Weird Tales Vol. 1 No. 3, May 1923

This is the readers' edition of the third issue of Weird Tales, the hugely influential Pulp Magazine that went on to define many ideas of modern fantasy and supernatural horror. It spawned the careers of writers such as H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard.

This collection includes:

• The Moon Terror [Part 1 of 2], by A. G. Birch
• The Secret Fear, by Kenneth Duane Whipple
• Jungle Beasts, by William P. Barron
• The Golden Caverns, by Julian...
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This is the readers' edition of the third issue of Weird Tales, the hugely influential Pulp Magazine that went on to define many ideas of modern fantasy and supernatural horror. It spawned the careers of writers such as H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard.

This collection includes:

• The Moon Terror [Part 1 of 2], by A. G. Birch
• The Secret Fear, by Kenneth Duane Whipple
• Jungle Beasts, by William P. Barron
• The Golden Caverns, by Julian Kilman
• Vials of Insects, by Paul Ellsworth Triem
• An Eye for an Eye, by G. W. Crane
• The Floor Above, by M. Humphreys
• Penelope, by Vincent Starrett
• The Purple Heart, by Herman Sisk
• Feline, by Bruce Grant
• Two Hours of Death, by E. Thayles Emmons
• Midnight Black, by Hamilton Craigie
• The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
• The Whispering Thing [Part 2 of 2], by Laurie McClintock & Culpeper Chunn
• The Death Cell, by F. K. Moss
• The Devil Plant, by Lyle Wilson Holden
• Hootch, by William Sanford
• The Thunder Voice, by Walter Wilson
• Case No. 27, by Mollie Frank Ellis
• The Finale, by William Merrit
• The Closed Cabinet, by Anonymous

This edition strips the original manuscript of ads and irrelevant news items, keeping only the stories and the notes from the original editor. It presents these stories in a way that is easier for modern readers on modern devices. PDF scans of the original magazine, as it would have been read in 1923, are available online.

About the Pulp Fiction Collection

Our modern popular culture would not exist in its current form without the enormous influence of pulp fiction. So named due to the cheap wood-pulp paper used in the printing process, pulp magazines brought affordable fiction options to the masses.

This collection attempts to create a modernized version of these magazines, taking the short stories from each public domain issue and assembling them in a more modern collection format. For a scanned facsimile of the original issue, complete with original ads and formatting, visit MythBank.com.