If you missed Part 1…
The 1950s saw the passing of the Pulps and Weird Tales in particular. Because of this Carl Jacobi’s work becomes more Science Fiction oriented. The new magazines and digests that replaced the Pulps were largely SF. His primary market becomes Fantastic Universe, which published a more fantasy blend of Science Fiction. In 1957 Carl began selling to The Saint Magazine and later Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, moving into the Mystery genre. His Horror fiction went almost exclusively to August Derleth and Arkham House anthologies.
In the 1970s, editors of small press and fanzines sought out Carl as one of the surviving writers of Weird Tales for interviews and recollections. This led him to more involvement with the small press in the 1980s, and Robert M. Price in particular. Price published many unpublished gems from the 1930s.
In the 1980s and retirement, Carl published new Horror in Lin Carter’s paperback version of WT.His last story for Weird Tales was “The Tunnel” (Winter 1988/1989) under George Scithers. Carl Jacobi may be the only author who appeared in the original, the California issues, Carter and Scithers Weird Tales. His final collection of stories during his lifetime, Smoke of the Snake, appeared in 1994. Carl passed away in St Louis Park, Minnesota on August 25, 1997.
1950s
1950
“The Historian” (Startling Stories, May 1950)
“The Spanish Camera” (Weird Tales, September 1950) was his last story for the original Weird Tales.
1953
“The Gentleman Is an Epwa” (Worlds of Tomorrow, 1953) reprinted in Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy, November 1953 and Science-Fiction Monthly #6, 1956.
1954
“The White Pinnacle” (Time to Come: Science Fiction Stories of Tomorrow, 1954)
“Made in Tanganyika” (Fantastic Universe, May 1954)
“Introducing the Author” (Imagination, August 1954)
“The Dangerous Scarecrow” (aka “Witches in the Cornfield”) (Imagination, August 1954)
“Strangers to Straba” (Fantastic Universe, October 1954)
1955
“The Long Voyage” (Fantastic Universe, September 1955)
1957
“The Martian Calendar” (Space Science Fiction Magazine, Spring 1957)
“The Legation Cigar” (The Saint Detective Magazine, August 1957)
1958
“The Commission of Captain Lace” (Short Stories, April 1958) was his last adventure story for a Pulp.
1960s
1962
“The Aquarium” (Dark Mind, Dark Heart, 1962)
1964
Portraits in Moonlight (1964)
“Kincaid’s Car” (Over the Edge, 1964)
1966
“He Looked Back” (IF, August 1966)
“Exit, Mr. Smith”
1967
“The Unpleasantness at Carver House” (Travellers by Night, 1967)
“The Keys of Kai” (The Saint Magazine, May 1967)
1970s
1970
“The Player at Yellow Silence” (Galaxy Science Fiction, June 1970)
1971
“The Singleton Barrier” (Dark Things, 1971)
“The Cocomacaque” (The Arkham Collector #8, Winter 1971)
1972
Disclosures in Scarlet (1972)
“Mr. Iper of Hamilton”
“Round Robin”
“Sequence”
“The Royal Opera House”
1973
“Interview” (Etchings & Odysseys, 1973)
Letter (Weird Tales, Fall 1973)
1974
“Eternity When?” (WT50, 1974)
“The Music Lover” (Weird Tales, Summer 1974)
1975
“Chameleon Town” (Nameless Places, 1975)
“Hamadryad” (Whispers, June 1975)
“Test Case” (Midnight Sun #2, Summer/Fall 1975)
Letter (Starwind, Autumn 1976)
Letter (The Diversifier #16, September 1976)
1976
“McIver’s Fancy” (Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, December 1976)
1977
“Recollections of Weird Tales” (The Weird Tales Story, 1977)
The Tomb from Beyond (1977)
“Rambling Memoirs” (The Diversifier, July 1977)
