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Post by dem bones on May 13, 2021 9:27:59 GMT
How wonderful! John & Kim Betancourt's Wildside press have published lovely facsimile editions of the February, August and September 1925 issues of Weird Tales, TOC's as below. Of additional interest to some, each of these issues include a story or stories soon to be picked up by Christine Campbell Thomson in the Not At Nights. Anyway, am planning to work through them over the next ... however long it takes. Thank you so much, Betancourts! Farnsworth Wright [ed.] - Weird Tales Feb 1925 (Wildside Press, 2021) Stephen Bagby - Whispering Tunnels Robert G. Bowie & Robinson H. Harsh - Crossed Lines Arthur J. Burks - A Broken Lamp-Chimney Alice I. Fuller - The Tomb-Dweller Adam Hull Shirk - Into the Fourth W. Chiswell Collins - Leopard's Trail Frank Owen - Hunger Victor Rowan - Four Wooden Stakes Strickland Gillilan - An Unclaimed Reward David Baxter - The Brown Moccasin J. U. Giesy - The Magic of Dai Nippon Will Smith - Wanderlust by Proxy Helen Liello - For Sale—A Country Seat Henry S. Whitehead - Sea Change Harry Bailey - The Wolf of the Campagna Gordon Philip England - The Master of Hell Lady Anne Bonny - Wings of Power [Part II of III] Greye La Spina - The Scarf of the Beloved H.P. Lovecraft - The Statement of Randolph Carter James C. Bardin - Death Louise Garwood - Fayrian Dick Heine - The Jungle Presence George Ballard Bowers - That White Superiority Edward Podolsky - The Figure of Anubis
The EyrieFarnsworth Wright [ed.] - Weird Tales, Aug 1925 (Wildside Press, 2021) Arthur J. Burks - Black Medicine Murray Leinster - The Oldest Story in the World Adam Hull Shirk - The Bearded Men Robert E. Howard - In the Forest of Villefère Frank Belknap Long - Stallions of the Moon [verse] B. W. Sliney - The Man Who Laughed H. Thompson Rich - The Purple Cincture Arthur Thatcher - The White Queen of the Corolans [Part II] Guy Pain - The Jonah Willis Knapp Jones - The Green Scarab Frank Owen - The Lantern-Maker Seabury Quinn - Servants of Satan VI: Maria Schweidler [Article] Arthur S. Garbett - The Devil's Opera Nathaniel Hawthorne - Dr. Heidegger's Experiment Harry Harrison Kroll - The Graveyard Skunk Archie Binns - The Last Trip john Keats - La Belle Dame Sans Merci [verse] W. J. Stamper - The Vulture of Pignon Howard Elsmere Fuller - Wolfgang Fex, Criminal Henri De Crouet & Hasan Vokine - The Revenge of Philippe Auguste
The EyrieFarnsworth Wright [ed.] - Weird Tales, Sept 1925 (Wildside Press, 2021) Greye La Spina - The Gargoyle [Part I of III] Hurley von Ruck - The Terrific Experiment E. Hoffmann Price - The Sultan's Jest H. P. Lovecraft - The Temple O. Henry - The Furnished Room William Sanford - The Midnight Visitor Charles Hilan Craig - Darkness E.E. Speight - The Blackthorn Gallows Seabury Quinn - Itself Robert S. Carr - The Flying Halfback H. L. Maxson - The Ether Ray Edward Podolsky - The Masters from Beyond H. Thompson Rich - The Sev'n-Ring'd Cup Francis Hard - The Death Angel [verse] W. J. Stamper - Jean Beauce Frank Belknap Long - The Were-Snake Gerald Dean - The Devil Bed J. U. Giesy - Ashes of Circumstance
The Eyrie
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Post by dem bones on May 13, 2021 18:53:59 GMT
The February issue. Some of the smaller fry to get started. Andrew Brosnatch Helen Liello - For Sale — A Country Seat: Cats, a Suicide, and a Real Estate Agent. Stannard lands a dream Tudor house in a park at the obligatory ridiculously generous price. The estate agent reluctantly concedes property is a hard sell on account of a previous owner hung himself. Stannard marvels at the credulity of superstitious simpletons. He most certainly has no fear of so-called "ghosts!" A hideously pale, twisted face at the window, a phantom corpse beneath the bed-sheets, and a black cat with a frayed, noose-like collar, attempt to persuade him otherwise. Edward Podolsky - The Figure of Anubis: A Bizarre Tale of a Mummy, An Egyptian Goddess, and a Terrifying Adventure Among the Grand Ruins of Thebes. Richard Held, recently bereaved, is persuaded by well-meaning friends to join their sponsored excavation of a site at Ombos. Held throws himself into the work, his spirits revive he decides to carry on living. But one night when the loss of his beloved Fleurette weighs heavy, he wanders, dejected