Weird Tales Archives

Title page illustration for "The Phoenix on the Sword" in the December 1932 Weird Tales featuring the first appearance of Conan. Artwork by J.M. Wilcox.
There are very few series in American periodical publishing history that have been more important to the shape of science fiction, fantasy, and horror than Weird Tales.  The March 1923 debut issue explained, "Weird Tales offers such fiction as you can find in no other magazine — fantastic stories, extraordinary stories, grotesque stories of strange[...]