Weird Tales, Vol. I, No. 4

About this issue

This pulp magazine issue contains a mix of short stories, novelettes, and serialized fiction across multiple genres. "The Evening Wolves" by Paul Ellsworth Trieji opens with a gunfight between criminals—the wounded "Kid" and Billy the Strangler—culminating in mutual assassination witnessed through an electronic surveillance system operated by a mysterious Chinaman named Ah Wing, who tracks deaths on a chart. "Desert Madness," attributed to authors including Edwin McLaren, follows Stanley Ross discovering a young woman chained in a desert canyon. After reviving her with water and soup, he falls asleep to find her mysteriously vanished by dawn. The issue features additional tales including "The Phantom Wolfhound," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," and "The Moon Terror" by A. G. Birch, among others. Editorial departments include "The Eyrie" and reader letters. The magazine also includes a non-fiction account of a woman revived from apparent death via adrenalin injection.