Status Updates From 100 Wild Little Weird Tales

My criteria for evaluating individual entries in an anthology is asking myself, “how likely would I be to read this author’s other writing off the strength of this piece”. It’s a fun (albeit frustrating) twist that some of the writers here are more or less lost to history aside from their story in this collection

Lester Del Rey’s story about vampirism could have been a bit ho-hum, but he kept it interesting via its approach. Kind of want to see what else he wrote.

This story about Pan embodied in a floor tile, of all things, got pretty engrossing. But I’m starting to wonder if there was some kind of editorial mandate to these contributors to the magazine to always bring things back around to a theoretical mundane explanation for the scenario.

Manly Wade Wellman lives up to his reputation with that story. Very compelling adventure yarn with spooky undertones. Classic pulp premise.

You can keep the hat, Buddy.

To and fro about the floor.

House detective will be confused.

Where did the sample come from?