January

Weird Tales cover image for January 1942

Volume 36, Issue 3

Cover art by Gretta

• The Shadow Over Innsmouth • H. P. Lovecraft • (?novelette)
• The White Lady • Dorothy Quick • short story
• Death Thumbs a Ride • Robert Arthur • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Robert Arthur (A); 4Nov68; R447563.)
• The Ghost of Lancelot Biggs [*Lancelot Biggs] • Nelson S. Bond • short story
• Parasite Mansion • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • (?novelette)
• The Phantom Slayer • Fritz Leiber, Jr. • short story (© Copyright renewed: Fritz R. Leiber, Jr. (A); 7Apr69; R459414.)
• Who Can Escape... • Seabury Quinn • short story
• Table for Two • Arthur Leo Zagat • vignette
• The Curse • Page Cooper • verse
• Superstitions and Taboos • Irwin J. Weill • article

March

Weird Tales cover image for March 1942

Volume 36, Issue 4

Cover art by Hannes Bok

• Hell on Earth • Robert Bloch • novelette
• The Superfluous Phantom • Malcolm Jameson • (?short story)
• The March of the Trees • Frank Owen • short story
• Child's Play • Alice-Mary Schnirring • short story
• The Rat Master • Greye La Spina • short story
• The Treasure of Red-Ash Desert • Stanton A. Coblentz • short story
• Herbert West: Reanimator: I. From the Dark • H. P. Lovecraft • short story
• Death of the Kraken • David H. Keller • short story
• Tibetan Vengeance • Stafford Aylmer • novelette
• Here, Daemos! • August W. Derleth • short story (© Copyright renewed: August Derleth (A); 16Apr69; R459660.)
• Garden at Lu • Gerald Chan Sieg • verse
• Hunger • Page Cooper • verse
• The Wood-Wife • Leah Bodine Drake • verse

May

Weird Tales cover image for May 1942

Volume 36, Issue 5

Cover art by Ray Quigley

• Stoneman's Memorial [*Jules de Grandin] • Seabury Quinn • novelette
• The Enchanted River • Dorothy Quick • short story
• Ghost for a Night • Robert Arthur • short story (© Copyright renewed: Robert Arthur (A); 22Jul69; R465631 AND © Copyright renewed: Robert Andrew Arthur & Elizabeth Ann Arthur (C); 5Jan70; R475446)
• Masquerade • Henry Kuttner • short story (© Copyright renewed: Mrs. Thomas Reggie (E); 19May69; R461872.)
• The Deadly Theory • Greye La Spina • short story
• Black Bargain • Robert Bloch • short story
• The Giant in a Test Tube • George Armin Shaftel • (?short story)
• The Concrete Phantom • Weston Parry • short story
• Crystal Vision • Alice-Mary Schnirring • short story
• The Gipsy's Hand • Alonzo Deen Cole • short story
• Vengeance in Her Bones • Malcolm Jameson • short story
• The Dreamer in the Desert • Francis Flagg • verse

July

Weird Tales cover image for July 1942

Volume 36, Issue 6

Cover art by Margaret Brundage

• Coven [*Sgt. Jaeger] • Manly Wade Wellman • (?novelette)
• Lansing's Luxury • August W. Derleth • short story (© Copyright renewed: August Derleth (A); 29Apr70; R483270.)
• The Gun • Frank Gruber • short story (© Copyright renewed: Lois Gruber (W); 13Apr70; R483327.)
• For Tomorrow We Die [*Dr. Shen Fu] • Frank Owen • short story
• Dead Silence • Leonard Lee Charlot • short story
• The High Tower • Everil Worrell • short story
• Poor Little Tampico • Hannes Bok • short story
• Herbert West: Reanimator: II. The Plague-Demon • H. P. Lovecraft • short story
• The Redoubtable Horace Goppendyke • John Broome • short story
• Is the Devil a Gentleman? • Seabury Quinn • novelette
• A Mangrove Swamp • William de Lisle • verse
• Moonlight • Paul Verlaine • verse

September

Weird Tales cover image for September 1942

Volume 36, Issue 7

Cover art by A.R. Tilburn

• Satan's Bondage • Manly Banister • novelette
• Death Has Red Hair • Greye La Spina • short story
• A Question of Etiquette • Robert Bloch • short story (© Copyright renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 9Mar70; R480318.)
• Spider Mansion • Fritz Leiber • short story
• The Bridle • David H. Keller • short story
• Who Are the Living? ["The Epiphany of Death"] • Clark Ashton Smith • short story
• Herbert West: Reanimator: III. Six Shots by Moonlight ["Grewsome Tales"] • H. P. Lovecraft • (?short story)
• Visibility: Zero • Nelson S. Bond • short story
• Eyes of the Panther • Kuke Nichols • short story
• Never the Twain... • Seabury Quinn • novelette
• Changeling • Leah Bodine Drake • verse

November

Weird Tales cover image for November 1942

Volume 36, Issue 8

Cover art by Richard Bennett

• Nursemaid to Nightmares • Robert Bloch • novelette (© Copyright renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 9Mar70; R480319.)
• The Hound • Fritz Leiber • short story
• The Crooked House • Thorne Lee • short story
• The Victory of the Vita-Ray • Stanton A. Coblentz • (?short story)
• The Golden Bough • David H. Keller • short story
• The Ghost of the Model T • Betsy Emmons • short story
• The Candle • Ray Bradbury • short story (© Copyright renewed: Ray Bradbury (A); 26Sep69; R469153.)
• The Lips of Caya Wu • Frank Owen • short story
• Herbert West: Reanimator: IV. The Scream of the Dead ["Grewsome Tales"] • H. P. Lovecraft • short story
• The Possessed • Alice-Mary Schnirring • short story
• The Evil Doll • Hannes Bok • short story
• The Dead World • Clarence Edwin Flynn • verse
• Into Fantasy • Maria Moravsky • verse
• Superstitions and Taboos • Irwin J. Weill • article

External links

• Collector's Showcase (French) Contents for 1942-43
• Miskatronic University Press Contents for 1942
• Galactic Central Publications Weird Tales Checklist