Happy 100th birthday (and a bit; apparently the first issue really came out in mid-February) to Weird Tales, which is still going in some form today, quite impressive given that it looked like it might barely last one year under Edwin Baird’s editorship. No Lovecraft in this issue, of course, he wouldn’t appear in the magazine until the September issue (in the letters column) and then “Dagon” marked his fiction debut in October; indeed he apparently hadn’t even seen this first issue when various associates of his who had suggested it as a possible outlet for his work. Indeed, I was a bit surprised to discover just now Clark Ashton Smith actually appeared in WT before him (two poems, this being before Smith took up fiction)… odd, cos I dimly recall reading something in the Selected Letters where HPL credited himself with introducing Baird to Smith’s work. One of us is apparently mistaken…
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