# Weird Tales/1939

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

## January

Volume 33, Issue 1
Cover art by Virgil Finlay
* Waxworks • Robert Bloch • novelette (© Copyright Renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 21Feb66; R380934.)
* Medusa's Coil • Z. B. Bishop [ghost written by Howard Phillips Lovecraft] • novelette
* The Fifth Candle • George R. Hahn * Richard Levin [as Cyril Mand] • short story
* Bride of the Lightning • Edmond Hamilton • short story
* I Found Cleopatra [Part 3 of 4] • Thomas P. Kelley • novel
* The Silver Coffin • Robert Barbour Johnson • short story
* These Doth the Lord Hate • Manly Wade Wellman [as Gans T. Field] • short story
* Date in the City Room • Talbot Johns • short story
* A Rendezvous in Averoigne • Clark Ashton Smith • short story
* And Thus I Knew • Dorothy Agard Ansley • verse
* Othello Time • Vincent Starrett • verse
* The Warrior • Emil Petaja • verse

## February

Volume 33, Issue 2 IA
Cover art by Virgil Finlay
* Death Is an Elephant • Robert Bloch [as Nathan Hindin] • short story
* The Poltergeist of Swan Upping [*Jules de Grandin] • Seabury Quinn • novelette
* The Double Shadow • Clark Ashton Smith • short story
* Fearful Rock [Part 1 of 3; *Sgt. Jaeger] • Manly Wade Wellman • novella
* The Drifting Snow • August Derleth [as Stephen Grendon] • short story (© Copyright Renewed: August Derleth (A); 12Jan66; R378245.)
* Giant-Plasm • Donald Wandrei • novelette
* I Found Cleopatra [Part 4 of 4] • Thomas P. Kelley • novel
* The Transgressor • Henry Kuttner • short story
* The Last Horror • Eli Colter • novelette
* The City of Death • Edith Hurley • verse
* Crazy Nell • Edgar Daniel Kramer • verse
* The King and the Oak • Robert E. Howard • verse (© Copyright Renewed: Mrs. P. M. Kuykendall (E); 14Nov66; R398453.)
* The Lamp • H. P. Lovecraft • verse
* Zaman's Hill • H. P. Lovecraft • verse

## March

Volume 33, Issue 3
Cover art by Virgil Finlay
* The Metal Chamber • Duane W. Rimel • short story
* The Swine of Ææa • Clifford Ball • novelette
* The House Where Time Stood Still [*Jules de Grandin] • Seabury Quinn • novelette
* The Return of Hastur • August W. Derleth • novelette (© Copyright Renewed: August Derleth (A); 4Apr66; R385430.)
* Fearful Rock [Part 2 of 3; *Sgt. Jaeger] • Manly Wade Wellman • novella
* Comrades of Time [*Ethan Drew] • Edmond Hamilton • novelette
* The Quest of Iranon • H. P. Lovecraft • short story
* The Stratosphere Menace • Ralph Milne Farley • short story
* Smoke Fantasy • Thomas R. Jordan • vignette
* The Devils of Po Sung • Bassett Morgan • short story
* Desert Dawn • Robert E. Howard • verse (© Copyright Renewed: Mrs. P. M. Kuykendall (E); 14Nov66; R398454.)
* Introduction to a Stranger • David Wright O'Brien • verse

## April

Volume 33, Issue 4 (transcription project)
Cover art by Virgil Finlay
* The Red God Laughed • Thorp McClusky • short story
* Susette • Seabury Quinn • novelette
* Hellsgarde • C. L. Moore • novelette (Jirel of Joiry series)
* Armies from the Past • Edmond Hamilton • novelette (Ethan Drew series)
* The Red Swimmer • Robert Bloch • novelette (© Copyright Renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 16Jan67; R402634.)
* Hydra • Henry Kuttner • short story
* Fearful Rock (part 3 of 3) • Manly Wade Wellman • novella (Sgt. Jaeger series)
* The High Places • Frances Garfield • short story
* Mommy • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • short story
* The Wicked Clergyman • H. P. Lovecraft • short story
* Special News Bulletin • Vincent H. Gaddis • vignette
* The Curse of Yig • Zealia Brown Reed (ghost written by Howard Phillips Lovecraft) • short story
* In an Old Street • Vincent Starrett • verse
* Trinities • Edgar Daniel Kramer • verse
* Will-o'-the-Wisp • Charles Sloan Reid • verse

