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Tuesday Nov 02, 2021
”Ye Goode Olde Ghoste Storie” by William A. P. White
Tuesday Nov 02, 2021
Tuesday Nov 02, 2021
"Ye Goode Olde Ghoste Storie" by William A. P. White first appeared in Weird Tales in January 1927. The magazine described the tale as: "The Chilling Chamber of Fantomheath Fields; or, The Winning of Alicia, the Beautiful."

Sunday Oct 31, 2021
”The Mandarin‘s Canaries” by Robert Bloch
Sunday Oct 31, 2021
Sunday Oct 31, 2021
"The Mandarin's Canaries" first appeared in Weird Tales in its September 1938 edition. The story tells of a torture-mad Chinese ruler, and his aptly named Garden of Pain.

Thursday Oct 28, 2021
”The Epiphany of Death” / A Classic Weird Tale by Clark Ashton Smith
Thursday Oct 28, 2021
Thursday Oct 28, 2021
"The Epiphany of Death" (also known as 'Who Are the Living?') is a short story by Clark Ashton Smith. The tale, which first appeared in The Fantasy Fan in its July 1934 edition, tells of a shocking revelation in the catacombs of Ptolemides.

Tuesday Oct 26, 2021
”The Horror in the Hold” by Frank Belknap Long
Tuesday Oct 26, 2021
Tuesday Oct 26, 2021
"The Horror in the Hold" by American author Frank Belknap Long, first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in February 1932. The magazine described the tale as follows: "A tale of the old adventurous days when Spain and England fought for the supremacy of the seas.”

Sunday Oct 24, 2021
”Mommy” / A Classic Weird Tale by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
Sunday Oct 24, 2021
Sunday Oct 24, 2021
"Mommy" is a short story by American writer, Mary Elizabeth Counselman. The story tells of a little girl in an orphanage, who claims to have been visited by her dead mother. It first appeared in Weird Tales in April 1939.

Thursday Oct 21, 2021
”The Tree-Men of M‘Bwa” by Donald Wandrei
Thursday Oct 21, 2021
Thursday Oct 21, 2021
"The Tree-Men of M'Bwa" by Donald Wandrei first appeared in Weird Tales in February 1932. The magazine described the tale as: "A startling story of Africa, strange monstrosities, and the weird power of the Whirling Flux."

Sunday Oct 17, 2021
”Vallisneria Madness” by Ralph Milne Farley
Sunday Oct 17, 2021
Sunday Oct 17, 2021
“Vallisneria Madness” by Ralph Milne Farley, first crawled up out of the earth in the May 1937 edition of Weird Tales Magazine. The tale was described as follows: “A strange and curious little story, about the moonlight mating of flowers.”

Thursday Oct 14, 2021
”The City of Lost Souls” by Genevieve Larsson
Thursday Oct 14, 2021
Thursday Oct 14, 2021
"The City of Lost Souls" by Genevieve Larsson first appeared in Weird Tales in October 1928. This is how the magazine described the tale: "Weirdly terrible was the punishment of the twelve who avenged a brutal murder in a spectacular way."

Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
”The Seed from the Sepulchre” / A Classic Weird Tale by Clark Ashton Smith
Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
"The Seed from the Sepulchre" is a short story by Clark Ashton Smith. The tale, which first appeared in Weird Tales in October 1933, was described by the magazine as follows: “A horror tale of the Venezuelan jungle, and a diabolical plant that lived on human life.”

Sunday Oct 10, 2021
”The Drone” / A Weird Tale of Metamorphosis by Abraham Merritt
Sunday Oct 10, 2021
Sunday Oct 10, 2021
"The Drone" is a short story by Abraham Merritt. The tale explores two rather unusual cases of metamorphosis.