and alone, through Thebes. Lost in the dark, he chances upon the entrance to a ruined tomb and within, the sarcophagus of an Egyptian Princess. She reaches for her neck, removes the bandage from her face to reveal .... Arthur J. Burks - Strange Tales from San Diego #1: A Broken Lamp-Chimney : Snake-eyed Andrea, stringy haired, dirty, "shaped like a stuffed mattress," and irresistible to men, persuades latest lover, Lolo the thief, to assist in the grisly murder of her husband. Hint of the supernatural tagged on at end. I much prefer Voodoo from later in the series. James C. Bardin - Death: An Essay. Author wonders if death, no matter how violent, is actually painful. Cites case of a knight who, wondering at the amount of suffering endured by men on a gallows, conducted a small experiment with himself as guinea pig. Frank Owen - Hunger: Tormented by the Gnawing of the Rat, Mel Curran Commits Murder. Curran is slave to an insatiable appetite. The feast on display in the window of South Street restaurant proves temptation too great, but at least he dies content. Strickland Gillilan - An Unclaimed Reward: Two Boys Enjoy Four Wonderful Hours of Ghastly Fear. A pair of mischievous lads and a very reluctant Hunkydory the carpenter, assist a fugitive killer in evading the men with dogs so he may pay a visit to his wife. Not particularly weird filler. Reads like a leftover purchase from the Edwin Baird year. David Baxter - The Brown Moccasin: Tragicomedy of Animal Life. Water-snake versus in battle to the death. As revived by Forrest J Ackerman for his Rainbow Fantasia. As uneven an issue as you might expect. Some stories have not aged well, others were probably considered awful even at time of publication, but no matter, I'm hooked. Personal favourites to date would be The Figure of Anubis, Death and - give or take weedy ending - For Sale — A Country Seat. A Broken Lamp-Chimney and Hunger have their moments. Best still to come ...
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Post by dem bones on May 14, 2021 6:49:51 GMT
"My fondness for the dead weaned the living from me. One by one, even my closest relatives deserted me, until finally only my mother tolerated me." Andrew Brosnatch Alice I. Fuller - The Tomb-Dweller: A Cataleptic Who Lived in a Mausoleum. Two stories in one. The first, most likely inspired by C. M. Eddy's The Loved Dead, is the autobiography of a man who far prefers the society of the dear departed to the living. Financially independent thanks to a generous inheritance, his life mission is to travel the country visiting every graveyard he can find. Arriving in New England he meets an old man who occupies a mausoleum in his very own cemetery. The hermit relates the story of a life blighted by horror, bereavement, revenge and premature burial. Identical twin brothers fall for the same girl. When the girl finally chooses between them, Ronald, the rejected party, plots to murder his rival, our narrator, until Death - or something like it - saves him the trouble. A cataleptic attack sees the groom-to-be pronounced dead and laid to rest in the family vault. He revives just as Ronald pays a final gloating visit ... Staying with the morbid mood, three old friends. Victor Rowan - Four Wooden Stakes: A Tale of Vampires. A Dracula tribute act terrorises the Holroyd estate. As a last roll of the dice, young Remson, last of the line, calls on his phantom fighting pal for help. Story revived by CCT that same October in the first of the Not At Night's, along with W. Chiswell Collins' The Leopard's Trail. H. P. Lovecraft - The Statement of Randolph Carter: ( The Vagrant, May 1920). "Carter, it's terrible — monstrous — unbelievable." Live from the mental institution. Randolph Carter relates events surrounding the disappearance of Harley Warren, dabbler in the blackest mumbo jumbo, during an ill-conceived excursion beneath a sepulchre in the cemetery on Cypress Swamp. Carter was stationed beside the tunnel entrance for Warren to inform him of each horrible discovery via primitive mobile phone ... Greye La Spina - The Scarf of the Beloved: The Looting of a Grave - and What Befell Thereafter. A very winning Fashion victim conte cruel. A grave-robber providing corpses for dissection at the local medical school, unwittingly violates the grave of someone he wishes he hadn't.
