OtherEric Posted May 9, 2021 Share Posted May 9, 2021 And here we have the October 1937 Weird Tales, with the first publication... but not the first printing... of "The Shunned House". The story was actually printed in a very limited edition almost a decade earlier, but other than a very few copies that went to the people creating it, it was not actually distributed at that time. Eventually Arkham House wound up getting the unbound pages and releasing them several years later. Surfing Alien and jimjum12 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarg Posted May 9, 2021 Share Posted May 9, 2021 On 5/3/2021 at 12:05 PM, OtherEric said: June 1936 Astounding, with the first publication of "The Shadow Out of Time". This is the first Lovecraft pulp I ever owned, my favorite Lovecraft story, and possibly my all-time favorite pulp cover, to the point where I had it made into a t-shirt. What's not to love about a cover that features Lovecraftian monstrosities who are also librarians? I don't know why "The Shadow Out of Time" is not rated as highly as "The Call of Cthulhu." I think it's superior to the latter. OtherEric, asimovpulps and jimjum12 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted May 9, 2021 Share Posted May 9, 2021 4 minutes ago, Sarg said: I don't know why "The Shadow Out of Time" is not rated as highly as "The Call of Cthulhu." I think it's superior to the latter. I'm guessing it's because Cthulhu is just a mind-blowingly great image. And Call has one of the all-time classic opening lines to any story, not just Lovecraft. Otherwise, I'm not sure. Shadow Out of Time seems to be very much a love it or hate it story, the love it crowd is definitely the larger group... but the people who don't like it REALLY don't like it. jimjum12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted May 10, 2021 Share Posted May 10, 2021 November 1937 Weird Tales. This one features a reprint of "Hypnos", which originally appeared in the famous May-June-July 1924 Weird Tales. Surfing Alien 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OtherEric Posted May 11, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 11, 2021 This features the first appearance in Weird Tales of "Polaris". The story had been printed at least three times before, in the December 1920 The Philosopher, the May 1926 National Amateur, and the February 1934 Fantasy Fan. But I believe all three of those were amateur magazines or fanzines, making this the first professional publication of the story. If anybody knows otherwise I would love to be corrected. I actually bought this issue mainly for the stunning Finlay cover, it may be my favorite Weird Tales cover. Surfing Alien, RedFury, jimjum12 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 (edited) February 1938 Weird Tales. Under the stunning Finlay cover are two Lovecraft stories. The first is the revision of "The Diary of Alonzo Typer" for William Lumley. Other than a few poems in The Fantasy Fan, I believe this is his only published credit, at least in the SF/ fantasy realm. Speaking of The Fantasy Fan, this issue also has the first professional publication of a story that first appeared over there, "From Beyond". While I don't have a lot of the issues, Weird Tales was really going all-in on Lovecraft after his passing. From July 1937 to December 1939, there are only two issues without something by Lovecraft; although in many cases they were reprints or poems. Edited May 12, 2021 by OtherEric forgot the scan Surfing Alien and jimjum12 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted May 13, 2021 Share Posted May 13, 2021 The September 1938 issue of Weird Tales. Has a poem by Lovecraft, "The Wood" jimjum12, Xaltotun and Surfing Alien 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 November 1938 Weird Tales, with "The Nameless City". First professional publication of the story I'm aware of, although it had appeared twice before in an amateur magazine and a fanzine. I'm somewhat surprised it took this long to get a mass market release, as it's a fairly key story in terms of introducing Mythos concepts. Even by my low standards, I would like to upgrade this one... it's been trimmed pretty drastically. Was still super happy to get it when I did, it was one of my earliest pulps with Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard (who has a poem in the issue.) jimjum12 and Surfing Alien 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xaltotun Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 On 5/13/2021 at 6:24 PM, OtherEric said: The September 1938 issue of Weird Tales. Has a poem by Lovecraft, "The Wood" Always had a soft spot for this cover. When I obtained my first copy, a ratty one, many years ago, I thought someone had used pencils on it, until I realized it was a noose, and