Thrill Book Vol. I No. 1, March 1, 1919

In the spring of 1919, a new magazine appeared on American newsstands for a single dollar, five nickels, a cup of coffee, the price of an entire future. Thrill Book lasted only a handful of issues, but in this inaugural number, you will find the secret birthplace of weird fiction as we know it. Here is Greye La Spina's startling debut, a voice that would reshape horror. Here is the first installment of the lost-race jungle adventure 'In the Shadows of Race,' pulsing with colonial-era adrenaline and ancient dangers. Here is 'The Man Who Met Himself,' a doppelgänger tale that anticipates existential dread by decades. Here is 'The Jeweled Ibis,' an Egyptian curio that whispers of curses older than the pyramids. Clark Ashton Smith, Seabury Quinn, Francis Stevens, their names would become legendary, but in March 1919, they were just writers hungry for pages. This is where it began.