Weird Tales/1939

January

Weird Tales cover image for January 1939

Volume 33, Issue 1

Cover art by Virgil Finlay

• Waxworks • Robert Bloch • novelette (© Copyright Renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 21Feb66; R380934.)
• Medusa's Coil • Z. B. Bishop [ghost written by Howard Phillips Lovecraft] • novelette
• The Fifth Candle • George R. Hahn * Richard Levin [as Cyril Mand] • short story
• Bride of the Lightning • Edmond Hamilton • short story
• I Found Cleopatra [Part 3 of 4] • Thomas P. Kelley • novel
• The Silver Coffin • Robert Barbour Johnson • short story
• These Doth the Lord Hate • Manly Wade Wellman [as Gans T. Field] • short story
• Date in the City Room • Talbot Johns • short story
• A Rendezvous in Averoigne • Clark Ashton Smith • short story
• And Thus I Knew • Dorothy Agard Ansley • verse
• Othello Time • Vincent Starrett • verse
• The Warrior • Emil Petaja • verse

February

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Volume 33, Issue 2 IA

Cover art by Virgil Finlay

• Death Is an Elephant • Robert Bloch [as Nathan Hindin] • short story
• The Poltergeist of Swan Upping [*Jules de Grandin] • Seabury Quinn • novelette
• The Double Shadow • Clark Ashton Smith • short story
• Fearful Rock [Part 1 of 3; *Sgt. Jaeger] • Manly Wade Wellman • novella
• The Drifting Snow • August Derleth [as Stephen Grendon] • short story (© Copyright Renewed: August Derleth (A); 12Jan66; R378245.)
• Giant-Plasm • Donald Wandrei • novelette
• I Found Cleopatra [Part 4 of 4] • Thomas P. Kelley • novel
• The Transgressor • Henry Kuttner • short story
• The Last Horror • Eli Colter • novelette
• The City of Death • Edith Hurley • verse
• Crazy Nell • Edgar Daniel Kramer • verse
• The King and the Oak • Robert E. Howard • verse (© Copyright Renewed: Mrs. P. M. Kuykendall (E); 14Nov66; R398453.)
• The Lamp • H. P. Lovecraft • verse
• Zaman's Hill • H. P. Lovecraft • verse

March

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Volume 33, Issue 3

Cover art by Virgil Finlay

• The Metal Chamber • Duane W. Rimel • short story
• The Swine of Ææa • Clifford Ball • novelette
• The House Where Time Stood Still [*Jules de Grandin] • Seabury Quinn • novelette
• The Return of Hastur • August W. Derleth • novelette (© Copyright Renewed: August Derleth (A); 4Apr66; R385430.)
• Fearful Rock [Part 2 of 3; *Sgt. Jaeger] • Manly Wade Wellman • novella
• Comrades of Time [*Ethan Drew] • Edmond Hamilton • novelette
• The Quest of Iranon • H. P. Lovecraft • short story
• The Stratosphere Menace • Ralph Milne Farley • short story
• Smoke Fantasy • Thomas R. Jordan • vignette
• The Devils of Po Sung • Bassett Morgan • short story
• Desert Dawn • Robert E. Howard • verse (© Copyright Renewed: Mrs. P. M. Kuykendall (E); 14Nov66; R398454.)
• Introduction to a Stranger • David Wright O'Brien • verse

April

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Volume 33, Issue 4 (transcription project)

Cover art by Virgil Finlay

• The Red God Laughed • Thorp McClusky • short story
• Susette • Seabury Quinn • novelette
• Hellsgarde • C. L. Moore • novelette (Jirel of Joiry series)
• Armies from the Past • Edmond Hamilton • novelette (Ethan Drew series)
• The Red Swimmer • Robert Bloch • novelette (© Copyright Renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 16Jan67; R402634.)
• Hydra • Henry Kuttner • short story
• Fearful Rock (part 3 of 3) • Manly Wade Wellman • novella (Sgt. Jaeger series)
• The High Places • Frances Garfield • short story
• Mommy • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • short story
• The Wicked Clergyman • H. P. Lovecraft • short story
• Special News Bulletin • Vincent H. Gaddis • vignette
• The Curse of Yig • Zealia Brown Reed (ghost written by Howard Phillips Lovecraft) • short story
• In an Old Street • Vincent Starrett • verse
• Trinities • Edgar Daniel Kramer • verse
• Will-o'-the-Wisp • Charles Sloan Reid • verse

