The rooms

INST 000 Front Hall The institution
RR 000 Reading Room The texts
CC 000 Card Catalog The authors
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FR 000 Founders’ Room The first stories

Myth

These are named public-domain translations. This tray holds one tale or one named book.

Epic, saga, and manufactured myth the early Weird Tales writers actually used, in named public-domain translations.

Holdings

FR MYTH B255.G74 1890

Grettir the Outlaw

Sabine Baring-Gould, 1890

From Grettis saga. Howard named this book in The Eyrie, May 1926. Complete 1890 text.
FR MYTH L265.F57 1859

The Story of the Fisherman

Arabian Nights, tr. Edward William Lane, 1859

This is one tale cycle from Lane’s Arabian Nights. It is not the whole Nights.
FR MYTH H766.C57 1879

Circe

Homer, tr. S. H. Butcher and Andrew Lang, 1879

This is Odyssey Book X, the Circe / Aeaea episode. It is not the whole poem.
FR MYTH B448.L65 1923

Lokasenna

Poetic Edda, tr. Henry Adams Bellows, 1923

This is one named unit (Loki’s Quarrel). It is not the whole Edda.
FR MYTH B934.P47 1855

Perseus and Medusa

Thomas Bulfinch, 1855

This is one tale from The Age of Fable. It is not the whole book.
FR MYTH H559.N58 1858

Nitocris

Herodotus, tr. George Rawlinson, 1858

This is Histories Book II, the drowned-banquet passage. It is not the 1928 Williams story.