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Wee Wisdom

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1940s: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Unity School of Christianity
Editors:   Jane Palmer (in 1948)
Formats:   10" x 7.25" (in 1948)
Prices:   15c (in 1948)
Pagecounts:   34pp (in 1948)
Frequency:   monthly

Weird Adventures

Total Issues: 2

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources:  May-1978 – Fall 1978: Miller/Contento

Weird and Occult Library

Total Issues: 3

Mixture of reprints from Columbia magazines and old material.

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1960 – #3, 1960: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Gerald G. Swan
Editors:   Gerald G. Swan
Formats:   pocketbook
Prices:   1/-
Pagecounts:   64pp
Frequency:   issues released simultaneously
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Weird and Occult Miscellany

Total Issue: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  1960: Miller/Contento
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Weirdbook

Total Issues: 30

Semi-professional magazine, some issues were also done in hardcover as collectors' editions. See also Toadstool Wine and Eerie Country and its successors, which were issued to decrease the backlog of stories bought for Weirdbook, and Hollow Faces, Merciless Moons, a special issue of Weirdbook.

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1968 – #30, 1997: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   W. Paul Ganley, Buffalo, N.Y.
Editors:   W. Paul Ganley
Formats:   A4 large format
Pagecounts:   pagination varied 32pp-96pp
Frequency:   annual, sometimes twice annual
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Weirdbook Encores

see under Eerie Country

The Weirdbook Sampler

see under Eerie Country

Weird Heroes

Total Issues: 8

A series that copied the magazines, calling itself 'A New American Pulp', in a mixed anthology/novel series. Vols. 1,2,6 and 8 were magazine/anthologies, whilst the others were complete novels, emulating the hero pulps.

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1975 – Nov-1977: Index to SF Anthologies & Collections
Publishers:   Pocket Books
Editors:   Byron Preiss
Formats:   pocketbook
Prices:   $1.50-$1.75
Pagecounts:   various pages
Frequency:   roughly quarterly

Weirdly Supernatural

Total Issues: 2

Small press magazine containing a blend of fiction and non-fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  Winter 2001/2002 – #2, 2004: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Haunted River, Norfolk, England
Website:   www.hauntedriver.co.uk
Editors:   Jonathan Harker

Weird Mystery

Total Issues: 4

Reprint magazine selecting from Fantastic and Fantastic Adventures.

Issues & Index Sources:  Fall 1970 – Summer 1971: Miller/Contento
Monthly Murders
Publishers:   Ultimate Publishing
Editors:   Sol Cohen (pseudonymously)
Formats:   digest
Prices:   50c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   quarterly
Sources:   CookMDE

Weird Pocket Library

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1943: Miller/Contento
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
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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+35=352 (to Dec-2008)

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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