The Collector's Index to Weird Tales

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Summary: Mistake-Ridden Index to Weird Tales
Review: This book lists all of the stories and poetry printed in Weird Tales ordered by issue, author and poet through Summer 1983. It also lists works in Oriental Stories and Magic Carpet Magazines.

The authors indicate that "some minor errors, not affecting the usefulness of the index, have been deliberately made for copyright protection purposes." I question the ethicality of selling an index with intentional errors inserted into it. I made a detailed comparison of the issue index with the author and poet index and found several hundred discrepancies between these lists including total omissions, different names, different titles, etc. This goes beyond leaving differences to determine if someone is taking the contents illegally. This is a significant lack of quality. If corrected, this would be a valuable reference. As it is, it is seriously flawed. but still worthwhile. However, the errors are not as innocuous as the authors would have you believe.