Life is full of terrifying challenges, even for those of us not brave enough to become soldiers or sailors or explorers or violent criminals. You are having a dispute with your spouse, or your parents, or your kids, or that special someone that you maybe want to be your spouse, or who wants you to be his or her spouse. Your boss is making demands, or your clients are making demands, or your employees are making demands, or your competitors are seducing away your clients and employees. The government is stealing your money via the tax code or via a robot that recorded you driving 46mph in a 30mph zone. (God damn you, Montgomery County!) And then there are the big questions, about the difference between right and wrong, about whether life has meaning.
In mainstream literature authors explore these challenges directly, charting the love affairs, family life and professional careers of men and women and depicting their inner, psychological lives. In Weird Tales these challenges are explored allegorically and metaphorically, in stories about barbarians fighting wizards, space travelers being preyed upon by aliens, and vampires, werewolves and ghouls terrorizing the countryside.
To add a little purpose to my own life I have taken up the quest of reading at least one story from each issue of Weird Tales printed in the 1930s. And today I can report progress! Below find a list of every issue of the unique magazine edited by Farnsworth Wright in the year 1935, accompanied by links to my blog posts expounding my perhaps idiosyncratic, perhaps utterly banal, cogitations about those stories which I chose to read.
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
If I happen to return to a 1935 issue and blog about an additional story from it, I will add it to the list with a parenthetical note.
Lastly before the actual list, here are links to the other posts cataloging the course of this journey, one for each year from 1930 to 1939.
Clark Ashton Smith: "The Dark Eidolon"
Robert Bloch: "The Feast in the Abbey"
Robert E. Howard: "The Grisly Horror"
Frank Belknap Long: "The Body-Masters"
Edmond Hamilton: "Murder in the Grave"
C. L. Moore: "Julhi"
Robert E. Howard: "The Jewels of Gwuhlar" AKA "The Servants of Bit-Yakin"
Bram Stoker: "The Judge's House"
Hazel Heald and H. P. Lovecraft: "Out of the Aeons"
Howard Wandrei: "The Hand of the O'Mecca"
Clark Ashton Smith: "The Last Hieroglyph"
Clark Ashton Smith: "The Flower-Women"
Donald Wandrei: "The Destroying Horde"
Robert Bloch: "The Suicide in the Study"
Edmond Hamilton: "The Avenger from Atlantis"
Clark Ashton Smith: "The Treader of the Dust"
Clark Ashton Smith: "Vulthoom"
Edmond Hamilton: "The Monster-God of Mamurth"
Edmond Hamilton: "The Six Sleepers"
C. L. Moore: "The Cold Gray God"
Robert E. Howard: "Shadows in Zamboula" AKA "The Man-Eaters of Zamboula"
Robert E. Howard: "The Hour of the Dragon"
Clark Ashton Smith: "The Chain of Aforgomon"
Edmond Hamilton: "The Great Brain of Kaldar"
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