# Weird Tales/1949

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

## January

Volume 41, Issue 2
Cover art by Lee Brown Coye
* Four from Jehlam • Allison V. Harding • novelette
* Food for Demons • E. Everett Evans • short story
* The Thirteenth Floor • Frank Gruber • short story (© Copyright renewed: Lois Gruber (W); 11Dec75; R620387.)
* Open Season on the—Bottoms • Snowden T. Herrick • short story
* The Great Stone Death • John D. MacDonald • short story (© Copyright renewed: John D. MacDonald (A); 22Jul76; R637194.)
* Lover in Scarlet • Harold Lawlor • short story
* The Sorcerer's Apprentice • Robert Bloch • short story (© Copyright renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 16Apr76; R630956.)
* The Big Shot • Eric Frank Russell • short story
* Balu • August Derleth [as Stephen Grendon] • short story (© Copyright renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden Derleth (C); 9Apr76; R630829.)
* The Bonan of Baladewa • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • short story
* Our Fair City • Robert Heinlein • short story (© Copyright renewed: Robert A. Heinlein (A); 3Dec75; R619607.)
* A Curse • Page Cooper • verse
* The Heads on Easter Island • Leah Bodine Drake • verse
* Weirdisms • Lee Brown Coye • article

## March

Volume 41, Issue 3
Cover art by Matt Fox
* The Martian and the Moron • Theodore Sturgeon • short story
* The Strange Island of Doctor Nork • Robert Bloch • short story
* The Will of Raminchantra • Stanton A. Coblentz • short story
* The Other Santa • Thorp McClusky • short story
* The Holiday • Allison V. Harding • short story
* The Testament of Claiborne Boyd [*Laban Shrewsbury] • August Derleth • novelette (© Copyright renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden Derleth (C); 9Apr76; R630826.)
* The Wizard of Bird-in-Hand • Arthur J. Burks • short story

## May

Volume 41, Issue 4 (transcription project)
Cover art by John Giunta
* The Damp Man Again [*Damp Man] • Allison V. Harding • novelette
* Matthew South and Company • Carl Jacobi • short story
* The Door Beyond • Harold Lawlor • short story
* The Scrawny One • Anthony Boucher • vignette
* The Inner Man • Arthur J. Burks • short story
* Phoebe • Malcolm Kenneth Murchie • short story
* The Antimacassar • Greye La Spina • short story
* Vampire Kith and Kin [*Jules de Grandin] • Seabury Quinn • short story
* But Not to Dream • John D. MacDonald • short story (© Copyright renewed: John D. MacDonald (A); 3Feb77; R653451.)
* Kingsridge 214 • August Derleth • short story (© Copyright renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden Derleth (C); 9Apr76; R630830.)

## July

Volume 41, Issue 5
Cover art by Matt Fox
* Come and Go Mad • Fredric Brown • novelette
* From the Vasty Deep • H. Russell Wakefield • short story
* The Masher • Ewen Whyte • short story
* The Blue Spectacles • August Derleth [as Stephen Grendon] • short story (© Copyright renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden Derleth (C); 28Apr77; R660483.)
* How Strange My Love • Russell Branch • short story
* The Ubiquitous Professor Karr • Stanton A. Coblentz • short story
* In the X-Ray • Fritz Leiber • short story
* The Previous Incarnation • Harold Lawlor • short story
* Floral Tribute • Robert Bloch • short story (© Copyright renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 7Mar77; R655398.)
* Dark O' the Moon • Seabury Quinn • short story

## September

Volume 41, Issue 6
Cover art by Michael Labonsky
* One Foot and the Grave • Theodore Sturgeon • novelette (© Copyright renewed: Theodore Sturgeon (A); 17Jun77; R665631.)
* Country House • Ewen Whyte • short story
* The Slayers and the Slain • August Derleth • short story (© Copyright renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden Derleth (C); 28Apr77; R660484.)
* The Shot-Tower Ghost • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • short story (© Copyright renewed: Mary Elizabeth Counselman (A); 7Sep76; R671615.)
* The Deep Drowse • Allison V. Harding • short story
* The Rainbow Jade • Gardner F. Fox • short story
* Blindman's Buff • Seabury Quinn • short story
* Thinker • Malcolm Kenneth Murchie • short story
* The Woman on the Balcony • Dorothy Quick • short story

## November

Volume 42, Issue 1
Cover art by Matt Fox
* The Underbody • Allison V. Harding • novelette
* Conscience Maketh Cowards [*Jules de Grandin] • Seabury Quinn • short story
* Out of the Wrack I Rise • H. Russell Wakefield • short story
* These Debts Are Yours • Arthur J. Burks • short story
* Murder Man • Ewen Whyte • short story
* Twilight Play • August Derleth • short story (© Copyright renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden Derleth (C); 28Apr77; R660485.)
* The Green Window • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • short story
* Stranger at Dusk • Malcolm Kenneth Murchie • short story
* The Barren Field • Yves Thériault • short story
* Skydrift • Emil Petaja • short story
* Terror Under Eridu • Malcolm M. Ferguson • short story
* Demon Lure • Harriet A. Bradfield • verse
* Forest God • Dorothy Quick • verse

## External links

* Collector's Showcase (French) Contents for 1949-50
* Miskatronic University Press Contents for 1949
* Galactic Central Publications Weird Tales Checklist