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A WEALTH OF WEIRDNESS AND WONDER!More Weird Tales - The second chilling collection of stories from the world's most famous fantasy magazine.This book is the second volume of Peter Haining's spine-chilling collection of supernatural stories from that most famous of all fantasy magazines, Weird Tales. For thirty years Weird Tales consistently produced the very best in horror and fantasy fiction, and was the launching-point for numerous great storytellers of the genre. Now, Weird Tales rises from the crypt to live again in this anthology from the dark pathways of the imagination.This Volume contains such gruesome gems as a deformed man whose body hides a hideous and deadly secret, a terrible curse from the black mists of the past, a scientist who plans to create the ultimate abomination, and a soldier who cannot die. If your nerves are ready, read on...Contents9 • Introduction (Weird Tales Vol. 2) • essay by Peter Haining27 • The Valley Was Still • (1939) • short story by Manly Wade Wellman43 • A Weird Prophecy • [It Happened to Me] • (1940) • essay by Ken Gary45 • Winter Night • [It Happened to Me] • (1940) • essay by Alice Olsen51 • San Francisco • [It Happened to Me] • (1940) • essay by Caroline Evans55 • Heart of Atlantan • (1940) • novelette by Nictzin Dyalhis83 • The Phantom Slayer • (1942) • short story by Fritz Leiber [as by Fritz Leiber, Jr.]101 • The Eyrie (Weird Tales, July 1942) • [The Eyrie] • (1942) • essay by The Readers105 • The Beasts of Barsac • (1944) • novelette by Robert Bloch129 • Bang! You're Dead! • [Johnny Choir] • (1944) • short story by Ray Bradbury143 • Letter (Weird Tales, July 1945) • [Letters: Robert Bloch] • (1945) • essay by Robert Bloch147 • Cellmate • (1947) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon161 • The Familiars • [Fungi from Yuggoth • 26] • (1930) • poem by H. P. Lovecraft163 • The Pigeon-Flyers • [Fungi from Yuggoth • 10] • (1943) • poem by H. P. Lovecraft165 • Roman Remains • (1948) • short story by Algernon Blackwood175 • Displaced Person • (1948) • short story by Eric Frank Russell179 • To the Chimera • (1924) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith181 • From the Vasty Deep • (1949) • short story by H. Russell Wakefield193 • The Shot-Tower Ghost • (1949) • short story by Mary Elizabeth Counselman209 • Take the Z-Train • (1950) • short story by Allison V. Harding219 • The Little Red Owl • (1951) • short story by Margaret St. Clair231 • Ooze • (1923) • novelette by Anthony M. Rud

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100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories

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50 Short Science Fiction Tales

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9th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F

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