A free public reference-and-reading institution for the weird fiction field
A free public reference and reading institution devoted to weird fiction. We do not sell listings.
The Reading Room holds works of weird fiction that have entered the United States public domain. The Card Catalog records authors and works across the field, including those the Library does not yet hold. Listings are editorial and unpaid.
Weird Tales, founded in 1923, is the American pulp magazine that named and first sustained the weird tale as a genre.
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Reading Room
Read bizarre literature in the public domain
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Card Catalog
Cataloging the prophets of the strange, the authors of the unique and odd.
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Front Desk
Curated reading paths into the field.
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The Stacks Are Opening
Public-domain schedule, year by year.
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Periodicals Desk
Magazines, presses, and the rest of the field.
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Founders’ Room
Humans and other creatures.
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Randolph Carter tells his questioners what he heard over a telephone wire after his friend Harley Warren went down alone into an old tomb in a swamp cemetery. First published in The Vagrant, no. 13 (May 1920); first pulp appearance in Weird Tales, February 1925 (vol. 5, no. 2).
Reading Room hours Always open. You don’t need a ticket. All texts in public domain.