Weird Tales is remembered as the great fantasy/horror (predominantly horror) magazine of the pulp era which published work by H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, C. L. Moore, Manly Wade Wellman, Seabury Quinn and many more writers from that period, some now widely reprinted and read, others now nearly forgotten (though since this anthology was compiled, a number of the ones its introduction describes as forgotten have been revived.) The book's format is a bit unusual in that it includes one story from each of the 32 years the magazine was published, providing a much wider chronological range, and a wider variety of authors, than other anthologies based on similar material. The overall tendency of the collection (like the magazine itself) tends toward the darker horror end of the horror/fantasy spectrum, and I tend to prefer the lighter fantasy side, or at least tales in which the heroes defeat the horrors. Nonetheless, there are a number of good and unfamiliar stories here. ( )