1979
“Forsaken Voyage” (Midnight Sun #5, 1979)
“The Elcar Special” (Whispers II, 1979)
1980s
1981
“The Pit” (Weird Tales #1, 1981)
“The Black Garden” (Weird Tales #3, 1981)
“The Derleth Connection” (August Derleth Society Newsletter, June 1981)
1983
“The Syndicate of the Snake” (Etchings & Odysseys #2, 1983)
“Some Correspondence” (Etchings & Odysseys #2, 1983)
1984
“The Riburi Hat” (Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, January 1984)
“The Lavalier” (Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, March 1984)
“The Phantom from 512” (Shudder Stories #1, June 1984)
“Josephine Gage” (Crypt of Cthulhu #25, Michaelmas 1984)
“Pawns of the River-King” (Risque Stories #2, October 1984)
“Ghoul Game” (Shudder Stories #2, December 1984)
“Hall of the Devil-Flag” (Shudder Stories #2, December 1984)
“Letter” (Crypt of Cthulhu #28, Yuletide 1984)
1985
“The Hand of Every” (Shudder Stories #3, April 1985)
“Woman of the Witch-Flowers” (Risque Stories #3, July 1985)
“The Monument” (Crypt of Cthulhu #31, Roodmas 1985)
1986
“Rails of the Yellow Skull” (Shudder Stories #4, March 1986)
“I Model My Soul” (Lurid Confessions #1, June 1986)
“Offspring” (Crypt of Cthulhu #39, Roodmas 1986)
“Bride of the Tree-Men” (Shudder Stories #5, December 1986)
“The Dark Slayer” (aka “The Black Circle”) (Pulse Pounding Adventure Stories #1, December 1986)
1987
“Prisoners of Vibration” (Astro-Adventures #1, January 1987)
“Manuscript for the Damned” (Shudder Stories #6, May 1987)
“A Quire of Foolscap” (Whispers #23-24, October 1987)
“Coffin Crag” (Shudder Stories #7, October 1987)
“Your Witness, Tuan” (Pulse Pounding Adventure Stories #2, December 1987)
1988
“The Nebula and the Necklace” (Astro-Adventures #3, January 1988)
“The Return of Fabian Blair” (Shudder Stories #8, February 1988)
“Monorail to Eternity” (Astro-Adventures #4, April 1988)
“Blood Over the Footlights” (Shudder Stories #9, June 1988)
“The Rienza Lectures” (Astro-Adventures #5, October 1988)
“The Tunnel” (Weird Tales, Winter 1988/1989)
1989
East of Samarinda (1989)
“Preface to East of Samarinda” (1989)
“Heliograph” (Pulp Magazine #1, March 1989)
“Light in the Jungle” (Pulp Magazine #1, March 1989)
“Pursuit to Perihelion” (Astro-Adventures #7, April 1989)
“The Brothers Dalfay” with Robert M. Price (Astro-Adventures #8, June 1989)
1994
Smoke of the Snake (1994)
2000
“Dyak Reward” (Arkham’s Masters of Horror: A 60th Anniversary Anthology, 2000)
2014
Masters of the Weird Tale: Carl Jacobi (2014)
The Tenth Golden Age Science Fiction Megapack, 2014
2021
Mive and Others, 2021
“The Masked Orange”
Witches in the Cornfield, 2021
Conclusion
Looking back at Carl’s fantastic career, spanning eight decades, I am struck by how time has treated him in a similar fashion as Frank Belknap Long. Both were masters of the weird tale and yet their biggest claim to fame is not any one particular story but that they were there when giants walked the earth. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith were their friends and correspondents. Another writer who could have gone the same way was Fritz Leiber but he is usually remembered for his own work rather than dealings with August Derleth or Farnsworth Wright. This is why books like Masters of the Weird Tale: Carl Jacobi (2014) and the S. T. Joshi collection are so important. Carl Jacobi (and Frank Belknap Long and many other Weird Tales writers) deserve to be appreciated for their own work. I hope this post and the last one help in that endeavor.