suddenly the cover made sense! OtherEric 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted May 16, 2021 Share Posted May 16, 2021 The January 1939 Weird Tales has the first publication of "Medusa's Coil" by Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop. IngelsFan and Surfing Alien 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 The February 1939 Weird Tales has two of the "Fungi from Yuggoth" sonnets: The Lamp and Zaman's Hill. This one also has the poem "The King and the Oak" with Kull by Howard, so arguably the most famous items from this issue are all poems. Surfing Alien, IngelsFan and Scrooge 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted May 18, 2021 Share Posted May 18, 2021 March 1939 Weird Tales, with "The Quest of Iranon". I think this is the first professional publication, the story first appeared in 1935 in the magazine Galleon. I think that's another amateur magazine, but I can't really find any info about it so I'm not 100% sure. comicjack, bc and Scrooge 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IngelsFan Posted May 18, 2021 Share Posted May 18, 2021 On 5/17/2021 at 9:50 AM, OtherEric said: The February 1939 Weird Tales has two of the "Fungi from Yuggoth" sonnets: The Lamp and Zaman's Hill. This one also has the poem "The King and the Oak" with Kull by Howard, so arguably the most famous items from this issue are all poems. The cover story by Bloch is great too, but then I’m a sucker for elephant horror! OtherEric and jimjum12 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted May 19, 2021 Share Posted May 19, 2021 April 1939 Weird Tales. Two Lovecraft stories in this one, a reprint of "The Curse of Yig" with Zealia Bishop, and the first publication of "The Wicked Clergyman", more commonly published as "The Evil Clergyman." It's one of the most minor Lovecraft stories, but it still blew my mind when I found a copy of the issue for $5 a few years ago. One of the most dramatic demonstrations of how pulp values and comic values are totally different I've ever seen. IngelsFan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted May 20, 2021 Share Posted May 20, 2021 May 1939 Weird Tales, with the Fungi From Yuggoth sonnet "Harbor Whistles" . jimjum12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 Weird Tales for June-July 1939. A triple dose of Lovecraft in this one, it has "The Howler", one of the Fungi From Yuggoth sonnets. It has the first professional publication of Celephaïs, which first appeared in the fanzine "The Rainbow" in 1922 and the semi-prozine "Marvel Tales" in 1934. And it has a reprint of "Imprisoned With the Pharaohs", which is still officially credited to Houdini but has an introduction explaining that the actual writing was by Lovecraft. I think this is the only time Weird Tales printed two Lovecraft stories in the same issue where they acknowledged his authorship on both of them. Scrooge 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted May 22, 2021 Share Posted May 22, 2021 August 1939 Weird Tales. Lovecraft has another Fungi from Yuggoth sonnet in this one, "The Gardens of Yin". This will be the last item with just a poem for a little bit, at least: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 October 1939 Weird Tales, with the first publication of "In the Walls of Eryx". The story was originally written by Kenneth Sterling, who sent a copy to Lovecraft to read and got back a nearly completely rewritten story. Sterling went on to become a medical researcher; his Wikipedia page is actually more about his medical career than his writing. jimjum12 and Scrooge 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 November 1940 Weird Tales, with "The Mound", a revision by Lovecraft for Zealia Bishop. I don't suppose anybody knows how well known it was that Lovecraft did revisions at this point? I suspect the idea was at least somewhat out there after Weird Tales admitted Lovecraft actually wrote the story for Houdini and he had a shared credit with Kenneth Sterling, but I don't know if anybody connected Bishop with Lovecraft until "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" came out in 1943. jimjum12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 May 1941 Weird Tales, with part 1 of "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward". I'm always amazed they didn't have the cover reflect the story, given how large they printed Lovecraft's name. My copy of the issue is from Leigh Brackett & Edmond Hamilton's collection. It also wasn't the last of the Lovecrafts, despite what the cover says... although it is the last new Lovecraft story to first appear in Weird Tales, unless you count "The Survivor" with Derleth, which most people don't. bc, Sarg and asimovpulps 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...