This is the readers' edition of Weird Tales Vol. 1, No. 4. Weird Tales is 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 Evening Wolves [Part 1 of 2] - Paul Ellsworth Triem Desert Madness - Harold Freeman Miners The Jailer of Souls - Hamilton Craigie Jack o' Mystery - Edwin McLaren Osiris - Adam Hull Shirk The Well - Julian Kilman The ...
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This is the readers' edition of Weird Tales Vol. 1, No. 4. Weird Tales is 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 Evening Wolves [Part 1 of 2] - Paul Ellsworth Triem Desert Madness - Harold Freeman Miners The Jailer of Souls - Hamilton Craigie Jack o' Mystery - Edwin McLaren Osiris - Adam Hull Shirk The Well - Julian Kilman The Phantom Wolfhound - Otis Adelbert Kline The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Edgar Allan Poe The Moon Terror [Part 2 of 2] - A. G. Birch The Man the Law Forgot - Walter Noble Burns The Blade of Vengeance - George Warburton Lewis The Gray Death - Loual B. Sugarman The Voice in the Fog - Henry Leverage The Invisible Terror - Hugh Thomason The Escape - Helen Rowe Henze The Siren - Tarleton Collier The Madman - Herbert Hipwell The Chair - Dr. Harry E. Mereness 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 CollectionOur 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.
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