# Weird Tales/1942

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

## January

Volume 36, Issue 3
Cover art by Gretta
* The Shadow Over Innsmouth • H. P. Lovecraft • (?novelette)
* The White Lady • Dorothy Quick • short story
* Death Thumbs a Ride • Robert Arthur • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Robert Arthur (A); 4Nov68; R447563.)
* The Ghost of Lancelot Biggs [*Lancelot Biggs] • Nelson S. Bond • short story
* Parasite Mansion • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • (?novelette)
* The Phantom Slayer • Fritz Leiber, Jr. • short story (© Copyright renewed: Fritz R. Leiber, Jr. (A); 7Apr69; R459414.)
* Who Can Escape... • Seabury Quinn • short story
* Table for Two • Arthur Leo Zagat • vignette
* The Curse • Page Cooper • verse
* Superstitions and Taboos • Irwin J. Weill • article

## March

Volume 36, Issue 4 (transcription project)
Cover art by Hannes Bok
* Hell on Earth • Robert Bloch • novelette
* The Superfluous Phantom • Malcolm Jameson • (?short story)
* The March of the Trees • Frank Owen • short story
* Child's Play • Alice-Mary Schnirring • short story
* The Rat Master • Greye La Spina • short story
* The Treasure of Red-Ash Desert • Stanton A. Coblentz • short story
* Herbert West: Reanimator: I. From the Dark • H. P. Lovecraft • short story
* Death of the Kraken • David H. Keller • short story
* Tibetan Vengeance • Stafford Aylmer • novelette
* Here, Daemos! • August W. Derleth • short story (© Copyright renewed: August Derleth (A); 16Apr69; R459660.)
* Garden at Lu • Gerald Chan Sieg • verse
* Hunger • Page Cooper • verse
* The Wood-Wife • Leah Bodine Drake • verse

## May

Volume 36, Issue 5
Cover art by Ray Quigley
* Stoneman's Memorial [*Jules de Grandin] • Seabury Quinn • novelette
* The Enchanted River • Dorothy Quick • short story
* Ghost for a Night • Robert Arthur • short story (© Copyright renewed: Robert Arthur (A); 22Jul69; R465631 AND © Copyright renewed: Robert Andrew Arthur & Elizabeth Ann Arthur (C); 5Jan70; R475446)
* Masquerade • Henry Kuttner • short story (© Copyright renewed: Mrs. Thomas Reggie (E); 19May69; R461872.)
* The Deadly Theory • Greye La Spina • short story
* Black Bargain • Robert Bloch • short story
* The Giant in a Test Tube • George Armin Shaftel • (?short story)
* The Concrete Phantom • Weston Parry • short story
* Crystal Vision • Alice-Mary Schnirring • short story
* The Gipsy's Hand • Alonzo Deen Cole • short story
* Vengeance in Her Bones • Malcolm Jameson • short story
* The Dreamer in the Desert • Francis Flagg • verse

## July

Volume 36, Issue 6 (transcription project)
Cover art by Margaret Brundage
* Coven [*Sgt. Jaeger] • Manly Wade Wellman • (?novelette)
* Lansing's Luxury • August W. Derleth • short story (© Copyright renewed: August Derleth (A); 29Apr70; R483270.)
* The Gun • Frank Gruber • short story (© Copyright renewed: Lois Gruber (W); 13Apr70; R483327.)
* For Tomorrow We Die [*Dr. Shen Fu] • Frank Owen • short story
* Dead Silence • Leonard Lee Charlot • short story
* The High Tower • Everil Worrell • short story
* Poor Little Tampico • Hannes Bok • short story
* Herbert West: Reanimator: II. The Plague-Demon • H. P. Lovecraft • short story
* The Redoubtable Horace Goppendyke • John Broome • short story
* Is the Devil a Gentleman? • Seabury Quinn • novelette
* A Mangrove Swamp • William de Lisle • verse
* Moonlight • Paul Verlaine [tr. Clark Ashton Smith] • verse

## September

Volume 36, Issue 7 (transcription project)
Cover art by A.R. Tilburn
* Satan's Bondage • Manly Banister • novelette
* Death Has Red Hair • Greye La Spina • short story
* A Question of Etiquette • Robert Bloch • short story (© Copyright renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 9Mar70; R480318.)
* Spider Mansion • Fritz Leiber • short story
* The Bridle • David H. Keller • short story
* Who Are the Living? ["The Epiphany of Death"] • Clark Ashton Smith • short story
* Herbert West: Reanimator: III. Six Shots by Moonlight ["Grewsome Tales"] • H. P. Lovecraft • (?short story)
* Visibility: Zero • Nelson S. Bond • short story
* Eyes of the Panther • Kuke Nichols • short story
* Never the Twain... • Seabury Quinn • novelette
* Changeling • Leah Bodine Drake • verse

## November

Volume 36, Issue 8 (transcription project)
Cover art by Richard Bennett
* Nursemaid to Nightmares • Robert Bloch • novelette (© Copyright renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 9Mar70; R480319.)
* The Hound • Fritz Leiber • short story
* The Crooked House • Thorne Lee • short story
* The Victory of the Vita-Ray • Stanton A. Coblentz • (?short story)
* The Golden Bough • David H. Keller • short story
* The Ghost of the Model T • Betsy Emmons • short story
* The Candle • Ray Bradbury • short story (© Copyright renewed: Ray Bradbury (A); 26Sep69; R469153.)
* The Lips of Caya Wu • Frank Owen • short story
* Herbert West: Reanimator: IV. The Scream of the Dead ["Grewsome Tales"] • H. P. Lovecraft • short story
* The Possessed • Alice-Mary Schnirring • short story
* The Evil Doll • Hannes Bok • short story
* The Dead World • Clarence Edwin Flynn • verse
* Into Fantasy • Maria Moravsky • verse
* Superstitions and Taboos • Irwin J. Weill • article

## External links

* Collector's Showcase (French) Contents for 1942-43
* Miskatronic University Press Contents for 1942
* Galactic Central Publications Weird Tales Checklist