Century Read: Weird Tales Magazine exactly 100 years ago!

April 1926 Part 4 of 4: Tier-list ranking all the stories in Weird Tales this month a century ago!

EPISODE THREE OF FOUR! Century Read Weird Tales is the podcast in which we hop in the corporate DMC-12 and zoom 100 years back in time and then buy a copy of Weird Tales Magazine, fresh off the press, and, after reading it, do a tier-list ranking of all the stories inside. How well crafted were they? How well do they hold up, 100 years later? We're four pre-war pulp fans on a journey through one of the pulps that made the twenties roar, reading all the stories so you don't have to, along with some fantastic ads for stuff like "books for men," telekinesis lessons, and .32 automatics sold by mail on a "COD — send no money now" basis. Join us! IN THIS EPISODE: * THE MUMMY'S FOOT, by Theophile Gautier: "Hermonthis, Princess of Egypt, Returns for Her Lost Foot." * THINGS THAT ARE GOD'S, by C. Franklin Miller: "The Wolf-man Comes to his Senses Through a Terrible Crime." * THE YELLOW SPECTRE, by Stewart Van der Veer: "Old Spanish Prison — a Terrified Bride — the Ghost of a Chinaman (sic)." * THE GLACIER LODE, by Strickland Gillilan: "Soapy Sam was Balmy, so His Friends Thought."

April 1926 Part 3 of 4: Tier-list ranking all the stories in Weird Tales this month a century ago!

EPISODE THREE OF FOUR! Century Read Weird Tales is the podcast in which we hop in the corporate DMC-12 and zoom 100 years back in time and then buy a copy of Weird Tales Magazine, fresh off the press, and, after reading it, do a tier-list ranking of all the stories inside. How well crafted were they? How well do they hold up, 100 years later? We're four pre-war pulp fans on a journey through one of the pulps that made the twenties roar, reading all the stories so you don't have to, along with some fantastic ads for stuff like "books for men," telekinesis lessons, and .32 automatics sold by mail on a "COD — send no money now" basis. Join us! IN THIS EPISODE: * THE VENGEANCE OF INDIA, by Seabury Quinn: "Graveyard Tale of Hypnotism, and Corpses that Rise in the Night." * THE PHANTOM DRUG, by A.W. Kapfer: "Document Found in the Burned Ruins of an Insane Asylum." * THE HOUSE IN THE WILLOWS, by Sewell Peaslee Wright: "A Rational Ghost-story." * DUVAL'S WEIRD EXPERIMENT, by F. Williams Sarles: "Eery Tale of a Scientist's Attempt to Pierce the Veil." COMING NEXT WEEK IN EPISODE 4: * THE MUMMY'S FOOT, by Theophile Gautier: "Hermonthis, Princess of Egypt, Returns for Her Lost Foot." * THINGS THAT ARE GOD'S, by C. Franklin Miller: "The Wolf-man Comes to his Senses Through a Terrible Crime." * THE YELLOW SPECTRE, by Stewart Van der Veer: "Old Spanish Prison — a Terrified Bride — the Ghost of a Chinaman (sic)." * THE GLACIER LODE, by Strickland Gillilan: "Soapy Sam was Balmy, so His Friends Thought."

April 1926 Part 2 of 4: Tier-list ranking all the stories in Weird Tales this month a century ago!

