1924.

11 – "What do you think of Horror stories" (179)

1925.1 - The Brain in the Jar (Hammerstrom and Searight)(xisf)

1925.2 - Death Waters (Long) (xiSH)

1925.3 - Out of the Long Ago (Quinn)(xihosu) , Ocean Lich (Long) (xihosu)

1925.4 - "Whispering Tunnels" (Bagby) (xihosu)

1925.5 – Radio V-Rays (Dirk) (xisfms) , The Flaming Eyes (Milton)(xihosu) , The Death Bottle
(ximy)(Mathison)

1925.6 - When the Green Star Waned (Dyalhis) (xisf)

1925.7 – Under the N-Ray (Smith and Robbins) (xihosu)

1925.8 - Invaders from the Dark (La Spina)(xihosu)

1925.9 - "The Wolf Ponkeret" (Munn) (xihosu) , Farthingale Poppy (Colter) ( xihosu), The
Stranger Kurdistan (Price) (xifan)

1925.10 – "The Oldest Story in the World" (Leinster) (xiho) , "Black Medicine (Burks) (xihosu)

1925.11 - "The Sultan's Jest" (Price) (ximy), The Terrific Experiment (von Ruck) (xihosu)

1925.12 - The Eternal Conflict (Dyalhis) (xifan)

1926.1 – The Return of the Undead (Leeds) (xihosu)

1926.2 – Sea Thing (Long) (xihosu) , The Tenants of Broussac (Quinn) (xihosu) , When the
graqves Were Opened (Burks) (xisf)

1926.3 – Stealer of Souls (Craig) (xihosu) , The Dead Soul (Lenoir) (xihosu)

1926.4 – Red Ether (Marzoni) (xisfms) , The isle of Missing ships (Quinn) (xiho)

1926.5 – the music of madness (Barrett) (xihosu), Message from space (schlossel) (xisf) ,
Swamp Horror (Smith and Robbins) (xihor)

1926.6 – The Outsider (Lovecraft) (xihoc) , Wolfshead (Howard) (xihosu) , On the Dead Man's
Chest (Colter) (ximySU)

1926.7 – The Ghosts of Steamboat Coulee (Burks) (xihosu) , Queen of the Vortex (Sarles)
(xisf), The Dead Hand (Quinn) (xihosu)

1926.8 – Spider-Bite (Carr) (xihosu)

1926.9 - Through the Vortex (Keyhoe) (xisf) , a Runaway World (Harris), Fettered (La Spina)
(xihosu), The House of Horror (Quinn) (xiho)

1926.10 – The Woman of the Wood (Merritt) (xifan) , The monster God of Mamurth
(Hamilton) (xihoco) , The Devil's Graveyard (Pendarves) (xihosu)

1926.11 - The Bird of Space (Worrell) (xisf), Across Space (Hamilton) (xisffw) , Ancient Fires
(Quinn) (xihosu)

1926.12 – The Supreme Witch (Terrill) (xihosu) , Cattle of Furos (Worrell) (xisf)
1927.1 – The Star Shell (Wallis) (xisf) , The City of Spiders (Munn) (xiho), The Peacock's
Shadow (Price) (xihosu) , The Fiend of Marsh (Lewis and Cockrill) (xihosu)

1927.2 – The Metal Giants (Hamilton) (xisfms) , The Grinning Mummy (Quinn) (xihosu) , The
Star Shell (Wallis) (xisf)

1927.3 – The Last Horror (Colter (xisfms) ), Drome (Leahy) (xiadV)

1927.4 – The Atomic Conquerors (Hamilton) (xisffw) , The Man who Cast no Shadow (Quinn)
(xihosu)

1927.5 - The City of Glass (Nichols) (xisfot) , Evolution Island (Hamilton) (xisfms)

1927.6 – Explorers into Infinity (Cummings) (xisffw)

1927.7 – The Master of Doom (Keyhoe) (xisfms) , Explorers into Infinity (Cummings) (xisffw)

1927.8 – The Dark Chrysalis (Colter) (xisfot) , Explorers into Infinity (Cummings) (xisffw)

1927.9 - The Dark Chrysalis (Colter) (xisf), The Curse of Everard Maundy (Quinn) (xihosu)

1927.10 - The Man with a Thousand Legs (Long) (xisfms) Satan's Fiddle (Malcolm-Smith)
(xihosu)

1927.11 – The Moon Menace (Hamilton) (xisffw) , The Dead Wagon (La Spina) (xihosu), The
White Lady of the Orphenage (Quinn) (xihoR)

1927.12 - Pickman's Model (Lovecraft) (xihoco), The Dark Lore (Dyalhis) (xifan), "The Time-
Raider" (Hamilton) (xisffw)

1928.1 – The Invading Horde (Burks) (xisffw), The Time Raider (Hamilton) (xisffw), Other
Earths (Will smith) (xisfot)

1928.2 – The Infidel's Daughter (Price) (xifan), The Time Raider (Hamilton) (xisffw), The
Devils of Po Sung (Morgan) (xisfms)

