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Weird Pocket Library

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 1943:

Publishers: Gerald G. Swan, Ltd., London, England.


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Weird Science Illustories

Total Issues: 1

This odd little magazine is undated but is believed to have slipped out sometime in the Fifties. The comic strip occupies just under half of the issue. Printed in Ireland.

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 195?:

Miller/Contento

Weird Sex Tales

Total Issues: 1

A pornographic science fiction magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: Jul-1972:

Miller/Contento

Weird Shorts

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 1944:

Miller/Contento

Publishers: Gerald G. Swan, Ltd., London, England.

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Weird Stories

Total Issues: 26

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 1996 – #26, 1998:

Miller/Contento

Publishers:   Fading Shadows, Inc.
Website:   www.geocities.com/fadingshadows1/
Editors:   Tom & Ginger Johnson
Prices:   $5.00

Weird Story Magazine

Total Issues: 3

Issues & Index Sources

Aug-1940:

Miller/Contento

#1, 1946 – #2, 1946:

Miller/Contento

Publishers

Gerald G. Swan, London, England

Editors

Gerald G. Swan

Formats

#1, 1940: pulp
#1, 1946 – #2, 1946: pocketbook

Prices

#1, 1940: 7d
#1, 1946 – #2, 1946: 6d

Pagecounts

#1, 1940: 96pp
#1, 1946 – #2, 1946: 36pp

Frequency

irregular


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Weird Tales

Total Issues: 279+4+4+21+4+30=347 (to Dec-2007)

Issues & Index Sources

Mar-1923 – Sep-1954:

Miller/Contento

Summer 1973 – Summer 1974:

Miller/Contento

Spring 1981 – Summer 1983:

Miller/Contento

Fall 1984 – Spring 1994:

Miller/Contento

#1, 1994 – #4, 1996, as Worlds of Fantasy & Horror:

Miller/Contento

Summer 1998 – present, as Weird Tales:

Miller/Contento

Publishers

  Mar-1923 – May-1924: Rural Publications, Chicago
  Nov-1924 – Oct-1938: Popular Fiction, Chicago
  Nov-1938 – Sep-1954: Weird Tales, Inc. (a subsidiary of Short Stories, Inc.)
  Summer 1973 – Summer 1974: Renown Publications
  Spring 1981 – Summer 1983: Kensington Publishing
  Fall 1984 – Winter 1985: Weird Tales, Los Angeles
  Winter 1985 – Winter 1996/1997: Terminus Publishing, 123 Crooked Lane, King of Prussia, PA 19406
  Summer 1998 – Dec-2004: DNA Publications
  May-2005 – present: Wildside Press

Website

www.weirdtalesmagazine.com

Editors

  Mar-1923 – Apr-1924: Edwin Baird
  May-1924: Henneberger & Kline
  Nov-1924 – Mar-1940: Farnsworth Wright
  May-1940 – Sep-1954: Dorothy McIlwraith
  Summer 1973 – Summer 1974: Sam Moskowitz
  Spring 1981 – Summer 1983: Lin Carter
  Fall 1984 – Winter 1985: Gil Lamont & Gordon Garb
  Winter 1985 – Dec-2006: Darrell Schweitzer
  2007: Stephen H. Segal
  Jan-2008 – present: Ann VanderMeer

Formats

  Mar-1923 – Jul-1953: standard pulp
  May-1923 – Apr-1924: large pulp
  Sep-1953 – Sep-1954: digest
  Summer 1973 – Summer 1974: pulp
  Spring 1981 – Summer 1983: pocketbook
  Fall 1984 – Winter 1985: semi-slick
  Spring 1988 – Winter 1990/1991: neo-pulp
  Spring 1991 – present: large format, newsprint.

Frequency

currently quarterly

Sources

AHGTTP, UltGuide




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Weird Tales (Canada)

Total Issues: 14+58=72

The first series had identical issues to the respective U.S. issues, as did the later issues of the second series.

Issues & Index Sources

Jun-1935 – Jul-1936

May-1942 – Nov-1951:

Miller/Contento

(only indexed to Jan-1948; thereafter issues are identical to the US versions)

Publishers

American News Company of Toronto

Sources

Pulpster11



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Weird Tales Library

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 1999:

Miller/Contento

Weird Tales (UK)

Total Issues: 3+1+23+5=32

Issues & Index Sources

1942:

1946:

Nov-1949 – Dec-1953:

Nov-1953 – Jul-1954:

(Missing: v1 #5)

Publishers

  1942: Gerald G. Swan
  1946: William C. Merrett
  Nov-1949 – Jul-1954: Thorpe & Porter



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Weird Terror Tales

Total Issues: 3

Issues & Index Sources: Winter 1969/1970 – Fall 1970:	Miller/Contento
	Monthly Murders

Publishers:   Health Knowledge Inc, New York
Editors:   Robert A.W. Lowndes
Formats:   digest
Prices:   50c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   quarterly

Weird Window

Total Issues: 2

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 1970 – #2, 1971:

Miller/Contento

Weird World

Total Issues: 2

Issues & Index Sources: Oct-1955 – Jan-1956:

Miller/Contento

Publishers:   Gannet Press, Birkenhead
Editors:   possibly Benjamin Emmanuel
Formats:   small pulp
Prices:   1/-
Pagecounts:   48pp

Weird Worlds

A mixed fiction/non-fiction magazine distributed only through schools.

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 1978 – #8, 1981:

Miller/Contento



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Weird Worlds [2006]

"An occasional magazine devoted to the tales of swords and sorcery".

Issues & Index Sources: Nov-2006 – present:

Miller/Contento

Publishers:   Rainfall Books
Website:   www.rainfallsite.com/Disciples1.html
Editors:   John B. Ford & Steve Lines
Formats:   A5
Prices:   £7.00
Pagecounts:   40pp

The Welcome Guest

Issues & Index Sources

1-May-1858 – 17-Dec-1864

#merges with The Halfpenny Journal

Publishers

John Maxwell

Editors

George A. Sala, R. Brough, W. F. Ainsworth

Formats

tabloid

Frequency

weekly