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Post by andydecker on May 14, 2021 9:10:18 GMT
H. P. Lovecraft - The Statement of Randolph Carter: ( The Vagrant, May 1920). "Carter, it's terrible — monstrous — unbelievable." Live from the mental institution. Randolph Carter relates events surrounding the disappearance of Harley Warren, dabbler in the blackest mumbo jumbo, during an ill-conceived excursion beneath a sepulchre in the cemetery on Cypress Swamp. Carter was stationed beside the tunnel entrance for Warren to inform him of each horrible discovery via primitive mobile phone ... HPL and his never-ending love of tunnels. I never was a big fan of the Randolph Carter tales und the whole Dreamlands stuff. But Alan Moore's treatment of the topic made me giving it another chance. Statement is a nice story, even if this must have been the longest wire in history Warren was carrying.
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Post by cauldronbrewer on May 14, 2021 10:34:36 GMT
How wonderful! John & Kim Betancourt's Wildside press have published lovely facsimile editions of the February, August and September 1925 issues of Weird Tales, TOC's as below. Of additional interest to some, each of these issues include a story or stories soon to be picked up by Christine Campbell Thomson in the Not At Nights. Anyway, am planning to work through them over the next ... however long it takes. Thank you so much, Betancourts! Excellent! I'm tempted to check these out. My favorite cover of the bunch. Years ago I saw that a publisher planned to use this as the cover for a collection of Greye La Spina stories, but as far as I know the book never materialized.
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Post by cauldronbrewer on May 14, 2021 10:39:53 GMT
Edward Podolsky - The Figure of Anubis: A Bizarre Tale of a Mummy, An Egyptian Goddess, and a Terrifying Adventure Among the Grand Ruins of Thebes. Richard Held, recently bereaved, is persuaded by well-meaning friends to join their sponsored excavation of a site at Ombos. Held throws himself into the work, his spirits revive he decides to carry on living. But one night when the loss of his beloved Fleurette weighs heavy, he wanders, dejected and alone, through Thebes. Lost in the dark, he chances upon the entrance to a ruined tomb and within, the sarcophagus of an Egyptian Princess. She reaches for her neck, removes the bandage from her face to reveal .... This one sounds like my kind of story. David Baxter - The Brown Moccasin: Tragicomedy of Animal Life. Water-snake versus in battle to the death. As revived by Forrest J Ackerman for his Rainbow Fantasia. On the other hand, I'm still baffled as to how "The Brown Moccasin" ever landed in Weird Tales. Greye La Spina - The Scarf of the Beloved: The Looting of a Grave - and What Befell Thereafter. A very winning Fashion victim conte cruel. A grave-robber providing corpses for dissection at the local medical school, unwittingly violates the grave of someone he wishes he hadn't. Now I'm envious! I also hold out the forlorn hope that someone will reprint "Fettered" and "The Portal to Power", two La Spina serials that nobody seems to have revived since their original publication.
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Post by cauldronbrewer on May 14, 2021 10:41:01 GMT
H. P. Lovecraft - The Statement of Randolph Carter: ( The Vagrant, May 1920). "Carter, it's terrible — monstrous — unbelievable." Live from the mental institution. Randolph Carter relates events surrounding the disappearance of Harley Warren, dabbler in the blackest mumbo jumbo, during an ill-conceived excursion beneath a sepulchre in the cemetery on Cypress Swamp. Carter was stationed beside the tunnel entrance for Warren to inform him of each horrible discovery via primitive mobile phone ... HPL and his never-ending love of tunnels. I never was a big fan of the Randolph Carter tales und the whole Dreamlands stuff. But Alan Moore's treatment of the topic made me giving it another chance. Statement is a nice story, even if this must have been the longest wire in history Warren was carrying. Ha! I think I had the same reaction when I read the story as a teenager. The ending is also silly, but the story does have it charms.
