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This is the facsimile edition of the first 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 Dead Man's Tale - Willard E. Hawkins Ooze - Anthony M. Rud The Thing of a Thousand Shapes [Part 1 of 2] - Otis Adelbert Kline The Mystery of Black Jean - Julian Kilman The Grave - Orville R. Emerson Hark! The Rattle! - Joel Townsley Rogers The Ghost Guard - Bryan Irvine The Ghoul and the Corpse - G. A. Wells Fear - David R. Solomon The Chain - Hamilton Craigie The Place of Madness - Merlin Moore Taylor The Closing Hand - Farnsworth Wright The Unknown Beast - Howard Ellis Davis The Basket - Herbert J. Mangham The Accusing Voice - Meredith Davis The Sequel [Fortunato] - Walter Scott Story The Weaving Shadows - W. H. Holmes Nimba, the Cave Girl - R. T. M. Scott The Young Man Who Wanted to Die - Anon. The Scarlet Night - William Sanford The Extraordinary Experiment of Dr. Calgroni - Joseph Faus & James Bennett Wooding The Return of Paul Slavsky - George Warburton Lewis The House of Death - F. Georgia Stroup The Gallows - I. W. D. Peters The Skull - Harold Ward The Ape-Man - James B. M. Clark, Jr. This edition is a facsimile, generated from scans of the original magazine, including the ads, news items, and formatting.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.