WEIRD TALES

THE UNIQUE MAGAZINE

EDWIN BAIRD, Editor

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VOLUME 1 25 Cents NUMBER 2

Contents for April, 1923

SIXTEEN THRILLING SHORT STORIES
TWO COMPLETE NOVELETTES
TWO TWO-PART STORIES
INTERESTING, ODD AND WEIRD HAPPENINGS

The Scar	Carl Rasmus	[7]
A Thrilling Novelette.
Beyond the Door	Paul Suter	[23]
A Short Story of Gripping Interest.
The Tortoise Shell Comb	Roylston Markham	[34]
A Fantasy of a Mad Brain.
A Photographic Phantasm	Paul Crumpler	[37]
The Living Nightmare	Anton M. Oliver	[38]
A Night in a House of Death.
The Incubus	Hamilton Craigie	[42]
A Frightful Adventure in an Ancient Tomb.
The Bodymaster	Harold Ward	[49]
An Amazing Novelette.
Jungle Death	Artemus Calloway	[70]
A Story in Which Crocodiles and Voodooism Play the Stellar Roles.
The Snake Fiend	Farnsworth Wright	[75]
A Tale of Diabolic Terror.
A Square of Canvas	Anthony M. Rud	[81]
A Story of an Insane Artist.
The Affair of the Man in Scarlet	Julian Kilman	[91]
A Weird Story of the Thirteenth Century.
The Hideous Face	Victor Johns	[99]
A Grim Tale of Frightful Revenge.
The Forty Jars	Ray McGillivray	[105]
A Strange Story of the Orient.
The Whispering Thing	Laurie McClintock and Culpeper Chunn	[116]
A Two-part Novel of Death and Terror.
The Thing of a Thousand Shapes	Otis Adelbert Kline	[139]
The Concluding Chapters of a Weird Novel.
The Conquering Will	Ted Olson	[152]
Do the Dead Return to Life?
Six Feet of Willow	Carrol F. Michener	[157]
The Strange Tale of a Yellow Man and His Beloved Reptile.
The Hall of the Dead	Francis D. Grierson	[163]
An Occult Story of Ancient Egypt.
The Parlor Cemetery	C. E. Howard	[169]
A Grisly Satire.
Golden Glow	Harry Irving Shumway	[173]
A “Haunted House” Story with a Touch of Humor.
The Eyrie	By The Editor	[179]

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