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Weird Tales v39n07 September 1946
An archive of the magazine from 1946 with all the artwork, advertisements, and stories included cover to cover. This is a graphic port of the magazine suited best for Kindle Fire tablets pinch and zoom feature.
103 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 19, 2016
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May 20, 2026
No masterpieces in this issue but most of the stories are better than the cover by Pete Kuhloff. I think it illustrates Edmond Hamilton’s “Day of Judgment” – about two humans returning to an Earth inhabited by dog people, cat people, etc. which is exactly as good as the cover.
Seabury Quinn’s DeGrandin fable of the month is “Lotte,” about an undead Nazi succubus, average work for the author. I was deeply amused though by one detail. I’m a fan of the work of German writer Hanns Heinz Ewers. His novel Vampire features a symbiotic creature of darkness named Lotte. In Quinn’s story, the protagonist is introduced to his problem relationship by a theatrical agent named Hans Ewers. Ewers alas had been dead for a few years by 1946, so he probably didn’t appreciate the tribute.
I first read Bloch’s “Enoch” around age 11 in the Horror 7 paperback collection. It left a big impression on me, being told from the maniac’s point of view and more “adult” than any other Bloch I’d read. It holds up well. Right behind it is Leiber’s “Alice and the Allergy,” which probably needed another draft because it doesn’t quite come together. It does have the doubtful distinction of being the first story I can recall in WT that uses sexual assault to compound the horror.
Allison V. Harding’s “The Machine” isn’t great but it can be read as an unlikely warning about the horrors of AI. “Threshold of Endurance,” by Betsy Emmons, has its fans. It’s well written but by now I’ve read so many stories with a dead protagonist that I’m not the most accepting audience. Harold Lawlor’s “Xerxes’ Hut” catches the small-town horror vibe effectively.
Declining returns from “Not Human,” by Bert David Ross about a Tibetan “tulka.” I’ve never seen that spelling of “tulpa” before. “The Horn,” by Charles King is an unlikely farce about a cornucopia. “Six Flights to Terror” is about a building that falls in love with a beautiful woman. The author is Manly Bannister, perhaps an architectural statement.
Seabury Quinn’s DeGrandin fable of the month is “Lotte,” about an undead Nazi succubus, average work for the author. I was deeply amused though by one detail. I’m a fan of the work of German writer Hanns Heinz Ewers. His novel Vampire features a symbiotic creature of darkness named Lotte. In Quinn’s story, the protagonist is introduced to his problem relationship by a theatrical agent named Hans Ewers. Ewers alas had been dead for a few years by 1946, so he probably didn’t appreciate the tribute.
I first read Bloch’s “Enoch” around age 11 in the Horror 7 paperback collection. It left a big impression on me, being told from the maniac’s point of view and more “adult” than any other Bloch I’d read. It holds up well. Right behind it is Leiber’s “Alice and the Allergy,” which probably needed another draft because it doesn’t quite come together. It does have the doubtful distinction of being the first story I can recall in WT that uses sexual assault to compound the horror.
Allison V. Harding’s “The Machine” isn’t great but it can be read as an unlikely warning about the horrors of AI. “Threshold of Endurance,” by Betsy Emmons, has its fans. It’s well written but by now I’ve read so many stories with a dead protagonist that I’m not the most accepting audience. Harold Lawlor’s “Xerxes’ Hut” catches the small-town horror vibe effectively.
Declining returns from “Not Human,” by Bert David Ross about a Tibetan “tulka.” I’ve never seen that spelling of “tulpa” before. “The Horn,” by Charles King is an unlikely farce about a cornucopia. “Six Flights to Terror” is about a building that falls in love with a beautiful woman. The author is Manly Bannister, perhaps an architectural statement.
December 4, 2024
'Threshold of endruance'. I was impressed by how much was conveyed by so few words.
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