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Post by dem bones on May 14, 2021 18:45:16 GMT
"Thank God we've just about used up the last of the stuff Baird bought while he was the editor." - Farnsworth Wright in a letter to E. Hoffman Price, late 1926. As quoted in Robert Weinberg's The Weird Tales Story, 1977. Wright ran some real shockers in this issue, that's for sure. Andrew Brosnatch Harry Bailey - The Wolf of the Campagna: Romantic Tale of Cesare Borgia. Ramiro D'Orco, feared lieutenant of Cesare Borgia, Duke of Campagna, makes classic schoolboy error of informing the master that he is to wed the most beautiful creature ever to walk God's earth. Good for you, says the Borgia and innocently requests an audience with this Maria Stefano. Finding her much to his liking, Cesare compliments Ramiro on his taste in women. And then announces his intention of taking Maria for his wife. By force, if necessary. Which it shall be. Ramiro's only thought now is to save Maria at cost of his own life. See how that works out. Dick Heine - The Jungle Presence: It Was No Dream, This Hideous Nightmare. Burma. An opium-dependent white man lies frozen on the bed awaiting the bite of an enormous cobra. Can he telepathically alert his servant, Loon Koo, to the danger? Gordon Philip England - The Master of Hell: Dream Fantasy — A Glimpse of the Pit and the Devil. Another cataleptic has a foretaste of the fiery pit - Satan, fiends, Cerberus, eternal torture & Co. Now recovered from his fit, he lives in terror and misery of what awaits him on his death. Very frightening to we of RC upbringing. George Ballard Bowers - That White Superiority: Saking Found That Americans Excelled the Philippines in One Thing. The Mayoyao Igorots are a wise, proud people who believe themselves equal, if not superior, to any other race, regardless of colour. The American Commandant is having none of it! He insists Saking, the seer, concede an example of White Supremacy. Single page filler is as charitable as I can manage. Adam Hull Shirk - Into the Fourth: Adventures in the Fourth Dimension — Disappearance of Two Men. Reformed criminal "Professor" Orlando Parkes unreforms for one last job before retiring abroad. Unfortunately, the house he burgles is that of Dr. Carrington, a scientist sworn to establish a gateway to the fourth dimension.
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Post by dem bones on May 14, 2021 19:01:07 GMT
Greye La Spina - The Scarf of the Beloved: The Looting of a Grave - and What Befell Thereafter. A very winning Fashion victim conte cruel. A grave-robber providing corpses for dissection at the local medical school, unwittingly violates the grave of someone he wishes he hadn't. Now I'm envious! I also hold out the forlorn hope that someone will reprint "Fettered" and "The Portal to Power", two La Spina serials that nobody seems to have revived since their original publication. The great thing about these issues is you can - legally - try before you buy as they're currently public domain. Just in case anyone is unaware, Archive.org has the years run in a variety of formats.
