Weird Tales, No. 2

Weird Tales #2 is an anthology edited by Lin Carter, the second in his paperback revival of the American fantasy and horror magazine Weird Tales. It is also numbered Vol. 48, No. 2 (Spring 1981) in continuation of the numbering of the original magazine. The anthology was published in paperback by Zebra Books in December 1980, simultaneously with the first volume in the anthology series. Cover art by Tom Barber. STORIES: The Night Ocean (1978) by H. P. Lovecraft and Robert H. Barlow; Boy Blue by Steve Rasnic Tem; Fear by Joseph Payne Brennan; Valse Triste by Ray Faraday Nelson; The Song of the Gallows Tree [poem] by Robert E. Howard; The Feast in the Abbey (1935) by Robert Bloch; The Lamashtu Amulet by Mary Elizabeth Counselman; Something in the Moonlight by Lin Carter; Trick or Treat by Ramsey Campbell; The Guardian [Annals of Arkya, 4] [poem] by Robert A. W. Lowndes; Liberation [Annals of Arkya, 3] [poem] by Robert A. W. Lowndes; The Descent Into the Abyss by Clark Ashton Smith and Lin Carter; The Sapphire Siren (1934) by Nictzin Dyalhis; The Sombrus Tower by Tanith Lee. FEATURES: The Eyrie (essay) by The Editor; Introduction by Lin Carter. INTERIOR ARTIST: Hannes Bok.