Since its first issue in March 1923, Weird Tales—"The Unique Magazine"—has provided countless readers with the most innovative and offbeat fantasy, suspense and horror stories. Almost every important writer of fantastic fiction in the first half of this century—including H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Fritz Lieber—and countless other notables have had their works showcased in its pages. Now, in this special volume compiled by popular anthologist Marvin Kaye, some of the most memorable horrific, bizarre tales ever published are assembled, all of which have appeared in various incarnations of Weird Tales over the years. Interim by Ray Bradbury The House of Ecstasy by Ralph Milne Farley The Stolen Body by H.G. Wells The Scrawny One by Anthony Boucher The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Lucian of Samosata translated by Sir Thomas More Skulls in the Stars by Robert E. Howard Eena by Manly Banister The Look by Maurice Level Methought I Heard A Voice by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt Off the Map by Rex Dolphin The Last Train by Fredric Brown Ti Michel by W.J. Stamper In the X-Ray by Fritz Leiber Speak by Henry Slesar The Pale Criminal by C. Hall Thompson The Sombrus Tower by Tanith Lee Mr. George by August Derleth The Terror of the Water Tank by William Hope Hodgson The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller by Gustave Flaubert The Hoax of the Spirit Lover by Harry Houdini Seed by Jack Snow Masked Ball by Seabury Quinn The Woman with the Velvet Collar by Gaston Leroux Mistress Sary by William Tenn The Judge's House by Bram Stoker The Bagheeta by Val Lewton Ghost Hunt by H.R. Wakefield Funeral in the Fog by Edward D. Hoch The Damp Man by Allison V. Harding The Lost Club by Arthur Machen Wet Straw by Richard Matheson Mysteries of the Faceless King by Darrell Schweitzer More Than Shadow by Dorothy Quick The Dead Smile by F. Marion Crawford The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Robert Bloch Chicken Soup by Katherine MacLean and Mary Kornbluth The Haunted Burglar by W.C. Morrow Never Bet the Devil Your Head by Edgar Allan Poe He by H.P. Lovecraft The Brotherhood of Blood by Hugh B. Cave The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan by Clark Ashton Smith Men Who walk Upon the Air by Frank Belknap Long A Child's Dream of a Star by Charles Dickens The Perfect Host by Theodore Sturgeon Why Weird Tales attributed to Otis Adelbert Kline Dust jacket illustration by Richard Kriegler, based on Howard's "Skulls in the Stars." Interior drawings by Richard Kriegler. Weird Tales has always been the most popular and sought-after of all pulp magazines. A mix of exotic fantasy, horror, science fiction, suspense, and the just plain indescribable.