- Harsher in Hindsight: In early 20th Century Weird Tales story, "The Devil's Bride", the Yazidis are portrayed as degenerate devil worshippers and the characters including Jules De Grandin, are thankful that they are oppressed by their Muslim neighbors. In real-life 21st century, we have the Yazidis (who are not devil worshippers) facing ethnic cleansing by the fanatical Muslim terrorist group "ISIS".
- Values Dissonance: Oh dear, yes. A lot of the stories reflect the racial attitudes of the 1920s and 1930s (just look at the tropes associated with the story "The Isle of Lost Ships") and Alien Flesh takes the Third Law of Gender-Bending to new heights (or lows).
- Fair for Its Day: That said, Quinn has had characters decry the poor treatment of women under conservative or patriarchal systems (usually foreign ones in comparison to contemporary America).
- While the stories definitely don't have East Indians and Afro-Americans in the best light, especially early on, Native Americans and East Asians are portrayed positively (though often for the East Asians, a number of depictions are of a good-hearted and intelligent man who's sadly butt-ugly and disgustingly fat). Seabury Quinn also paint non-Christian monotheistic religions in a good light, and even his depictions of East Indians and Afro-Americans improve in later stories.
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