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| This was the first Weird Tales story. If only we could get an original physical copy of that first issue! This particular tale is said to be one of the chief reasons for 30s censorship, silly as it might seem today. It's one of my favorite stories. May we all end up as ooze.
Pulpshmoo |
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| How I wish all the stories in that very first issue had gotten loaded on here!
I first became acquainted with WT when I started reading H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard back in the 1960s. I imagine the work of some of its better-known authors is under copyright, but it would be wonderful to find a site with a complete run of the magazine, though I suspect some issues may be totally lost. |
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| Here's a site that should somewhat satisfy Pulpshmoo's and Hawkbrother's wishes for a copy of Weird Tales #1 and the rest of the run.
http://www.luminist.org/archives/SF/WT.htm
The above luminist site has the complete WT run, minus a few, for downloading to a pdf file. From there, each complete issue can be read. Selected stories can even be printed on one's printer. Hawkbrother, it appears that all the WT Conan stories except one, are available.
Click the cover page to see an enlarged cover.
Click a blue date to see the whole mag in pdf.
A black date indicates that the issue is not available.
This next luminist site also contains many other SF/Horror/Fantasy pulp mags.
http://www.luminist.org/archives/SF/
And this luminist site lists the several categories of other old periodicals.
http://www.luminist.org/archives/periodicals_index.htm |
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| Most issues are also now on the internet archive. If you prefer a hard copy, you can get replicas from Girasol Collectables in Canada that are in pristine condition and that will save you big bucks. |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | 0000 | Price: $0.25 | Pages: 196 | Cover Artist: R. R. Epperly |
| Publisher | The Rural Publishing Corp. | Editor : Edwin Baird |
| Notes |
mar. 1923→apr. 1923
Volume 1, Number 1
Additional data from the Girasol Collectibles facsimile reprint of this issue. |
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| Page: 7 | The Dead Man's Tale - by Willard E. Hawkins |
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| Page: 19 | Ooze - by Anthony M. Rud |
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| Page: 32 | The Thing of a Thousand Shapes (Part 1 of 2) - serial by Otis Adelbert Kline |
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| Page: 41 | The Mystery of Black Jean - by Julian Kilman |
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| Page: 47 | The Grave - by Orville R. Emerson |
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| Page: 53 | Hark! The Rattle! - by Joel Townsley Rogers |
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| Page: 59 | The Ghost Guard - by Bryan Irvine |
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| Page: 65 | The Ghoul and the Corpse - by G. A. Wells |
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| Page: 73 | Fear - by David R. Solomon |
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| Page: 77 | The Chain - by Hamilton Craigie |
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| Page: 89 | The Place of Madness - by Merlin Moore Taylor |
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| Page: 98 | The Closing Hand - by Farnsworth Wright |
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| Page: 100 | The Unknown Beast - by Howard Ellis Davis |
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| Page: 106 | The Basket - by Herbert J. Mangham |
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| Page: 110 | The Accusing Voice - by Meredith Davis |
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| Page: 119 | The Sequel - short story by Walter Scott Story |
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| Page: 122 | The Weaving Shadows - by W. H. Holmes |
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| Page: 130|130.1 | Queer Tribes of Savages Found in Africa - essay by uncredited |
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| Page: 130|130.2 | African Brides Must Be Plump - essay by uncredited |
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| Page: 131 | Nimba, the Cave Girl - by R. T. M. Scott |
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| Page: 135 | The Young Man Who Wanted to Die - by ? ? ? |
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| Page: 140 | The Scarlet Night - by William Sanford |
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| Page: 143 | The Extraordinary Experiment of Dr. Calgroni - by Joseph Faus |
| Page: 143 | The Extraordinary Experiment of Dr. Calgroni - by James Bennett Wooding |
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| Page: 149|149.1 | Ten Pallbearers for This Mamoth Woman - essay by uncredited |
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| Page: 149|149.2 | Woman Starves to Feed Her Cats - essay by uncredited |
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| Page: 150 | The Return of Paul Slavsky - by Capt. George Warburton Lewis |
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| Page: 155 | Unearth Vast Wealth in Egyptian Tomb - essay by uncredited |
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| Page: 156 | The House of Death - by F. Georgia Stroup |
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| Page: 160 | "Evil Demon" Drives Man to Orgy of Crime - essay by uncredited |
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| Page: 161 | The Gallows - by I. W. D. Peters |
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| Page: 164 | The Skull - by Harold Ward |
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| Page: 169 | The Ape-Man - by J. B. M. Clarke, Jr. |
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| Page: 180 | The Eyrie (Weird Tales, March 1923) - essay by The Editor |
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