1928.3 – The Gods of East and West (Seabury Quinn) (xihosu) , The Time Raider (Hamilton)
(xisf)

1928.4 – The Call of Cthulhu (Lovecraft) (xihoco) , The Ghost Table (O'donnell) (xihosu),
Mephistopheles and Co., Ltd (Quinn) (ximy)

1928.5 – The Strange People (Leinster) (ximy) , The Giant World (Cummings) (xisf), The
Eighth Green Man (Pendarves) (xihosu)

1928.6 – The Jewel of Seven Stones (Quinn) (xihosu) , The Cahin (Munn) (xiho) , Whispers
(Carr) (xihomo)

1928.7 – The Bat-Men of Thorium (Russell) (xiadv)

1928.8 - The Lurking Fear (Lovecraft) (xihoco) , The Dimension Terror (Hamilton) (xisf), The
Devil's Martyr (Toksvig) (xihosu)

1928.9 – The Witche's Sabbath (Bagby) (xihosu) The Space-Eaters (Long) (xihoco)

1928.10 – The Man in the Green Coat (Colter) (ximysu), Crashing Suns (Hamilton) (xisffw),
Red Shadows (Howard) (xihosu)
1928.11 - Crashing Suns (Hamilton) (xisffw) , The Oath of Hul Jok (Dyalhis) (xisf)

1928.12 – Restless Souls (Quinn) (xihosu) , The Werewolf's Daughter (Munn) (xihosu)

1929.1 – The Polar Doom (Hamilton) (xisffw), The Last Test (de Castro) (xihoco)

1929.2 – The Chapel of Mystic Horror (Quinn) (xihosu) , The Copper Bowl (Eliot) (xihor)

1929.3 – The Black Master (Quinn) (xihosu) , Bimini (Morgan) (xifan)

1929.4 – The Brass Key (Wells) (xihor) , The Devil People (Quinn) (xihosu), The Star Stealers
(Hamilton) (xisffw)

1929.5 – The Phantom Farmhouse (Quinn) (xihosu) , Sea Horror (Hamilton) (xisffw), The Rat
(Fowler Wright) (xisfms)

1929.6 – The Dunwich Horror (Lovecraft) (xihoco) , The Devil's Rosary (Quinn) (xihosu)

1929.7 – Within The Nebula (Hamilton) (xisffw) , The Scourge of B'Moth (Russell) (xihoco)

1929.8 – The House of Golden Masks (Quinn) (xihor)

1929.9 – The Corpse-Master (Quinn) (xihosu)

1929.10 – The Shadow Kingdom (Howard) (xifan)

1929.11 – The White Wizard (Ellis) (xisfms), Trespassing Souls (Quinn) (xihosu)

1929.12 – Skull-Face (Howard) (xihosu), The Silver Countess (Quinn) (xihosu)

1930.1 – The House Without a Mirror (Quinn) (xihosu)

1930.2 – Skull-Face (Howard) (xihosu) , Children of Ubasti (Quinn)(xihosu)

1930.3 – The Curse of the House of Phipps (Quinn) (xihosu), The Life Masters (Hamilton)
(xisfms), Dead Girl Finotte (Staepoole) (xihosu)

1930.4 – Thirsty Blades (Price and Kline) (xifan)

1930.5 – The Haunted Chessman (Punshon) (xihosu) , Drums of Damballah (Quinn) (xihosu) ,
Letters of Fire (Leroux) (xihosu)

1930.6 – The Plant Revolt (Hamilton) (xisfms) , The Dust of Egypt (Quinn)(xihosu)

1930.7 – The End of the Story (Smith) (xifan) , Light Echoes (Worrell) (xifan) , The Brain-Thief
(Quinn) (xihor)

1930.8 – The Rats in the Walls (Lovecraft) (xihoco)

1930.9 - The Moon of Skulls (Howard) (xihosu) , The Bride of Dewer (Quinn) (xihosu)

Disproportionally SF

30

19

Lovecraft – 6

- Howard 6
 - Long 6
- Colter 6

Hammerstrom – 1

Bagby – 4

Mathison – 1

Dirk -2

Milton -1

Malcolm - 1

Von Ruck – 1

O'donnel – 1

Sarles – 3

Punshon – 1

Russell - 3

Staepoole – 1

Ellis – 1

Wells – 2

De castro – 2

Fowler wright – 2

Eliot – 2

Keyhoe – 4

Lewis and Cockrill – 1

Terrill – 2

Toksvig – 1

Leeds – 1

Lenoir – 1

Nichols - 1

Marzoni - 2

146 stories – 25 irregulars (17%) (43% norm)

30 – Quinn – (20%)

19 – Hamilton (13 %)
46 – SF (32%) (16% regulars) (12 – Ms) (16 FW)

82 – Horror (60 supernatural) (55 %) (53% regular) (9 Cosmic horror – 10%)

10 – Fantasy (6%) (8% regular)

Mystery – 6 (4%) (20% regular)

Adventure – 2 (1%) (2.5% regular)

