Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 1, March 1923 The Unique Magazine

Excerpt: Tales of horror?or ?goose-flesh? stories?are commonly shunned by magazine editors. Few, if any, will consider such a story, no matter how interesting it may be. They believe that the public doesn?t want this sort of fiction. We, however, believe otherwise. We believe there are tens of thousands?perhaps hundreds of thousands?of intelligent readers who really enjoy ?goose-flesh? stories. Hence ? WEIRD TALES.