![]() Edmond Hamilton's earliest science fiction stories also first appeared in Wright's Weird Tales. Wright even put playwright Tennessee Williams into print for the first time (with his story "The Vengeance of Nitocris"). Howard, whose Conan the Barbarian stories, among many others, were hugely popular. ![]() Many of Smith's Hyperborean cycle stories were rejected as well.Īmong the new writers Wright found for the magazine were Robert Bloch and Robert E. Wright (who suffered from Parkinson's disease) continued to publish stories by Lovecraft, Smith, and Quinn, though he was more selective than Baird he rejected Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, and (initially) " The Call of Cthulhu", among other stories. The publisher then gave the job to Farnsworth Wright, who became the magazine's best-known editor. Henneberger offered the job to Lovecraft, who declined, citing his reluctance to relocate to Chicago "think of the tragedy of such a move for an aged antiquarian," the 34-year-old writer declared. ![]() ![]() The magazine lost a considerable sum of money under Baird's editorship, however-running through $11,000 in capital and amassing a $40,000 debt-and he was fired after 13 issues. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith and Seabury Quinn, author of the hugely popular Jules de Grandin stories. Baird first published some of Weird Tales most famous writers, including H. ![]()
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