweitzer
65. Weird Tales Cover Gallery
66. "Why Weird Tales?" by Otis Adelbert Kline The original statement of purpose. (May-June-July 1924)
67. "Letter to J. C. Henneberger" by H. P. Lovecraft
68. "Letters to Joel Frieman" by J. C. Henneberger Weird Tales's first editor's candid letters to Joel Frieman.
69. "Writing for Weird Tales" by H. Warner Munn
70. "The Eyrie" by Darrell Schweitzer
71. Contributor Biographies by Darrell Schweitzer
72. Allen Koszowski rounds out the book with 40 pen and ink portraits

Contributors

Darrell Schweitzer

Introduction author

Jim Burns

Cover artist, Illustrator

Francesco Giani

Illustrator

Allen Koszowski

Illustrator