| | Weird Tales. The Occult - The Supernatural - The Bizarre. Summer 1973, Volume 47, Number 1 |  | Author: Sam (ed.) Moskowitz
Publisher: Weird Tales
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
ASIN: B000J0GJFQ
Publication Date: 1973
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Condition: PB Weird Tales Vol. 47, No. 1 Summer 1973. Tightly bound and readable. Cover is clean, but battered, with 3 triangular tears in the back, bottom inch of spine cover torn loose and the top corner of the back cover missing a half-inch at the spine. Pages are tan with age, but clean, unmarked and unwrinkled. Authors include Ray Bradbury, Robert E. Howard, Edison Marshall and H.P. Lovecraft, among others.
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50th anniversary issue of a great old pulp magazine May 22, 2008
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This 50th anniversary (1923 - 1973) issue of quarterly pulp magazine "Weird Tales" features authors Ray Bradbury, William Hope Hodgson, and Robert E. Howard, among others. There are also poems by H.P. Lovecraft and A. Merritt. As you might be able to guess, Lovecraft's poem starts out: "Somewhere in dream there is an evil place..."
Some of the thirteen stories included in this issue (vol 47) are:
"The Watchers" by Ray Bradbury--Very early Bradbury originally published in a 1945 "Weird Tales." All great authors had to start somewhere and this tale of an insectophobe who carries a flyswatter to his office every morning has never been anthologized elsewhere, as far as I can determine.
"Perdita" by Hildegarde Hawthorne--This ghost story of a woman who loses her only daughter is of interest mainly because it was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne's granddaughter. It was first published in the March 1897 "Harper's New Monthly" magazine.
"Spear and Fang" by Robert E. Howard--The first story cult author Robert E. Howard ever sold. It originally appeared in a 1925 "Weird Tales" and features a sort of Cro-Magnon Conan, who rescues his sweetheart from a man-ape.
"Funeral in the Fog" by Edward D. Hoch--Occult detective Simon Ark investigates the case of Jason Bloomer, who claims that Satan is threatening his life. This is one of those stories where all of the supernatural trappings are explained away at the conclusion.
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