Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 1, March 1923: The unique magazine

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Transcriber’s Notes

All advertisements have been moved to the back. Stories that were split over this issue have been recombined. Obvious typographical errors were corrected. Variant spellings between different stories in this magazine have been retained.

The following corrections have been made to the text:

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