# Weird Tales/1940

Publisher: Weird Tales, Inc., New York (a subsidiary of Short Stories, Inc.) Editor: Farnsworth Wright (to March-April); Dorothy McIlwraith (from May-June)

## January-February

Volume 35, Issue 1
Cover art by Virgil Finlay
* Spotted Satan • Otis Adelbert Kline & E. Hoffmann Price • novelette
* Mortmain • Seabury Quinn • novelette
* A Million Years in the Future [Part 1 of 4] • Thomas P. Kelley • novella
* Twister • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Mary Elizabeth Counselman Vinyard (A); 13Apr67; R408059.)
* Portrait of a Bride • Earl Peirce, Jr. • short story
* Forbidden Cupboard • Frances Garfield • short story
* The Unveiling • Alfred I. Tooke • short story
* Lips of the Dead • W. J. Stamper • short story
* Realization • Harry Warner, Jr. • verse

## March-April

Volume 35, Issue 2 (start transcription)
Cover art by Hannes Bok
* The Horror in the Glen • Clyde Irvine • short story
* Train for Flushing • Malcolm Jameson • short story
* The Song of the Slaves • Manly Wade Wellman • short story
* The Golden Spider • Seabury Quinn • novelette
* Slaves of the Gray Mold [*Peters & Ethredge] • Thorp McClusky • novelette
* A Million Years in the Future [Part 2 of 4] • Thomas P. Kelley • novella
* Bramwell's Guardian • August W. Derleth • short story (© Copyright Renewed: August Derleth (A); 1Feb67; R403205.)
* The Specter of Virginia • Clive Leonard • short story
* It Happened to Me: The Centurion's Prisoner • Lindsay Nisbet • vignette
* The Dweller • H. P. Lovecraft • verse

## May-June

Volume 35, Issue 3 IA
Cover art by Hannes Bok
* Wind in the Moonlight • Gretchen Ruediger • short story
* The City from the Sea • Edmond Hamilton • novelette
* The Ghost-Writer • Robert Bloch • short story
* Khosru's Garden • E. Hoffmann Price • short story
* A Million Years in the Future [Part 3 of 4] • Thomas P. Kelley • novel
* Black Was the Night • Laurence Bour, Jr. • short story
* The Red Gibbet • F. B. Ghensi; trans. by H. Switchell • short story
* The Automatic Pistol • Fritz Leiber, Jr. • short story
* The Soul of Ra-Moses • John Murray Reynolds • short story
* Awakening • Willis Conover, Jr. • verse
* The Phoenix • Clark Ashton Smith • verse

## July-August

Volume 35, Issue 4 (transcription project)
Cover art by Margaret Brundage
* An Adventure of a Professional Corpse: 1. The Artificial Honeymoon • H. Bedford-Jones • short story
* The Golden Chalice • Frank Gruber • short story
* The Fiddler's Fee • Robert Bloch • short story
* The Dreadful Rabbits [*Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant] • Manly Wade Wellman [as Gans T. Field] • short story
* A Million Years in the Future [Part 4 of 4] • Thomas P. Kelley • novella
* On Pell Street • Frank Owen • short story
* The Gentle Werewolf • Seabury Quinn • novelette
* The Crystal Horde • Harry Walton • novelette
* Beyond the Frame • Maria Moravsky • short story
* It Happened to Me: Rabbit's Intuition • Jim Price • article
* It Happened to Me: The Cast-away Slave • Thomas Trafton • article
* It Happened to Me: Three Flowers • F. T. Compton • article
* Ears of the Dead • James Arthur • verse
* Inheritance • Sudie Stuart Hager • verse

## September-October

Volume 35, Issue 5
Cover art by Ray Quigley
* Seven Seconds of Eternity • Robert H. Leitfred • novella
* The Valley of the Undead • Helen Weinbaum • short story
* An Adventure of a Professional Corpse: 2. The Blind Farmer and the Strip Dancer • H. Bedford-Jones • short story
* Heart of Atlantan • Nictzin Dyalhis • novelette
* The Reward • Robert Clancy • short story
* Sea Born • Edmond Hamilton • novelette
* The Unusual Romance of Ferdinand Pratt • Nelson S. Bond • short story
* Past Tense • Harry Sivia • short story
* The Kings Do Battle Again • H. Bedford-Jones [as Gordon Keyne] • short story
* It Happened to Me: They Lynched Him, and Then • Jack Kytle • article
* Enduring • Maisie Nelson • verse
* Temple in Samarkand • Gerald Chan Sieg • verse

## November-December

Volume 35, Issue 6
Cover art by Margaret Brundage
* The Last Waltz • Seabury Quinn • short story
* The Green Invasion • Denis Plimmer • short story
* Wine of the Sabbat • Robert Bloch • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 22Aug68; R442145.)
* An Adventure of a Professional Corpse: 3. The Wife of the Humorous Gangster • H. Bedford-Jones • short story
* The Sandwin Compact • August W. Derleth • novelette (© Copyright Renewed: August Derleth (A); 1Nov67; R420812.)
* The Mirror • Liam Kennedy • short story
* Turn Over • Dorothy Quick • short story
* The Impossible Adventure • H. T. W. Bousfield • short story
* The Mound • Z. B. Bishop [ghost written by H. P. Lovecraft] • novelette
* It Happened to Me: Ghost Farm • Dulcie Browne • article
* The Great God Death • Edith Hurley • verse

## External links

* Collector's Showcase (French) Contents for 1940-41
* Miskatronic University Press Contents for 1940
* Galactic Central Publications Weird Tales Checklist