Weird Tales/1940

January-February

Weird Tales cover image for January 1940

Volume 35, Issue 1

Cover art by Virgil Finlay

• Spotted Satan • Otis Adelbert Kline & E. Hoffmann Price • novelette
• Mortmain • Seabury Quinn • novelette
• A Million Years in the Future [Part 1 of 4] • Thomas P. Kelley • novella
• Twister • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Mary Elizabeth Counselman Vinyard (A); 13Apr67; R408059.)
• Portrait of a Bride • Earl Peirce, Jr. • short story
• Forbidden Cupboard • Frances Garfield • short story
• The Unveiling • Alfred I. Tooke • short story
• Lips of the Dead • W. J. Stamper • short story
• Realization • Harry Warner, Jr. • verse

March-April

Weird Tales cover image for March 1940

Volume 35, Issue 2

Cover art by Hannes Bok

• The Horror in the Glen • Clyde Irvine • short story
• Train for Flushing • Malcolm Jameson • short story
• The Song of the Slaves • Manly Wade Wellman • short story
• The Golden Spider • Seabury Quinn • novelette
• Slaves of the Gray Mold [*Peters & Ethredge] • Thorp McClusky • novelette
• A Million Years in the Future [Part 2 of 4] • Thomas P. Kelley • novella
• Bramwell's Guardian • August W. Derleth • short story (© Copyright Renewed: August Derleth (A); 1Feb67; R403205.)
• The Specter of Virginia • Clive Leonard • short story
• It Happened to Me: The Centurion's Prisoner • Lindsay Nisbet • vignette
• The Dweller • H. P. Lovecraft • verse

May-June

Weird Tales cover image for May 1940

Volume 35, Issue 3 IA

Cover art by Hannes Bok

• Wind in the Moonlight • Gretchen Ruediger • short story
• The City from the Sea • Edmond Hamilton • novelette
• The Ghost-Writer • Robert Bloch • short story
• Khosru's Garden • E. Hoffmann Price • short story
• A Million Years in the Future [Part 3 of 4] • Thomas P. Kelley • novel
• Black Was the Night • Laurence Bour, Jr. • short story
• The Red Gibbet • F. B. Ghensi; trans. by H. Switchell • short story
• The Automatic Pistol • Fritz Leiber, Jr. • short story
• The Soul of Ra-Moses • John Murray Reynolds • short story
• Awakening • Willis Conover, Jr. • verse
• The Phoenix • Clark Ashton Smith • verse

July-August

Weird Tales cover image for July 1940

Volume 35, Issue 4 (transcription project)

Cover art by Margaret Brundage

• An Adventure of a Professional Corpse: 1. The Artificial Honeymoon • H. Bedford-Jones • short story
• The Golden Chalice • Frank Gruber • short story
• The Fiddler's Fee • Robert Bloch • short story
• The Dreadful Rabbits [*Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant] • Manly Wade Wellman [as Gans T. Field] • short story
• A Million Years in the Future [Part 4 of 4] • Thomas P. Kelley • novella
• On Pell Street • Frank Owen • short story
• The Gentle Werewolf • Seabury Quinn • novelette
• The Crystal Horde • Harry Walton • novelette
• Beyond the Frame • Maria Moravsky • short story
• It Happened to Me: Rabbit's Intuition • Jim Price • article
• It Happened to Me: The Cast-away Slave • Thomas Trafton • article
• It Happened to Me: Three Flowers • F. T. Compton • article
• Ears of the Dead • James Arthur • verse
• Inheritance • Sudie Stuart Hager • verse

September-October

Weird Tales cover image for September 1940

Volume 35, Issue 5

Cover art by Ray Quigley

• Seven Seconds of Eternity • Robert H. Leitfred • novella
• The Valley of the Undead • Helen Weinbaum • short story
• An Adventure of a Professional Corpse: 2. The Blind Farmer and the Strip Dancer • H. Bedford-Jones • short story
• Heart of Atlantan • Nictzin Dyalhis • novelette
• The Reward • Robert Clancy • short story
• Sea Born • Edmond Hamilton • novelette
• The Unusual Romance of Ferdinand Pratt • Nelson S. Bond • short story
• Past Tense • Harry Sivia • short story
• The Kings Do Battle Again • H. Bedford-Jones [as Gordon Keyne] • short story
• It Happened to Me: They Lynched Him, and Then • Jack Kytle • article
• Enduring • Maisie Nelson • verse
• Temple in Samarkand • Gerald Chan Sieg • verse

November-December

Weird Tales cover image for November 1940

Volume 35, Issue 6

Cover art by Margaret Brundage

• The Last Waltz • Seabury Quinn • short story
• The Green Invasion • Denis Plimmer • short story
• Wine of the Sabbat • Robert Bloch • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 22Aug68; R442145.)
• An Adventure of a Professional Corpse: 3. The Wife of the Humorous Gangster • H. Bedford-Jones • short story
• The Sandwin Compact • August W. Derleth • novelette (© Copyright Renewed: August Derleth (A); 1Nov67; R420812.)
• The Mirror • Liam Kennedy • short story
• Turn Over • Dorothy Quick • short story
• The Impossible Adventure • H. T. W. Bousfield • short story
• The Mound • Z. B. Bishop [ghost written by H. P. Lovecraft] • novelette
• It Happened to Me: Ghost Farm • Dulcie Browne • article
• The Great God Death • Edith Hurley • verse

External links

• Collector's Showcase (French) Contents for 1940-41
• Miskatronic University Press Contents for 1940
• Galactic Central Publications Weird Tales Checklist