January

Weird Tales cover image for January 1953

Volume 44, Issue 8

Cover art by Frank Kelly Freas

• Once There Was a Little Girl • Everil Worrell • novelette
• I Can't Wear White • Suzanne Pickett • short story
• The Gloves • Garnett Radcliffe • short story
• The Werewolf of Ponkert [*Master] • H. Warner Munn • novelette
• Wet Straw • Richard Matheson • short story (© Copyright Renewed: Richard Matheson (A); 29Dec80; RE0000084683.)
• Sexton, Sexton, in the Wall • August Derleth • short story (© Copyright Renewed: April Derleth Smith & Walden W. Derleth (C); 8Jul80; RE0000062844.)
• Six Feet of Willow—Green • Carroll K. Michener • short story
• Hand of Death • Marjorie Murch Stanley • short story
• The Phantom Soldier at Ticonderoga • Dr. Cyrus Macmillan • article
• Red Ghosts in Kentucky • Leah Bodine Drake • verse

March

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Volume 45, Issue 1

Cover art by Virgil Finlay

• Slime • Joseph Payne Brennan • novelette
• The Talkie Dolls • Donald F. Vieweg • short story
• Caveat Emptor [*Gavagan's Bar] • L.Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt • short story
• Night Court • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • novelette
• In Camera • John Ward • short story
• The Raft • Kirk Shaw • short story
• Mrs. Penleath's Stratagem • T. W. Speight • short story
• The Dream Merchant • Harold Lawlor • short story
• The Supreme Witch • Appleby Terrill • short story [Reprint from October 1926]
• Don Quixote on Market Street • Clark Ashton Smith • verse
• Who Are We? • Frances Rogers Lovell • verse

May

Weird Tales cover image for May 1953

Volume 45, Issue 2

Cover art by Joseph Eberle

• Whisper Water • Leah Bodine Drake • short story
• The Living Eyes • Justin Dowling • short story
• I'll Be Back • David Eynon • short story
• Strange Harvest • Donald Wandrei • novelette
• Morthylla [*Zothique] • Clark Ashton Smith • short story
• A Corner for Lucia [*Tex Harrigan] • August Derleth • short story
• Between Two Dreams • Felix Marti Ibanez • novelette
• The Vengeance of Kali Mai • Garnett Radcliffe • short story
• Mandrake • Adam Hull Shirk • short story
• Wife of the Dragon-Fly • Paul Ernst • short story
• A Fog Was Blowing • Stanton A. Coblentz • verse
• Requiem for a Sinner • Pauline Booker • verse

July

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Volume 45, Issue 3

Cover art by H. Silvey

• L'Affaire Verenekin • David Lewis Eynon • short story
• The House in the Valley • August Derleth • novelette
• Slaughter House • Richard Matheson • novelette
• The Source of It • Glen Malin • short story
• The Missing Room • Lyn Venable • short story
• On the Elevator • Joseph Payne Brennan • short story
• Dread Summons • Paul Ernst • short story
• The Sea-Witch • Nictzin Dyalhis • novelette
• House of Life • Dorothy Quick • verse

September

Weird Tales cover image for September 1953

Volume 45, Issue 4

Cover art by Jon Arfstrom

• I Loved Her With My Soul • Everil Worrell • novelette
• The Watcher Awakes • Kirk Shaw • short story
• Parthenope • Manly Wade Wellman • short story
• An Offering to the Moon • Clark Ashton Smith • short story
• The Ebony Stick • August Derleth • short story
• The Devil's Cabin • Vance Hoyt • short story
• The Beetle • Garnett Radcliffe • short story
• The Man Who Walked on Air • Michael Avallone • short story
• The Tree-Man [*Gerald Canevin] • Henry S. Whitehead • short story
• The Dark Things • Dorothy Quick • verse
• Six Merry Farmers • Leah Bodine Drake • verse

November

Weird Tales cover image for November 1953

Volume 45, Issue 5

Cover art by ?

• Way Station • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • short story
• The Legs that Walked • Justin Dowling • short story
• The Red Balloon • Q. Patrick • short story
• The Man Upstairs • Harry W. Currier • short story
• The Black Stone • Robert E. Howard • short story [Reprint from November 1931]
• The Crying Child • Dorothea Gibbons • short story
• Thing of Darkness • G. G. Pendarves • novelette
• The Disc Recorder • August Derleth • short story
• Demon Lover • Dorothy Quick • verse
• Suspicion • Harriet A. Bradfield • verse

External links

• Collector's Showcase (French) Contents for 1953-54
• Miskatronic University Press Contents for 1953
• Galactic Central Publications Weird Tales Checklist