April 1926 Part 2 of 4: Tier-list ranking all the stories in Weird Tales this month a century ago!

EPISODE · Apr 16, 2026 · 54 MIN

April 1926 Part 2 of 4: Tier-list ranking all the stories in Weird Tales this month a century ago!

from Century Read: Weird Tales Magazine exactly 100 years ago!

EPISODE TWO of four!Century Read Weird Tales is the podcast in which we hop in the corporate DMC-12 and zoom 100 years back in time and then buy a copy of Weird Tales Magazine, fresh off the press, and, after reading it, do a tier-list ranking of all the stories inside. How well crafted were they? How well do they hold up, 100 years later?We're four pre-war pulp fans on a journey through one of the pulps that made the twenties roar, reading all the stories so you don't have to, along with some fantastic ads for stuff like "books for men," telekinesis lessons, and .32 automatics sold by mail on a "COD — send no money now" basis. Join us!IN THIS EPISODE:OUT OF THE MISTS OF TIME, by William Benton Frazier: "A Terrible Doom Rolled out from the Fogs of Antiquity."KNIGHTS OF THE RED OWL, by Elwin J. Owens: "A Portly Businessman Undergoes a Wild Night of Terror."THE DERELICT MINE, PART 1, by Frank A. Mochnant: "Three-part Mystery Serial, Which Rises to a Ghastly Climax."TEETH, by Galen C. Colin: "Old Ling Foo Plans a Terrible Revenge on his Daughter's Lover."COMING NEXT WEEK in Episode 3:THE VENGEANCE OF INDIA, by Seabury Quinn: "Graveyard Tale of Hypnotism, and Corpses that Rise in the Night."THE PHANTOM DRUG, by A.W. Kapfer: "Document Found in the Burned Ruins of an Insane Asylum."THE HOUSE IN THE WILLOWS, by Sewell Peaslee Wright: "A Rational Ghost-story."DUVAL'S WEIRD EXPERIMENT, by F. Williams Sarles: "Eery Tale of a Scientist's Attempt to Pierce the Veil."

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