## May

Volume 33, Issue 5 (transcription project)
Cover art by Harold S. Delay
* The Hollow Moon • Everil Worrell • novelette
* The Dark Isle • Robert Bloch • novelette (© Copyright Renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 16Jan67; R402635.)
* Washington Nocturne • Seabury Quinn • novelette
* The Thinking Machine • J. J. Connington • short story
* Almuric [Part 1 of 3] • Robert E. Howard • novel (© Copyright Renewed: Mrs. P. M. Kuykendall (E); 14Nov66; R398455.)
* The Face at Death Corner • Paul Ernst • short story
* Witch's Hair • Mearle Prout • short story
* The Phantom Island • Arlton Eadie • short story
* Cross of Fire • Lester del Rey • short story
* The Watcher at the Door • Henry Kuttner • short story
* Not Both! • Frances Garfield • short story
* The Dead Soul • Raoul Lenoir • short story
* The Dead Host's Welcome • John Fletcher • verse
* Dust • Edgar Daniel Kramer • verse
* Harbor Whistles • H. P. Lovecraft • verse
* In a Dark Wood • Marion Doyle • verse
* The Plumed Serpent • Howell Calhoun • verse

## June-July

Volume 34, Issue 1
Cover art by Virgil Finlay
* Giants of Anarchy • Earl Binder & Otto Binder [as Eando Binder] • novelette (© Copyright Renewed: Otto Oscar Binder (A); 29Jul66; R391047.)
* Far Below • Robert Barbour Johnson • short story
* Lens-Shy • W. M. Clayton • vignette
* The Sitter in the Mound • Bruce Bryan • short story
* The Man Who Came Back • Frederic Arnold Kummer, Jr. • short story
* The Stroke of Twelve • Earl Peirce, Jr. • short story
* Mansions in the Sky [*Jules de Grandin] • Seabury Quinn • novelette
* The Phantom Werewolf • Montague Summers • vignette (© Copyright Restored due to URAA; First published in the UK; The Werewolf, 1933)
* The Willow Landscape • Clark Ashton Smith • short story
* Almuric [Part 2 of 3] • Robert E. Howard • novel (© Copyright Renewed: Mrs. P. M. Kuykendall (E); 14Nov66; 398456.)
* Headache • Paul Ernst • short story
* The Death Watch • Hugh B. Cave • short story
* Celephais • H. P. Lovecraft • short story
* Imprisoned with the Pharaohs • Houdini [ghost written by Howard Phillips Lovecraft] • novelette
* Circe • Edgar Daniel Kramer • verse
* The Hills of Kandahar • Robert E. Howard • verse (© Copyright Renewed: Mrs. P. M. Kuykendall (E); 14Nov66; R398457.)
* The Howler [*Fungi from Yuggoth] • H. P. Lovecraft • verse
* They Run Again • Leah Bodine Drake • verse

## August

Volume 34, Issue 2 (transcription project)
Cover art by Virgil Finlay
* The Valley Was Still • Manly Wade Wellman • short story
* Apprentice Magician • E. Hoffmann Price • short story
* Spawn • P. Schuyler Miller • novelette
* The Little Man • Clifford Ball • short story
* Return from Death • Bruce Bryan • short story
* The Fisherman's Special • H. L. Thomson • short story
* The House of the Three Corpses [*Jules de Grandin] • Seabury Quinn • novelette
* Giants in the Sky • Frank Belknap Long, Jr. • short story
* Almuric [Part 3 of 3] • Robert E. Howard • novel (© Copyright Renewed: Mrs. P. M. Kuykendall (E); 14Nov66; 398458.)
* The Laugh • Richard H. Hart • short story
* The Totem-Pole • Robert Bloch • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 16Jan67; R402637.)
* The Fall of the House of Usher • Edgar Allan Poe • short story
* Dupin and Another • Vincent Starrett • verse
* The Gardens of Yin [*Fungi from Yuggoth] • H. P. Lovecraft • verse [REPRINT]
* My Tomb • James E. Warren, Jr. • verse
* Voice in a Veteran's Ear • Manly Wade Wellman [as Gans T. Field] • verse

