Welcome back to MPorcius Fiction Log and to another 1943 issue of Weird Tales. Big names today, including two of the biggest, plus one of H. P. Lovecraft's closest associates and Robert E. Howard's literary agent. Within this July '43 issue of D. McIlwraith's magazine we also find a decent new illustration from Hannes Bok of a very skinny guy and a bunch of nice Boris Dolgov illos of monsters (four-legged goblins, skeleton in hat.) And for the poetry crowd, verse by Dorothy Quick (a person is changed forever after hearing elf music under the moonlight) and Clark Ashton Smith (a guy disdains civilization in favor of the solitude of the desert where he has crazy visions of vacant silent spaces and notes that one day civilization will be gone, itself claimed by silence and emptiness.) Check it all out yourself at this link or this and note well that I will be reading today's stories in just such scans of the original WWII-era magazine, not in one of the many books where they have been…
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