1924 11– poll for "disgusting" Horror

1924.12 - Poe and Verne "a land of Fantasy" [Wright] (175), no historically inaccurate
caveman stories (176), Neanderthal vs. Cro Magnon, Horror stories, mystery stories, crime
stories? Astronomical tales, inventive ingenuity and scientific research? (177)

[SF and Horror as the leading themes of the magazine]

1925.1 - minority for gore stories (179), Edgar Allan Poe type, "terrible, weird, occult or
unreal", "uncanny fiction". "against 'horror stories'… beyond the realm of reason". "scary,
spooky, mystic and occult but not "blood-drinking and cannibalism". 'yes' for horror stories"
(Burks) (180). "subtle feel of horror… that attracts, instead of repulses" (Everett McNeil)
(180). Combine both science and horror" "more electrical stories" (181). "plumb the future
with the eye of prophecy"

[against gore but for the occult and SF]

1925.2 - "Let Weird Tales remain weird" (163), "do not lessen by one degree the horror of
your tales" (Mrs. J. Ruopp) (163) " The mysterious, the supernatural, the startling and bizarre
from all lands and all times--I wouldn't place a single limitation on locale, historical period or
race" L. Phillips, Jr". Shakespeare and Poe's lines will be banned today. "spirit" stories as
clean and wholesome – fear as good instead of sex and crime fiction (E.L. Middleton , 166).
Call for Apocalyptic fiction.

[Horror]

[clean, wholesome]

1925.3 - Catherine Hartley Griggs "the natural human craving for stories of the strange and
mysterious" (162). Woman who delights in telling her kids scary stories. preference for
astronomical stories (163) – two men – "more interesting than your murder stories". " Let us
have astronomical stories, journeys in other worlds, universes and planets" a ghost or horror
story", ' the two greatest weird-story authors in the world : H. P. Lovecraft and B. Wallis. " "
more stories of the type in which science and horror are combined" " Give us some more
stories of the outer spaces of this universe" Man; Lovecraft – Munn lauds him (164)

[Lovecraft's rise to fame, SF on the rise – less Horror]

1925.4 – " not to heed the advice of those readers who want the magazine to cease printing
horror stories" (164) "give us the real scary kind" (gruesome), gooseflesh stories ; tales of the
:supernatural ; tales of the bizarre and unusual ; tales of the monstrosities of ancient legend
- ghouls, ghosts, familiars, vampires, werewolves, witchcraft, devil worship; occult and
mystic tales ; unusual tales of crime : tales of honor such as made the fame of Poe ; tales of
the marvelous possibilities of inventive genius and scientific research ; tales of the outer
spaces of the universe ; tales that plumb the future with the eye of prophecy ; and tales of
thrills and mystery, as well as good romantic and humorous tales with a weird slant. Poe.

[Horror, Supernatural, SF]

1925.5 - witches, vampires, evil eye. "tales of magic and djinns", "the freshness will have
gone from life and mankind will have passed from the enchanted realm of the imagination
into the somber world of sober logic… Men will no longer be human beings; they will have
become a race of flesh-and-blood machines" (325) "to escape… the drab commonplaceness
of everyday life". "Adding to this type of stories tales of the marvelous science of the future,
wars of worlds, voyages through space, great inventions foreseen by the prophetic eyes of
imaginative authors". "favorite – local legends in various little-known parts of the world".
"horror and terror, without being repulsive… My real favorites, however, are neither horror
nor terror, but such pseudo-scientific stories of the planets" (326) "more scientifically
accurate" (327). More geographically and historically accurate.

The rise of SF

Educational, escapism, imagination

1925.6 – reprints of "great weird stories of the past" (Hoffman, Walter Scott, Gautier, W.W.
Jacobs, Wilkie Collins, Bram Stoker) – Poe is barred as everyone who reads the magazine
knows him by heart. (Ambrose Bierce, Fitz-James O'Brien, Alphonse Daudet, Kipling) against
sex-magazines (473) very much more wholesome than the sex stories of today, which are
prevalent in nearly every other magazine. I am very partial to the astronomical and pseudo-
scientific tales, though I enjoy most of the horror tales, too. (Mrs. F.C. Harris) (473) I am
thankful to see a magazine that is not about love and such stuff (Mrs. M. Gregory.) " Let's
have more planetary stories" (Ed. Shultz). Mrs. Lilla May (supernatural horror and fantasy
stories but not disgusting ones). Scientific stories are always more than welcome ; also
horror and vampire tales (James N. Graham) Elsie Ellis (best story not weird at all – The Thin
Match) (474)

[Horror=Weird] [a host of Horror authors] [wholesome][more Sf]

1925.7 – "If you ask the editors of the various magazines whether a woman can write a thrilling
tale of adventure and red-blooded action, they will tell you that some of
the strongest. "he-man" stories are written by women, under various male pen ·names" (about La-
Spina) '(135). " more stories of the occult, devil-worship" (136) " Then someone has the gigantic,
the colossal, the stupendous nerve to ask you to desist from horror stories" (136). the stories of H.
P. Lovecraft and C. M. Eddy, Jr., whose styles,
in his opinion, are marked by. an undue straining for effect (James Godfrey Osgood) "he expects
to find in its pages, not love stories, not adventure stories, not detective . stories, nor anything else,
in short, but weird tales. If he wants love stories, he knows where to look for them. If, therefore,
he chooses WEIRD TALES, it must be for no other reason than what the title signifies, and with
the word c weird' there is associated in his mind horror, tragedy, mystery, death, fear, etc., but
nothing sick or nauseating"
[Horror but not gore, against other pulps]

