# Weird Tales/1923

Publisher: Rural Publications, Chicago Editor: Edwin Baird

## March

Volume 1, Issue 1 (transcription project)
Cover art by R.R. Epperly
* The Dead Man's Tale • Willard E. Hawkins • novelette
* Ooze • Anthony M. Rud • novelette
* The Thing of a Thousand Shapes [Part 1 of 2] • Otis Adelbert Kline • novelette
* The Mystery of Black Jean • Julian Kilman • short story
* The Grave • Orville R. Emerson • short story
* Hark! The Rattle • Joel Townsley Rogers • short story
* The Ghost Guard • Bryan Irvine • short story
* The Ghoul and the Corpse • G. A. Wells • short story
* Fear • David R. Solomon • short story
* The Chain • Hamilton Craigie • novelette
* The Place of Madness • Merlin Moore Taylor • short story
* The Closing Hand • Farnsworth Wright • vignette (short fiction)
* The Unknown Beast • Howard Ellis Davis • short story
* The Basket • Herbert J. Mangham • short story
* The Accusing Voice • Meredith Davis • short story
* The Sequel [*Fortuna] • Walter Scott Story • vignette (short fiction)
* The Weaving Shadows • W. H. Holmes • short story
* Nimba, the Cave Girl • R. T. M. Scott • short story
* The Young Man Who Wanted to Die • Anon. • short story
* The Scarlet Night • William Sanford • short story
* The Extraordinary Experiment of Dr. Calgroni • Joseph Faus & James Bennett Wooding • short story
* The Return of Paul Slavsky • George Warburton Lewis • short story
* The House of Death • F. Georgia Stroup • short story
* The Gallows • I. W. D. Peters • short story
* The Skull • Harold Ward • short story
* The Ape-Man • James B. M. Clark, Jr. • listed as a short story in the contents, but described as a novelette on its page

## April

Volume 1, Issue 2 (transcription project)
Cover art by R.M. Mally
* The Scar • Carl Rasmus • novelette
* Beyond the Door • J. Paul Suter • short story
* The Tortoise Shell Comb • Roylston Markham • short story
* A Photographic Phantasm • Paul Crumpler, M.D. • essay
* The Living Nightmare • Anton M. Oliver • short story
* The Incubus • Hamilton Craigie • short story
* The Bodymaster • Harold Ward • novelette
* Jungle Death • Artemus Calloway • short story
* The Snake Fiend • Farnsworth Wright • short story
* A Square of Canvas • Anthony M. Rud • short story
* The Affair of the Man in Scarlet • Julian Kilman • short story
* The Hideous Face • Victor Johns • short story
* The Forty Jars • Ray McGillivray • short story
* The Wish • Myrtle Levy Gaylord • vignette (short fiction)
* The Whispering Thing [Part 1 of 2] • Laurie McClintock & Culpeper Chunn • novella
* The Thing of a Thousand Shapes [Part 2 of 2] • Otis Adelbert Kline • novelette
* The Conquering Will • Ted Olson • short story
* Six Feet of Willow—Green • Carroll F. Michener • short story
* The Hall of the Dead • Francis D. Grierson • short story
* The Parlor Cemetery • C. E. Howard • short story
* Golden Glow • Harry Irving Shumway • short story

## May

Volume 1, Issue 3 (transcription project)
Cover art by Heitman
* The Moon Terror [Part 1 of 2] • A. G. Birch • novella
* The Secret Fear • Kenneth Duane Whipple • short story
* Jungle Beasts • William P. Barron • novelette
* The Golden Caverns • Julian Kilman • novelette
* Vials of Insects • Paul Ellsworth Triem • short story
* An Eye for an Eye • G. W. Crane • short story
* The Floor Above • M. Humphreys • short story
* Penelope • Vincent Starrett • short story
* The Purple Heart • Herman Sisk • short story
* Feline • Bruce Grant • vignette (short fiction)
* Two Hours of Death • E. Thayles Emmons • short story
* Midnight Black • Hamilton Craigie • short story
* The Haunted and the Haunters • Edward Bulwer-Lytton • novelette (abridged from first publication)
* The Whispering Thing [Part 2 of 2] • Laurie McClintock & Culpeper Chunn • novella
* The Death Cell • F. K. Moss • short story
* The Devil Plant • Lyle Wilson Holden • short story
* Hootch • William Sanford • vignette (short fiction)
* The Thunder Voice • F. Walter Wilson • short story
* Case No. 27 • Mollie Frank Ellis • short story
* The Finale • William Merrit • short story
* The Closed Cabinet • Anon. • novelette

## June

Volume 1, Issue 4 (transcription project)
Cover art by Heitman
* The Evening Wolves [Part 1 of 2] • Paul Ellsworth Triem • novelette
* Desert Madness • Harold Freeman Miners • novelette
* The Jailer of Souls • Hamilton Craigie • novelette
* Jack O' Mystery • Edwin McLaren • short story
* Osiris • Adam Hull Shirk • short story
* The Well • Julian Kilman • short story
* The Phantom Wolfhound • Otis Adelbert Kline • (short story)
* The Murders in the Rue Morgue • Edgar Allan Poe • ?(novella)
* The Moon Terror [Part 2 of 2] • A. G. Birch • novella
* The Man the Law Forgot • Walter Noble Burns • short story
* The Blade of Vengeance • George Warburton Lewis • short story
* The Gray Death • Loual B. Sugarman • short story
* The Voice in the Fog • Henry Leverage • short story
* The Invisible Terror • Hugh Thomason • short story
* The Escape • Helen Rowe Henze • short story
* The Siren • Tarleton Collier • short story
* The Madman • Herbert Hipwell • short story
* The Chair • Dr. Harry E. Mereness • short story
* The Cauldron • Preston Langley Hickey

