Cover of Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 1, March 1923: The unique magazine by Various

Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 1, March 1923: The unique magazine by Various

The very first issue of the legendary Weird Tales, 'The Unique Magazine', led by Anthony Rud's slithering horror-novelette 'Ooze,' launching the most famous pulp of the fantastic.

First published 1923 1920s English FantasyHorror

This is the debut issue (March 1923) of Weird Tales, the magazine that defined weird fiction. Historic, lurid, foundational. Read it for the birth of the most influential horror-and-fantasy pulp ever published, the magazine that would give the world Lovecraft, Howard, and Smith, in its very first number, a landmark artifact of the genre's history.

In its time
Published in 1923, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.
Reading it
~8 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).

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