A brief tale of the dismal success of a scientist's experiment.
Today's story is "Anton's Last Dream" by Edwin Baird. It appeared in the May 1937 issue of Weird Tales on pages 607 to 611.
Edwin Baird (June 28, 1886 – September 27, 1954) was the first editor of Weird Tales, the pioneering pulp magazine that specialized in horror fiction.
Baird, hired by Weird Tales publisher J. C. Henneberger, put out the magazine's premiere issue, dated March 1923. Over the course of the next year, Baird published some of the magazine's most famous writers, including H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and Seabury Quinn.
Under Baird's editorship, Weird Tales lost a considerable amount of money—estimated at $51,000 (about $954,000 today). After the April 1924 issue, Henneberger fired him.
Baird remained as editor of another of Henneberger's titles, Detective Tales. Detective Tales was sold off, and Baird remained editor when it retitled as Real Detective Tales.
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"Mesmerizing Galaxy" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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