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Weird Story Magazine

Country: UK
Total Issues: 3

Issues & Index Sources

Aug-1940:

Science Fiction Index

#1, 1946 – #2, 1946:

Science Fiction Index

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 Tails

Country: US
Total Issues: 2

Issues & Index Sources:  1971 – Summer 1975: Science Fiction Index

Publishers:   John Moffitt, College Station, TX
Editors:   John Moffitt


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Weird Tales

Country: US
Total Issues: 279+4+4+21+4+51+4=366 (as at Jan-2023)

Issues & Index Sources

Mar-1923 – Sep-1954:

Science Fiction Index

Summer 1973 – Summer 1974:

Science Fiction Index

Spring 1981 – Summer 1983:

Science Fiction Index

Fall 1984 – Spring 1994:

Science Fiction Index

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

Science Fiction Index

Summer 1998 – Spring 2014, as Weird Tales:

Science Fiction Index

Aug-2019 – present, as Weird Tales:

Science Fiction Index

(Missing: any after #366, Oct-2022)

Website: www.weirdtales.com

Publishers

  Mar-1923 – May-1924: The Rural Publishing Corp., 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 – Summer 2011: Wildside Press
  Winter 2012 – Spring 2014: Nth Dimension media

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 – Fall 2012: Ann VanderMeer
  Summer 2013 – Spring 2014: Marvin Kaye

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

Related Sites

  The Pulp Magazines Project
  Science Fiction Encyclopedia

Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps

Online Sources

Online Books (7 issues only)




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Weird Tales (Canada)

Country: 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:

Science Fiction Index

(Missing: all except Feb-1936 & Jul-1936)

May-1942 – Nov-1951:

Science Fiction Index

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

Publishers

American News Company of Toronto

Mentioned in: The Pulpster #11, 2001



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The Weird Tales Collector

Country: US
Total Issues: 6

Issues & Index Sources: 1977 – 1980: Science Fiction Index

Publishers: Robert Weinberg



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Weird Tales Library

Country: US
Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 1999: Science Fiction Index


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Weird Tales (UK)

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

Issues & Index Sources

1942:

Science Fiction Index

1946:

Science Fiction Index

Nov-1949 – Oct-1953:

Science Fiction Index

Nov-1953 – Jul-1954:

Science Fiction Index

Publishers

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



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Weird Terror Tales

Country: US
Total Issues: 3

Issues & Index Sources:  Winter 1969/1970 – Fall 1970: Science Fiction Index

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


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Weird Trails

Country: US
Total Issues: 1

Original anthology/magazine, a faux facsimile of an imaginary pulp "magazine of supernatural cowboy stories," with 13 stories by authors including Ron Goulart, Mike Resnick, P.D. Cacek and Ray Faraday Nelson.

Issues & Index Sources: 2004:

FictionMags Index

Publishers: Wildside Press
Editors: Abner Gibber

Weird Western Tales

Country: US
Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  Sep-2008: Science Fiction Index

Western Fiction Index
Publishers:   Wild Cat Books
Editors:   Ron Hanna
Formats:   tp
Prices:   $10.99
Pagecounts:   116pp


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Weird Window

Country: UK
Total Issues: 2

Fanzine.

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

Science Fiction Index

Publishers: David A. Sutton, Birmingham
Editors: James D. Oddey & David A. Sutton


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Weird World

Country: UK
Total Issues: 2

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

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


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Weird Worlds [1978]

Country: US

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

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

Science Fiction Index



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Weird Worlds [2006]

Country: UK
Total Issues: 4

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

Issues & Index Sources: Nov-2006 – Feb-2012:

Science Fiction Index

Website:   www.rainfallsite.com/Chapbooks01.html
Publishers:   Rainfall Books
Editors:   John B. Ford & Steve Lines
Formats:   A5
Prices:   £7.00
Pagecounts:   40pp



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Welcome Friend Series

Country: US
Total Issues: 5

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1917 – Feb-1918: Dime Novel Bibliography

Publishers:   Street & Smith, 79-89 Seventh Avenue, New York
Formats:   7 x 5 3/4"
Prices:   10c
Pagecounts:   250-280
Frequency:   monthly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

The Welcome Guest [UK]

Country: UK

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