1925.8 – its
"pseudo-scientific stories have ever been popular with you… and we shall print many more
of them" (273)

[SF and Horror as related]

[more SF or more Horror]

1925.9 - O. Henry explanation why his The Furnished Room is weird. Francis Marion
Crawford' s stories The Upper Berth, Man Overboard, The Screaming Skull . "My kind of
stories" (Laura O.Tuck) (416) ("those who enjoy the unusual") (417) "more stories on
astronomy and the fourth dimension" " I am partial to stories of werewolves, and the more
horrifying the better". bout scientific wonders and strange natural phenomena, appeal to
the imagination and provide good, clean and extremely interesting entertainment. we will give
you a story i n which scientific interest and stark horror are so closely interknit that you can not separate one from the
other without injuring the story (The Horror on the Links). (418) (Wright calls it a "horror-story")

[wholesome]

1925.10 –

[oriental=exotic fairy tale]

[more SF, against crime stories]

Supernatural horror]
[keep "weird tales" Weird – weird=supernatural horror] [perhaps THE FIRST SPROUT OF FRACTRUE]

[supernatural horror and SF]

(562-564)

(565 – ad)

1925.11 -
(Mrs.
Harry A. Wenz)
[the return of gore]

SF - educational

(701-702)

A story by a 15-year-old girl about a beautiful woman corpse that attacks an undertaker. (702)
1925.12 –

[two traditions of stories that WT publishes - supernatural and SF]

(847)

Death of WT contributor Alanson Skinner in a car accident. (848)

[SF and snh together]

(849)

So far – Weird = supernatural, horror and "imaginative science". Exotic places and other planets or dimensions. No
Fantasy. Some words on liking Oriental-themed tales.
1926.1 - black magic, Lovecraft, interplanetary stories, "semi-scietific and the tales of other planets" (126), supernatural,
for rational explanation (126), more pseudo-scientific stories, " possible but not probable type" (When the Green Star
Waned – SF) (126)

[SF – possible but not probable] [more sf]

1926.2 – ghost stories, Frank Owen "Delightfully fantastic" (Derleth) , more pseudo-scientific stories (The Time Machine
– weird story), no humor, more werewolf, adventure stories in exotic places, scientific tales, Lovecraft lauds the
magazine's improvement, H.G. Wells compares to other authors in the magazine, WT as the only magazine satisfying
certain tastes.
[SF rules]

1926.3 - werewolf stories, popular and only second to pseudo-scientific stories, against Christian motifs in horror stories,
belief as creating power, Lovecraft – a second Poe (Derleth)
[Lovecraft and Poe]

1926.4 - against the "commonplace" (566) Fantasy as High Literature:

[Fantasy – more literary – beautiful]

[Fantasy – more literary]

Likewise – H.P. Lovecraft.

[Lovecraft as worthy of belonging to Literature]

Lovecraft into the pantheon.

(566)

[Lovecraft better than Poe]

More "scientific tales", no humor, no sex, more stories about travel to other planets
(567)

"tales of horror and fear" (568)

1926.5 - story endings should not be vague (Lochinvar Lodge by Clyde Burt Clason) against " weird for the sake of
weirdness" (715), Norse old sagas as source of inspiration for authors (Howard), Poe, other planets, ghost stories, horror
stories, pseudo-scientific stories, werewolf stories.

1926.6 – pseudo-science – the science of tomorrow.

[Wright calls horror – "truly weird" and distinguishes it from SF]

(857)

[weird – supernatural horror]

Planetary stories, lost civilizations, immense praise for Lovecraft (Ray Cummings – SF writer), Lovecraft and Poe
(Derleth)

(858)
Planets, far away places, Atlantis, trying many magazines until finding ho,e in WT.
(859)

1926.7 – twice monthly, ghost story, Lovecraft (noblest Roman of them all) (138), came to relieve a "monotony of
stories" in other magazines. Lovecraft and Poe, more scientific inventions (Mad scientist), Stark Horror" "don’t let such
stories as The Derelict Mine creep in to any. great extent, for while it is a good story it is out of place in Weird Tales, as
there is nothing weird or mysterious about it" (139) " more stories of other planets, more ghosts". Lovecraft and Poe
again (140). "a fascination for the bizarre and unusual". Mother of three praises a ghost story.

1926.8 –

[SF, Supernatural horror and Fantasy]

281
Dracula as example
Harder to write speculative fiction now because people don't believe in it anymore.

Hamilton's Across Space as example.

