Edwin Baird

“ Our stories are unlike any you have ever read—or perhaps ever will read—in the other magazines. They are unusual, uncanny, unparalleled. We have no space in Weird Tales for the "average magazine story." Unless a story is an extraordinary thing, we won't consider it. ”

“ We do believe, however, that these stories will cause you to forget your surroundings—remove your mind from the humdrum affairs of the workaday world—and provide you with exhilarating diversion. And, after all, isn't that the fundamental purpose of fiction? ”

“ Weird Tales is nor merely "another new magazine." It's a brand new type of new magazine—a sensational variation from the established rules that are supposed to govern magazine publishing.
Weird Tales, in a word, is unique. In no other publication will you find the sort of stories that Weird Tales offers in this issue—and will continue to offer in the issues to come. Such stories are tabooed elsewhere. We do not know why. People like to read this kind of fiction. ”