EPISODE TWO OF FOUR! Century Read Weird Tales is the podcast in which we hop in the corporate DMC-12 and zoom 100 years back in time and then buy a copy of Weird Tales Magazine, fresh off the press, and, after reading it, do a tier-list ranking of all the stories inside. How well crafted were they? How well do they hold up, 100 years later? We're four pre-war pulp fans on a journey through one of the pulps that made the twenties roar, reading all the stories so you don't have to, along with some fantastic ads for stuff like "books for men," telekinesis lessons, and .32 automatics sold by mail on a "COD — send no money now" basis. Join us! IN THIS EPISODE: * OUT OF THE MISTS OF TIME, by William Benton Frazier: "A Terrible Doom Rolled out from the Fogs of Antiquity." * KNIGHTS OF THE RED OWL, by Elwin J. Owens: "A Portly Businessman Undergoes a Wild Night of Terror." * THE DERELICT MINE, PART 1, by Frank A. Mochnant: "Three-part Mystery Serial, Which Rises to a Ghastly Climax." * TEETH, by Galen C. Colin: "Old Ling Foo Plans a Terrible Revenge on his Daughter's Lover." COMING NEXT WEEK IN EPISODE 3: * THE VENGEANCE OF INDIA, by Seabury Quinn: "Graveyard Tale of Hypnotism, and Corpses that Rise in the Night." * THE PHANTOM DRUG, by A.W. Kapfer: "Document Found in the Burned Ruins of an Insane Asylum." * THE HOUSE IN THE WILLOWS, by Sewell Peaslee Wright: "A Rational Ghost-story." * DUVAL'S WEIRD EXPERIMENT, by F. Williams Sarles: "Eery Tale of a Scientist's Attempt to Pierce the Veil."

April 1926 Part 1 of 4: Tier-list ranking all the stories in Weird Tales this month a century ago!

EPISODE ONE: THE INCEPTION! Century Read Weird Tales is the podcast in which we hop in the corporate DMC-12 and zoom 100 years back in time and then buy a copy of Weird Tales Magazine, fresh off the press, and, after reading it, do a tier-list ranking of all the stories inside. How well crafted were they? How well do they hold up, 100 years later? We're four pre-war pulp fans on a journey through one of the pulps that made the twenties roar, reading all the stories so you don't have to, along with some fantastic ads for stuff like "books for men," telekinesis lessons, and .32 automatics sold by mail on a "COD — send no money now" basis. Join us! IN THIS EPISODE: * WOLFSHEAD, by Robert E. Howard: "An Evil Something Wrought Frightful Death." * THE OUTSIDER, by H.P. Lovecraft: "An Outre Masterpiece — One of the Strangest Stories Ever Written." * THE CONTRA-TALISMAN, by George Ballard Bowers: "A Tale of Filipino Superstition — and an Anting-Anting." * THE HOODED DEATH, by Joel Martin Nichols Jr.: "Two Milk-White Cobras Guard the Jewels of the Temple." COMING NEXT WEEK IN EPISODE 2: * OUT OF THE MISTS OF TIME, by William Benton Frazier: "A Terrible Doom Rolled out from the Fogs of Antiquity." * KNIGHTS OF THE RED OWL, by Elwin J. Owens: "A Portly Businessman Undergoes a Wild Night of Terror." * THE DERELICT MINE, PART 1, by Frank A. Mochnant: "Three-part Mystery Serial, Which Rises to a Ghastly Climax." * TEETH, by Galen C. Colin: "Old Ling Foo Plans a Terrible Revenge on his Daughter's Lover."

Prequel iv: March 1926 Part 4 — Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe!

Welcome to our FOURTH prequel episode! On this fourth episode of Century Read, Non-Euclidian Kris Jerome, Cyclopean Kris Puterbagh, Cthonian Finn J.D. John and Darksome Marcus Axford continue their exploration of the MARCH 1926 issue of WEIRD TALES Magazine! It's DARKSOME MARCUS's turn to start us off with his favourite story from this month's issue of the magazine: MASK OF THE RED DEATH by EDGAR ALLAN POE (published on Page 360 of this issue; reading by Darksome Marcus) ——— After that comes the episode's featured poem: THE RUTTED ROAD by H.P. LOVECRAFT (Reading by Cthonian Finn) ——— Finally, we cap off the show with letters to the editor, including a fake one we have snuck in. Can you guess which one? Let us know, and we'll give you a shoutout on a future show! Along the way, we'll do some fake "sponsorship ad reads" for our favourites among the hucksters, swindlers, and morally-questionable entrepreneurs whose hilarious and sometimes inappropriate advertisements appeared in the back pages of this issue, hawking everything from telekinesis lessons to .32 automatics (and, in this episode, a "lucky ring" that seems obviously intended to be worn on ... er ... a gentleman's nether appendage) all available through the mail (in plain brown wrappers, no doubt). Join us! (This episode is the FOURTH of FOUR episodes working from the March 1929 issue.)