# Weird Tales/1954

Publisher: Weird Tales, Inc., New York (a subsidiary of Short Stories, Inc.) Editor: Dorothy McIlwraith September 1954 was the final issue of the original run of Weird Tales; the title was later revived in various forms starting in Summer 1973.

## January

Volume 45, Issue 6
Cover art by W.H. Silvey
* Mop-Head • Leah Bodine Drake • novelette
* Effie's Pets • Suzanne Pickett • short story
* Black Heath • Farfal Delano • short story
* A Very Special Quality • David Lewis Eynon • short story
* Tiger Dust • Bassett Morgan • novelette
* You Should Be Careful • Garnett Radcliffe • short story
* Shadows of Blood • Earl Binder & Otto Binder [as Eando Binder] • short story
* The Calamander Chest • Joseph Payne Brennan • short story
* The Stormcliff Papers • W. J. Suprenant • novelette
* Atlantic Isle of Mystery • Dr. Cyrus Macmillan • article
* Reflections of an Egyptian Princess While Being Interred • Edith Ogutsch • verse
* Walpurgis Night • Dorothy Quick • verse

## March

Volume 46, Issue 1
Cover art by Evan Singer
* Call Not Their Names • Everil Worrell • novelette
* The Arm • Justin Dowling • short story
* The Lily Maid • Dorothea Gibbons • short story
* Morpho on the Screen • Arthur J. Burks • short story
* Nepthae • Suzanne Pickett • short story
* The Ghost That Never Died • Elizabeth Sheldon •
* Brenda • Margaret St. Clair • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Margaret Saint Clair (A); 5Oct81; RE0000102511, and Margaret Saint Clair (A); 6May81; RE0000135041.)
* Make Me a Child Again • David Lewis Eynon • short story
* Out! • Leah Bodine Drake • verse
* Witch's Brew • Dorothy Quick • verse

## May

Volume 46, Issue 2
Cover art by W.H. Silvey
* Song in the Thicket • Manly Banister • novelette
* The Predestined • Q. Patrick • short story (© Copyright Restored due to URAA; published in the UK, 1953)
* Lord of the Talking Hands ["Lord of the Talking Heads"] • Arthur Woodward • short story
* Prediction • Curtis W. Casewit • novelette
* The Place in the Woods • August Derleth • short story (© Copyright Renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden W. Derleth (C); 25Oct82; RE0000140478.)
* The Return of Simon Carib • Frederick Sanders • short story
* The Banshee and Patrick O'Bannon • Joe Bishop • short story
* Beyond the Door • J. Paul Suter • short story
* Witch Woman • Dorothy Quick • verse

## July

Volume 46, Issue 3 (transcription project)
Cover art by Harold S. De Lay
* The Survivor • H. P. Lovecraft & August Derleth • novelette
* More Than Shadow • Dorothy Quick • short story
* Never Stop to Pat a Kitten • Miriam Allen deFord • short story
* The Sin-Eater • G. G. Pendarves • novelette
* The Green Huntsman • Dorothea Gibbons • short story
* The Tree of Life • Paul Ernst • short story (© Copyright Renewed as part of Weird Tales, September 1930; Steinberg Press, Inc.; R208383.)
* Guardian • W. J. Suprenant • short story
* Passing of a God [*Gerald Canevin] • Henry S. Whitehead • short story (© Copyright Renewed as part of Weird Tales, January 1931; Steinberg Press, Inc.; R208387)
* Off the Map • Rex Dolphin • short story
* Beware, of Vampire Women • Patricia Burgess • verse
* Western Highway • Clarence Edwin Flynn • verse

## September

Volume 46, Issue 4
Cover art by Virgil Finlay
* Spawn of Darkness • Kirk Shaw • novelette
* Dorgen • Suzanne Pickett • short story
* A Tomb in Malacor • Felix Marti-Ibanez • novelette
* The Dark Man [*Tulogh O'Brien] • Robert E. Howard • novelette (© Copyright Renewed as part of Weird Tales, December 1931, Steinberg Press, Inc. (PCW), R230428)
* The Imitation Demon • Robert Kuttner • short story
* De Brignac's Lady • Kirk Mashburn • novella (© Copyright Renewed as part of Weird Tales, February 1933, Steinberg Press, Inc. (PCW), R250147)
* Moon Mist • Virgil Finlay • verse
* This Night • Dorothy Quick • verse

## External links

* Collector's Showcase (French) Contents for 1953-54
* Miskatronic University Press Contents for 1954
* Galactic Central Publications Weird Tales Checklist