Weird Tales, May/June/July 1924-Stories & Essays

Following is a list of the contents of Weird Tales, May/June/July 1924, the first of two parts, this one showing the 37 stories, one essay, and two features or departments, transcribed from the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Thanks to them.

• "Why Weird Tales?" by Anonymous, actually by Otis Adelbert Kline (1891-1946).

• "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" by Houdini (1874-1926), ghostwritten by H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937).

• "'Whoso Diggeth a Pit—'" by Vida Tyler Adams (1896-1976).

• "Deep Calleth" by Gordon Burns.

• "The Malignant Entity" by Otis Adelbert Kline, the middle story of his three featuring Dr. Dorp.

• "The Sixth Tree" by Edith Lichty Stewart.

• "The Haunted Mansion in the Pines" by Leonard F. Schumann.

• "Spirits" by J. M. Alvey.

• "Hypnos" by H. P. Lovecraft.

• "Ebenezer's Casket," part two of a two-part serial by J. U. Giesy (1877-1947) and Junius B. Smith (1883-1945).

• "Draconda," part six of a six-part serial by John Martin Leahy (1886-1967).

• "The Hand" by H. Francis Caskey.

• "The Loved Dead" by C. M. Eddy, Jr. (1896-1967), with an uncredited H. P. Lovecraft.

• "The Vow on Halloween" by Lyllian Huntley Harris (1883-1939).

• "Eyes" by Galen C. Colin (1890-1973).

• "The Man Who Thought He Was Dead" by Granville S. Hoss.

• "Called Back" by Dan W. Totheron [Dan W. Totheroh (1894-1976)].

• "The Sunken Land" by George W. Bayly.

• "The Dancing Partner" by Guy L. Helms.

• "The Last Entry (In the Diary of R. Q. P.)" by Meredith Beyers (1899-1996).

• "The Purple Death" by Edith Lyle Ragsdale.

• "The Imposter" by Norman Springer (1888-1974).

• "The Werewolf of St. Bonnot," an article in the series "Weird Crimes" (No. 6), by Seabury Quinn (1889-1969).

• "Just Bones" by Samuel Stewart Mims (1885-1974).

• "First Degree" by Robert Cosmo Harding (1883-?).

• "The Latvian" by Herman Fetzer, aka Jake Falstaff (1899-1935).

• "The Machine from Outside" by Don Howard.

• "Doctor Grant's Experiment" by H. A. Noureddin Addis (1884-1958).

• "Tea Leaves" by Henry S. Whitehead (1882-1932).

• "An Egyptian Lotus" by Mrs. Chetwood Smith (1872-1950).

• "Deep Sea Game" by Arthur J. Messier.

• "The Soul Mark" by H. C. Wire.

• "It!" by E. M. Samson.

• "The Man Who Lived Next Door to Himself" by Frank Owen (1893-1968).

• "Mystery River" by Elwin J. Owens.

• "The God Yuano" by Marjorie Darter.

• "The Cellar" by Paul L. Anderson.

• "In the Weird Light" by Edward Everett Wright and Ralph Howard Wright, with an epigraph by William Wordsworth and including a graphic of the globe.

• "A Glimpse Beyond" by H. M. Hamilton.

• "Ask Houdini," letters column conducted by Houdini.

The thirteenth issue of Weird Tales was a big one, 192 pages in all, containing 37 stories, 37 titled fillers (and several untitled ones), Otis Adelbert Kline's anonymously published essay "Why Weird Tales?", and two features, "Weird Crimes" by Seabury Quinn and "Ask Houdini," a letters column conducted by Harry Houdini. All of that content was printed in three columns of small type on each page.

In terms of page count, the triple issue is twice as long as the most recent issue, #367 from last year, as well as many issues immediately after it, which began again in November after a hiatus of three months. Some of these stories are very short, only a page or two. Most have never been reprinted. I have read only a few, but several sound intriguing, including "Draconda," an interplanetary adventure by John Martin Leahy. H.P. Lovecraft was pretty prominent in this issue, with one story under his own byline, one that he ghost-wrote, and one on which he lent a hand, C.M. Eddy's scandalous tale "The Loved Dead." Notice that there is not one but two stories with titles in the form of "The Man Who . . .".

I have written about some of these authors before. Hover over their names, then click. And now I find that there are lots that I haven't written about, and they deserve some space . . .

Original text copyright 2024 Terence E. Hanley