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Weird Tales

Protecting Project Pulp No. 34: Frank Belknap Long, Jr.

Main Fiction: “The Hounds of Tindalos” by Frank Belknap Long, Jr., first published in Weird Tales, July, 1937.

Narrator: Lewis Morgan.

“A new drug?”

“It was used centuries ago by Chinese alchemists, but it is virtually unknown in the West. It’s occult properties are amazing. With its aid and the aid of my mathematical knowledge I believe that I can go back through time.”

Protecting Project Pulp No. 33: G. G. Pendarves

Main Fiction: “The Whistling Corpse” by G. G. Pendarves, first published in Weird Tales, July, 1937.

Narrator: Adam Pracht.

A gripping weird tale of the sea—of the thing that walked in the fog—and the terror that stalked on board an ocean liner.

Protecting Project Pulp No. 23: C. L. Moore Part 2

Main Fiction: “The Tree of Life” by C. L. Moore, first published in Weird Tales, October 1936.

Today’s podcast presents the second, concluding part of “The Tree of Life”.

Narrator: Jeff Lane.

A queer, penetrating light shining upon his closed eyes roused Smith by degrees into wakefulness again. He lifted heavy lids and stared upward into the unwinking eye of Mars’ racing nearer moon. He lay there blinking dazedly for a while before enough of memory returned to rouse him. Then he sat up painfully, for every fiber of him ached, and stared round on a scene of the wildest destruction.

Protecting Project Pulp No. 22: C. L. Moore

Main Fiction: “The Tree of Life” by C. L. Moore, first published in Weird Tales, October 1936.

Today’s podcast presents part one of “The Tree of Life”; next week will bring the conclusion.

Narrator: Jeff Lane.

There was neither food nor water in these ancient Martian ruins, and Northwest Smith knew that it could be only a matter of time before the urgencies of his own body would drive him out to signal those wheeling Patrol ships and trade his hard-won liberty for food and drink. He crouched lower under the shadow of the temple arch and cursed the accuracy of the Patrol gunner whose flame-blast had caught his dodging ship just at the edge of Illar’s ruins.

Protecting Project Pulp No. 20: Robert Bloch

Main Fiction: “Fane of the Black Pharaoh” by Robert Bloch, first published in Weird Tales, December 1937.

Narrator: Nick Camm.

Captain Carteret bent forward and peered at the queer, metallic thing. His thin, usually pale face now glowed with unconcealed excitement. He grasped the black object with twitching fingers.

“The Seal of Nephren-Ka!” he whispered.

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