 Weird
Tales began in 1923 and quickly became one of the greatest horror and fantasy publications
of the pulp era.
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 Many
covers were illustrated by Margaret Brundage, who preferred the erotic to the horrific.
She worked mainly in pastels.
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 Other
artists included J. Allen St. John and Virgel Finley, who did mostly interior
illustrations for Weird Tales. Finley later graduated to cover work on science fiction
pulps.
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 Besides
a stable of regular authors, young unpublished writers were often given a chance in Weird
Tales. The August 1928 issue had a story titled "The Vengeance of Nitocris" by a
14-year old Tennessee Williams.
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 Another
writer given a chance was Robert Bloch, who, at 17, had his first story published
(January 1935) and continued to write 66 more stories for Weird Tales.
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 Two
of the more famous of the stable of regulars were H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard.
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