âWeird Talesâ launched in March of 1923 and the world was never the same again. While pulp magazines had been around for some time, âWeird Talesâ was the first pulp magazine to specialize in supernatural fiction. âWeird Talesâ single-handedly created the field of genre fiction as we know it. No longer did readers of Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror have to seek out single stories in otherwise mundane magazines; now they had a magazine all of their own that published only the stories they wanted to read. Collected in this anthology are over two hundred thousand words and more than five hundred pages of some of the greatest stories ever published in the pages of âWeird Tales.â Included are: âBeyond the Black Riverâ by Robert E. Howard; âThe Secret of Kralitzâ by Henry Kuttner; âThe Shunned Houseâ by H. P. Lovecraft; âWay Stationâ by Mary Elizabeth Counselman; âNever Stop to Pat a Kittenâ by Miriam Allen deFord; âThe Diary of Philip Westerlyâ by Paul Compton; âThe Door Into Infinityâ by Edmond Hamilton; âIsle of the Undeadâ by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach; âThe Perfect Hostâ by Theodore Sturgeon; âGainful Employmentâ by Jamie Wild; âThe Tree of Lifeâ by C. L. Moore; âMop-Headâ by Leah Bodine Drake; âThe Golgotha Dancersâ by Manly Wade Wellman; âThe Medici Bootsâ by Pearl Norton Swet; âThe House in the Valleyâ by August Derleth; âMore than Shadowâ by Dorothy Quick; âIn the Darkâ by Ronal Kayser; âDearestâ by H. Beam Piper; âDoom of the House of Duryeaâ by Earl Peirce, Jr.; âThe Mississippi Saucerâ by Frank Belknap Long; âMask of Deathâ by Paul Ernst; âThe Ring of Bastetâ by Seabury Quinn; âTiger Catâ by David H. Keller; âOld Mr. Wileyâ by Greye La Spina; âThe Long Armâ by Franz Habl; and âThe People of the Black Circleâ by Robert E. Howard.
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