Weird Tales, Vol. 1, No. 4

This June 1923 issue of Weird Tales, edited by Edwin Baird, collects sixteen short stories, two complete novelettes, and two two-part serials. Notable pieces include Paul Ellsworth Triehn's "The Evening Wolves," an apparent gangland narrative featuring the "Kid" and Billy the Strangler engaged in a fatal gunfight while under electronic surveillance by a mysterious Chinese operator named Ah Wing; and a complete novelette, "Desert Madness," in which a desert prospector named Stanley Ross discovers a young woman chained to a rock wall in a remote canyon and must await her explanation upon waking—only to find her vanished the following dawn. Additional stories include Harold Freeman Miners' "Desert Madness," Hamilton Craigte's "The Jailer of Souls," Edwin McLaren's "Osiris," and tales by Henry Leverage, George Warburton Lewis, and others focusing on supernatural and crime themes. The issue also includes brief accounts of odd happenings, such as a woman revived by adrenalin injection after being pronounced dead.