Weird Tales: Selected and Introduced by Peter Haining

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The very mention of the name WEIRD TALES will strike a chord in the minds of thousands of lovers of horror and fantasy fiction. For thirty years this brilliant magazine epitomised the ultimate in stories of the strange and the supernatural. Now, renowned editor Peter Haining has compiled a two-volume anthology of the very best from WEIRD TALES - spine-tingling stories to make your nerves crawl, from the masters of the macabre. In Volume 1 you’ll encounter, among other delights, a man who comes back from the dead, the shuttered house where the past preys on the present, the bizarre garden where flower and flesh grow side by side, and the grim underworld where terror and madness reign supreme.... [from the back cover] INTRODUCTION 11 Peter Haining THE MAN WHO RETURNED (February 1934) 31 Edmund Hamilton BLACK HOUND OF DEATH (November 1936) 49 Robert E. Howard THE SHUTTERED HOUSE (April 1937) 80 August W. Derleth FROZEN BEAUTY (February 1938) 96 Seabury Quinn HAUNTING COLUMNS 135 Robert E. Howard BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP (March 1938) 137 H. P. Lovecraft THE GARDEN OF ADOMPHA (April 1938) 151 Clark Ashton Smith CORDELIA’S SONG 165 Vincent Starrett BEYOND THE PHOENIX (October 1938) 167 Henry Kuttner THE BLACK MONK (October 1938) 193 G. G. Pendarve THE PASSING OF A GOD (December 1938) 203 Henry S. Whitehead THEY RUN AGAIN 227 Leah Bodine Drake THE EYRIE (May 1939) 229 Readers’ Letters