Weird Tales, May 1923: K D Whipple, V Starrett, E T Emmons, and M F Ellis

In our last episode, I read stories from the first, second, and sixth issues of Weird Tales by famous member of the weird community Farnsworth Wright. Looking at the contents of the third issue of the unique magazine, the May 1923 number, there's a dearth of names I recognize. So, I'm going to choose four stories to read by people I have never heard of based on their alluring titles and the fact that they are short--let brevity be our watchword."The Secret Fear" by Kenneth Duane WhippleWhipple has only one credit at isfdb, this story, which has never been reprinted. "The Secret Fear," four pages, is billed as "A 'Creepy' Detective Story," and a detective story it is, with witnesses and clues and suspects and all that jazz.Our narrator is a newspaper reporter with a good relationship with the cops. He is on the waterfront when a police officer investigates the dead body of a local character, one of the many hard-drinking and hard-fighting and hard-living men who live and work among the…