(282)
Weird and weird-scientific

Asking for extracts of books on black magic and witchcraft

Mostly East coast
Lovecraft
"the fantastic and unusual in fiction" (Manly Wade Wellman) (23 years old)

1926.9 –

[no word for Fantasy]

Nictzin Dyalhis SF tales. Themes – No conception of Fantasy or body Horror, SF – weird-astronomical, weird surgery,
weird-scientific. Monster – whether animal or different

A guy interested in science says he is more interested in stories about "abnormal psychology, madness, and perversion"
and supernatural tales than "pseudo-scientific" stories.
Fettered – weird and scary but not "horrible" like Quinn's "House of Horror"
Many people liked House of Horror
Bizarre plot with scientific fact.
Bizarre.
1926.10 –
Slamming an author who publishes in many other magazines who sent a manuscript about a scientist that experiments on
a kidnapped girl and chops her arms to make them grow -
"The theme of growing new limbs on a human being has been used before, and is not in itself a story; it needs to be
worked out in an imaginative and bizarre plot"

"

You have long ago passed the stage where you hang with breathless interest on a ghost tale which merely describes how a
ghost appeared and its appearance threw the spectators into a panic. This happened in Lovecraft’s tale, The Outsider, but
was a mere incident in the story; the author with consummate literary artistry made of the ululating ghoul who crept out
of the tomb a character that will live in the memory when most other stories have faded into oblivion."

"ghosts talk and act like real people, and re-enact their crimes to the stunned horror of the spectator whom they (the
ghosts) have lured to their cabin"

A plot that is more "human" ?

"Likewise we constantly receive sea-serpent stories in which the whole action consists in a fight between monsters of the
deep, and panic among the ship’s passengers who witness it—just that, and nothing else."

572

"Both tales (Hiatt’s and Hamilton’s) are based on the same idea that is used so often—the step¬ ping off into another
dimension, into the “holes in space”; but the authors have built up the idea into fascinating plots. Both stories will be
published soon."

"It is such imaginative treatment of threadbare themes that makes them new and living; it makes stories that are utterly
different. And it is such stories that Weird Tales is always looking for"

C.F. Chapman :" "These are not only weird and uncanny to a high degree, but are literary gems" – Gaelic legends in
modern form (Fiona McLeod fiction and A. Meritt).

Fantasy as Literary

Mrs. W. C. Hefferlin : The Woman of the Wood, by A. Merritt. I want to express my appreciation of those two beautiful
tales. ‘Beautiful’ is the only word which describes them. Poe had absolutely ‘nothing on’ Lovecraft for weirdness. Only
in Poe’s poems does one find the beauty which H. P. Lovecraft and A. Merritt put into their stories.”

1926.11 – Wright slams contributors who write about stormy night or a narrator who starts his story saying that people
think he is mad but he will tell you his story. He says this is clichéd since Poe.

stories of planets and cosmic space (716) want to see inhuman aliens that are very different from humans.

Against La Spina "superstitious" stories and for Quinn's gory descriptions. (a change from the 1924 desire for subtle to
the grotesque horror)

'different' ("The Night Wire" H.F. Arnold)

Price likes Lovecraft and Whitehead, lamenting that the latter dos not receive enough praise like the former.

1926.12 –
"stories that have an entirely new twist, and are distinctively told; highly imaginative stories that thrill and convince the
reader even when they deal with things that are ordinarily considered impossible"

Seven most popular stories – "when the green star waned", "The Outsider", The Ghosts of Steamboat Coulee", "The
Eternal Conflict", "Whispering Tunnels", Spider-Bite, " The Werewolf of Ponkert"
849

More pseudo scientific stories,

Like ordinary stories but sometimes likes Strange and unusual ones
"true weird experiences column" suggestion
A collector of pseudo scientific tales
Quinn the best

1927.1 - "keep weird tales weird", "only magazine of its kind",

[SF more popular than Supernatural Horror]

(136)
"Drome" –"weird scientific tale"

"scientific stories"
Someone doesn't like Poe
More spider stories
Poe – patriarch of the weird

(137-138)

1927.2 –
"relief from monotony" (275)
Against reprints
Sincerity in scientific tales
Don't like ghost stories
Sophie Wenzel Ellis likes Lovecraft and the more "dream-like" stories The woman of the Woods" and "The Dreamer of
Atlanaat" [Fantasy – dream-like]

Authographed manuscript of Quinn's "The man who cast no shadow"

1927 – 3 -

Continuing the reprints

Against Poe

[weird tales club – mad scientist type]

Weird experiences

Someone defends Poe

Reprints not scary enough

More animal and insect stories

Different and imaginative

More werewolf stories

S poem that shows it is horror-centered

More poems

More weird scientific tales

1927.4 –

Reprints – majority

Masterpieces of weird literature

More orientales

[][][][][][][][][]

(568)

Interplanetary stories and stories of reincarnation

Quinn shoves off Poe

Drome – hackneyed

Surpass Poe

(569)

1927.5 –

[extremely important]
[Speculative Fiction]

(711)

Against Poe's Ligeia

Some for and some against reprints

Quinn and Poe

(712)

1927.6 –

Reprints discussion goes on

Against the slamming of Poe

More space stories

Buys the magazine for "weird scientific stories"

[against SF]
Poe

Weird scientific tales

(859)
1927.7 - 138 –

Weird rescued by Poe and came to mean "ghostly" or "suggesting the supernatural and occult"

Puerile writer uses the word often

Mystical, occult, ghost stories

139 -

Against Supernatural horror but for SF

Against reprints

"Lovecraftean"
Fairy-story

badly written letter against SF

140 -

1927.8 –
283 –
Some woman likes prophetic SF and Horror stories but likes Meritt's Woman of the Woods –a fantasy story. "another
type of story" which appeals to her the most – "lovely, fanciful" story.

