Redfury's Weird Tales pulp collection

[RedFury]

I'd like to share my growing Weird Tales collection and didn't want to clog up the "I'll Pound You to a Pulp" thread, so I'm starting this new thread. I hope you enjoy it.

 

 

 

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 5, Number 6

June, 1925

 

The three-color cover is by Andrew Brosnatch, who did all of the covers and I believe most of the interior artwork in all issues from November 1924 to March 1926.

 

I like the giant spider motif cover. It pre-dates other more famous giant spider battles in Conan (The Tower of the Elephant), The Lord of the Rings (Shelob), and Harry Potter (Aragog).

 

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 9, Number 1

January, 1927

 

Cover by C. Barker Petrie, Jr. Weird Tales experimented with both red and black bordered covers before settling on red for many years. This is one of just a few black bordered issues.

 

Includes the short story "The Horror at Red Hook" by H.P. Lovecraft.

 

[aardvark88]

Great pulps. Thanks for sharing. First time I have ever seen Weird Tales and Harry Potter in same sentence.

[RedFury]

Great pulps. Thanks for sharing. First time I have ever seen Weird Tales and Harry Potter in same sentence.

 

Thanks!

[Comics-n-ERB]

 

Can't wait to see them all, start posting!!!

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 9, Number 2

February, 1927

 

Cover by C. Barker Petrie, Jr.

 

The Seabury Quinn cover story, The Man Who Cast No Shadow, is an early Jules de Grandin adventure about a vampire that comes to America.

 

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 9, Number 4

April, 1927

 

Cover by C. C. Senf.

 

Ray Cummings, author of the cover story Explorers Into Infinity, was a prolific science fiction writer with 750 novels and short stories to his credit. Later, he wrote Captain America, Human Torch, and Sub-mariner stories for Timely Comics.

 

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 9, Number 5

May, 1927

 

Cover by C. C. Senf.

 

Cover story author Donald Keyhoe was an interesting character himself. He was a Marine aviator who was injured in a crash in 1922, and began writing as a hobby during his long recovery. Eventually, four of his stories were published in Weird Tales. In later life, Koyhoe became obsessed with UFOs and was one of the leading voices accusing the Air Force of a cover-up. His 1950 book, The Flying Saucers Are Real, sold a half million copies.

 

Also includes the Robert E. Howard poem The Song of the Bats.

 

[Flex Mentallo]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 9, Number 4

April, 1927

 

Cover by C. C. Senf.

 

Ray Cummings, author of the cover story Explorers Into Infinity, was a prolific science fiction writer with 750 novels and short stories to his credit. Later, he wrote Captain America, Human Torch, and Sub-mariner stories for Timely Comics.

 

 

Very nice Todd! Keep 'em coming!

[RedFury]

 

Very nice Todd! Keep 'em coming!

 

Thanks! There's plenty more coming.

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 9, Number 6

June, 1927

 

Cover by C. C. Senf.

 

The cover story's author, Greye La Spina, was born Fanny Greye Bragg in Massachusetts in 1880. In 1910 she married Italian baron Robert La Spina and became a baroness. She published over 100 stories in her lifetime, selling many to Weird Tales, which continued to publish her work into the 1950s.

 

[Larryw7]

Really nice books, Todd!

[RedFury]

Really nice books, Todd!

 

Thanks Larry!

[Point Five]

This looks like a thread to watch. Never seen some of these early ones... Enjoying the show so far. (thumbs u

 

 

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 10, Number 3

September, 1927

 

Cover by C. C. Senf.

 

Cover story author Bassett Morgan was another female writer contributing to Weird Tales, which published 13 of her stories between 1926 and 1936. Many of her stories were about a man's brain being transferred into the body of an ape, but this story, The Wolf Woman, is about a primitive woman frozen in the Arctic (à la Captain America).

 

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 10, Number 4

October, 1927

 

Cover by C. C. Senf.

 

Contains the H.P. Lovecraft short story Pickman's Model and Robert E. Howard's poem The Ride of Falume.

 

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 10, Number 5

November, 1927

 

Cover by C. C. Senf.

 

Cover story author Arthur J. Burks was another US Marine who wrote for Weird Tales. Burks served in both WWI and WWII and retired as a lieutenant colonel. He was an extremely prolific writer who produced about 800 stories for pulps.

 

Also contains the first professional work of Manly Wade Wellman, Back to the Beast.

 

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 10, Number 6

December, 1927

 

Cover by Hugh Rankin.

 

The cover story, The Infidel's Daughter, is a satire of the Ku Klux Klan that angered some southerners at the time. Writer E. Hoffman Price is the only pulp writer known to have met Robert E. Howard in person. And he is the only person known to have met Howard, H.P. Lovecraft, and Clark Ashton Smith in person.

 

[143ksk]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 10, Number 6

December, 1927

 

Cover by Hugh Rankin.

 

The cover story, The Infidel's Daughter, is a satire of the Ku Klux Klan that angered some southerners at the time. Writer E. Hoffman Price is the only pulp writer known to have met Robert E. Howard in person. And he is the only person known to have met Howard, H.P. Lovecraft, and Clark Ashton Smith in person.

 

 

Great cover