Weird Tales Books

Volume 48, No. 1, First in a series of 4 issued in mass market paperback format. Contents: The Eyrie, essay by Lin Carter; Scarlet Tears, by Robert E. Howard; Down There, (1978) by Ramsey Campbell; The Light From the Pole, by Clark Ashton Smith and Lin Carter; Someone Named Guibourg, by Hannes Bok; The Worshippers, poem by Robert A. W. Lowndes; The Courier, poem by Robert A. W. Lowndes; Bat's Belfry, (1926) by August Derleth; The Pit, by Carl Jacobi; When the Clock Strikes, by Tanith Lee; Red Thunder, (1929) poem by Robert E. Howard; Some Day I'll Kill You! (1941) by Seabury Quinn; Healer, by Mary Elizabeth Counselman; The House Without Mirrors, by David H. Keller, M.D.; Dreams in the House of Weir, by Lin Carter; Letters by Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Theodore Sturgeon, Sam Moskowitz.

Weird Tales #2 is an anthology edited by Lin Carter, the second in his paperback revival of the American fantasy and horror magazine Weird Tales. It is also numbered Vol. 48, No. 2 (Spring 1981) in continuation of the numbering of the original magazine. The anthology was published in paperback by Zebra Books in December 1980, simultaneously with the first volume in the anthology series. Cover art by Tom Barber. STORIES: The Night Ocean (1978) by H. P. Lovecraft and Robert H. Barlow; Boy Blue by Steve Rasnic Tem; Fear by Joseph Payne Brennan; Valse Triste by Ray Faraday Nelson; The Song of the Gallows Tree [poem] by Robert E. Howard; The Feast in the Abbey (1935) by Robert Bloch; The Lamashtu Amulet by Mary Elizabeth Counselman; Something in the Moonlight by Lin Carter; Trick or Treat by Ramsey Campbell; The Guardian [Annals of Arkya, 4] [poem] by Robert A. W. Lowndes; Liberation [Annals of Arkya, 3] [poem] by Robert A. W. Lowndes; The Descent Into the Abyss by Clark Ashton Smith and Lin Carter; The Sapphire Siren (1934) by Nictzin Dyalhis; The Sombrus Tower by Tanith Lee. FEATURES: The Eyrie (essay) by The Editor; Introduction by Lin Carter. INTERIOR ARTIST: Hannes Bok.

WEIRD TALES #3, Fall 1981. Paperback, first edition. This is the third of four paperback issues of the venerable "Weird Tales." STORIES: "The Chinese Woman" by Evangeline Walton "The Messenger" by Steve Rasnic Tem "To the Nightshade" (1970, poem) by Clark Ashton Smith "The Opposite House" by Diane Brizzolara and John Brizzolara "The Guardian of the Idol" by Robert E. Howard and Gerald W. Page "The Black Garden" by Carl Jacobi "The House of the Temple" (1980) by Brian Lumley "The Red Brain" (1927) by Donald Wandrei "The Summons" and "The Viola" (poems) by Robert A. W. Lowndes "Nobody Ever Goes There [John the Balladeer] by Manly Wade Wellman "The Summons of Nuguth-Yug" by Gary Myers and Marc Laidlaw "The Wind That Tramps the World" (1925) by Frank Owen "The Winfield Heritance" by Lin Carter

Fourth in the paperback book revival of the Weird Tales magazine, edited by Lin Carter. Has verse by Robert E. Howard and Clark Ashton Smith. Contents: * "The Eyrie" (editorial) (Lin Carter) * "The Next Glade" (Robert Aickman) * "Crocuses" (Charles Sheffield) * "The Belfry" (James Anderson) * "There Are No Ghosts in Catholic Spain" (poem) (Ray Bradbury) * "Homecoming" (Frank Belknap Long, Jr.) * "Compliments of the Season" (John Brizzolara) * "The City of Dread" (Lloyd Arthur Eshbach) * "The Doom Chant of Than-Kul" (poem) (Robert E. Howard) * "Save the Children! " (Steve Rasnic Tem) * "The Sea-Gods" (poem) (Clark Ashton Smith) * "Ooze" (Anthony M. Rud) * "Late Night Final" (Stuart H. Stock) * "The Vengeance of Yig" (Lin Carter)