Ancestors
These tales inspired the early Weird Tales authors, and one novel the magazine serialized.
The magazine that named the genre arrived in 1923; the writers who filled it had already read these tales. Poe first. Then the stories the magazine itself reprinted, Bierce’s Carcosa stories, Machen, and Dunsany.
These are texts from named editions in the United States public domain.
Also in the Reading Room: The King in Yellow (Chambers), The Great God Pan (Machen), The Willows (Blackwood).
The first shelf
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FR ANC P743.L54 1838
Ligeia
First published in The American Museum, September 1838.
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FR ANC P743.F35 1839
The Fall of the House of Usher
First published in Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine, September 1839.
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FR ANC P743.M87 1841
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
First published in Graham’s Magazine, April 1841. Weird Tales reprint.
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FR ANC P743.M37 1842
The Masque of the Red Death
First published in Graham’s Magazine, May 1842, as “The Mask of the Red Death.”
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FR ANC P743.P58 1842
The Pit and the Pendulum
First published in The Gift for 1843 (1842). Weird Tales reprint.
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FR ANC P743.T45 1843
The Tell-Tale Heart
First published in The Pioneer, January 1843.
Reprinted in the magazine
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FR ANC S545.F73 1831
Frankenstein
1831 revised text. Weird Tales serialized it May–December 1932 (Weird Reprints).
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FR ANC B939.H38 1859
The Haunted and the Haunters
First masterpiece reprint, Weird Tales, May 1923. Hosted from the 1859 Blackwood’s text.
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FR ANC B588.D36 1893
The Damned Thing
Weird Tales reprint, September 1923.
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FR ANC W672.Y68 1888
The Young King
Weird Story Reprints No. 5, Weird Tales, November 1925. Hosted in the magazine’s text.
The Carcosa pair
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FR ANC B588.I54 1886
An Inhabitant of Carcosa
Source of Carcosa and Hali for Chambers. First published 25 December 1886; the 1891 date is the collection.
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FR ANC B588.H35 1891
Haïta the Shepherd
Source of Hastur. First published in The Wave, 24 January 1891.
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RR C445.K56 1895
The King in Yellow
Already in the Reading Room. Chambers took Carcosa from Bierce.
Edwardian masters
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FR ANC M149.W45 1904
The White People
Horlick’s Magazine, 1904; The House of Souls, 1906.
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RR M149.G74 1894
The Great God Pan
Already in the Reading Room.
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RR B627.W55 1907
The Willows
Already in the Reading Room.
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FR ANC D925.P44 1905
The Gods of Pegāna
The short theogony complete. Elkin Mathews, 1905.
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FR ANC D925.G63 1914
The Gods of the Mountain
The play, from Five Plays. Lovecraft names it in Supernatural Horror in Literature.
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FR ANC D925.N54 1916
A Night at an Inn
The play, from Plays of Gods and Men.
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FR ANC J28.O35 1904
Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. Named in Lovecraft’s 1927 SHIL.
Verse
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FR ANC B967.H35 1786
Halloween
Written 1785. Ayrshire country folk spend Halloween night on fortune-telling rituals. Kilmarnock text, with Burns’s notes.
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FR ANC B338.S65 1926
Spleen
Smith’s English translation as printed in Weird Tales, February 1926.
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FR ANC S645.H37 1922
The Hashish-Eater
From Ebony and Crystal. A hashish dreamer crowns himself emperor of dreams. Smith’s long poem of cosmic horror.