Edwin Baird (1886-1957) was the first editor of Weird Tales, the pioneering pulp magazine that specialized in horror fiction. Weird Tales is an American Fantasy and Horror fiction Pulp magazine first published in March 1923. Pulp magazines (or pulp fiction; often referred to as "the pulps" were inexpensive Fiction magazines Horror fiction is broadly Fiction in any medium intended to scare unsettle or horrify the audience
Baird, hired by Weird Tales publisher J. C. Henneberger, put out the magazine's premiere issue, dated March 1923. [1] Over the course of the next year, Baird published some of the magazine's most famous writers, including H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and Seabury Quinn. Howard Phillips Lovecraft ( August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of horror, fantasy Clark Ashton Smith ( January 13, 1893 - August 14, 1961) was a Poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy Seabury Grandin Quinn (aka Jerome Burke) (1889 - 1969 was a Pulp magazine Author most famous for his [2]
Baird--in marked contrast to his successor--accepted everything that Lovecraft submitted to the magazine,[3] including "The Hound", "Arthur Jermyn", "The Statement of Randolph Carter", "The Cats of Ulthar", "Dagon", "The Picture in the House", "The Rats in the Walls", "Hypnos" and "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs". This page deals with the H P Lovecraft short story For the character from George R " Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family " is a Short story by H " The Statement of Randolph Carter " is a Short story by H " The Cats of Ulthar " is a Short story by H P Lovecraft, written June 15, 1920, and first published in the November 1920 issue "Dagon" is a Short story by H P Lovecraft, written in July 1917, one of the first stories he wrote as an adult "The Picture in the House" is a short story written by H "The Rats in the Walls" is a Short story written by H "Hypnos" is a short story by American Horror fiction writer H "Under the Pyramids" also known as "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" is a short story ghost-written by American Horror fiction [4] He did, however, insist that Lovecraft retype his first submissions using double spacing, causing the author to remark, "I am not certain whether or not I should bother. "[5]
Under Baird's editorship, Weird Tales lost a considerable amount of money--estimated at $51,000. [6] After the April 1924 issue, Henneberger fired him and offered his job to Lovecraft. [7] When Lovecraft declined, the publisher made Farnsworth Wright, until then Baird's assistant, the editor of Weird Tales, a position he held until 1940. [8]
Baird remained as editor of another of Henneberger's titles, Detective Tales. In this post, he rejected Lovecraft's "The Shunned House" in July 1925. " The Shunned House " is a short story by H P Lovecraft in the Horror fiction genre [9]
References
- Lin Carter, Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos.
- S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz, An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia.
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