Weird Tales Magazine

138 Issues of the Most Influential Weird Fiction Ever Published

$9 · PDF Archive · Digital Download

Before horror had rules.
Before fantasy was polite.
Before science fiction knew what it was doing.

There was Weird Tales.

And it changed everything.

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What this collection is

This is a massive digital archive of 138 issues and anthologies connected to Weird Tales — the legendary magazine that gave birth to modern horror, weird fiction, dark fantasy, and cosmic dread.

These are the stories that shaped the genre.

Inside this collection you’ll find:

• classic Weird Tales magazine issues (1920s → modern era)

• rare special issues and retrospectives

• themed anthologies (folk horror, mad science, occult detectives, cosmic horror)

• modern revivals alongside original pulp-era material

This is not a “best of” sampler.

This is deep, foundational genre history.

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Authors who appear in this archive

Across these issues you’ll encounter work by (and alongside):

H. P. Lovecraft
Robert E. Howard
Clark Ashton Smith
Ray Bradbury
Shirley Jackson
Stephen King
Ramsey Campbell
Tanith Lee
Thomas Ligotti
Gene Wolfe
Ursula K. Le Guin
Robert Bloch
Edmond Hamilton
…and dozens of other essential voices of the weird

Sometimes early.
Sometimes experimental.
Sometimes deeply unsettling.

That’s the point.

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What makes Weird Tales different

Weird Tales didn’t chase trends.

It published stories that were:

• eerie instead of comforting

• strange instead of tidy

• atmospheric instead of explained

• unsettling instead of resolved

Cosmic horror.
Occult detectives.
Gothic dread.
Folk horror.
Mad science.
The uncanny.

Genres before they had names.

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Important format note (please read)

To preserve authenticity and completeness:

• All titles are PDF-only

• Many items come from archival scans and original layouts

• These are presented as historical documents, not modern re-edits

Think:

pulling old magazines from a shadowy archive
not
loading a modern Kindle novel

If you enjoy original pulp presentation, this is part of the magic.

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Why collectors love this kind of archive

Because you can:

• read short, powerful stories in any order

• explore forgotten classics and strange experiments

• see how horror and fantasy evolved in real time

• own material that’s increasingly hard to find elsewhere

This is the kind of collection you dip into for years.

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The value (briefly, because it’s obvious)

138 issues and collections for $9.

That’s:

• just a few cents per issue

• less than the price of a single modern paperback

• a genre-defining archive for pocket change

There’s no subscription.
No DRM.
No ongoing cost.

Download once. Keep forever.

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If this sounds like you…

✔ you love horror, weird fiction, or dark fantasy
✔ you’re curious about genre history
✔ you enjoy pulp magazines and short-form fiction
✔ you don’t mind PDFs for archival material

Then this is an absolute must-own.

👉 Get the Weird Tales Magazine Collection

Strange stories.
Old paper ghosts.
And the roots of everything dark and wonderful.

Titles Included:

