# Weird Tales/1938

Publisher: Popular Fiction, Chicago (to October); Weird Tales, Inc., New York - a subsidiary of Short Stories, Inc. - (from November 1938) Editor: Farnsworth Wright

## January

Volume 31, Issue 1
Cover art by Margaret Brundage
* The Witch's Mark • Dorothy Quick • novelette
* The House of Living Music • Edmond Hamilton • short story
* Roads • Seabury Quinn • novelette
* The Hairy Ones Shall Dance (part 1 of 3) • Manly Wade Wellman (as Gans T. Field) • novella (Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant series)
* Toean Matjan • Vennette Herron • short story
* The Voyage of the Neutralia (part 3 of 3) • B. Wallis • novella
* The Light Was Green • John R. Speer • short story
* Valley of Bones • David H. Keller • short story
* The Third Interne • Idwal Jones • short story
* Ethan Brand (aka "The Unpardonable Sin") • Nathaniel Hawthorne • short story (Reprint)
* The Canal • H. P. Lovecraft • verse
* Lost Dream • Emil Petaja • verse
* "Her Demon Lover" • Virgil Finlay • pictorial (illustration for a passage in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan")

## February

Volume 31, Issue 2 (transcription project)
Cover art by Virgil Finlay
* Frozen Beauty • Seabury Quinn • novelette (Jules de Grandin series)
* The Diary of Alonzo Typer • William Lumley (with H. P. Lovecraft) • novelette
* The Goddess Awakes • Clifford Ball • novelette (Rald series)
* The Strangling Hands • M. G. Moretti • short story
* World's End • Henry Kuttner • short story
* The Hairy Ones Shall Dance (part 2 of 3) • Manly Wade Wellman (as Gans T. Field) • novella (Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant series)
* From Beyond • H. P. Lovecraft • short story (Dream Cycle series)
* The Piper from Bhutan • David Bernard • short story
* The Passing of Van Mitten • Claude Farrère translated by Roy Temple House • short story
* The Ghosts at Haddon-le-Green • Alfred I. Tooke • vignette
* Jumbee • Henry S. Whitehead • short story (Reprint)
* Ally of Stars • Irene Wilde • verse
* Haunting Columns • Robert E. Howard • verse (© Copyright Renewed: Mrs. P. M. Kuykendall (E); 27Sep65; R369099.)
* Old Cornish Litany • Virgil Finlay • article

## March

Volume 31, Issue 3 (transcription project)
Cover art by Margaret Brundage
* Incense of Abomination • Seabury Quinn • novelette (Jules de Grandin series)
* The Thing on the Floor • Thorp McClusky • novelette (Peters & Ethredge series)
* Dreadful Sleep (part 1 of 3) • Jack Williamson • novella (© Copyright Renewed: Jack Williamson (A); 7Apr65; R358779.)
* The Shadow on the Screen • Henry Kuttner • short story
* Beyond the Wall of Sleep • H. P. Lovecraft • short story
* The Hairy Ones Shall Dance (part 3 of 3) • Manly Wade Wellman (as Gans T. Field) • novella (Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant series)
* Guarded • Mearle Prout • short story
* The Teakwood Box • Johns Harrington • short story
* The Head in the Window • Wilhelm von Scholz translated by Roy Temple House • short story
* The Girl from Samarcand • E. Hoffmann Price| • short story (Reprint)
* The Poets • Robert E. Howard • verse (© Copyright Renewed: Mrs. P. M. Kuykendall (E); 27Sep65; R369100.)
* To Howard Phillips Lovecraft • Francis Flagg • verse
* "Like one, that on a lonesome road" • Virgil Finlay • pictorial (interpretation from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner")

## April

Volume 31, Issue 4
Cover art by Virgil Finlay
* The Devil Deals (aka "The King and the Knave") • Carl Jacobi • short story
* The Garden of Adompha • Clark Ashton Smith • short story (Zothique series)
* The Temple Dancer • Seabury Quinn • novelette
* The Eyes of the Mummy • Robert Bloch • short story (Sebek series; © Copyright Renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 7Jul65; R364298.)
* Forest of Evil • John Murray Reynolds • novelette
* Dreadful Sleep (part 2 of 3) • Jack Williamson • novella (© Copyright Renewed: Jack Williamson (A); 7Apr65; R358780.)
* The House of Ecstasy • Ralph Milne Farley • short story
* Death Is a Temporary Indisposition • Max Brod • short story
* Feathertop • Nathaniel Hawthorne • short story (Reprint)
* Abandoned Bog • Joseph C. Kempe • verse
* Cordelia's Song • Vincent Starrett • verse
* The Singer in the Mist • Robert E. Howard • verse (© Copyright Renewed: Mrs. P. M. Kuykendall (E); 27Sep65; R369101.)
* To Clark Ashton Smith • H. P. Lovecraft • verse

