Weird Tales 2

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Weird Tales #2
Cover art from the first edition
Author	Lin Carter (editor)
Cover artist	Tom Barber
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Weird Tales
Genre(s)	Fantasy short stories
Publisher	Zebra Books
Publication date	1975
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	265 pp
ISBN	0-89083-715-5
Preceded by	Weird Tales #1
Followed by	Weird Tales #3

Weird Tales #2 is an anthology edited by Lin Carter, the second in his paperback revival of the classic 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 first published in paperback by Zebra Books in December, 1980, simultaneously with the first volume in the anthology series.

The book collects fourteen novelettes, short stories and poems by various fantasy authors, including both new works by various fantasy authors and reprints from authors associated with the original Weird Tales, together with an editorial and introductory notes to the individual pieces by the editor. The pieces include a "posthumous collaboration" (the story by Smith and Carter).

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• "Introduction" (Lin Carter)
• "The Night Ocean" (H. P. Lovecraft and Robert H. Barlow)
• "Boy Blue" (Steve Rasnic Tem)
• "Fear" (Joseph Payne Brennan)
• "Valse Triste" (R. Faraday Nelson)
• "The Song of the Gallows Tree" (poem) (Robert E. Howard)
• "The Feast in the Abbey" (Robert Bloch)
• "The Lamashtu Amulet" (Mary Elizabeth Counselman)
• "Something in the Moonlight" (Lin Carter)
• "Trick or Treat" [aka "The Trick"] (Ramsey Campbell)
• "Annals of Arkya: 3. Liberation" (poem) (Robert A. W. Lowndes)
• "Annals of Arkya: 4. The Guardian" (poem) (Robert A. W. Lowndes)
• "The Descent into the Abyss" (Clark Ashton Smith and Lin Carter)
• "The Sapphire Siren" (Nictzin Dyalhis)
• "The Sombrus Tower" (Tanith Lee)