# Weird Tales/1953

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

## January

Volume 44, Issue 8
Cover art by Frank Kelly Freas
* Once There Was a Little Girl • Everil Worrell • novelette
* I Can't Wear White • Suzanne Pickett • short story
* The Gloves • Garnett Radcliffe • short story
* The Werewolf of Ponkert [*Master] • H. Warner Munn • novelette
* Wet Straw • Richard Matheson • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Richard Matheson (A); 29Dec80; RE0000084683.)
* Sexton, Sexton, in the Wall • August Derleth • short story (© Copyright Renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden W. Derleth (C); 8Jul80; RE0000062844.)
* Six Feet of Willow—Green • Carroll K. Michener • short story
* Hand of Death • Marjorie Murch Stanley • short story
* The Phantom Soldier at Ticonderoga • Dr. Cyrus Macmillan • article
* Red Ghosts in Kentucky • Leah Bodine Drake • verse

## March

Volume 45, Issue 1
Cover art by Virgil Finlay
* Slime • Joseph Payne Brennan • novelette (© Copyright Renewed: Joseph Payne Brennan (A); 1981-06-08; RE0000094341.)
* The Talkie Dolls • Donald F. Vieweg • short story
* Caveat Emptor [*Gavagan's Bar] • L.Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt • short story
* Night Court • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • novelette
* In Camera • John Ward • short story
* The Raft • Kirk Shaw • short story
* Mrs. Penleath's Stratagem • T. W. Speight • short story
* The Dream Merchant • Harold Lawlor • short story
* The Supreme Witch • Appleby Terrill • short story [Reprint from October 1926]
* Don Quixote on Market Street • Clark Ashton Smith • verse
* Who Are We? • Frances Rogers Lovell • verse

## May

Volume 45, Issue 2
Cover art by Joseph Eberle
* Whisper Water • Leah Bodine Drake • short story
* The Living Eyes • Justin Dowling • short story
* I'll Be Back • David Eynon • short story
* Strange Harvest • Donald Wandrei • novelette
* Morthylla [*Zothique] • Clark Ashton Smith • short story
* A Corner for Lucia [*Tex Harrigan] • August Derleth • short story
* Between Two Dreams • Felix Marti Ibanez • novelette
* The Vengeance of Kali Mai • Garnett Radcliffe • short story (© Copyright Restored due to URAA; published in the UK, 1951)
* Mandrake • Adam Hull Shirk • short story
* Wife of the Dragon-Fly • Paul Ernst • short story
* A Fog Was Blowing • Stanton A. Coblentz • verse
* Requiem for a Sinner • Pauline Booker • verse

## July

Volume 45, Issue 3 (transcription project)
Cover art by H. Silvey
* L'Affaire Verenekin • David Lewis Eynon • short story
* The House in the Valley • August Derleth • novelette
* Slaughter House • Richard Matheson • novelette (© Copyright Renewed: Richard Matheson (A); 1981-11-13; RE0000105581.)
* The Source of It • Glen Malin • short story
* The Missing Room • Lyn Venable • short story
* On the Elevator • Joseph Payne Brennan • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Joseph Payne Brennan (A); 1981-06-08; RE0000094341.)
* Dread Summons • Paul Ernst • short story
* The Sea-Witch • Nictzin Dyalhis • novelette
* House of Life • Dorothy Quick • verse

## September

Volume 45, Issue 4
Cover art by Jon Arfstrom
* I Loved Her With My Soul • Everil Worrell • novelette
* The Watcher Awakes • Kirk Shaw • short story
* Parthenope • Manly Wade Wellman • short story
* An Offering to the Moon • Clark Ashton Smith • short story
* The Ebony Stick • August Derleth • short story
* The Devil's Cabin • Vance Hoyt • short story
* The Beetle • Garnett Radcliffe • short story
* The Man Who Walked on Air • Michael Avallone • short story
* The Tree-Man [*Gerald Canevin] • Henry S. Whitehead • short story
* The Dark Things • Dorothy Quick • verse
* Six Merry Farmers • Leah Bodine Drake • verse

## November

Volume 45, Issue 5
Cover art by ?
* Way Station • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • short story
* The Legs that Walked • Justin Dowling • short story
* The Red Balloon • Q. Patrick • short story
* The Man Upstairs • Harry W. Currier • short story
* The Black Stone • Robert E. Howard • short story [Reprint from November 1931] (© Copyright Renewed as part of Weird Tales, November 1931; Steinberg Press, Inc. R230427.)
* The Crying Child • Dorothea Gibbons • short story
* Thing of Darkness • G. G. Pendarves • novelette
* The Disc Recorder • August Derleth • short story
* Demon Lover • Dorothy Quick • verse
* Suspicion • Harriet A. Bradfield • verse

## External links

* Collector's Showcase (French) Contents for 1953-54
* Miskatronic University Press Contents for 1953
* Galactic Central Publications Weird Tales Checklist