A complete issue · 194 pages · 1923
Weird Tales, Vol. 1, No. 2
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1923 — all 194 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 194 pages · 1923
This is the April 1923 issue of Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 2, edited by Edwin Baird. The issue contains sixteen short stories and two novelettes advertised on the contents page. Featured stories include "The Scar" by Carl Ramus (medical novelette), "Beyond the Door" by Paul Suter, "The Tortoise Shell Comb" by Roylston Markham, "The Incubus" by Hamilton Craigie (set in an ancient tomb), "The Bodymaster" by Harold Ward, "Jangle Death" by Artemus Calloway (involving crocodiles and voodooism), "The Snake Fiend" by Farnsworth Wright, "The Forty Jars" by Ray McGilliyray (Orient-set), "The Thing of a Thousand Shapes" by Otis Adelbert Kline (novel conclusion), "Six Feet of Willow" by Carrol F. Michener, and "The Hall of the Dead" by Francis D. Grierson (Egyptian occult story). "The Scar" excerpt shows Dr. Carlson summoned to a mysterious case by unknown parties using subterfuge and kidnapping tactics.
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