## May

Volume 31, Issue 5
Cover art by Margaret Brundage
* Thunder in the Dawn (part 1 of 2) • Henry Kuttner • novella (Elak series)
* Pigeons from Hell • Robert E. Howard • novelette (© Copyright Renewed: Mrs. P. M. Kuykendall (E); 27Sep65; R369102.)
* Goetterdaemmerung • Seabury Quinn • novelette
* The Secret of the Vault • J. Wesley Rosenquest • short story
* The Isle of the Sleeper • Edmond Hamilton • short story
* Dreadful Sleep (part 3 of 3) • Jack Williamson • novella (© Copyright Renewed: Jack Williamson (A); 7Apr65; R358781.)
* Medusa • Royal W. Jimerson • short story (Reprint; © Copyright Renewed: Steinberg Press, Inc., as part of Weird Tales, vol. 11, no. 4; 6Feb56; R164273.)
* Where Once Poe Walked • H. P. Lovecraft • verse

## June

Volume 31, Issue 6
Cover art by Margaret Brundage
* Suicide Chapel • Seabury Quinn • novelette (Jules de Grandin series)
* From the Beginning • Earl Binder & Otto Binder (as by Eando Binder) • novelette (© Copyright Renewed: Otto Oscar Binder (A); 7Sep65; R367843.)
* The Black Drama (part 1 of 3) • Manly Wade Wellman (as Gans T. Field) • novella (Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant series)
* Slave of the Flames • Robert Bloch • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 7Jul65; R364299.)
* Song of Death • A. W. Calder • short story
* Thunder in the Dawn (part 2 of 2) • Henry Kuttner • novella (Elak series)
* The Doom That Came to Sarnath • H. P. Lovecraft • short story (Dream Cycle series)
* Death Dallies Awhile • Leslie F. Stone • short story
* The Gray Champion • Nathaniel Hawthorne • short story (Reprint)
* Farewell to Eros • Clark Ashton Smith • verse
* H.P. Lovecraft • Frank Belknap Long • verse
* The Last Hour • Robert E. Howard • verse (© Copyright Renewed: Mrs. P. M. Kuykendall (E); 19Nov65; R373259.)
* Outlanders • Clark Ashton Smith • verse

## July

Volume 32, Issue 1 (transcription project)
Cover art by Virgil Finlay
* Spawn of Dagon • Henry Kuttner • short story (Elak series)
* Fortune's Fools • Seabury Quinn • novelette
* Dust in the House • David H. Keller • short story
* The Defense Rests • Julius Long • short story
* The Black Drama (part 2 of 3) • Manly Wade Wellman (as Gans T. Field) • novella (Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant series)
* He That Hath Wings • Edmond Hamilton • novelette
* Mother of Toads • Clark Ashton Smith • short story (Averoigne series)
* Escape • Paul Ernst • short story
* Return to the Sabbath • Robert Bloch (as Tarleton Fiske) • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 7Jul65; R364300.)
* Saladin's Throne-Rug • E. Hoffmann Price • novelette (Reprint)
* The Messenger • H. P. Lovecraft • verse
* Microcosms • Edgar Daniel Kramer • verse
* Ships • Robert E. Howard • verse (© Copyright Renewed: Mrs. P. M. Kuykendall (E); 19Nov65; R373260.)

## August

Volume 32, Issue 2
Cover art by Margaret Brundage
* The Wolf-Girl of Josselin • Arlton Eadie • novelette
* The Venomed Breath of Vengeance • Seabury Quinn • novelette (Jules de Grandin series)
* The Fire Princess (part 1 of 3) • Edmond Hamilton • novel
* Green Horror • H. Thompson Rich • short story
* The Black Drama (part 3 of 3) • Manly Wade Wellman (as Gans T. Field) • novella (Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant series)
* Dead Dog • Manly Wade Wellman • short story
* Three Gentlemen in Black • August W. Derleth • short story (© Copyright Renewed: August Derleth (A); 12Jan66; R378246.)
* The Tree • H. P. Lovecraft • short story
* Invaders from Outside • J. Schlossel • short story (Reprint)
* Empty House • Cristel Hastings • verse
* In November Only • Marion Doyle • verse
* Lines Written in the Realization that I Must Die • Robert E. Howard • verse (© Copyright Renewed: Mrs. P. M. Kuykendall (E); 19Nov65; R373261.)