1. 100 Wild Little Weird Tales (Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg etc.)
2. All the Fear of the Fair: Uncanny Tales of Circus and Sideshow (Edward Parnell)
3. American Supernatural Tales (S. T. Joshi & Guillermo Del Toro)
4. Arkham Tales: A Magazine Of Weird Fiction #2 – February 2009 (Dev Jarrett, Garrett Calcaterra, Catherine J. Gardner etc.)
5. Arkham Tales: A Magazine Of Weird Fiction #4 – August 2009 (Maurissa Guibord, Larry Hodges, Lee Pletzers etc.)
6. Deadly Dolls: Midnight Tales of Uncanny Playthings (Elizabeth Dearnley)
7. Eerie East Anglia: Fearful Tales of Field and Fen (Edward Parnell)
8. Folk Horror (Dawn Keetley, Ruth Heholt)
9. From the Depths: And Other Strange Tales of the Sea (Mike Ashley)
10. Frozen Beauty (Seabury Quinn)
11. Ghostland (Edward Parnell)
12. Glimpses of the Unknown: Lost Ghost Stories (Mike Ashley)
13. Gothic Tales (Elizabeth Gaskell)
14. Graveyard of Memories (Barry Eisler)
15. Hangsaman (Shirley Jackson)
16. Haunted Castles (Ray Russell)
17. Heavy Weather: Tempestuous Tales of Stranger Climes (Kevan Manwaring, Mary Shelley, Doris Lessing etc.)
18. I Am Stone: The Gothic Weird Tales of R. Murray Gilchrist (R. Murray Gilchrist)
19. Into the London Fog: Eerie Tales from the Weird City (Marie Belloc Lowndes, Lettice Galbraith, Rhoda Broughton etc.)
20. Minor Hauntings: Chilling Tales of Spectral Youth (Jen Baker, F. Marion Crawford, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman etc.)
21. Our Haunted Shores: Tales from the Coasts of the British Isles (Emily Alder, H. G. Wells,  Robert W. Sneddon etc.)
22. Out of the Deep (Walter de la Mare)
23. Phantoms of Kernow: Classic Tales of Haunted Cornwall (Joan Passey)
24. Polar Horrors: Strange Tales from the World’s Ends (John Miller)
25. Promethean Horrors: Classic Tales of Mad Science (Xavier Aldana Reyes)
26. Queens of the Abyss: Lost Stories from the Women of the Weird (Mike Ashley, Marie Corelli, Frances Hodgson Burnett etc.)
27. Randalls Round (Eleanor Scott)
28. Return of the Ancients: Unruly Tales of the Mythological Weird (Katy Soar)
29. Roads of Destiny: And Other Tales of Alternative Histories and Parallel Realms (Alasdair Richmond)
30. Roarings from Further Out: Four Weird Novellas (Algernon Blackwood)
31. Shadows on the Wall (Mary E. Wilkins Freeman)
32. Spirits of the Seasons: Christmas Hauntings (Tanya Kirk)
33. Sunless Solstice: Strange Christmas Tales for the Longest Nights (Tanya Kirk, Muriel Spark, Margery Lawrence etc.)
34. Tales of the Tattooed: An Anthology of Ink (John Miller)
35. The Bizarchives: Weird Tales of Monsters, Magic and Machines: Issue #1 (Dave Martel, A. Cuthbertson, Robert Booth etc.)
36. The Face in the Glass (Mary Elizabeth Braddon)
37. The Fiends in the Furrows: An Anthology of Folk Horror (Steve Toase, Coy Hall, Zachary Von Houser etc.)
38. The Flaw in the Crystal (May Sinclair)
39. The Girl from Samarcand (E. Hoffmann Price)
40. The Haunted Trail: Classic Tales of the Rambling Weird (Weird Walk)
41. The Lottery and Other Stories (Shirley Jackson)
42. The Night Wire: And Other Tales of Weird Media (Aaron Worth)
43. The October Game (Ray Bradbury)
44. The Outcast (E. F. Benson)
45. The Platform Edge: Uncanny Tales of the Railways (Mike Ashley)
