Weird Tales Project: 1939

 

You didn't think this day would ever come, did you?  But here it is!  Our quest to read a story from every issue of Weird Tales published in the 1930s has been accomplished!  And below is the proof!  A list of all the 1939 stories from Farnsworth Wright's magazine of strange and fascinating fiction that I have read along with links to my blog posts about these stories.  And, preceding that, links to similar lists for each of the other nine years in the decade.

It is exciting to have completed this mission, and to consider what our next project might be.

  1930    1931   1932   1933    1934    1935    1936    1937    1938    ----  

January

H. P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop: "Medusa's Coil"

Robert Bloch:                                  "Waxworks"

Edmond Hamilton:                          "Bride of Lightning"

Manly Wade Wellman:                    "These Doth the Lord Hate"

February

Henry Kuttner:      "The Transgressor"

Robert Bloch:        "Death is an Elephant"

August Derleth:     "The Drifting Snow"

Donald Wandrei:   "Giant-Plasm"

March

Duane W. Rimel:       "The Metal Chamber"

August Derleth:         "The Return of Hastur"

Edmond Hamilton:    "Comrades of Time"

H. P. Lovecraft:          "The Quest of Iranon"

Ralph Milne Farley:   "The Stratosphere Menace"

April

Zealia Bishop and H. P. Lovecraft:       "The Curse of Yig" 

Henry Kuttner:                                      "Hydra"

Thorp McClusky:                                  "The Red God Laughed"

C. L. Moore:                                          "Hellsgarde" 

Edmond Hamilton:                                "Armies From the Past"

Robert Bloch:                                        "The Red Swimmer"

Mary Elizabeth Counselman:               "Mommy"

May

Henry Kuttner:  "The Watcher at the Door"

Robert Bloch:    "The Dark Isle" 

Merle Prout:      "Witch's Hair"

Lester del Rey:  "Cross of Fire" 

June-July

Clark Ashton Smith:                          "The Willow Landscape"

Hugh B. Cave:                                   "The Death Watch"

H. P. Lovecraft:                                  "Celephais"

H. P. Lovecraft and Harry Houdini:   "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" 

August

Manly Wade Wellman:    "The Valley Was Still"

E. Hoffmann Price:          "The Apprentice Magician" 

P. Schulyer Miller:           "Spawn"

Frank Belknap Long:       "Giants in the Sky"

Robert Bloch:                   "The Totem-Pole"

September

Thorp McClusky:                              "While Zombies Walked"

E. Hoffmann Price:                           "The Spanish Vampire"

August Derleth and Mark Schorer:   "Spawn of the Maelstrom"

Clark Ashton Smith:                          "A Night in Malneant"

October

Robert E. Howard:                               "Worms of the Earth"

Ralph Milne Farley:                             "The Mystery of the Missing Magnate"

Manly Wade Wellman:                         "The Witch's Cat"

H. P. Lovecraft and Kenneth Sterling: "In the Walls of Eryx"

November

Henry Kuttner:                        "Towers of Death"

Mary Elizabeth Counselman:  "The Web of Silence" 

December

C. L. Moore and Forrest J. Ackerman: "Nymph of Darkness"

Frank Belknap Long:                            "Escape from Tomorrow"

Thorp McClusky:                                  "The Considerate Hosts"

David H. Keller:                                    "Lords of Ice"

Robert Bloch:                                        "Mannikins of Horror"