Leitfred, Arlton Eadie, Nictzin Dyalhis, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, and the late Robert E. It has also featured the work of writers whose names, though they became familiar enough to its followers, were seldon if ever encountered in other magazines: such as Arthur William Bernal, Greye La Spina, Robert H. Moore, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, and many others. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Edmond Hamilton, C. Much of the material which has been and is still being used in anthologies of modern weird stories originally appeared in Weird Tales, which cradled dozens of fantasy-fiction's most popular writers, including H. During that time it has published thousands of stories, of which a very high percentage remain memorable to its devoted readers and are acceptable to-day to a bigger audience for no other pulp magazine has contrived to maintain such a high literary standard as was imposed by the late Farnsworth Wright, who for sixteen years occupied its editorial chair. With its March issue the American Weird Tales, which pioneered the development of the supernatural story as a specialised form of popular fiction and was one of the first magazines to feature science-fantasy, celebrates a quarter-century of regular publication.
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