January

Weird Tales cover image for January 1948

Volume 40, Issue 2

Cover art by Boris Dolgov

• Serpent Princess • Edmond Hamilton • novelette
• The Deadly Ratio • Theodore Sturgeon • novelette
• And Give Us Yesterday • Seabury Quinn • short story (© Copyright renewed: Margaret C. Quinn (W); 21Aug75; R611976.)
• The Green Brothers Take Over • Maria Moravsky • short story
• The Night Train to Lost Valley • August Derleth [as Stephen Grendon] • short story (© Copyright renewed: April Derleth & Walden Derleth (C); 16Apr75; R603046.)
• The Frightened Engineer • Allison V. Harding • short story
• Grandfather McGraw • Roger S. Vreeland • short story
• The Lorenzo Watch • Carl Jacobi • short story
• Moon-Marked • S. Omar Barker • verse
• Weirdisms • Lee Brown Coye • article

March

Weird Tales cover image for March 1948

Volume 40, Issue 3

Cover art by Lee Brown Coye

25th Anniversary, Issue

• The Might-Have-Been • Edmond Hamilton • short story
• Ghost Hunt • H. Russell Wakefield • short story
• The Leonardo Rondache [*John Thunstone] • Manly Wade Wellman • short story
• The Coming of M. Alkerhaus • Allison V. Harding • novelette
• The La Prello Paper • Carl Jacobi • short story
• Something in Wood • August Derleth • short story (© Copyright renewed: April Derleth & Walden Derleth (C); 16Apr75; R603047.)
• The October Game • Ray Bradbury • short story (© Copyright renewed: Ray Bradbury (A); 3Mar75; R600051.)
• Catnip • Robert Bloch • short story
• The Master of the Crabs [*Zothique] • Clark Ashton Smith • short story
• The Professor's Teddy Bear • Theodore Sturgeon • short story
• The Merrow • Seabury Quinn • short story
• Roman Remains • Algernon Blackwood • short story
• The House • H. P. Lovecraft [as Ward Phillips] • verse

May

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Volume 40, Issue 4

Cover art by Matt Fox

• City of Lost People • Allison V. Harding • novelette
• Nemesis • Harold Lawlor • short story
• Clay • C. Hall Thompson • novelette
• Saunder's Little Friend • August Derleth • short story (© Copyright renewed: April Derleth & Walden Derleth (C); 16Apr75; R603048.)
• The Black Ferris • Ray Bradbury • short story (© Copyright renewed: Ray Bradbury (A); 16May75; R605484.)
• Pamola's Caribou • Roger S. Vreeland • short story
• The Grotto of Cheer • Stanton A. Coblentz • short story
• A Death Crown for Mr. Hapworthy • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • short story
• No Silence for Maloeween • Peter Phillips • short story
• One Foot in the Grave • Dave Grubb • short story
• Demon Lover • Harriet A. Bradfield • verse
• The Eldritch One • Pauline Booker • verse

July

Weird Tales cover image for July 1948

Volume 40, Issue 5

Cover art by Matt Fox

• Twilight of the Gods • Edmond Hamilton • novelette
• What Beckoning Ghost? • Harold Lawlor • short story (© Copyright renewed: Harold Lawlor (A); 18Sep75; R614191.)
• Isle of Women • Allison V. Harding • novelette
• The Tsanta in the Parlor • August Derleth [as Stephen Grendon] • short story (© Copyright renewed: April Derleth & Walden Derleth (C); 24Jun75; R607596.)
• Abreaction • Theodore Sturgeon • short story
• Croatan • Malcolm M. Ferguson • short story
• Dhoh • Manly Wade Wellman • short story
• The Undead Die • E. Everett Evans & Ray Bradbury • short story

September

Weird Tales cover image for September 1948

Volume 40, Issue 6

Cover art by Lee Brown Coye

• The Whippoorwills in the Hills • August Derleth • novelette (© Copyright renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden Derleth (C); 9Apr76; R630827.)
• Fever Dream • Ray Bradbury • short story (© Copyright renewed: Ray Bradbury (A); 10Dec75; R620400.)
• The Cracks of Time • Dorothy Quick • short story
• The Follower • Allison V. Harding • short story
• The Beasts that Tread the World • Harold Lawlor • short story
• The Daughter of Urzun • Stanton A. Coblentz • short story
• The Hidden Talent of Artist Bates • Snowden T. Herrick • short story
• The Watcher of the Ages • Edmond Hamilton • short story
• Displaced Person • Eric Frank Russell • vignette
• Death's Bouquet • Peter Phillips • short story
• The Devil's Lottery • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • short story
• The River • Dorothy Quick • verse
• To the Chimera • Clark Ashton Smith • verse
• Weirdisms • Lee Brown Coye • article

November

Weird Tales cover image for November 1948

Volume 41, Issue 1

Cover art by John Giunta

• The Perfect Host • Theodore Sturgeon • novelette
• The Indian Spirit Guide • Robert Bloch • short story (© Copyright renewed: Robert Bloch (A); 16Apr76; R630955.)
• Blessed Are the Meek • August Derleth [as Stephen Grendon] • short story (© Copyright renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden Derleth (C); 9Apr76; R630828.)
• Incident at the Galloping Horse • Carl Jacobi • short story
• Tryst Beyond the Years • Malcolm Kenneth Murchie • short story
• Such Stuff as Dreams • Seabury Quinn • short story
• The House on Forest Street • Allison V. Harding • novelette
• The Ponderer • Eric Frank Russell • short story
• Ghostlings • Dorothy Quick • verse

External links

• Collector's Showcase (French) Contents for 1947-48
• Miskatronic University Press Contents for 1948
• Galactic Central Publications Weird Tales Checklist