Weird Tales Presents: Mad Science!

The year is 1923. A new magazine called Weird Tales has burst onto the newsstand, and within its pages lurk minds that would make Frankenstein weep. This collection gathers the first four years of the publication's most unsettling offerings: stories where scientists push past the boundaries of the permissible, where experiments breathe with terrible life, where inventions serve purposes their creators never imagined. Here you'll find men who tamper with the building blocks of existence itself. Laboratories filled with machines that should not work. Laboratories filled with things that definitely should not exist. The writers understood something essential about the age they wrote in: the very science that promised to uplift humanity could also unmake it. These are not cautionary tales. They are warnings already coming true. For readers who cut their teeth on The Shadow and H.P. Lovecraft, or for anyone who delights in the delicious dread of things that operate just beyond understanding, this volume preserves a golden age of American imagination. The monsters here have no interest in your soul. They want something far more interesting: your curiosity.