Collects 44 tales that originally appeared in Weird Tales magazine. Skulls in the Stars by Robert E. Howard; The Terror of the Water Tank by William Hope Hodgson; The Lost Club by Arthur Machen; The Hoax of the Spirit Lover by Harry Houdini; Masked Ball by Seabury Quinn; Why Weird Tales by Otis Adelbert Kline; The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan by Clark Ashton Smith; The House of Ecstasy by Ralph Milne Farley; The Woman with the Velvet Collar by Gaston Leroux; The Judge's House by Bram Stoker; Mistress Sary by William Tenn; Ghost Hunt by H. R. Wakefield; H. P. Lovecraft; Robert Bloch; F. Marion Crawford; Hugh B. Cave; Frank Belknap Long; The Stolen Body by H. G. Wells; The Scrawny One by Anthony Boucher; Interim by Ray Bradbury; Eena by Manly Banister; The Look by Maurice Level; Methought I Heard A Voice by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt; Off the Map by Rex Dolphin; The Last Train by Fredric Brown; Ti Michel by W. J. Stamper; In the X-Ray by Fritz Leiber; Speak by Henry Slesar; The Pale Criminal by C. Hall Thompson; The Sombrus Tower by Tanith Lee; Mr George by August Derleth; The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller by Gustave Flaubert; Seed by Jack Snow; The Bagheeta by Val Lewton; Funeral in the Fog by Edward D. Hoch; The Damp Man by Allison V. Harding; Wet Straw by Richard Matheson; Mysteries of the Faceless King by Darrell Schweitzer; More Than Shadow by Dorothy Quick; Chicken Soup by Katherine MacLean and Mary Kornbluth; The Haunted Burglar by W. C. Morrow; Never Bet the Devil Your Head by Edgar Allan Poe; A Child's Dream of a Star by Charles Dickens; The Perfect Host by Theodore Sturgeon; and Sir Thomas More's translation of The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Lucian. Dust jacket illustration by Richard Kriegler, based on Howarrd's "SKULLS IN THE STARS." Weird Tales has always been the most popular and sought-after of all pulp magazines. A mix of exotic fantasy, horror, science fiction, suspense, and the just plain indescribable.