This is the facsimile 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 is a facsimile, generated from scans of the original magazine, including the ads, news items, and formatting.About the Pulp Fiction CollectionOur 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.