This cover is by Earle Bergey, although you might not guess that to look at it. Not a space babe in sight. But plenty of good authors, including Robert Bloch, Henry Kuttner, E. Hoffmann Price, Carl Jacobi, August Derleth, and Norman Daniels.
Sunday, May 08, 2016
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Was this generally a reprint pulp or did it have new stories by these authors? I'm a Jacobi fan for certain.
STRANGE STORIES only lasted 13 issues, 1939-1941, and was in direct competition with WEIRD TALES and UNKNOWN. The stories were new and some were well done but it never managed to find a place in the fantasy market and was not up to the quality of WT and UNKNOWN. I still have a set and I even managed to find a preliminary cover painting by Belarski. If you like WT, UNKNOWN, and STRANGE TALES, then you should also collect STRANGE STORIES.
walker,
thanks for the advice. weird tales and unknown have massive swings in quality from story to story---excellent and terrible back to back or issues loaded with mostly one or mostly the other. i might explore strange stories after another bunch of weird tales when i'm in that mood. thanks!
Yes, it was a companion to STARTLING STORIES and THRILLING WONDER STORIES, the science fiction pulps also edited by Mort Weisinger, but for some reason it was a bit segregated from them and was folded when Weisinger quit the Thrilling group to go edit at DC Comics. I would've liked to have seen what Sam Merwin could've done with STRANGE STORIES.
Dorothy McIlwraith's WEIRD TALES was a lot less erratic than the Farnsworth Wright issues...even as H.L. Gold's frank imitation of UNKNOWN, BEYOND FANTASY FICTION, offered a somewhat less uneven reading experience...even if BEYOND rarely offered anything as powerful as Fritz Leiber's CONJURE WIFE. UNKNOWN didn't hit that height much, either, and the likes of "Upon the Dull Earth" by Philip K. Dick and "Babel II" by Damon Knight in BEYOND were nothing to sneeze at...
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