Category The Crypt

Dorothy Quick

By Jolie Toomajan From CHM #57 March 2025 Dorothy Quick authored fifteen stories and twenty-five poems for Weird Tales alone (the very last thing published by this iteration of Weird Tales was her poem “This Night,” below). Her biography has…

The Devil’s Lottery

By Mary Elizabeth Counselman Originally published in Weird Tales, September 1948  From CHM #56 February 2025 Perhaps the weirdest aspect of the case was that no two people in time entire city of “Blankville” gave the same description of the…

The Tree’s Wife

By Mary Elizabeth Counselman Originally published in Weird Tales, March 1950 I SMILED at my companion, Hettie Morrison, County Welfare investigator for the Bald Mountain district. When I dropped into her office that morning, mostly to dig up nostalgic old…

The MYSTERY of Black Jean

By Julian Kilman Originally published in Weird Tales #1, March 1923 Aye sir, since you have asked, there has been many a guess about where Black Jean finally disappeared to. He was a French-Canadian and a weed of a man—six-feet-five in…

The Artist and the Door

by Dorothy Quick Originally published in Weird Tales, November 1952 The advent of the artist and the door was almost simultaneous. I have always wondered if the one would have been as sinister without the other. Of course, the evil…

New Ritual

by Margaret St. Clair (the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction January 1953, as Idris Seabright) The big white freezer purred away smoothly in the pantry. Marie Bates looked at it admiringly. It was really more company than Henry was,…