## September

Volume 34, Issue 3 (transcription project)
Cover art by Virgil Finlay
* While Zombies Walked • Thorp McClusky • novelette
* Spanish Vampire • E. Hoffmann Price • short story
* The Door Without a Key • Seabury Quinn • novelette
* King of the World's Edge [Part 1 of 4] • H. Warner Munn • novel
* Spawn of the Maelstrom • August W. Derleth & Mark Schorer • short story (© Copyright Renewed: August Derleth (A); 16Aug66; R392095.)
* Cool Air • H. P. Lovecraft • short story
* A Night in Malneant • Clark Ashton Smith • short story
* Gray Ghouls • Bassett Morgan • novelette

## October

Volume 34, Issue 4 (transcription project)
Cover art by Harold S. Delay
* Mystery of the Missing Magnate • Ralph Milne Farley • short story
* The Witch's Cat • Manly Wade Wellman [as Gans T. Field] • short story
* The Sorcerer's Apprentice • Lucian • vignette
* The Lady of the Bells • Seabury Quinn • novelette
* In the Walls of Eryx • Kenneth Sterling & H. P. Lovecraft • novelette
* King of the World's Edge [Part 2 of 4] • H. Warner Munn • novel
* Finished Game • Harry Butman • vignette
* Worms of the Earth [*Bran Mak Morn] • Robert E. Howard • novelette [REPRINT]
* The Dead Speak • Vivian Stratton • verse
* The Dream • Edith Hurley • verse
* The Hasish-Eater • Virgil Finley • pictorial (interpretation of a poem by Clark Ashton Smith)

## November

Volume 34, Issue 5
Cover art by Virgil Finlay
* The Man Who Died Twice • Eli Colter • short story
* Towers of Death • Henry Kuttner • short story
* Uncanonized • Seabury Quinn • novelette
* The Withered Heart • G. G. Pendarves • short story
* The Web of Silence • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • short story
* The Haunted Car • David Bernard • short story
* The Hunch • Gene Lyle, III • short story
* King of the World's Edge [Part 3 of 4] • H. Warner Munn • novel
* The Phantom Drug • A. W. Kapfer • short story [REPRINT]
* Bogey-Man • Charles Sloan Reid • verse

## December

Volume 34, Issue 6
Cover art by Hannes Bok
* Glamour • Seabury Quinn • novelette
* The Considerate Hosts • Thorp McClusky • short story
* Lords of the Ice • David H. Keller • novelette
* Nymph of Darkness [*Northwest Smith] • C. L. Moore & Forrest J. Ackerman • short story
* Escape from Tomorrow • Frank Belknap Long, Jr. • short story
* Mannikins of Horror • Robert Bloch • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 16Jan67; R402638.)
* Dead Man's Schooner • André Linville • short story
* King of the World's Edge [Part 4 of 4] • H. Warner Munn • novel
* The Copper Bowl • George Fielding Eliot • short story [REPRINT]
* Bacchante • Clark Ashton Smith • verse
* Night-Gaunts [*Fungi from Yuggoth] • H. P. Lovecraft • verse
* Weird Things • Vivian Stratton • verse
* Deep Night, Dark Night • Virgil Finlay • pictorial (interpretation of an excerpt from Shakespeare's "King Henry vignette")

## External links

* Collector's Showcase (French) Contents for 1939
* Miskatonic University Press Contents for 1939
* Galactic Central Publications Weird Tales Checklist