This is the readers' edition of the first issue of Weird Tales, the hugely influential Pulp Magazine that went on to define many ideas of modern fantasy and supernatural horror. It spawned the careers of writers such as H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard.

This collection includes:

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

This edition strips the original manuscript of ads and irrelevant news items, keeping only the stories and the notes from the original editor. It presents these stories in a way that is easier for modern readers on modern devices. PDF scans of the original magazine, as it would have been read in 1923, are available online.

About the Pulp Fiction Collection

Our modern popular culture would not exist in its current form without the enormous influence of pulp fiction. So named due to the cheap wood-pulp paper used in the printing process, pulp magazines brought affordable fiction options to the masses.

This collection attempts to create a modernized version of these magazines, taking the short stories from each public domain issue and assembling them in a more modern collection format. For a scanned facsimile of the original issue, complete with original ads and formatting, visit Pulp University.