This post begins: To a fan of Weird Tales Anthony M. Rud is the guy who kicked it all off. He wrote the lead story “Ooze” in the very first issue in March 1923. The R. R. Epperly cover shows a man and a woman fighting an octopus-like creature in orange tones. Rud would pen eight stories for “The Unique Magazine” including “The Witch-Baiter”, “The Endocrine Monster” and “The Place of the Hairy Death” but only one other story by this author stands out. That was “A Square of Canvas” from the second issue (April 1923). It was reprinted in 1951. He may also have contributed “The Forty Jars” as Ray McGillivray (April 1923).
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