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Post by dem bones on May 15, 2021 12:09:18 GMT
"Our knowledge of life and its possibilities is less than a trillionth of one per cent." Andrew Brosnatch Henry S. Whitehead - Sea Change: A Cretin, Shipwrecked on a Distant Island, When The Kestrel goes down in a cyclone, passengers Edward and Marian Renwick fortuitously wash up on a friendly Pacific island. But Edward suffers from a rare degenerative disorder which will see him fast reduced to vegetative idiocy if he is deprived a daily thyroid capsule! He has eight days supply in his pill box, after which he must brave the shark infested waters to reach the plentiful supply aboard the sunken ship. J. U. Giesy - The Magic of Dai Nippon: Dream Hypnotism — and the Kimono of Death. Laura, beloved wife of Edwin Salen, is stricken by a mystery wasting disease. Fading fast, she dreams of Japanese bearing the most gorgeous kimono's - she simply must have one! No sooner has Laura made her choice than Yamato, the faithful family servant, intervenes to prevent her touching the fabric unaware that this is the Kimono of death! How, she wonders, could anyone want such a thing? "Because, honourable lady, there are times when death is the most beautiful thing in life, as when one is very tired — or to live would mean a great sorrow." On reawakening, Laura informs Edwin of her vivid dream. Neither have cause to suspect that there is anything sinister afoot ... Andrew Brosnatch Louise Garwood - Fayrian: She Killed Her Husband — and then Found She Wanted Him. Jealous at the attention he was paying another woman, Lady Ermengarde poisoned husband Fayrian, allowing his enemy, Polevay, to swing for the murder, Cheated of a heroic death, Fayrian relentlessly haunts his beloved to her doom. Robert G. Bowie & Robinson H. Harsh - Crossed Lines: Tale of Tangled Personalities. A collision between pedestrians — the one a tall, muscular bank manager the other a squat, luckless struggler — desperate to avoid a speeding car. The impact is such that it causes an exchange of bodies. He who gets the better of the deal takes merciless advantage. "Public opinion? Fair play? Poof! He was admired, catered to, fawned upon, while respectable people turned with disgust from my distorted countenance." What will it take for the banker to reclaim his own flesh and bones? Liked all of these. Given the set up, the Whitehead doesn't play out how any self-respecting morbid bastard would expect.
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Post by samdawson on May 15, 2021 17:02:46 GMT
I found my copy of Weird Tales American (the little 19th century pocket sized anthology), which cost me 10p in 1972 or thereabouts. I don't have much luck putting up pics here, so if anyone wants to see it (it's quite shabby) I'd be happy to scan it and send the pics by PM
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Post by dem bones on May 15, 2021 20:32:39 GMT
I found my copy of Weird Tales American (the little 19th century pocket sized anthology), which cost me 10p in 1972 or thereabouts. I don't have much luck putting up pics here, so if anyone wants to see it (it's quite shabby) I'd be happy to scan it and send the pics by PM Not sure I'm even familiar with that one, Sam. Can you give us some idea of the contents? Am loathe to recommend image hosts out of fear that they'll immediately throw a ph*t*b**cket but [crosses self] Wordpress seems to work for me ....
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Post by Dr Strange on May 15, 2021 21:53:43 GMT
Contents for 5 volume Weird Tales (Paterson & Co. 1888) are here.
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Post by samdawson on May 16, 2021 12:54:40 GMT
Word Press appears to want more from me than I can give (a website). Could you send me an email address by PM and I'll send the scans? The contents of this one are as per Doctor Strange's list (which reminds me that I posted this in the wrong thread; apologies). The one disappointment about these little books are that there are no illustrations, given that it has some cloud/lightning action going on on the front cover and a nice bat and belfry on the spine
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Post by andydecker on May 16, 2021 13:33:24 GMT
Word Press appears to want more from me than I can give (a website). Could you send me an email address by PM and I'll send the scans? The contents of this one are as per Doctor Strange's list (which reminds me that I posted this in the wrong thread; apologies). The one disappointment about these little books are that there are no illustrations, given that it has some cloud/lightning action going on on the front cover and a nice bat and belfry on the spine Try imgbb for linking scans. You don't even need to register (of course that has the drawback of not being able to access the link in question ever again, but for the odd uploading why bother?) Just take care to seek out the right link. It is the first BBCode one - not the thumbs. This will crop the picture. I would avoid big scans. The scan below is 3,58 MB and IMHO a bit large in its pixels 2439x3248. I normally use 451x600, the smaller version. As I have an old scanner, I have to do a bit work on the afterwards. I don't know much about scaling. And you don't need to bother with the Insert Image button. It is a bit tricky, in my experience you have to edit the link to make it work. (Or I do it wrong, always a possibilty) Just go on BBCode page and insert the link from Imgbb into the text. If you change to Preview, the picture should be seen.
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