Strange Worlds of Weird Tales brings together 18 remarkable stories from the pages of one of the most influential magazines in fantastic fiction. Across decades, Weird Tales gave readers strange cities, forbidden experiments, unexplained transformations, otherworldly creatures, haunted places, and encounters with things that refused to fit comfortably into the known world.
This collection reaches from Edgar Allan Poe’s unforgettable The Tell-Tale Heart to stories by H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Edmond Hamilton, Henry Kuttner, Frank Belknap Long, Carl Jacobi, August Derleth, Hugh B. Cave, Dorothy Quick, Paul Ernst, Edwin Baird, H. Bedford-Jones and others. Some of these authors became enduring names in fantastic literature, while others are rarely encountered by modern readers.
Lovecraft is represented by Cool Air, The Nameless City, The Unnamable, The Shunned House, and In the Walls of Eryx, written with Kenneth Sterling. Robert E. Howard contributes The Fearsome Touch of Death, Edmond Hamilton offers He That Hath Wings, and Henry Kuttner takes readers into darker territory with The Eater of Souls.
You’ll also discover Frank Belknap Long’s The Beast-Helper, Dorothy Quick’s The Artist and the Door, Hugh B. Cave’s Spawn of Inferno, Carl Jacobi’s The Last Drive, Paul Ernst’s Escape, Edwin Baird’s Anton’s Last Dream, and H. Bedford-Jones’ The Artificial Honeymoon, along with stories by George T. Spillman and August Derleth with Carl W. Ganzlin.
Together, these 18 stories offer a journey through several generations of imaginative fiction, from the nineteenth-century roots of the weird tale through the magazine era of the 1920s, ’30s, ’40s and ’50s. They capture the kind of storytelling that made Weird Tales famous: stories willing to venture somewhere strange and leave the reader wondering what might be waiting just outside the light.
18 stories. Decades of strange fiction. One legendary magazine.