## July-August

Volume 2, Issue 1 (transcription project)
Cover art by Mally
* Sunfire [Part 1 of 2] • Francis Stevens • novella
* The Outcasts • George Warburton Lewis • short story
* The Room of the Black Velvet Drapes • B. W. Sliney • short story
* Doctor X • Culpeper Chunn • short story
* The Two Men Who Murdered Each Other • Valma Clark • novelette
* The Strange Case of Jacob Arum • John Harris Burland • novelette
* Black Cunjer • Isabel Walker • short story
* The Red Moon • Clark Ashton Smith • verse
* Shades • Bryan Irvine • short story
* Voodooism • Will W. Nelson • essay
* Senorita Serpente • Earl Wayland Bowman • short story
* The Room in the Tower • D. L. Radway • short story
* Riders in the Dark • Vincent Starrett • short story
* Mandrake • Adam Hull Shirk • short story
* People vs. Bland • Theodore Snow Wood • short story
* The Evening Wolves [Part 2 of 2] • Paul Ellsworth Triem • novelette
* The Corpse on the Third Slab • Otis Adelbert Kline • short story
* The Guard of Honor • J. Paul Suter • short story
* The Garden of Evil • Clark Ashton Smith • verse

## September

Volume 2, Issue 2 (transcription project)
Unknown cover artist
* The People of the Comet [Part 1 of 2] • Austin Hall • novella
* The Black Patch • Julian Kilman • short story
* The Soul of Peter Andrus • Hubert La Due • short story
* The Case of Dr. Johnstone • Burton Peter Thom • ?(short story)
* The Dead-Naming of Lukapehu • P. D. Gog • vignette (short fiction)
* The Cup of Blood • Otis Adelbert Kline • short story
* The Devil's Cabin • Vance Hoyt • short story
* The Old Burying Ground • Edgar Lloyd Hampton • novelette
* Sunfire [Part 2 of 2] • Francis Stevens • novella
* The Gorilla • Horatio Vernon Ellis • short story
* The Talisman • Nadia Lavrova • short story
* The Autobiography of a Blue Ghost • Don Mark Lemon • short story
* The Damned Thing • Ambrose Bierce • short story
* The Teak-Wood Shrine • Farnsworth Wright • short story
* The Money Lender • Vincent Starrett • short story
* The Bloodstained Parasol • James Ravenscroft • short story
* Black Magic • Alphonse Louis Constant • essay

## October

Volume 2, Issue 3 (transcription project)
Unknown cover artist
* The Amazing Adventure of Joe Scranton [Part 1 of 2] • Effie W. Fifield • novelette
* The Phantom Farm House • Seabury Quinn • novelette
* Dagon • H. P. Lovecraft • short story
* The Man Who Owned the World • Frank Owen • short story
* Grey Sleep • Charles Horn • short story
* The People of the Comet [Part 2 of 2] • Austin Hall • novella
* The Sign from Heaven • A. Havdal • short story
* The Inn of Dread • Arthur Edwards Chapman • short story
* The Hairy Monster • Neil Miller • short story
* Devil Manor • E. B. Jordan • novelette
* The Case of the Golden Lily [*Paul Pry] • Francis D. Grierson • short story
* An Adventure in the Fourth Dimension • Farnsworth Wright • short story
* The Pit and the Pendulum • Edgar Allan Poe • short story
* After the Storm • Sarah Harbine Weaver • short story
* Bluebeard • Seabury Quinn • essay

## November

Volume 2, Issue 4 (transcription project)
Unknown cover artist
* Draconda [Part 1 of 6] • John Martin Leahy • novel
* The Crawling Death • P. A. Connolly • novelette
* The Closed Room • Maebelle McCalment • short story
* The Phantom Violinist • Walter F. McCanless • short story
* Lucifer • John D. Swain • short story
* The Spider • Arthur Edwards Chapman • short story
* The Amazing Adventure of Joe Scranton [Part 2 of 2] • Effie W. Fifield • novelette
* The Iron Room [*Paul Pry] • Francis D. Grierson • short story
* Prisoners of the Dead • J. Paul Suter • short story
* The Death Pit • Oscar Schisgall • novelette
* The Wax Image • Burton Harcourt • short story
* Poisoned • Farnsworth Wright • short story
* The Magic Mirror • Mary S. Brown • short story
* The Invisible Monster • Sonia H. Greene [ghost written by H. P. Lovecraft] • short story
* The Pebble Prophecy • Valens Lapsley • short story
* The Tell-Tale Heart • Edgar Allan Poe • short story
* The Grave Robbers • Seabury Quinn • essay
* The Survivor • Edwin G. Wood • vignette (short fiction)

## External links

* Miskatronic University Press • Contents for 1923
* Noosfere - link seem dead; site is in French
* Collector's Showcase • Contents for 1923 (French)
* Galactic Central Publications Weird Tales Checklist