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Tuesday Apr 12, 2022
Tuesday Apr 12, 2022
"Return to Death" is a short story by the two-time Weird Tales contributor, J. Wesley Rosenquest. Appearing in the January 1936 edition of the magazine, the story was described as follows: “A brief tale about the ghastly horror that befell the man in the coffin.”
Sunday Apr 10, 2022
Sunday Apr 10, 2022
"The Boat on the Beach" is a short story by Kadra Maysi, aka, Katherine Simons, of Charleston, South Carolina. The story first appeared in Weird Tales in December 1930, and was described as follows: "Strange was the woman who came down to the boat at night, and stranger still was the weird event that befell her."
Tuesday Apr 05, 2022
Tuesday Apr 05, 2022
"The Distortion Out of Space" is a cosmic horror story by Francis Flagg. Evidently a nod to Lovecraft’s COLOUR, the tale tells of a strange being that came from outer space in a meteoroid. It was first published in the August 1934 edition of Weird Tales Magazine.
Sunday Apr 03, 2022
Sunday Apr 03, 2022
"The Tree of Life" is a short story by the regular Weird Tales contributor, Paul Ernst. The story first appeared in the September 1930 edition of Weird Tales, and tells of a curious tree whose leaves could revivify a corpse.
Tuesday Mar 29, 2022
Tuesday Mar 29, 2022
"The Haunter of the Ring" is a Cthulhu Mythos story featuring the characters Conrad and Kirowan by Robert E. Howard. The story first emerged in Weird Tales in June 1934, and was described as follows: "A strange story of dark powers and occult evil."
Sunday Mar 27, 2022
Sunday Mar 27, 2022
"Dusk" is a short story by British writer, Saki. In another look at the darker side of human nature, the tale explores the concept of trust.
Tuesday Mar 22, 2022
Tuesday Mar 22, 2022
"The Chadbourne Episode" is a short story by the American writer, Henry S. Whitehead. It first appeared in the February 1933 edition of Weird Tales Magazine with the following description: “A shuddery graveyard tale of ghastly shapes glimpsed in the moonlight, and little, reddish, half-gnawed bones scattered about the tomb in the Old Cemetery.”
Sunday Mar 20, 2022
Sunday Mar 20, 2022
"An Evening's Entertainment" is a short story from M. R. James' 1925 collection, A Warning to the Curious. The tale concerns a number of strange goings-on in an otherwise quiet, English village.
Tuesday Mar 15, 2022
Tuesday Mar 15, 2022
"It Walks by Night" is a classic weird tale by Henry Kuttner. It first appeared in Weird Tales in December 1936, and was described as follows: “A blood-chilling narrative of a ghastly horror that stalked through the crypts beneath the old graveyard.”
Sunday Mar 13, 2022
Sunday Mar 13, 2022
"The Ocean Ogre" by American author Dana Carroll, first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in July 1937. The story, told through a series of journal entries, tells of a ship stranded at sea, and of the stranger who came to its aid.