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A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER

Weird fiction (a term coined by no less an expert than H.P. Lovecraft) has been around for hundreds of years…and it has expanded to include not just the ghost story, but all manner of horror stories, fantasy stories, and the just plain uncanny. Before the term came to be, pulp magazines billed tales of the supernatural as “different” stories (using the quotation marks) as a sort of code so readers would know ahead of time what they were going into.

Weird Tales magazine—founded in 1923—became a centerpoint for weird fiction throughout its original run (ending in 1954), then to varying degrees throughout its revivals. Clark Ashton Smith was one of the major contributors to WT, and I urge you to seek out more of his work if you enjoyed this voyage into the weird.

—John Betancourt, Publisher

Wildside Press