An index to the posts by Matthew David Surridge discussing early issues of Weird Tales

Into the Weird: An Introduction

Into the Weird: Weird Tales, March 1923 (Volume 1, Number 1) Part 1

The following is a list of books and related works read or consulted to help put together the Weird Times posts discussing aspects of the early 1920s. Not included are issues of Weird Tales itself, the 1919 pulp The Thrill Book, or various other works of fiction from around that time.

Bair, Deirdre. Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend. New York: Nan A. Talese, 2016.

Bryson, Bill. One Summer: America 1927. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2013.

Brock, Pope. Charlatan: America’s Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam. New York: Crown Publishers, 2008.

Bronski, Michael. A Queer History of the United States. Boston: Beacon Press, 2011.

Burns, Eric. 1920: The Year That Made the Decade Roar. New York: Pegasus Books, 2015.

Carpenter, Humphrey, and Mari Prichard. The Oxford Companion to Children’s Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.

Cohen, Adam. Imbeciles. New York: Penguin Press, 2016.

Dash, Mike. The First Family: Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder, and the Birth of the American Mafia. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2009.

Delong, J. Bradford. Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century. New York: Basic Books, 2022.

Dreilinger, Danielle. The Secret History of Home Economics. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2021.

FitzGerald, Frances. The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017.

Fogelson, Robert W. Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880–1950. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. 183-217

Gordon, Robert J. The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1916.

Hurwitz, Lisa, director. The Automat. A Slice of Pie Productions, 2021. 1h19. DVD.

Jaher, David. The Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World. New York: Crown Publishers, 2015.

Jarrett, Gregg, with Don Yaeger. Trial of the Century. New York: Threshold Editions, 2023.

Kelley, Robin D.G. and Lewis, Earl, eds. To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Kelly, Kim. Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor. New York: One Signal Publishers, 2022.

Kessler-Harris, Alice. Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

Key, Keegan-Michael, & Elle Key. The History of Sketch Comedy. San Franciso: Chronicle Books, 2023.

King, Charles. Gods Of the Upper Air. New York: Doubleday, 2019.

Klingman, William K. 1929: The Year of the Great Crash. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1989.

Laver, James. Costume and Fashion: A Concise History. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2002. 229-232.

Massicotte, Claudie. Trance Speakers: Femininity and Authorship in Spiritual Séances, 1850-1930. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017.

Moore, Lucy. Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties. New York: Overlook Press, 2010.

Morgan, Adam. A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls. New York: One Signal Publishers, 2025.

Nielsen, Niels C. Jr., et al. Religions of the World, Third Edition. New York: St Martin’s Press, 1993.

Noll, Mark A. A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 1992.

Okrent, Daniel. The Guarded Gate. New York: Scribner, 2019.

Prothero, Donald R. The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries: The Evidence and The People Who Found It. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020.

Roberts, Sam. A History of New York in 27 Buildings. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

Rowbotham, Sheila. A Century of Women. London: Viking, 1997.

Satow, Julie. The Plaza: The Secret Life of America’s Most Famous Hotel. New York: Twelve, 2019.

Scutts, Joanna. Hotbed: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism. New York: Seal Press, 2022.

Shorter, Edward. A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997.

Sternau, Susan A. Art Deco. New York: Todtri Book Publishers, 1997.

Stevens, Dana. Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century. New York: Atria Books, 2022.

Strausbaugh, John. The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, A History of Greenwich Village. New York: HarperCollins, 2013.

Tamkin, Emily. Bad Jews. New York: HarperCollins, 2022.

Wallace, David. Capital of the World: A Portrait of New York City in the Roaring Twenties. Guilford, Connecticut: Lyons Press, 2011.

Zeitz, Joshua. Flapper. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2006.