284 –

Keep up the weird-scientific stories

1927.9 – 291

Wright classifies – Vampire-tale, weird-scientific, fear, weird magic (supernatural horror), mystery-tale, tale of horror,
The Adventure of Pipe – a fantastic story, The Blue City – bizarre and exquisitely beautiful gems

426 –
A woman –

More "weird scientific stories"

A woman - "So totally different" stories

1927.10 –

435 –
Some struggle about serials, price and Wright buying oriental rugs

436 –

A man for large narratives – about the world destruction and stuff

567 –
Poe, Wells and Stoker

Against reprints but for reprints from WT itself.

"I like to have all kinds of weird tales in the magazine, from ghost to scientific stories"

1927.11 –

580 – Wright slams well-trodden ghost stories where the ghost is just a nail stuck in one's shirt or his own foot.
582 – more Chinese stories

1927.12 –

726 –Wright is for one or two serials

People wanting articles about legendary weird beings but Wright is against articles of any sort.

726 –

Introducing Harlow's articles

"most weird tales are fantasies" – Lovecraft is the realist of weird fiction (that might happen)

Praise for Lovecraft

Call of Cthulhu Lovecrat's greatest story

858

Poe again

1928.1 –

4-

Polarized views on the November issue – The invading horde at the heart of the quarrel.
6-

The dude is also against the slavery in the story and the stupid protagonist.

Some others liked this story as the best in WT

136 –

Poe and Lovecraft – (Hamilton)

The favorite story was still "the invading horde" followed by two SF stories.

1928.2 –
Lovecraft's conception of writing weird tales

283 –

Against Lovecraft imitators and for historical figures as ghosts. (joint letter of six people from Los Angeles)

Stories of thousands of years in the future are always interesting. I like this story much better than The Time Machine by
that famous English author, H.
[better than Poe better than H.G. Wells, better than Verne]

284 –

A mother laments the immodest illustrations – "trashy affair" and blushing daughter.
Praise for Rankin

1928.3 –
426 –
praise for Rankin, Asking a similar publication of The Moon terror to Lovecraft tales and some other authors.

Would not your readers respond to a collection of Lovecraft’s best, or a few of the old stories of Haiti, or Invaders From
the Dark, or a selection of old interplanetary tales, or some of your old oddities like Teoqaitla the Golden, The Song
Eternal, The Phantom Farmhouse, The Earth Girl, The Pelican, or several of your always popular devil-worship stories

427-
Someone calls Dnoald Wandrei's stories "as fanciful and fantastic as Lovecraft in his field"
Lovecraft calls Worrel's "The Canal" - "a genuine weird tale"

He goes on to say

"Why in Heaven’s name can’t the bulk of the writers catch at least some faint echo of the black, brooding whispers from
unholy abysses and blasphemous dimensions which give a narrative like this its imponderable element of competence and
mastery"

1928.4 –

436 ,438
Praise for Lovecraft, slamming the covers' content.
Praise for Seabury Quinn

Someone blames Price's story "The Infidel Daughter" for marring the Klan and says he will stop reading the magazine
Price defends the story saying there is no connection between the fiction and real life.

572 –
Someone asks for more gruesome details
Against love stories
Praise for Jules de Grandin

1928.5 –
580 –

Dream stories

"the truly weird stories on which the brilliant success of this magazine is founded, together with the cream of all the
weird-scientific stories written today"

711-

Price’s devil stories

Continue reprints –

"The younger generation are too prone to neglect reading some of the really great stories because they are not a product
of the ‘jazz age.’ I am especially partial to the weird-scientific tales"
712 -

Call of Cthulhu – masterpiece

1928.6 –

724 -

"readers who want more weird-scientific stories of the type that Edmond Hamilton writes"
[balance]

The pseudo-science of today is the real science of tomorrow.

