# Weird Tales/1952

Publisher: Weird Tales, Inc., New York (a subsidiary of Short Stories, Inc.) Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith

## January

Volume 44, Issue 2
Cover art by Jon Arfstrom
* The Black Island [*Laban Shrewsbury] • August Derleth • novelette (© Copyright Renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden W. Derleth (C); 21Jun79; RE0000027680.)
* Lucy Comes to Stay • Robert Bloch • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 1979-11-01; RE0000036952.)
* The Seamstress • E. Everett Evans • short story
* The Guard of Honor • J. Paul Suter • short story
* Lovers' Meeting • Harold Lawlor • short story
* Cat's Cradle • E. W. Tomlinson • short story
* The Iron Hand of Katzaveere • David Eynon [as David Lewis Eynon] • short story
* Ooze • Anthony M. Rud • novelette
* Cat-Eyes • Harriet A. Bradfield • verse
* Not Altogether Asleep • Clark Ashton Smith • verse
* Sonnet for the Psychoanalysts • Clark Ashton Smith • verse

## March

Volume 44, Issue 3
Cover art by Joseph Eberle
* Morne Perdu • Alice Drayton Farnham • novelette
* The Monkey Ship • Garnett Radcliffe • short story
* The Mask • Curtis W. Casewit • short story
* The Scarred Soul • Seabury Quinn • short story
* The Prism • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • short story
* The Horror at Red Hook • H. P. Lovecraft • novelette
* The Place of Desolation • August Derleth • short story (© Copyright Renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden W. Derleth (C); 21Jun79; RE0000027673.)
* Jungle Beasts • William P. Barron • short story
* The Bride of Death • Joseph Howard Krucher • verse
* O Golden-Tongued Romance • Clark Ashton Smith • verse

## May

Volume 44, Issue 4
Cover art by Virgil Finlay
* The Lamia in the Penthouse • Thorp McClusky • novelette
* Rhythmic Formula • Arthur J. Burks • short story
* A Bit of Moss • Suzanne Pickett • short story
* The Eighth Green Man • G. G. Pendarves • short story
* She Wore a Black Rose • Frederick Sanders • short story
* Dark Laughter • Garnett Radcliffe • short story
* The Fifth Candle • Cyril Mand • short story
* The Little Tree • C. F. Birdsall • short story
* The Night Road • August Derleth • short story (© Copyright Renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden W. Derleth (C); 8Jul80; RE0000062838.)
* The Devil of Maniara • Douglas Leach • short story (© Copyright Renewed as part of Short Stories, February 25, 1933; Blanchard Press, Inc. (PCW); 25Jan6l; R270002-270023.)
* Father's Vampire • Alvin Taylor & Len J. Moffatt • short story
* Double Haunt • Joseph Howard Krucher • article
* Ghost Port • Pauline Booker • verse
* Out of Space • Dorothy Quick • verse

## July

Volume 44, Issue 5
Cover art by Jon Arfstrom
* Hell's Bells • Eric Frank Russell [as Duncan H. Munro] • short story
* Which's Witch? • Harold Lawlor • short story
* The Emperor's Letter • David Eynon [as David Lewis Eynon] • short story
* Elmer Bittersnitt and the Three Bears • Harry Botsford • short story
* There Was Soot on the Cat • Suzanne Pickett • short story
* The Green Parrot • Joseph Payne Brennan • short story
* The Temple of Serpents • Paul Ernst • short story
* The Plaid • Abrach • short story
* Live Evil • Emil Petaja • short story
* The Lakes of Nai Loodie • Donald F. Vieweg • short story
* Alethia Phrikodes • H. P. Lovecraft • verse
* Black Candles • Yetza Gillespie • verse

## September

Volume 44, Issue 6
Cover art by Virgil Finlay
* Island of the Hands • Margaret St. Clair • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Margaret Saint Clair (A); 2May1980; RE0000057714.)
* Table Number Sixteen • Curtis W. Casewit • short story
* One Fantastic Day • Frederick Sanders • short story
* A Habit Out of History • David Eynon • short story
* Where to, Please? [*Gavagan's Bar] • L.Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt • short story
* The Phantom Express • H. Thompson Rich • vignette
* Sa'antha • E. Everett Evans • short story
* The Lost Path • August Derleth • short story (© Copyright Renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden W. Derleth (C); 8Jul80; RE0000062845.)
* The Sin-Eater • G. G. Pendarves • novelette [Reprint from December 1938]
* The Archive • Henry T. Simmons • verse
* Hallowe'en in a Suburb [aka "In a Suburb"] • H. P. Lovecraft • verse
* The Singing Shadow • Yetza Gillespie • verse

## November

Volume 44, Issue 7 (transcription project)
Cover art by Anthony Di Giannurio
* Black as the Night • Alice Farnham • short story
* The Unicorn • Frank Owen • short story
* Astra • Arthur J. Burks • short story
* The Artist and the Door • Dorothy Quick • short story
* The Japanese Tea Set • Francis J. O'Neil • short story
* Fermentation • Curtis W. Casewit • short story
* The Chapel of Mystic Horror [*Jules de Grandin] • Seabury Quinn • novelette [Reprint from December 1928]
* The Chain • Hamilton Craigie • short story [Reprint from March 1923]
* Weird Crossword • Charles A. Kennedy • article
* The Mermaid • Leah Bodine Drake • verse

## External links

* Collector's Showcase (French) Contents for 1951-52
* Miskatronic University Press Contents for 1952
* Galactic Central Publications Weird Tales Checklist