Weird Tales Project: 1934

There are people who have a little book that lists birds or aircraft or locomotives, and they run around trying to see each listed specimen and marking off the ones they do succeed in spotting.  Well, I am trying to read at least one story from each 1930s issue of one of the most famous and influential of speculative fiction magazines, Weird Tales.  And here in this blog post I present my list of the stories I have read from issues of WT unleashed upon the public in the year 1934, complete with links to the blog posts where I offer up my banal or idiosyncratic observations about each.

If I happen to return to a 1934 issue and blog about an additional story from it, I will add it with a parenthetical note.

Lastly, before the actual list, here are links to the other posts commemorating this project, one for each year from 1930 to 1939.

1930  1931 1932 1933  ----  1935  1936  1937  1938  1939  

 

January

Clark Ashton Smith:     "The Weaver in the Vault"

Robert E. Howard:        "Rogues in the House"

February

Robert E. Howard:        "The Valley of the Worm"

Edmond Hamilton:        "The Man Who Returned"

Clark Ashton Smith:      "The Witchcraft of Ulua"

March

Hazel Heald & H. P. Lovecraft:         "Winged Death"

Edmond Hamilton:                             "Thundering Worlds"

Hugh B. Cave:                                    "The Black Gargoyle"

Clark Ashton Smith:                           "The Charnel God"

April

C. L. Moore:            "Black Thirst"

Robert E. Howard:   "Shadows in the Moonlight" AKA "Iron Shadows in the Moon"

Carl Jacobi:              "The Cane"

May

C. L. Moore:             "Scarlet Dream"

Carl Jacobi:               "The Satanic Piano"

Clark Ashton Smith: "The Tomb-Spawn" (added January 23, 2024)

June

Jack Williamson:                               "Wizard's Isle"

Robert E. Howard:                            "The Haunter of the Ring"

Clark Ashton Smith:                          "The Colossus of Ylourgne"

August Derleth & Mark Schorer:      "Colonel Markesan"

July

H. P. Lovecraft & E. Hoffman Price:  "Through the Gates of the Silver Key" 

August Derleth:                                   "Wild Grapes"

Clark Ashton Smith:                            "The Disinterment of Venus"

August

C. L. Moore:                "Dust of Gods"

Robert E. Howard:      "The Devil in Iron"

Hugh B. Cave:             "The Isle of Dark Magic"

Frank Belknap Long:   "The Beast-Helper"

September

Robert  E. Howard:        "The People of the Black Circle"

Howard Wandrei:            "Vine Terror"

October

C. L. Moore:                     "Black God's Kiss"

Clark Ashton Smith:         "The Seven Geases" 

Manly Wade Wellman:     "At the Bend of the Trail"

November

E. Hoffman Price:  "Queen of the Lilin"       

August Derleth:     "Feigman's Beard"

H. P. Lovecraft:     "The Music of Erich Zann"

December

Robert E. Howard:     "A Witch Shall Be Born"

C. L. Moore:              "Black God's Shadow"

Clark Ashton Smith:  "Xeethra"