Verne started the pseudo scientific tales

Hamilton continues Verne

858 – Egyptian stories

1928.7 -

4-

Rankin is good
Torture stories are good
Cummings and Hamilton superior to H.G. Wells

137-

The thought of unknown, malignant, powerful, outside intelligences, to whom evil unimaginable, cruelty and spiritual
bestialness are as natural as the breath of life is to man, is the quality' in a truly’ weird story which grips the reader in
spite of the instinctive antagonism it arouses in his mind.
Against Burks SF

138 –

Literary merit
Clean

1928.8 –

De Grandin praise

279 –
[against "the ordinary"]

A soldier

Ghost stories
Lamenting a regular detective story of Jules de Grandin

280 –
Praise for Lovecraft
1928.9 –

292 –

Merritt's The Woman of the Woods and Lovecraft's The Outsider

[respective classes]
Favorite scientific stories

421 –
Lovecraft – the master of weird literature
Lovecraft is the only author mentioned as master while mentioned next to Hamilton and Quinn as favorite authors
De Grandin – proper touch of lightness
Owen's stories as "beautiful"

422 –
Asking for anthologies made of WT stories according to theme

Long and Lovecraft

1928.10 –

436 -

Authors that are loyal just to WT:

568 – can perhaps use what Wright says about discovering some authors and their relationships to one another

570 –

Some letter from readers (a woman) in Germany who lament the preference of SF stories by the Eyrie readers. They
prefer pulpy supernatural horror

1928.11 –

580 –

[escapism]

More torture tales

712 –

Liking Pseudo-scientific tales

Enduring literature
First thought of Wright to make reprints from old WT issues.
Desire for back numbers.

1928.12 –

853 -

Lovecraft – Cosmic horror, Long – Cosmic Horror, SF Horror.

Against SF:

854-

against SF

[Some praise in previous issues to Long's poems, Howard's, Smith's and Leslie's]
Jules de Grandin's stories in book form

1929.1 –
131 –
For reprints
"The Green Star Waned" – the most popular story – reprint
Frank Owen "beautiful" tales for reprints
"different"
132 –
Those who joined later want to read the best stories published before they arrived.
134 – Praise for Quinn

Lovecraft

1929.2 –
275 -
Weird Pantheon

Grotesque = weird

Against materialism, for escapism

276 -

Torture stories are liked

De Grandin
278 –
For de Grandin against scienti-fiction ("the weirder the better)
Linking Owen and Merritt's Woman of the wood as one type of story – the "beautiful" story.

1929.3 –

421 –
Quinn in book form
Quinn
Kuttner, high school student, - horror and science stories

422 –

423-424 – praise for Quinn

1929.4 –
563 –
Some old fart rambling about how he likes the book form of the moon terror (it is terrible).
564 – Kuttner again telling how his schoolmates like WT.
Praise for Lovecraft and Quinn
escapism

"real weird"

"clean"

566-

"gang" likes "battles between inhabitants of the earth and other planets, using weapons of a far-advanced science"

Against torture stories and for SF

1929.5 –
707

The magazine was created to fill a very real demand for something radically different, something that would let the fancy
escape from the humdrum, everyday life of the world; a magazine whose stories should plumb the depths of occult
horror, as Lovecraft has done in so many of his tales; a magazine that should not shrink from the terrible mysteries of
madness and wild imagination,

imaginative literature
"imaginative literature"
"physical suffering"
"space"
"fantastic tales… beauty" "litearary craft"

708 –

Literary
Voodoo stories
710 –

Against religious symbols as dues ex machine devices – praising howard and lovcecraft for lacking this element.

1929.6 –

851 –

Lovecraft – master, literary genius

852 –

Call for reprints which new readers heard much about – Owen, Lovecraft, Wandrei
Smith – Faery fantastical forests
Lovecraft Wandrei and Smith
Lovecraft equal to Bierce and Blackwood and Poe

1929.7 –
4-
Quinn fans
Defending the foolish thingamajig used in de Grandin stories
6-
Infant daughter likes the covers (says a woman who likes Frank Belknap Long and Lovecraft

1929.8 –

148 -

A person subtly laughs at the magazine's readership.

150 –

A dude starts to believe Lovecraft's mythology is historical.

Slams other magazines.

"Scientific fiction of interplanetary space and highly imaginative stories of the little known regions of our own planet"

Someone asks for a monthly column on magic

Girl-torture narratives appeal to the imagination

280 –
A woman : weird=horror – a tale that "make you afraid to go to bed"

Against torture tales

1929,9 –
292 –

Weird Tales – educational – "speeding up the work of science"

Quinn and Lovecraft

Against futuristic SF

People want to know about the writers

294 –

Lovecraft's English is superb

More adventure stories like those of Thatcher

"a real weird tale" – not imaginary

426 –
a 12 year old writes about Quinn's horrible story The House of Golden Masks – "the best combination of horror and
torture"
more reincarnation and revenge stories

Against old-fashioned supernatural horror

More interplanetary stories and Quinn stories.

1929.10 –

436 -
The Shadow Kingdom (sprouts of Fantasy)

Price "Orientales" parises Howard's – weird "fantastic"

438 -
A. Merritt praises the "Shadow Kingdom"

"horror stories"
570 –
Request for Quinn's stories in book form

"

true weird- fiction lovers, and the inimitable Edmond Hamilton, the dean of weird scientific fiction-writers"

"for torture stories"

1929.11 –

580 –

The scientific story is better than "real weird" – weird = fantasy

582 –

Fairy tales for grown-up children

"escape from the world of everyday to a new and magical realm peopled with creatures of the imagination" – yet, he
focuses on stories of Horror.

