Weird Tales, Vol. 1, No. 2

About this issue

This issue of Weird Tales presents the second volume under editor Edwin Baird. The contents comprise sixteen short stories and novelettes across sixteen bylined pieces. Featured works include Carl Bissig's novelette "The Scar," which opens with dialogue between two physicians, Dr. Herbert Carlson and Dr. Clark Edwards, beginning in Carlson's office during Prohibition; the story appears interrupted by newsboys hawking an extra edition. Roy Isleton Markham contributes "The Tortoise Shell Comb," described as "a fantasy of a mad brain," while Paul Crowpler's "A Photographic Phantasm" and Anton M. Oliver's "The Living Nightmare" represent the macabre and psychological horror modes. Hamilton Craige's "The Incubus" concerns "a frightful adventure in an ancient tomb." Other selections include Artemus Calloway's "Jungle Death" featuring crocodiles and voodooism, Farnsworth Wright's "The Snake Fiend," and contributions addressing mummies, yellow men with reptiles, and spirit communication. "The Whispering Thing," attributed to Laurence McClintock and Culpeper Chunn, forms a two-part serial.