I would have been very willing to forego the taskas, indeed, I am inclined to think any man well mightfor of all the great, awe-inspiring rooms in this house, the cellars are the hugest and weirdest.

I don't know why I tell you this; why I lay so much stress on the first weird impression I got of the forecastle.

I felt the spell myself, piercing through my awe and hatred of the spell-weaver, and I won't say but that my weary head kept time with the others to that weird singing.

WEIRD TALES.

The girls listened to the eeriest, weirdest music they had ever heard, and Violet slipped shivering under the covers and hid her face with the sheet.

"Last night (Christmas Eve) was the weirdest stunt I have ever seen.

The theory was a weird one, but was it the truth?

These two worthies went through the weird courses provided by a cook professing a knowledge of French cuisine without taking any compromising notice of each other.

Catrina began to play, feverishly, nervously, with all the weird force of her nature.

Once or twice they heard the dismal howl of a wolfthe most melancholy, the weirdest, the most hopeless of nature's calls.

The explanation, in any case, didn't matter; he was going to mean wellthat she could feel, and also that he had meant better in the past, presumably, than he had managed to convince her of his doing at the time: the oddity she hadn't now reckoned with was this fact that from the moment he did advertise an interest it should show almost as what she would have called weird.

must you goyou're not half as sociable as you used to be when you brought the milk every morning to the back dooryou sure could talk then, and tell some of the weirdest things.

Here, in blind wrestle as at midnight, did two hundred thousand men in blue and gray clutch each otherbloodiest and weirdest of encounters.

Oh, come with saddest, weirdest melody, Join earth and sky in one sweet threnody!" Ten thousand times ten thousand now in line, In all the panoplies of gods divine; A million crowns are shining in the light, A million sceptres, robes of purest white!

Uncle Sivert had not set this nephew to work on the fields or mending of herring nets; he had initiated him into a complex muddle of figures, the weirdest book-keeping ever seen.

He danced about the shaggy, bleeding form of the bear, swinging his axe, howling in his rage, and escaping the smashing blows of the bear with miraculous agility,a weird and savage picture in the moonlight.

They were full of the weirdest tales of loot and murder.

Sam Pickering, on the point of wiring for the mechanic who had installed his treasure, looked upon the boy with awe as his sure hands wrought knowingly among the weirdest of its vitals.

Augustus had been at College during that bright brief period of the attempted apotheosis of the dirty-minded little Decadent whose stock in trade was a few Aubrey Beardsley drawings, a widow's-cruse-like bottle of Green Chartreuse, an Oscar Wilde book, some dubious blue china, some floppy ties, an assortment of second-hand epigrams, scent and scented tobacco, a nil admirari attitude and long weird hair.

(In Weird tales, Apr. 1936) © 1Apr36; B323454.

(In Weird tales, Jan. 1940) © 1Dec39; B439374.

(In Weird tales, Jan. 1941)

When everyone was there we started on our explorations, and seemed to walk miles in the weirdest narrow passages, in single file, on a single board sometimes, each carrying our light.

" This seemed to be a thrilling theme, such as Hawthorne would have been able to weave into the weirdest of weird tales, and I said, "Go on.

In Wales Hallowe'en was the weirdest of all the Teir Nos Ysbrydion, or Three Spirit Nights, when the wind, "blowing over the feet of the corpses," bore sighs to the houses of those who were to die within the year.