Howard's stories –

Howard and Mythology

716 –
Against reality – "let the imagination have full play"
About Lovecraft's "The Hound":

1929.12 –

726 -

Some complaints on SF for being "so wildly fantastic and impossible"

728 –

Against torture stories

(?)

East Vs. West – the only racist comment I found.

A & Q column request

Call for torture tales – "the cream of weird fiction"

854 –
"weird tales has not discontinued torture stories"

Hamilton, Quinn and Lovecraft

1930.1 –
6-

Excerpts from science books compared to Hamilton's stories.

For torture stories

8–
Praising the poetry of the magazine
de Grandin not coming up to his level
more interplanetary yarns and psychological occult stories

1930.2 –

148 -

Articles on weird things that exist

H.P. Lovecraft club

Kuttner again – praises Lovecraft

Scientific education

Howard and Merritt

Keller's Overlord of Cornwell stories

Desire for more stories in fantastic times in the past (Atlantis sorcerers etc.)

"the field of the bizarre is limited"

152 –

Against SF
1930.3 – (The eyrie becomes longer)

Readers notice the connection in the mythology of some authors:

292 –

294 –

First use of the word "science fiction" in the magazine

Howard and Sax Rohmer

Asking for information about the authors – especially the English ones

296 –

British authros

Against SF and for Horror

298 –

1930.4 –

Kline, Price and Howard – action Orientales "extreme weirdness"

438 –

More torture stories, more werewolf and vampire stories, poems are good.

A poem about WT
Just under it

SF vs, supernatural horror

440 –

A call for prehistoric stories

Saying something about the embarrassing covers with sexy images (the writer is British)

"so different from the common everyday fiction"

442 –

Keep the stories "mixed"

1930.5 –
Poe and E.T.A Hoffmann

580 -

Literary recognition in popular middle-class avenues.

582 –
Someone likes interplanetary tales

No SF

Interior art for the Eyrie

Ayer Directory 1925 (1294) (publisher report)

1924 – no circulation info in Ayer

Consensus – Literary merit and recognition. The imagination is more important than stories on mundane stuff. Reprints
from old WT stories.
1930.6 –
724 -

Lovecraft – " giant of literary fantasy"

"When one reads Lovecraft, one enters into a dream-world"
Clark Ashton Smith – a real fantasiste"

726 – slamming Quinn with respect –

" Seabury Quinn is always good for an hour’s pastime. I can't see where
so many get their ideas from who declare him supreme. If he wrote such
stories as The Phantom Farmhouse, I would agree, but not with the present
stuff he gets out. Much of the praise of him is undoubtedly mere parrot-talk
—people repeating what they hear others say, without knowledge or discrimination.
He is* to me, just a good thrill-concoeter, neither more nor less,
and a good craftsman, handling well his effects"

against the sex-centered covers.

Criticism of the covers – technical criticism.

729 –

"a taste for the outré in fiction"

732 –

"weird science"

1930.7 –

4-

The stories as "diversion" to one's mind.

Some vague desire to publish Lovecraft's stories in book form.
A collection of de Grandin stories in book form.

6-
Someone finally notices that Hamilton's stories are all the same:
Quinn's stories are in the same place all the time

8–
Human imagination

10 –

Kuttner asks for early reprints and Smith asks for more Lovecraft stories.

12 –

Lovecraft's most favorite stories -

Against the covers (a woman)

"The stories in Weird Tales aren't weird enough" but he mentions mostly SF stories.

1930.8 –

148 –

Whitehead calls the magazine – "a medium for the occult". Whitehead calls the genre – "The Occult story" and even
participated in writing an article on it for "The Free-Lance Writer's Annual"

Better than the rest of the pulps

150 –

But then he says that Quinn is solid entertainment and should be read as such.

152 –

Against policy to print poems that are longer than on e page.

1930.9 –

421-

The rise of Smith

Poe and Dunsany like Smith

422 –

Protecting the "sexy" covers

Someone hates the magazine and calls the stories "crazy" instead of "weird"
423 –

Again, someone links Price's "The Infidel's Daughter" to "The Woman of the Wood" by Merritt.
Smith praises Lovecraft and Long again.

Defending the literary value of the magazine against Literature Ph.D.s

Consensus – Weird Tales should have stories that are more "imaginative". Weird Tales has literary merit. Weird Tales
helps one escape from the mundane life. Weird tales should mostly be "wholesome". Weird Tales is educational. The
Weird should include "weird-scientific" tales but they are not "truly" weird. Supernatural Horror is the heart of the
Weird. Fantasy is "beautiful" and "different" (and mostly more Literary) from the rest of the magazine's content.
Lovecraft is the paragon of Weird Tales with no one else on his caliber. Poe is the forefather of Weird fiction but he is
surpassed by WT's fiction. The magazine's content cannot be found anywhere else and is superior to other genre-
magazines and even literary magazines. Poems should keep appearing in the magazine. Hamilton, Quinn and Lovecraft
are the most popular authors of the period.

Disagreement – reprints from other great authors of the past, SF and Supernatural Horror – should the magazine
include more of the one or the other, torture stories, "sexy" covers, should the Weird aim at popular, cheap, thrillers or
be more Literary in scope.