Redfury's Weird Tales pulp collection

[RedFury]

Thanks guys. The power is still out at my house and the temperature has dropped to 50 inside, which is way too cold for my little 6 month old, so we're staying with the in-laws.

 

Power was restored at my job, so I'll post a few books today.

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 23, Number 2

February, 1934

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage.

 

Includes The Valley of the Worm by Robert E. Howard, a reincarnation tale inspired by Jack London's 1915 novel The Star Rover. It is generally considered among REH fans to be one of his best.

 

Also includes The Witchcraft of Ulua by Clark Ashton Smith.

 

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 23, Number 3

March, 1934

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage.

 

Features the story Winged Death by Hazel Heald (H.P. Lovecraft).

 

Also includes The Charnel God by Clark Ashton Smith.

 

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 23, Number 4

April, 1934

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage.

 

Contains the Conan story Shadows in the Moonlight by Robert E. Howard.

 

Also includes The Death of Malygris by Clark Ashton Smith.

 

And there's also the second Northwest Smith story, Black Thirst, by C.L. Moore.

 

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 23, Number 5

May, 1934

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage.

 

1st Conan cover appearance. There are 9 Conan stories featured on the covers of Weird Tales. 3 of them actually have Conan on the cover. This is the 1st of those.

 

Features the Conan story Queen of the Black Coast by Robert E. Howard.

 

Also includes The Tomb-Spawn by Clark Ashton Smith.

 

And there's also the third Northwest Smith story, Scarlet Dream, by C.L. Moore.

 

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 23, Number 6

June, 1934

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage.

 

Contains a Robert E. Howard Cthulhu mythos story, The Haunter of the Ring. The story has a cool cross-over with Conan. It's set in modern day, but the story features the Ring of Thoth Amon, the evil wizard from the Conan story The Phoenix on the Sword.

 

Includes The Colossus of Ylourgne by Clark Ashton Smith.

 

Also has Wizard's Isle by Jack Williamson.

 

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 24, Number 1

July, 1934

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage.

 

Features the Cthulhu mythos story Through the Gates of the Silver Key by H. P. Lovecraft and E. Hoffmann Price. Price was such a fan of Lovecraft's 1929 story The Silver Key, he proposed writing this sequel. Price wrote a draft which Lovecraft heavily revised to become the final published version.

 

Also has The Disinterment of Venus by Clark Ashton Smith.

 

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 24, Number 2

August, 1934

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage.

 

This one has the 2nd Conan cover appearance, and it's my favorite of the three. Heck, it's one of my favorite Weird Tales covers of them all.

 

The cover story is the Conan story The Devil in Iron by Robert E. Howard.

 

There's also a Cthulhu mythos story included, The Isle of Dark Magic by Hugh B. Cave.

 

Also has the fourth Northwest Smith story, Dust of Gods, by C.L. Moore.

 

Also contains the popular story The Three Marked Pennies by Mary Elizabeth Counselman. From Wikipedia:

Her tale "The Three Marked Pennies," written while she was in her teens, and published in Weird Tales in 1934, was one of the three most popular in all of Weird Tales history. This oft-reprinted classic tells of a small town whose inhabitants awaken one morning to find anonymous notices posted throughout their city. The posts read, "During this day of April 15, three pennies will find their way into the pockets of the city. On each penny will be a well-defined mark. One is a square; one is a circle; and one is a cross. These three pennies will change hands often, as do all coins, and on the seventh day after this announcement (April 21) the possessor of each marked penny will receive a gift. To the first: $100,000 in cash. To the second: A trip around the world. To the third: Death."

 

[ciorac]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 23, Number 5

May, 1934

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage.

 

1st Conan cover appearance. There are 9 Conan stories featured on the covers of Weird Tales. 3 of them actually have Conan on the cover. This is the 1st of those.

 

Features the Conan story Queen of the Black Coast by Robert E. Howard.

 

Also includes The Tomb-Spawn by Clark Ashton Smith.

 

 

I have one of these as well, and am quite fond of it

[Flex Mentallo]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 23, Number 6

June, 1934

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage.

 

Contains a Robert E. Howard Cthulhu mythos story, The Haunter of the Ring. The story has a cool cross-over with Conan. It's set in modern day, but the story features the Ring of Thoth Amon, the evil wizard from the Conan story The Phoenix on the Sword.

 

Includes The Colossus of Ylourgne by Clark Ashton Smith.

 

Also has Wizard's Isle by Jack Williamson.

 

 

Oh! That is a beauty!

[Comicsarefun]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 23, Number 1

January, 1934

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage.

 

Nice Brundage nude cover for Seabury Quinn's The Red Knife of Hassan, a Jules de Grandin adventure.

 

Features the Conan story Rogues in the House by Robert E. Howard.

 

 

This the first Weird Tales I ever bought (won on eBay). I sold it some time ago. One day, I hope to find a super high grade copy of it to keep forever. The cover is Brundage pulp iconic perfection, and the Conan story is one of the best!

 

Love this thread... (thumbs u

[Pat Calhoun]

 

 

 

 

 

[RedFury]

Thanks Pat! (thumbs u

I looked for an online version to link to, but there doesn't appear to be any.

[Comicopolis]

Great thread, great books, great info.

 

Makes me want to dig out my WT collection to look at.

[RedFury]

Thanks

Do it! Don't let them sit in the box forever. They want to be loved.

[RedFury]

I'm happy to report we got out power back as of this morning!

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 24, Number 3

September, 1934

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage.

 

This great Brundage cover is the 5th Conan story cover for Weird Tales.

 

Begins the Conan epic The People of the Black Circle (Part 1 of 3) by Robert E. Howard.

 

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 24, Number 4

October, 1934

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage.

 

Continues the Conan epic The People of the Black Circle (Part 2 of 3) by Robert E. Howard.

 

Contains The Seven Geases, a Cthulhu mythos story by Clark Ashton Smith.

 

The cover story is The Black God's Kiss by C.L. Moore, one of the pioneering female writers of the speculative fiction genre (C.L. stood for Catherine Lucille). The Black God's Kiss was the first of her series of sword and sorcery adventures starring Jirel of Joiry, the first female protagonist in these kinds of stories.

 

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 25, Number 1

January, 1935

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage.

 

Features The Feast in the Abbey, the first professional work by Robert Bloch, who would later be best remembered as the writer of Psycho.

 

Contains a Clark Ashton Smith story, The Dark Eidolon.

 

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 25, Number 2

February, 1935

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage

 

Contains the horror story The Grisly Horror by Robert E. Howard.

 

Also contains The Silver Bullet by Phyllis A. Whitney. Whitney wrote about 100 stories for the pulps, and about 70 novels. In the 1960s, she twice won the Edgar Allan Poe award for best juvenile novel. In 1975 she became president of the Mystery Writers of America and in 1988 was awarded their prestigious Grand Master award. She passed away in 2008 at the age of 104.