May

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Volume 33, Issue 5 (transcription project)

Cover art by Harold S. Delay

• The Hollow Moon • Everil Worrell • novelette
• The Dark Isle • Robert Bloch • novelette (© Copyright Renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 16Jan67; R402635.)
• Washington Nocturne • Seabury Quinn • novelette
• The Thinking Machine • J. J. Connington • short story
• Almuric [Part 1 of 3] • Robert E. Howard • novel (© Copyright Renewed: Mrs. P. M. Kuykendall (E); 14Nov66; R398455.)
• The Face at Death Corner • Paul Ernst • short story
• Witch's Hair • Mearle Prout • short story
• The Phantom Island • Arlton Eadie • short story
• Cross of Fire • Lester del Rey • short story
• The Watcher at the Door • Henry Kuttner • short story
• Not Both! • Frances Garfield • short story
• The Dead Soul • Raoul Lenoir • short story
• The Dead Host's Welcome • John Fletcher • verse
• Dust • Edgar Daniel Kramer • verse
• Harbor Whistles • H. P. Lovecraft • verse
• In a Dark Wood • Marion Doyle • verse
• The Plumed Serpent • Howell Calhoun • verse

June-July

Weird Tales cover image for July 1939

Volume 34, Issue 1

Cover art by Virgil Finlay

• Giants of Anarchy • Earl Binder & Otto Binder [as Eando Binder] • novelette (© Copyright Renewed: Otto Oscar Binder (A); 29Jul66; R391047.)
• Far Below • Robert Barbour Johnson • short story
• Lens-Shy • W. M. Clayton • vignette
• The Sitter in the Mound • Bruce Bryan • short story
• The Man Who Came Back • Frederic Arnold Kummer, Jr. • short story
• The Stroke of Twelve • Earl Peirce, Jr. • short story
• Mansions in the Sky [*Jules de Grandin] • Seabury Quinn • novelette
• The Phantom Werewolf • Montague Summers • vignette (© Copyright Restored due to URAA; First published in the UK; The Werewolf, 1933)
• The Willow Landscape • Clark Ashton Smith • short story
• Almuric [Part 2 of 3] • Robert E. Howard • novel (© Copyright Renewed: Mrs. P. M. Kuykendall (E); 14Nov66; 398456.)
• Headache • Paul Ernst • short story
• The Death Watch • Hugh B. Cave • short story
• Celephais • H. P. Lovecraft • short story
• Imprisoned with the Pharaohs • Houdini [ghost written by Howard Phillips Lovecraft] • novelette
• Circe • Edgar Daniel Kramer • verse
• The Hills of Kandahar • Robert E. Howard • verse (© Copyright Renewed: Mrs. P. M. Kuykendall (E); 14Nov66; R398457.)
• The Howler [*Fungi from Yuggoth] • H. P. Lovecraft • verse
• They Run Again • Leah Bodine Drake • verse

August

Weird Tales cover image for August 1939

Volume 34, Issue 2

Cover art by Virgil Finlay

• The Valley Was Still • Manly Wade Wellman • short story
• Apprentice Magician • E. Hoffmann Price • short story
• Spawn • P. Schuyler Miller • novelette
• The Little Man • Clifford Ball • short story
• Return from Death • Bruce Bryan • short story
• The Fisherman's Special • H. L. Thomson • short story
• The House of the Three Corpses [*Jules de Grandin] • Seabury Quinn • novelette
• Giants in the Sky • Frank Belknap Long, Jr. • short story
• Almuric [Part 3 of 3] • Robert E. Howard • novel (© Copyright Renewed: Mrs. P. M. Kuykendall (E); 14Nov66; 398458.)
• The Laugh • Richard H. Hart • short story
• The Totem-Pole • Robert Bloch • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 16Jan67; R402637.)
• The Fall of the House of Usher • Edgar Allan Poe • short story
• Dupin and Another • Vincent Starrett • verse
• The Gardens of Yin [*Fungi from Yuggoth] • H. P. Lovecraft • verse [REPRINT]
• My Tomb • James E. Warren, Jr. • verse
• Voice in a Veteran's Ear • Manly Wade Wellman [as Gans T. Field] • verse

