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Category: weird fiction

October 1933 issue ~ cover art by Margaret Brundage

October 1933

cover art by Margaret Brundage

[image updated 9/21/24]

Posted on November 29, 2023September 21, 2024Categories Hardboiled, horror fiction, magazine, pulp, updated, weird fictionTags bat woman, finest kind, hugh davidson, margaret brundage, pulp art, weird tales magazineLeave a comment on October 1933 issue ~ cover art by Margaret Brundage

October 1937 issue ~ cover art by Margaret Brundage

October 1937

cover art by Margaret Brundage

Posted on November 28, 2023November 27, 2023Categories Hardboiled, horror fiction, magazine, pulp, weird fictionTags dame, david h. keller, dominatrix, edmond hamilton, h.p. lovecraft, margaret brundage, pulp art, seabury quinn, torture, weird tales magazine, whipLeave a comment on October 1937 issue ~ cover art by Margaret Brundage

March 1938 issue ~ cover art by Margaret Brundage

March 1938

cover art by Margaret Brundage

Posted on November 27, 2023November 27, 2023Categories Hardboiled, magazine, pulp, weird fictionTags h.p. lovecraft, henry kuttner, jack williamson, margaret brundage, pulp art, seabury quinn, skull, thorp mcclusky, weird tales magazineLeave a comment on March 1938 issue ~ cover art by Margaret Brundage

April 1945 issue ~ cover art by R. E. Epperley

April 1945

cover art by R. E. Epperley

stories included:

August Derleth, “Carousel”

Robert Bloch, Lefty Feep Gets Henpecked

Posted on November 27, 2023April 3, 2024Categories fantasy, horror fiction, mystery, pulp, weird fictionTags august derleth, don wilcox, fantastic advantures magazine, john wilstach, r.e. epperley, robert bloch, skullLeave a comment on April 1945 issue ~ cover art by R. E. Epperley

December 1942 issue ~ cover art by Harold W. McCauley

December 1942

cover art by Harold W. McCauley

Posted on November 26, 2023December 29, 2023Categories adventure, crime fiction, fantasy, magazine, original art, pulp, weird fictionTags dame, fantastic advantures magazine, ghost, harold mccauley, original art, pulp art, weird fictionLeave a comment on December 1942 issue ~ cover art by Harold W. McCauley

December 9, 1939 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski

December 9, 1939

Posted on November 21, 2023November 20, 2023Categories adventure, magazine, pulp, weird fictionTags argosy magazine, donald barr chidsey, druid, frank richardson pierce, ghoul, h. bedford-jones, jack mann, pulp art, richard sale, rudolph belarskiLeave a comment on December 9, 1939 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski

May 1935 issue ~ cover art by Margaret Brundage

May 1935

cover art by Margaret Brundage

Posted on November 21, 2023November 20, 2023Categories crime fiction, Hardboiled, magazine, mystery, weird fictionTags arthur b. reeve, flashlight, gravestone, margaret brundage, pulp art, weird tales magazineLeave a comment on May 1935 issue ~ cover art by Margaret Brundage

November 1937 issue

November 1937

better image than previously posted

Posted on November 20, 2023November 19, 2023Categories crime fiction, Hardboiled, magazine, mystery, pulp, weird fictionTags dagger, norbert davis, paul ernst, philip ketchum, pulp art, strange detective mysteries, wayne rogers, woman with a gun, wyatt blassingameLeave a comment on November 1937 issue

June-July 1937 issue ~ cover art by William F. Soare

June-July 1937

cover art by William F. Soare

[post updated 6/6/24]

Posted on November 20, 2023June 6, 2024Categories Hardboiled, horror fiction, magazine, pulp, weird fictionTags chained, horror stories magazine, laboratory, mad scientist, paul ernst, pulp art, wayne rogers, william f. soareLeave a comment on June-July 1937 issue ~ cover art by William F. Soare

August 1934 issue ~ cover art by J. George Janes

August 1934

cover art by J. George Janes

Posted on November 18, 2023November 17, 2023Categories Hardboiled, magazine, weird fictionTags carl mckinnon saunders, frederick c. davis, ghoul, j. george janes, laboratory, mad scientist, pulp art, skeleton, ten detective aces magazineLeave a comment on August 1934 issue ~ cover art by J. George Janes

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