46. The Tiger Skin and Other Tales of the Uneasy (Violet Hunt, Melissa Edmundson)
47. The Undying Monster (Jessie Douglas Kerruish)
48. The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories (Michael McDowell)
49. The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories (Christopher Phillippo)
50. The Wayfarer’s Weird: Wild Tales of Uncanny Rambles (Weird Walk, Walter de la Mare)
51. The Weird Tales of Dorothy K. Haynes (Dorothy K. Haynes)
52. Weird Ghosts (Joanne Austin & Mark Sceurman)
53. Weird House Magazine #1 (Aaron Besson, Scott Thomas, Elana Gomel etc.)
54. Weird House Magazine #2 (Tim Curran, Richard Gavin, Clay Chapman etc.)
55. Weird Tales – 32 Unearthed Terrors (Stefan R. Dziemianowicz etc.)
56. Weird Tales – Fall 1973 (Sam Moskowitz)
57. Weird Tales – February 1925 (Stephen Bagby, Alice I. Fulle, Frank Owen etc.)
58. Weird Tales – July 1938 (Robert Bloch, Edmond Hamilton, david H. Keller etc.)
59. Weird Tales – May 1930 (Edmond Hamilton, Everil Worrell, Paul Ernst etc.)
60. Weird Tales – September 1925 (H. P. Lovecraft, O. Henry, Greye La Spina etc.)
61. Weird Tales – Summer 1973 (Sam Moskowitz)
62. Weird Tales – Summer 1974 (Sam Moskowitz)
63. Weird Tales – The Unique Magazine (H. P. Lovecraft, Seabury Quinn, Edmond Hamilton etc.)
64. Weird Tales #288 (R.A. Lafferty, Arch Oboler, Robert Bloch etc.)
65. Weird Tales #289 (Robert Bloch, A.E. van Vogt, J.N. Williamson etc.)
66. Weird Tales #290 (Gene Wolfe)
67. Weird Tales #291 (Tanith Lee)
68. Weird Tales #292 (Keith Taylor)
69. Weird Tales #295 (Brian Lumley)
70. Weird Tales #296 (David J. Schow)
71. Weird Tales #297 (Nancy Springer, John Brunner, Susan Shwartz etc.)
72. Weird Tales #301 (Ramsey Campbell, Stephen King)
73. Weird Tales #302 (William F. Nolan)
74. Weird Tales #303 (Thomas Ligotti)
75. Weird Tales #304 (John Brunner)
76. Weird Tales #313 (Tanith Lee, Darrell Schweitzer, Ian Watson etc.)
77. Weird Tales #314 (S.P. Somtow, Tanith Lee, David J. Schow etc.)
78. Weird Tales #315 (Tanith Lee, Ian MacLeod, Thomas Ligotti etc.)
79. Weird Tales #316 (Tanith Lee, Ian Watson, Thomas Ligotti etc.)
80. Weird Tales #318 (Ramsey Campbell, Tanith Lee, Keith Taylor etc.)
81. Weird Tales #325 (Tanith Lee, Thomas Ligotti, Darrell Schweitzer etc.)
82. Weird Tales #327 (Tanith Lee, Darrell Schweitzer)
83. Weird Tales #328 (Darrell Schweitzer & Keith Taylor)
84. Weird Tales #335 (Michael Bishop, Ian Watson, Tanith Lee etc.)
85. Weird Tales #341 (Robert Weinberg, Natalia Lincoln, Richard Parks etc.)
86. Weird Tales #342 (John Shirley & William F. Nolan)
87. Weird Tales #357 (Ann VanderMeer, Matthew Kressel, Caitlin R. Kiernan etc.)
88. Weird Tales #361 (Marvin Kaye)
89. Weird Tales (1988) Anthology (Marvin Kaye)
90. Weird Tales (Allison V. Harding)
91. Weird Tales (UK) – February 1942 (Gordon Keyne, Edmond Hamilton, Robert H. Leitfred etc.)
92. Weird Tales 350 (Stephen Segal)
93. Weird Tales 353 (Paul Tremplay & Thomas Ligotti)
94. Weird Tales 360 (Marvin Kaye)
95. Weird Tales About the End (E W Farnsworth)
96. Weird Tales Best of the Early Years 1923–1925 (Jonathan Maberry and Justin Criado)
97. Weird Tales from Northern Seas (Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie)
98. Weird Tales from Shakespeare (Bill Daniel, Barbara Denz, Dennis McKiernan etc.)
