The first issue of Weird Tales has a cover date of March 1923. Lowndes, Magazine of Horror (May 1969) 117 Several of these I published, but they were written in such a prosaic style that they evoked little comment. He often regaled me with experiences of his that rivaled anything I had ever read in books. Now long after I had inaugurated Weird Tales, I had a call by Houdini at my Chicago office he expressed more than usual enthusiasm for the magazine, and the meeting resulted in a friendship lasting until his untimely death a few years later. The magazine was not a success, and the debt piled up. However, Weird Tales also struggled to find its audience, and the first year of publication was marked by changes in the size and frequency of the magazine’s publication. Henneberger was known to be hands-on with editorial decisions at Weird Tales, and with a noted interest in H. Struggling to find its place in the detective pulp field against competition like Black Mask, the firm was refinanced and the pair launched a second magazine, also under Baird’s editorial guidance in 1923: Weird Tales. Their initial product was a pulp magazine under the editorial guidance of Edwin Baird: Detective Tales. Lansinger to form the Rural Publishing Corporation.
Over thirty years later Houdini was still performing and branching out into new ventures.Īfter the success of his magazine College Humor, in 1922 entrepreneur J. His career in stage magic began in 1891, under the name Harry Houdini, in homage to the great French illusionist Robert Houdin. In 1878, the family emigrated to the United States of America, where the family name was changed to the German spelling, and he became Erich Weiss. Harry Houdini, the great illusionist, escapist, and debunker of spiritualists was born into a Jewish family in the Austro-Hungarian empire in 1874 as Erik Weisz.
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