September

Weird Tales cover image for September 1939

Volume 34, Issue 3 (transcription project)

Cover art by Virgil Finlay

• While Zombies Walked • Thorp McClusky • novelette
• Spanish Vampire • E. Hoffmann Price • short story
• The Door Without a Key • Seabury Quinn • novelette
• King of the World's Edge [Part 1 of 4] • H. Warner Munn • novel
• Spawn of the Maelstrom • August W. Derleth & Mark Schorer • short story (© Copyright Renewed: August Derleth (A); 16Aug66; R392095.)
• Cool Air • H. P. Lovecraft • short story
• A Night in Malneant • Clark Ashton Smith • short story
• Gray Ghouls • Bassett Morgan • novelette

October

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Volume 34, Issue 4

Cover art by Harold S. Delay

• Mystery of the Missing Magnate • Ralph Milne Farley • short story
• The Witch's Cat • Manly Wade Wellman [as Gans T. Field] • short story
• The Sorcerer's Apprentice • Lucian • vignette
• The Lady of the Bells • Seabury Quinn • novelette
• In the Walls of Eryx • Kenneth Sterling & H. P. Lovecraft • novelette
• King of the World's Edge [Part 2 of 4] • H. Warner Munn • novel
• Finished Game • Harry Butman • vignette
• Worms of the Earth [*Bran Mak Morn] • Robert E. Howard • novelette [REPRINT]
• The Dead Speak • Vivian Stratton • verse
• The Dream • Edith Hurley • verse
• The Hasish-Eater • Virgil Finley • pictorial (interpretation of a poem by Clark Ashton Smith)

November

Weird Tales cover image for November 1939

Volume 34, Issue 5

Cover art by Virgil Finlay

• The Man Who Died Twice • Eli Colter • short story
• Towers of Death • Henry Kuttner • short story
• Uncanonized • Seabury Quinn • novelette
• The Withered Heart • G. G. Pendarves • short story
• The Web of Silence • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • short story
• The Haunted Car • David Bernard • short story
• The Hunch • Gene Lyle, III • short story
• King of the World's Edge [Part 3 of 4] • H. Warner Munn • novel
• The Phantom Drug • A. W. Kapfer • short story [REPRINT]
• Bogey-Man • Charles Sloan Reid • verse

December

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Volume 34, Issue 6

Cover art by Hannes Bok

• Glamour • Seabury Quinn • novelette
• The Considerate Hosts • Thorp McClusky • short story
• Lords of the Ice • David H. Keller • novelette
• Nymph of Darkness [*Northwest Smith] • C. L. Moore & Forrest J. Ackerman • short story
• Escape from Tomorrow • Frank Belknap Long, Jr. • short story
• Mannikins of Horror • Robert Bloch • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 16Jan67; R402638.)
• Dead Man's Schooner • André Linville • short story
• King of the World's Edge [Part 4 of 4] • H. Warner Munn • novel
• The Copper Bowl • George Fielding Eliot • short story [REPRINT]
• Bacchante • Clark Ashton Smith • verse
• Night-Gaunts [*Fungi from Yuggoth] • H. P. Lovecraft • verse
• Weird Things • Vivian Stratton • verse
• Deep Night, Dark Night • Virgil Finlay • pictorial (interpretation of an excerpt from Shakespeare's "King Henry vignette")

External links

• Collector's Showcase (French) Contents for 1939
• Miskatonic University Press Contents for 1939
• Galactic Central Publications Weird Tales Checklist