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Edwin Baird
1886–1957
A key early figure in pulp horror, this magazine editor helped launch Weird Tales and shape the magazine’s eerie identity in its first years. He also edited detective fiction and wrote stories of his own.
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Anton's last dream
by Edwin Baird
About the author
Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1886, Edwin Baird is best remembered as the first editor of Weird Tales, one of the landmark pulp magazines in horror and weird fiction. Hired by publisher J. C. Henneberger, he oversaw the magazine’s debut in 1923 and guided its earliest issues at a time when this kind of fiction was still finding its audience.
Baird also worked on Detective Tales, later retitled Real Detective Tales, showing the range of his editorial career across both horror and crime pulp magazines. Alongside editing, he published fiction himself, and his name remains closely tied to the beginnings of one of the most influential magazines in speculative fiction.
Some reference sources list his life dates as 1886–1957, but the biographical information I found consistently points to June 28, 1886, and September 27, 1954. No clearly identified portrait photograph was available from the reliable pages I checked, so I’ve left the image blank.