99. Weird Tales July 1934 (Arlton Eadie, Harold Ward, Paul Ernst etc.)
100. Weird Tales Magazine No. 368 Occult Detective Issue (Jonathan Maberry)
101. Weird Tales– November 1941 (Henry Kuttner, August W. Derleth, Robert H. Leitfred etc.)
102. Weird Tales of Horror (David J. West)
103. Weird Tales of Modernity: The Ephemerality of the Ordinary in the Stories of Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith and H.P. Lovecraft (Jason Ray Carney)
104. Weird Tales Selected and Introduced by Peter Haining (Peter Haining)
105. Weird Tales September 1935 (John Scott Douglas, Frank Owen, Arlton Eadie etc.)
106. Weird Tales– September 1945 (Ray Bradbury, Edmond Hamilton etc.)
107. Weird Tales Volume 36 Number 02 (Dorothy McIlwraith)
108. Weird Tales Volume 42 Number 04 (Dorothy McIlwraith)
109. Weird Tales, Volume 325 (Darrell Schweitzer, Thomas Ligotti etc.)
110. Weird Tales, Volume 352 (Ann VanderMeer)
111. Weird Tales, Volume 359 (Ann VanderMeer & VanderMeer)
112. Weird Tales, Volume 5 Issue 4 — Invaders from the Dark, First Installment (Greye La Spina)
113. Weird Tales. Vol. I (E. T. A. Hoffmann)
114. Weird Tales. Vol. II (E. T. A. Hoffmann)
115. Weird Tales: Seven Decades of Terror (John Gregory Betancourt etc.)
116. Weird Tales: The Magazine That Never Dies (Marvin Kaye)
117. Weird Tales-April 1934 (E. Hoffmann Price,Catherine L. Moore, Edmond Hamilton etc.)
118. Weird Tales-August-September, 1936 (C. Edgar Bolen, C.A. Butz, Paul Compton etc.)
119. Weird Tales-December 1937 (Nictzin Dyalhis, Seabury Quinn, Robert Bloch etc.)
120. Weird Tales-February 1928 (Elliot O’Donnell, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Stuart Strauss etc.)
121. Weird Tales-February 1934 (Nictzin Dyalhis, William Pope, Howard H. etc.)
122. Weird Tales-January 1934 (David H. Keller, Seabury Quinn, Katherine van der Veer etc.)
123. Weird Tales-January 1938 (Samuel Coleridge, Dorothy Taylor, Howard Phillips Lovecraft etc.)
124. Weird Tales-July 1933 (Jack Williamson, Seabury Quinn, Edmond Hamilton etc.)
125. Weird Tales-July 1936 (Clark Ashton Smith, Edgar Daniel Kramer, Robert E. Howard etc.)
126. Weird Tales-June 1933 (Robert E. Howard, Jack Williamson, Paul Ernst etc.)
127. Weird Tales-Magazine No. 367 (Jonathan Maberry)
128. Weird Tales-March 1938 (Seabury Quinn, Thorp McClusky, Jack Williamson etc.)
129. Weird Tales-May 1932 (Hugh B. Cave, Clark Ashton Smith, Edward C. Jenkins etc.)
130. Weird Tales-May 1950 (Seabury Quinn, W.F. Temple, Robert Bloch etc.)
131. Weird Tales-November 1937 (Seabury Quinn, B. Wallis, Catherine L. Moore etc.)
132. Weird Tales-October 1933 (Hugh Davidson, Seabury Quinn, Robert E. Howard etc.)
133. Weird Tales-October 1934 (Catherine L. Moore, Clark Ashton Smith, Paul Ernst etc.)
134. Weird Tales-October 1936 (R.H. Barlow, Howell Calhoun, Mary Elizabeth Counselman etc.)
135. Weird Tales-October 1937 (David H. Keller, Seabury Quinn, Robert E. Howard etc.)
136. Weird Tales-September 1934 (Arlton Eadie, Julia Boynton Green, Robert E. Howard etc.)
137. Weird Vampire Tales (Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Martin H. Greenberg etc.)
138. Weird Woods: Tales from the Haunted Forests of Britain (E. F. Benson, Algernon Blackwood, Edith Nesbit etc.)