Edited by horror and speculative fiction aficionado, Darrell Schweitzer, The Best of Weird Tales: The 1920s is an homage to the magazine’s beginnings under editor Farnsworth Wright (following a short stint by Edwin Baird) which carved out a place in the niche market of weird fiction.

The Best of Weird Tales: The 1920s includes “Ooze,” which ventures to Cajun country where man plays God with damaging results, leading to a scandalous family tragedy. Stories like “Beyond the Door” and “The Hanging of Alfred Wadham” feature unsavory forces that compel their characters to think, feel, or act aberrant. “The Red Brain” and “The Copper Bowl” provide takes on egregious evils, with the latter serving as a torture tale. “Through the Vortex” explores conspiracy theories around aircraft “lost at sea,” while “The Night Wire” features newsmen of the night laboring away at copy.

Short stories aren’t the only flavor found in this anthology. The short form verses included here are of the spine-tingling variety. “Forbidden Magic,” “The Haunted Castle,” and “Nyctalops” are included.