## September

Volume 32, Issue 3
Cover art by Margaret Brundage
* As 'Twas Told to Me • Seabury Quinn • novelette
* The Magic Mirror • Algernon Blackwood • short story (© Copyright Restored due to URAA; first published in UK; The Bystander, March 16 1938.)
* The White Rat • Earl Peirce, Jr. & Bruce Bryan • short story
* A Thunder of Trumpets • Robert E. Howard & Frank Thurston Torbett • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Mrs. P. M. Kuykendall (E); 19Nov65; R373262.)
* The Mandarin's Canaries • Robert Bloch • short story
* The Fire Princess (part 2 of 3) • Edmond Hamilton • novel
* The Witch in the Fog • Harry Altshuler (as Alexander Faust) • short story
* The Cavern • Manly Wade Wellman & Gertrude Gordon • short story
* The Eyes of Ustad Isa • Charles Henry Mackintosh • short story
* A Witch's Curse • Paul Ernst • novelette (Reprint)
* The Jolly Hangman • Edgar Daniel Kramer • verse
* The Prophet Speaks • Clark Ashton Smith • verse
* The Wood • H. P. Lovecraft (as Lewis Theobald, Jr.) • verse
* The Wreck • Alfred I. Tooke • verse

## October

Volume 32, Issue 4
Cover art by Margaret Brundage
* Beyond the Phoenix • Henry Kuttner • short story (Elak series)
* Black Moon • Seabury Quinn • vignette (Jules de Grandin series)
* The Isle of Abominations • Kadra Maysi • novelette
* Jekal's Lesson • David Bernard • short story
* The Fire Princess (part 3 of 3) • Edmond Hamilton • novel
* The Maze of Maal Dweb (aka "The Maze of the Enchanter") • Clark Ashton Smith • short story (Maal Dweb series)
* The Black Monk • G. G. Pendarves • short story
* The Other Gods • H. P. Lovecraft • short story (Dream Cycle series)
* Up Under the Roof • Manly Wade Wellman • short story
* The Oldest Story in the World • Murray Leinster • short story (Reprint)
* Death (from Measure for Measure) • William Shakespeare • verse
* Witches on the Heath • Leah Bodine Drake • verse

## November

Volume 32, Issue 5 (transcription project)
First issue published by Weird Tales, Inc., New York
Cover art by A.R. Tilburne
* I Found Cleopatra (part 1 of 4) • Thomas P. Kelley • novella
* Fothergill's Jug • Thorp McClusky • short story
* The Hound of Pedro • Robert Bloch • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Robert Albert Bloch (A); 29Aug66; R392721.)
* The Thing in the Trunk • Paul Ernst • novelette
* Lynne Foster Is Dead! • Seabury Quinn • novelette
* The Nameless City • H. P. Lovecraft • short story (Cthulhu Mythos series)
* Leonora • Everil Worrell • short story (Reprint)
* Recompense • Robert E. Howard • verse (© Copyright Renewed: Mrs. P. M. Kuykendall (E); 19Nov65; R373264.)

## December

Volume 32, Issue 6
Cover art by Ray Quigley
* More Lives Than One • Seabury Quinn • novelette
* I Found Cleopatra (part 2 of 4) • Thomas P. Kelley • novella
* The Sin-Eater • G. G. Pendarves • novelette
* The Snowman • Loretta Burrough • short story
* Beetles • Robert Bloch • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Robert Albert Bloch (A); 29Aug66; R392722.)
* Passing of a God • Henry S. Whitehead • novelette (Gerald Canevin series; Reprint; (© Copyright Restored due to URAA; first published in UK; At Dead of Night, 1931)
* The Ghost Kings • Robert E. Howard • verse (© Copyright Renewed: Mrs. P. M. Kuykendall (E); 19Nov65; R373265.)
* The Blessed Damozel • Virgil Finlay • article (pictorial impression of a poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti)

## External links

* Collector's Showcase (French) Contents for 1938
* Miskatronic University Press Contents for 1938
* Galactic Central Publications Weird Tales Checklist